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[Merged]"Ghost" caught on convenience store camera?

Santa666 said:
It has been a while since I have posted, but i was emailed this link and I am curious what the object in the video could be. I certainly do not believe it is a ghost, or spirit, or angel, or demon, but I would be interested in a suitable explanation for the person who sent it to me.


Any ideas?


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/11/14/lai.gas.ghost.woio
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It's so obviously a bug crawling on the lens of the camera that you have to wonder if everyone involved in this story doesn't have their tongue firmly in their cheek. That or their brains solidly in their nether regions.
 
Santa666 said:
It has been a while since I have posted, but i was emailed this link and I am curious what the object in the video could be. I certainly do not believe it is a ghost, or spirit, or angel, or demon, but I would be interested in a suitable explanation for the person who sent it to me.


Any ideas?


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/11/14/lai.gas.ghost.woio
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It's so obviously a bug crawling on the lens of the camera that you have to wonder if everyone involved in this story doesn't have their tongue firmly in their cheek. That or their brains solidly in their nether regions.
 
Boss: OK crew, we've got a haunted gas station, who gets the spot?

AL: Geeze, boss. I interviewed that haunted house family for Halloween, and last week I had to do the stupid cat show.

Beth: I did the cheese festival! Seriously, that's like three haunted gas stations worth of pathetic!

Carl: Oh, no... No way. I'm interviewing with mid Atlantic regional next month! Last thing I need is some haunted gas station on my piece list.

Dave: Is this national or local? I'll do a local spot, but I don't want my parents to see it.

ETC.
 
Lianad said:
This EXACT same effect was debunked years ago on national TV. I can not remember the show, but basically the footage was from a security camera in a used car lot after hours, and this "ghost" that looked EXACTLY like the one in this blue cloud picture, would float around the cars and sway back and forth. Everyone was convinced it was a ghost, until some people with half a brain looked at the footage and recreated it, thus prompting the person who did it initially to come forward.

All it is is a little doll/napkin shaped like a doll/etc attached to fishing line, that is dangled or hung in front of the security camera. A slight breeze or nudge causes it to "sway" and since it is so close to the camera it remains out of focus and "ghostly".

Anyone with 5 minutes of time could recreate the same footage.
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Are you maybe thinking about the one in a wrecking yard:

http://www.rockymountainparanormal.com/puckett.htm
 
I hear Drew Carey singing:

" Moon over Parma, bring us tourists tonight.

Make us big as Cleveland, with our convenience store fright.

We know it's a moth, but don't tell anyone.

Moon over Parma, tonight."
 
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It looks completely like a blue Walmart plastic bag being blown around in the wind to me - both the color, and the way it moves and floats. If not that then perhaps one of those blue paper towels that are found at every gas station to wipe your windows. I think I'd rule those two options out first before jumping to ghost or alien or some such nonsense.
 
LibraryLady said:
To me it looks like a blue grocery bag caught in the wind.
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A grocery bag that stayed still for half an hour in mid-air would indeed be a paranormal phenomenon!

It's a BUG! It is blurry and out of focus because it is on the lens. Maybe you have to be someone who wears glasses to know that a bit of crap (or a bug) on your lenses looks exactly like that--blurry and semi-translucent?
 
I found a match for the color... now using the CSI image enchancement from TV it's become clear...

ghostsz1.jpg

By travisjd at 2007-11-14

The ghost is Boo Berry.
 
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I posted a thread some time ago relating a personal experience.

I was driving at about nine o clock on a very still clear morning towards a roundabout in Bournemouth, England. The roundabout was circled by trees, and as I pulled up on my approach, noticed that every tree had a fuzzy grey coloured tapering "pillar" cloud towering above it. At the base, I would estimate the diameter to be four to five feet, tapering to about two feet at the top. The height was around fifteen feet. As I drove off the roundabout, there were a few trees further down my turning that also displayed this phenomenon. I put this down to either some kind of local condensation effect producing a kind of foggy mist, but clearly with a distinctive shape, or tiny flying insects swarming. On my return the phenomenon had disappeared.

I have never seen anything like it before or again.
 
I agree its a bug. The blob seems to be right in front of the camera. In the beginning of the cnn video, they show the side of the gas station. There is a sign with blue lights in the area where the camera might be. Then later when they showed images of the reporter through the camera, her clothes are purple. But when she is filmed by the cnn cameras, her clothes are red. So either the camera is crappy or there is some form of colored lights around where the camera is.
 
Joppy said:
I agree its a bug. The blob seems to be right in front of the camera. In the beginning of the cnn video, they show the side of the gas station. There is a sign with blue lights in the area where the camera might be. Then later when they showed images of the reporter through the camera, her clothes are purple. But when she is filmed by the cnn cameras, her clothes are red. So either the camera is crappy or there is some form of colored lights around where the camera is.
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Excellent!

This gives us confirmation fo the blueish tint caused by either the camera or the lighting in the area.

That gets rid fo that last little .1% doubt I had. Bug.
 
You can see the blue lighting in the readout-windows of the petrol pumps. I think.

It certainly *moves* like an insect (a fly specifically), and seems to have little wingtip-like protuberances.
 
I would think a lot of these theories could be tested by the shop employees, just getting a ladder and some plastic bug or somesuch, put it up near the lens near the same time of day, and see if they get a similar fuzzy blue thing.

If, they were so inclined to test it, of course...
 
Keith Olbermann made fun of the video on his show last night. He said they found out what that was on camera: Booberry!
 
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