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11:55 am
August 5, 2009


Bobarino

Valencia, CA

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posts 181

Nobody has posted anything recently, so I figured I would post these videos just for fun!  If someone posted these previously, my apologies.

It is obvious what is going on but I thought it would be interesting to some of you anyways.   It is from a Bravo show.  I don't know the time or date it aired.  It shows supposed paranormal activity.  

Part 1:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-F6Ztstgk

Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQIEfi0H2co

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7:55 am
August 11, 2009


Oubliette

Igloo in NJ

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posts 574

They are too funny!  That liquid looks like pee…I faintly remember the first one.  How fake!  Lots of fishing line used here.  Why does the tablecloth also move when the object is miraculously moving?  And don't you just love the Warrens–not.

I once wrote an article on that poltergeist and the little girl for, I believe, the old Bad Psychics website from the UK, which has since been superseded and I see another poster wrote about this incident coming to much the same conclusions. 

http://www.badpsychics.co.uk/badghosts/modules/news/article.php?storyid=30

I used to do the exact same thing with the kitchen chair and got the old "stop it, you'll fall and break your neck" scolding.  Also with the knocks, note that the girl's left hand is hidden under the table.  And I see the Warrens were not adverse to using fishing line, either, way before GH ever hit the airwaves.

The second video – LOL!  Cute baby, though.  Also, the paranormal gas mist! 

Thanks for the laughs. 

If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

3:38 am
October 28, 2009


gman26

Investigator in Training

posts 11

lol good for a laugh i suppose. oubliette was right about the fishing wire overload. The three cloud like mists that pass the man at the abandoned house are obviousely the camera mans breathe they even pause for inhalation. The pictures were interesting though. Thanx

7:44 am
October 28, 2009


darkeyes

Arlington, TX

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posts 91

I remember watching the program that first video was from.  I was like a 2 hr show.  The first half almost seemed authentic, but then as the show progressed the believable meter went downhill fast!

12:38 pm
November 11, 2009


ok

Investigator

posts 33

i can certainly see how fishing wire would be used for the moving objects in the first part of the film, but what kinds of alternate explanations do you folks have for the moving chair with the girl sitting in it, and the aparition filmed in the hall?

3:26 pm
November 11, 2009


The Doctor

Lead Investigator

posts 488

Oubliette said:

They are too funny! 

I used to do the exact same thing with the kitchen chair and got the old "stop it, you'll fall and break your neck" scolding. 


I like the way the announcer takes great pains to point out her feet are not on the floor and says " she is not pushing herself up from the floor" to distract from her forearms pushing against the table. He even has the gall to say " No one is touching that table" when clearly the girls forearms are pushing the table now that the mom is holding the chair steady.  Mom even has her butt braced against the sink !   What a farce !

10:36 pm
November 11, 2009


Stephen

San Jose, CA

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posts 589

Clip 1:

I'm curious if the Warrens were innocent bystanders or were part of the deception, but the part with the girl moving the chair is pretty funny. I used to play similar tricks at the table when I was a kid, but I was just idly playing around, not trying to simulate a haunting.

The moving table in the Warrens' investigation is also interesting. Was Ed Warren really in the room doing religious provocation, as is implied in the clip? Or was his voice dubbed in? Of course, the chair and tables all move toward a single point, so I assume Grant must be hiding in the corner. OK, OK, maybe someone else knows how to use a piece of string. Also, the table and chairs look a little too still when they're not moving around on their own– none of the normal dot crawl you see in video. I would be unsurprised to discover that freeze-frame was involved. Just an uninformed opinion.

I can't decide if the moving chair at the construction site is string or computer graphics. Something about the movements look very CG to me, but of course it could just be sped-up footage or an extremely steady hand on the string.

Clip 2:

I hadn't watched Clip 2 before. The intrepid investigators with the Pink Lady seem to be falling victim to paredolia, but I can't rule out hoax. I invoke Stephen's Law ("You can't analyze crap") on all of their apparition photos. OK, perhaps "crap" is too strong a term, but blur is blur.

The strange, cordlike photos taken by Norma are classic camera-strap photos. These still get disseminated as actual ghost photographs, and that astonishes me. "How can this be," people ask, "when the camera strap is black and the image is white?" "Because it's caught in a flash," I reply, "and exactly how did you get into my house?" Oh, sorry, that only happened the one time. Anyway, the loops are always on the right (OK, one's up from the bottom) and have the same segmented texture as the strap on one's camera. The loser in all of this, of course, is baby Carissa, who is being raised to believe that she's constantly surrounded by ghosts. Here's hoping she's grown up OK and is having a good laugh over all of this by now.

And finally, we have a group of ghost hunters frightened by mist. Gman is probably right and it's probably breath condensation. I don't know. I wasn't there. All in all, mist may look spooky but is not paranormal. Wonderful quote: "Regardless of what is fact or fiction, residents and paranormal experts believe that this house is haunted." I'm sure they do.

Stephen the Friendly Skeptic

3:05 am
November 12, 2009


Learjet

Australia

Lead Investigator

posts 1122

I want to see some levitation. Which is harder, dragging a heavy table across the floor or levitating a small coin? I know which one is harder for string!

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