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8:17 pm February 9, 2011
| Axel Olrik
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Drat my technical insufficiencies….but I do have an image where you can see what appear to be cables running up from what may be a sort of swing the girl is balanced on. It is one of the cables that at first looked like a harness to me.
Now I just have to figure out how to post it….
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8:21 pm February 9, 2011
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Get a photobucket account photobucket.com (free) and you can upload and link to there from here.
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10:23 pm February 9, 2011
| Skooter
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The headless balloon girl? This first picture is right before her head vanishes
 
 
Head gone? Really flexible?
 
Oh no there it is again.
Watch the video again, and think Balloon, to me it looks like the women is holding two strings, one on the legs, one on the head. The body is filled with balloons, legs with a balloons. and arms with something heavy. I don't really know what the head is made of but it doesn't look real. That is my take
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10:26 pm February 9, 2011
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At the end you can tell it is a real girl due to the legs moving, I think the balloons might have been let go of or a easy video edit during the transition could be replaced with a real girl
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10:32 pm February 9, 2011
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Another thing is that the hood or whatever is on the head goes completely around the head and in this case would be covering the mouth and nose. It looks a lot like a brown balloon to me.
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10:42 pm February 9, 2011
| Axel Olrik
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Post edited 10:49 pm – February 9, 2011 by Axel Olrik
I noticed that too, SkooterMcGaven, but I attributed it to her being hit in the head by the rope. If you notice, her head disappears (I think swings to the left) just as the "rope" bounces back to the right before continuing left. Of course a balloon would swing to the left too. Whether it is a girl or a model, the mechanism of "levitation" could be the same. It seems like it would be difficult to stabilise a helium filled bundle of balloons so that it looked like this video.
Now to find Photobucket.
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10:48 pm February 9, 2011
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I think with enough time and effort it wouldn't be. To have a rope and someone holding it up it would take a lot of careful editing and if you just found some clothes, tied them together, and filled the empty space it wouldn't be hard. The body certainly isn't moving in real fashion. Also, with a rope on top you would need multiple ropes so something doesn't droop, or you would need a harness, again, hard to edit.
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10:50 pm February 9, 2011
| Skooter
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It looks like it should be in a Macy's day parade
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11:01 pm February 9, 2011
| Axel Olrik
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Ta DA! The quality is not so good, but I think it shows, especially the back of her jacket.
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11:07 pm February 9, 2011
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The one on the left looks like all the rest of the sticks in the woods, doesn't look like any kind of cable to me. The one on the right is interesting
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11:10 pm February 9, 2011
| Axel Olrik
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Look at the back of her jacket…the lower hem.
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11:15 pm February 9, 2011
| Skooter
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Ah ok nice, didn't see that. I am pretty sure that body is not real still unless she has the neck flexibility of a yoga master.
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11:52 pm February 9, 2011
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When the camera conviently goes down for a moment and the dog is barking… is there an echo to the dogs bark? Not really experienced with stuff like that, but the accustics sound like they could be off.
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2:23 am February 10, 2011
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Skooter said:
At the end you can tell it is a real girl due to the legs moving, I think the balloons might have been let go of or a easy video edit during the transition could be replaced with a real girl
Balloon people? Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..tespeLin2c

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7:54 pm February 10, 2011
| Axel Olrik
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Exactly like that! Flailing balloon people, gotta love 'em.
But, back to the challenge.
For now, my official stance on the levitating girl is that she is lying on her belly on a sort of swing, the back of which can be seen at the back of her coat, coming up as a black swath between her legs and attached by a cross piece to two vertical cables which have been Photo-blurred out. There appear to be similar ones just beyond her shoulder level, but the quality is too poor to be certain. The cables are attached to horizontal cross cables probably running from the left tree to one on the right which is obscured by the brush at the proper angle of viewing to sustain the hoax. I think I can see the remnants of cross cables higher up, but again the picture quality is too poor to be certain.
The only problem I have with my brilliant theory: What is the figure with the rope doing? If acting as a counter weight, why move about? Although having someone act as a counter-weight would make the descent relatively fast and uncomplicated.
And what should I be hearing?
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5:35 am February 11, 2011
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There are a few frames with a portion of her neck missing, because of low quality I assume. Makes it hard to commit to any visual hints at cables. A few other observations.
There's a shiny/bright thing in the background near the base of a tree. Not sure what that is.
There are a few frames when he's moving up where the dog is running back from the area around the women. It seems weird, because he's apparently trying not to disturb them or be seen. The dog running up to them and then back is just odd. His final, most forceful call for the dog was before that, but there was quite a delay between that and the dog coming back.
Couldn't find anything that pointed to him pausing the video when he lowers the camera. He moves out from his location and the perspective changes, which makes it hard. There are darker spots to the left of the girl's feet, but it might be part of foreground plants.
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10:18 am February 15, 2011
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I still think the body is not real one way or another. I think it would take a ton of editing work to cover up a harness, a pole, and some cables. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to have a fake body in my opinion. The only part that puts doubt in my theory is the coat tail coming up. There is def something wrong with that head, it moves in weird ways then it just vanishes. Could be a screw up in editing or the material they used. Kind of sad this stuff gets put all over the news.
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12:56 pm February 18, 2011
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Sorry for the delay in my response to all this…business first, flying witches/alien hybrids second…anyway…
I'll try to post my giant reveal/thoughts/theories/conspiracy post this weekend. So…you know…there's that to look forward to now…
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1:18 pm February 18, 2011
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Oh, good…I was afraid you would leave us hanging….
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