Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sintra Ghost

This video, as far as I know, was one of the most polemical "complete" ghost videos out there some years ago, it happened in Portugal/Sintra, it is about a lift that some teenagers gave to a girl they found on the street, that turned out to be a ghost of a girl that died on a crash on the same road, here is the complete video:



Well... it is easy to say that is fake, because it is Viral Marketing of an Portuguese Short Film director (David Rebordão) and the film is called "A Curva".

Even if the viral marketing thing wasn't known, we were talking about the worlds most perfect and complete materialization of a ghost in all time. The author had the good idea of creating camera anomalies when filming the ghost girl, the only problem is that he seemed to forget that nowadays there are researches of ghost phenomenon that have strong background in electronics, PhD in Informatics and a good background of data compression, enough to laugh when seeing image anomalies that are only possible in analogic cameras mixed with anomalies only possible in digital cameras with image compression, on the same video!

But in general, if it was not so exaggerated, it would be a good fake, the story is a good one, the actors act normally, there is a kind of good excuse for the camera to be there, but, it is a fake.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Michael Jackson Ghost

Well, this is one of the "research's" I told on the last post, about starting to get Youtube 'Ghost Videos' and checking whenever they are true or not. So what better start that the 'recent' polemical Michael Jackson ghost video?

Here is the original Video by CNN:


If you check it closely, check and double check the shadow angle, you'll notice clearly that is only someone passing by the otherside, and what you are seeing is just the shadow. Simple as that.

I also bumped into a Video of someone that analyzed the video and came to the same conclusion, here it is:




So, it is not a fake video, it is not a real ghost video, it is only a mistaken shadow.

Ghost videos, true or fake?

Well, I'm kind of very busy lately, but I'm trying to find time to do some research on supposed "Ghost Videos" that are around there, and what a best place to find then on Youtube? So I'll make a little compilation of videos that I find on Youtube and will start to analyze them and share here the results.

Also, if you have a video or photo or even EVP that you took accidentally or something and think that you just catch a ghost or something, please send it to me, I can give my opinion and analyzes if it is a really a ghost or not.

Paranormal Activity Movie Review

Ok, I finally watched the movie so I can make a good review about it, even if it does not fit in the topic of research that this blog is all about, but whatever, it deserves a review.

After I start to talk about the movie, IT IS NOT REAL, I'm tired bumping into people that say that the film was real, and that the couple really died and etc, well.. it is as true as Blair Witch Project! In other words, it AINT real. But that reminds me that there are people that even nowadays think that Blair Witch Project is real, thanks to its kind of 'viral marketing' at people that believe everything that they see (on the tv).

The film is extremely low budget (actually, the budget was $15.000), but it is a decent movie. It all happens in a house (most of in the bedroom), where a couple (Micah and Katie) live. Katie tells Micah that strange things have happened since she was very young, something like a ghost haunts her almost every night, but she reminded quiet about this "phenomena" so Micah didn't think she was a freak, so Micah decides to investigate, and buys a camera to keep filming the Bedroom and recording it to the laptop so he could analyze it later, also when not in the bedroom, Micah is always with the camera recording everything. When he analyzes the first nights he starts to note strange things happening, like, the door moving by it self.

After the 'proof', a "Medium" is called to help them, but the medium says it is not a ghost, but a demon, and that he cannot help them, and he gives them the number of a Demonologist to help them, but when they later call him, he's not in the country.

During the movie, there are lots of "small cuts" of Micah challenging the Demon, every time that he does this the demon activity starts to get heavier and heavier, and in this movie they play with the sound a lot to implement fear into the viewers. Micah then decides to play with the Ouija board, and some ghost transmit him a message, when he later did some research, he finds out that a person had exactly the same symptoms as Katie, and when they tried to make a exorcism, that possessed person bited literally of her own arm, so Katie starts to get really scared.

Finally, Katie has one more of her "somnambulism" attacks, and gets out of bed, starts do going down stairs into the kitchen.. and finally she stars to screaming like hell, Micah wakes up and hurry's into the kitchen, than he also screams, and silence erupts, everything is quiet until a noise is heard coming from the stars, it is Katie, with a butchers knife covered with blood. After this, there is some alternate endings, the one that I saw is police arriving the next day, Katie was still in shock with the butchers knife on the hand, and when police points they're flashlights into her, she wakes up from the shock and start running into the police asking where was Micah, since the police saw the she had a knife on the had covered with blood, they shot her down in self-defense.

I skipped a lot in this review, didn't talk about the some 'funny'/interesting parts in the movie, it was only a quick general review, and a kind-of-detailed ending.

For what I have seen, people comment this movie as "very scary", actually, I don't find it scary at all, 75% of the "fear" is implemented in the sound, and since cinema has a very good sound, that may scare a little, but not that much.
So if you have like to be scared with movies, if you buy the DVD/BLR and have a good surround system in home, watch it late night to maximize the experience :)

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Fake Ghost Cameras

Well, as a lot of people know, there is a huge collection of the so called "Ghost Cameras", supposedly this cameras are installed on buildings/houses/whatever and they are broadcasted to the Internet so people can see eventual ghosts that may appear. This is a very good way of making money indeed, by fooling people. Here I'll post a good example of a fake ghost cam:





Did you saw a ghost on the cam meanwhile? No? Then please spend some 2 minutes looking or refresh the page and wait a little. Well, I am going to post here the "haunted frames" of the camera, because this supposed camera is only a Macromedia-Flash Video with some frames repeating on a consecutive loop, and two of them were Photoshoped to have a "Ghost Lady". Here are the "Haunted Frames".




This fake is not simply fake, but a very bad fake, per example, if you look closely, on the supposed video feed, it says "Image updates every 20 seconds" then WHY it is updating itself every 5 or 6 seconds? And why even if I unplug the Internet cable I can still watch the live feed? It ain't worth any more comments.

This 'live feed' was taken from The Hell's Kitchen Haunted Hallway Camera and the Ads on both sides of the screen are clear that the purpose is making money by fooling people, that is shameful. I also have Ads on this Blog, but that's because I don't have much time to spend here, normally it is during lunch breaks or late night updates when minutes after I fall asleep, and so I think have the right to put ads that may be of use to some of the visitors on this blog and earn a few cents for that. Actually, until now I didn't earn a single cent of the Ads, first, because this Blog is real low traffic, because as I told on the header page, this is not focused on showing pictures or videos of Ghosts (that most of them are fake) but to share knowledge of the paranormal phenomena. So only a few people visit this Blog, and most of them are not interested on the Ads displayed, but I prefer to have few but interesting visitors, ready to have a good discussion about this subject and that are able to find the information that I post here useful (I know that for now is very few) than to fool people, or being visited and commented by foolish people, even if that represents no income of ads at all!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Paranormal Activity Movie

For those of you who like 'Hollywood' movies about the paranormal this one is for you!
As far as I saw on the trailer (since this movie is not yet available here where I live) it reminds me Blair Witch Project. Blair Witch was a big hit because of the "originality" (not that much, movies of this type existed long ago) but this movie is starting to be a big hit also, and the reviews about it seem very good. Almost every person that watched this movie refer to it as a VERY scary.
Here I include two trailers and one review:








Monday, October 12, 2009

Introduction

Hello, for some years I have researched paranormal phenomenon, including 'Ghosts', and now I decided to share some of my research and ideas by creating this Blog. I hope this Blog serves it purpose, also I encourage people reading this Blog to share they're knowledge and to criticize when they think it is convenient.