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My son peter

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Don't know if this one has been discussed previously.

This guys website

Now pretty much most of what he claims can be disproven outright.
The one thing that is questionable is his video footage from this page:
http://www.mysonpeter.com/code/09dp.html
(You will need Apple quicktime as a plugin to your browser to view it.)
The only thing I can think of is someone behind the camera playing with the focus/zoom.
Any other theories/ideas as to what could have created the disappearing effect?
Anyone think it's a genuine ghost?
 
Ooh, now THAT is a nice ghost video. Wouldn't it be great if it was real?
 
TheBoyPaj said:
Ooh, now THAT is a nice ghost video. Wouldn't it be great if it was real?
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Certainly would be great, any ideas as to what else could cause the effect? I'm having an ongoing discussion with someone who thinks it's real and trying to get them to consider the more "earthly" explanations. I am not a videographer, so my knowledge of camera trickery is somewhat limited.
 
Based on my limited camcorder experience I don't think it could happen by accident. Either it's real or a deliberate fake.

But if that's fake, then the rest of the story had better be fake too.
 
Looks like some lame AfterEffects template, used about a bazillion times in editing suites all around the world. The "gaussian blur" is quite obvious, imho. I have spend endless hours in editing, this one is really badly done.
 
Perhaps the effect is commonplace. I'll bow to your experience. But it certainly strikes the right chilling note.
 
Look how the kid is perfectly normal lit by the light that comes from the door to the room at the right when he walks towards it. First in the dark, then hit by the light from that room. I think this is something quite "normal", if you try to exclude the blurry something that runs from the kid towards to left of the screen.

Should a ghost look much different to such worldly illumination??? :)

And why walk on the floor, like a lame average neighborhood kid, ts ts ts.
 
TheBoyPaj said:
Perhaps the effect is commonplace. I'll bow to your experience. But it certainly strikes the right chilling note.
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Thanks. At least there's something I can contribute to the skeptic's objectives from my professional career :D
 
Mind you, if you think about it, what would we have said if the lighting on the ghost was all wrong? We'd have said "look at that amateurish superimposition!"
 
TheBoyPaj said:
Mind you, if you think about it, what would we have said if the lighting on the ghost was all wrong? We'd have said "look at that amateurish superimposition!"
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Ha, you are right! However, the kid casts a perfectly normal shadow on the wall, just look closely. What a lame ghost, even vampires are better with this shadow and mirror thing. Also, note how "spooky" they placed the source of light on the floor, so that the shadow looks more dramatic, and the kid gets the light from below. This is supposed to make it look more "mean", an effect known from the early days of theatres, where the lights were placed in the floor in front of the actors on stage.
 
A WHOIS turns up the name Richard Gryebet, a google search turns up this, and 'already done' research on it.

here

It seems it registered to an admin of an 'interactive horror story' website.
 
Bandersnatch said:
A WHOIS turns up the name Richard Gryebet, a google search turns up this, and 'already done' research on it.

here

It seems it registered to an admin of an 'interactive horror story' website.
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OMG, it's a fake of a fake then :)

It's eerie, to be sure, and well done if it's a hoax. I can't make up my mind. If it's real, I feel sorry for this guy. If it's a hoax/fiction, then it's a pretty good ghost story.
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No, it's not a pretty good done ghost story, nevertheless :D

ETA: The second quote is from the link Bandersnatch provided.
 
Well... that was pretty fast.
You guys should make some kind of paranormal-debunking emergency response team. :D
I didn't really know where to start on the net, or the techie aspects of video editing.
Thanks for the detective work, comments and input guys. I can now show how this is a fake to the believer I mentioned. I just hope they don't put their fingers in their ears and go "nyah, nyah, nyah, I can't hear you."
Hope not anyways.
 
Is Peter claimed to be a ghost or spirit person?

Because in the theoretical sense a ghost isn't a conscious entity but a reflection, like a moving "fingerprint" repeating itself in the space where a lasting impression was made.
Thus a two-way communication with a ghost isn't possible, without a huge dose of wayward terminology acid expanding the borders of the actual concept of ghost.
 
Chocolate Chip said:
Well... that was pretty fast.
You guys should make some kind of paranormal-debunking emergency response team. :D
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Isn't that the reason why we guys registered with JREF forum? :D

Good luck with your believer. Constant dripping wears away the stone.
 
I havent seen the footage yet(downloading quicktime/ituness et up)but have read some of the links on the home page.So Peter appears they play hide and seek,yet the only place she manages to film him is in the hall? Whats she messing about at? Get a remote camera in the bedroom and a Ghostbusters style trap(what were those things called)Peter turns up for hide and seek and whammo! He's in the trap and on film. Result :D
 
More searching on WHOIS also shows that the email address Richard Gryebet uses as an admistrative contact goes to "green@yarnbird.com" goes to "The Spark Factory", a PR firm in CA.

His own email address "richard@creepysites.com" hints that the mysonpeter site is simply there to pad creepysites content.

Some searching through "www.mysonpeter.com/images" to see what unpublished images might also be there reveals the following image

http://mysonpeter.com/images/0/0polop.jpg

Hmm. Real site or publicity stunt? Gee, I wonder.

- Timothy
 
TheBoyPaj said:
"Two in the box, ready to go
We be fast and they be slow!"
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Please translate for a non first language guy... Sounds like a cereal commercial to me :)
 
WhiteLion said:
Because in the theoretical sense a ghost isn't a conscious entity but a reflection, like a moving "fingerprint" repeating itself in the space where a lasting impression was made.
Thus a two-way communication with a ghost isn't possible, without a huge dose of wayward terminology acid expanding the borders of the actual concept of ghost.
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I'm sorry, I missed the tutorial on exactly what ghosts were.

You know all this about ghosts how?

- Timothy
 
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