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Most Haunted Ghost captures 'real' ghost footage?

P.J. Denyer

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British television show "Most Haunted" in which a former Blue Peter presenter attempts to communicate with the sounds of cooling buildings and screams at shadows claims in it's seventeenth year to have captured 'groundbreaking' footage of a ghost.

Did anyone see it when it was televised last night? More to the point, did anyone find it convincing?
 
Without seeing the footage I can state with cosmic certainty, No.
 
baron said:
Without seeing the footage I can state with cosmic certainty, No.
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TBH I think that goes without saying, but after them hyping up the footage I was interested was it deliberate fake, accidental fake, complete misinterpretation of a mundane event, nothing at all being overhyped into something or just completely ambiguous.

Also, I'm interested in their response. Quite a few years ago the captured footage of a chair 'moving by itself' (in The Swan, Marlow IIRC), at which point they...... Packed up and left. Surely if you actually caught something like that (and believed it was real) you'd arrange to stay longer, investigate further, it would be a hugely exciting discovery?

(Just for the record, I think ghost sightings are the combination of mundane physical events with interesting psychological ones, I'm interested in what's behind them in the same way I'm interested in how a magic trick is performed.)
 
It was really convenient that they had set the camera up to point at that very spot, wasn't it.
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If you haven't seen it, just google 'most haunted', the clip is everywhere.
 
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You can see the footage here. Looks like someone wearing white clothes. Since the programme has been caught faking footage many times, has been denounced as fake by a former participant (who managed to trick then-resident "psychic" Derek Acorah into making all kinds of made-up claims), and of which even Yvette Fielding has all-but admitted that it's fake, I'm going to assume that it's actually someone wearing white clothes.
 
I refuse to watch that link because it asks me a question then shows me an ad, and if I let them get money from me, the ghost faker liars win.
 
Beerina said:
I refuse to watch that link because it asks me a question then shows me an ad, and if I let them get money from me, the ghost faker liars win.
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Firefox + uBlock Origin + NoScript + uMatrix = no ads of any kind on any site. Or, to put it another way, I didn't even know that there was a pop-up that people needed to navigate past.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
TBH I think that goes without saying, but after them hyping up the footage I was interested was it deliberate fake, accidental fake, complete misinterpretation of a mundane event, nothing at all being overhyped into something or just completely ambiguous.

Also, I'm interested in their response. Quite a few years ago the captured footage of a chair 'moving by itself' (in The Swan, Marlow IIRC), at which point they...... Packed up and left. Surely if you actually caught something like that (and believed it was real) you'd arrange to stay longer, investigate further, it would be a hugely exciting discovery?

(Just for the record, I think ghost sightings are the combination of mundane physical events with interesting psychological ones, I'm interested in what's behind them in the same way I'm interested in how a magic trick is performed.)
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The close-up appears to show a transparent human figure climbing up some stairs, so the smart money is on "hoax".
 
Yes, it seems to be another real ghost.

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As in, hoax, optical or electronic artifact, etc. - Just like all ghosts.

Hans
 
Looks like a hoax.

Not just because if the image, but their reactions. The one fellow takes the time to turn the camera on his own, shocked, face. I'm sorry but if I'm getting something like that on camera the lens stays pointed in the direction of the ghost, or whatever.

The guy gave the game with that move.:thumbsup:
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
It's not even transparent. It's just a little less bright than the hosts.
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I'm not sure which version of the video you're watching, but the one I've just seen (at http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/most-haunted-presenters-left-shock-10272862) clearly shows a transparent figure - you can see the edges of the steps through its body as it climbs and it fades almost to invisibility at the end of the shot. Note that the "ghost" shot is preceded by a shot of a man, who is presumably the show's host and who is wearing light colours, running down a hallway.

IMO it's clearly a special effects shot.
 
Axxman300 said:
Looks like a hoax.

Not just because if the image, but their reactions. The one fellow takes the time to turn the camera on his own, shocked, face. I'm sorry but if I'm getting something like that on camera the lens stays pointed in the direction of the ghost, or whatever.

The guy gave the game with that move.:thumbsup:
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I watched it, the ghostly figure walked up the stairs and at one point there was a square light that you could see through the 'ghost'.

I thought, hmm I want to see the ceiling there.

When that fellow turned the camera on his own face, that was exactly the point I wanted to see what was on the ceiling, so couldn't see it.

coincidence? No it came across as misdirection.
 
Mackenberg said:
I'm not sure which version of the video you're watching, but the one I've just seen (at http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/most-haunted-presenters-left-shock-10272862) clearly shows a transparent figure - you can see the edges of the steps through its body as it climbs and it fades almost to invisibility at the end of the shot.
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I would say that it's nonsense that you can see anything "clearly" in this image:

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I can understand why you might think that you can see steps through the figure, as there are indeed horizontal lines that can be seen in front of the figure, but the fact that these lines are light in colour and disappear when one of the two men walks forwards to the side of the lens makes it likely that these are lens flare artefacts:

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As far as "fading" goes, that looks like nothing more than someone wearing white walking into shadow.
 
Mackenberg said:
Try this version of the footage - the transparency is much more (dare I say "transparently") obvious - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/ne...ling-moment-ghost-appears-eerie-corridor.html
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Still just looks like a dude to me:

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What is clearer in that footage, though, is that that staircase is lit from beneath in exactly the way it'd need to be to to achieve that effect:

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I also think the fact that it's one unbroken shot between him setting the camera down and picking it up again makes it unlikely to be an effects shot, as for it to be effective they'd need to reposition the camera there exactly.
 
I reckon the moment when the cameraman points the camera at his own face is when the magic happens..

switch to a different end of corridor and no one would notice the difference.
 
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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I would say that it's nonsense that you can see anything "clearly" in this image:

[qimg]http://i.imgur.com/goiS9ak.png[/qimg]

I can understand why you might think that you can see steps through the figure, as there are indeed horizontal lines that can be seen in front of the figure, but the fact that these lines are light in colour and disappear when one of the two men walks forwards to the side of the lens makes it likely that these are lens flare artefacts:

[qimg]http://i.imgur.com/7wxy3ZD.png[/qimg]

[qimg]http://i.imgur.com/LLNn9By.png[/qimg]

As far as "fading" goes, that looks like nothing more than someone wearing white walking into shadow.
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Its a video clip, not images that can be cherrypicked to point out whatever you want.
 
p0lka said:
Its a video clip, not images that can be cherrypicked to point out whatever you want.
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I'm not "cherrypicking" anything, I'm illustrating that the lines that you can "see through" the figure disappear when one of the presenters moves in front of what appears to be a light source in exactly the way that they would if they were lens flare artefacts. I'm illustrating what to look for and when.

I was going to make a gif to illustrate it properly, but was concerned about the already bad quality being worse and it therefore essentially being useless. So instead I pointed out that the lines disappear in two screen grabs from about a second apart, and included enough of the image to the left of frame to show when it happens and what else happens at the same time. Now, if you review the footage you'll be able to look for yourself.

But, fine, give me a few minutes and I'll see what I can do.
 
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