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Haunted Puppet ? Solve the Mystery...

Grey2000 said:
Someone on the comments thread on the Daily Mail article said that they thought it might simply have been bumped by a mouse or a rat, suggesting you can see the glint or rodent eyes in the video.
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Apathia said:
So, I see an object that's propped up fall over.
That is so trivial. It happens all the time without any supernatural intervention whatsoever.
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So they say it is kept in the locked case. And they show it outside the box. And I think said it's been handed around. I expect they mean they keep it locked in the case when they are not examining it, which could be pretty often. Also we have to assume if they are videoing it for 3 months, they are dusting and cleaning the case.

90 days of that kind of action. What are the odds that it simply position the wood so that one time it fell over later?

Or would you say that possibility doesn't have a ghost of a chance?
 
Garrette said:
It's certainly a valid question.

When there are people who can make the Statue of Liberty disappear, who can conjure an elephant on stage seemingly from nothing, who can make people feel a tap on their shoulders from across the room, who can make a signed card disappear from the spectator's hand and appear in a wallet that was seemingly untouched, it is of course too much to think that one can make a small part of a puppet move on a video.
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Yep. It ain't the trick. It ain't the method. It's the presentation.

Probably the only scientific way to tell if it really is haunted or not is by doing an exorcism and seeing if the manifestations stop.
 
marplots said:
Yep. It ain't the trick. It ain't the method. It's the presentation.

Probably the only scientific way to tell if it really is haunted or not is by doing an exorcism and seeing if the manifestations stop.
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Show the puppet a picture of a wood chipper and tell it to knock it off or you'll go completely Fargo on it's miserable, hand carved, wooden ass.
Bet the string driven bastard never moves on it's own again.
 
Giordano said:
Haunted puppets- what a novel idea! Someone should write a book or make a movie about it!

Other than the source, the writing style, and the actual movement recorded (which could hardly be easily faked by a 9 year old, right?) I found myself intrigued by the question of why the investigator chose to video tape the puppet off to one side of the box, which itself was crooked in the video, such that most of the puppet wasn't even visible in the frame. For three days!
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I wondered why there was no time code on the video. Surely an honest paranormal investigator would want to know, and be willing to show, how quickly (or slowly) the thing fell over- there's nothing else moving in the video to give a context for speed. Not that a time code would prove anything about the cause of the movement, but its absence is odd.
Mike! said:
Show the puppet a picture of a wood chipper and tell it to knock it off or you'll go completely Fargo on it's miserable, hand carved, wooden ass.
Bet the string driven bastard never moves on it's own again.
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Strictly speaking, there's nothing other than a couple of misleading picture captions ("After being choked as he tried to sleep by his wooden puppet, John contacted Jayne, who started to investigate") to show the puppet itself ever actually moved on its own. The video doesn't show it moving; and the former owner says only he left the puppet on a drawer by his bed, couldn't sleep, felt like he was being choked after he thought he saw a shadow move, then, after waking his wife, saw the puppet still on the drawers where it had been left and concluded "it was him!" Sounds like textbook sleep paralysis to me...
 
Mike! said:
Show the puppet a picture of a wood chipper and tell it to knock it off or you'll go completely Fargo on it's miserable, hand carved, wooden ass.
Bet the string driven bastard never moves on it's own again.
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I don't think that would work because then you'd have the original ghost/entity plus the ghost of the puppet too. And while a haunted puppet seems scary, that's nothing compared to a possessed wood chipper.
 
Giordano said:
Haunted puppets- what a novel idea! Someone should write a book or make a movie about it!

Other than the source, the writing style, and the actual movement recorded (which could hardly be easily faked by a 9 year old, right?) I found myself intrigued by the question of why the investigator chose to video tape the puppet off to one side of the box, which itself was crooked in the video, such that most of the puppet wasn't even visible in the frame. For three days!
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yeah, that was one real dumb angle to film the thing with...makes no sense.

Here's my favorite comment:
Ask the thing what it wants already! Maybe put a tiny toilet in there or something. :D
 
Grey2000 said:
So apparently someone claims to have filmed the movement of a supposedly haunted puppet, sealed in a glass box.

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Any ideas ?
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I know a certain person in Fort Lauderdale, FL, who could suggest a dozen ways it could be done. But it probably isn't worth his time, as he's seen it all before.
 
Denver said:
So they say it is kept in the locked case. And they show it outside the box. And I think said it's been handed around. I expect they mean they keep it locked in the case when they are not examining it, which could be pretty often. Also we have to assume if they are videoing it for 3 months, they are dusting and cleaning the case.

90 days of that kind of action. What are the odds that it simply position the wood so that one time it fell over later?

Or would you say that possibility doesn't have a ghost of a chance?
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Previous motions loosened it up.

I was in the woods a couple of weeks ago when a dead tree fell over.
(Yes. I was in the woods to hear and see it.)
Did Elves push it over?
 
It'll be caused by the vibration of traffic. I live on a main road and when lorries pass by, paintings and photos hung in my hall move a little. I have to straighten them again
 
Catsmate:

Shouldn't this website have an NSFW warning? And what is the prostitute with a doctorate viewing, anyway?
 
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