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Have you ever been haunted? This might be an off-beat question, but I feel it is a serious one. Some people reading this now can say that 'yes', they've experienced a haunting once. A smaller number will say that they've been haunted several times throughout their life. Whatever the case may be, there are numerous documented cases of hauntings and footage of Youtubers claiming "I totally saw a ghost, you guys. Like, for real!"
Being the bowels of the internet since 2005.
The rest of us, however, have not experienced this phenomenon. For this group, whether it is a blessing or misfortune is subject to an individual perspective. I, for one, find the idea of ghosts and haunted houses to be spookalicious. And, though I have not been haunted in the strictest of terms, I have experienced my fair share of paranormal events. Sadly, I have not documented any of them on Youtube. I have, however, compiled a list of stories and videos hinting that Casper might just be real enough to be eating all your Cheerios right now.
If it's the original kind, he can have 'em.
Now, let me take you on a ghoulish journey through the dark, damp and twisted alleys of the Interweb's spooksville.
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Case no. 1: A Triple Decker Specter with Cheese
Credit: ODE
This video is actually three ghost videos in one. Because one can never have enough horror. Each of these offers one of two profound notions: 1) striking evidence of the existence of ghosts or 2) brilliant editing. And yes, even though my mission is to sway you into belief, I can be quite scrupulous, especially when it comes to videos. So, I will not deny the possibility that "It's totally fake, dude!" What I offer, folks, is a canvas for you to paint your perspective on and let you be the judge. So paint!
Just not like this. This is the painting equivalent of a Youtube comment.
Video 1
The first video deals with some security cam footage from a hotel in Singapore. Two security guards are walking up to an elevator, most likely discussing how thin their wallets are thanks to living in the 13th most expensive city in the world. Unbeknownst to them, one camera picks up a rather odd light fading in and out within an elevator...the one they're happily walking right into.
So, they walk in and then...wait for it...nothing happens. They go in and up. Just regular elevator business as usual. Probably talking about how at least their money isn't being squandered by illegitimate politicians thanks to their corruption-free economy. (I don't know what Singaporean security guards talk about, OK?)
The fun starts as soon as they begin walking out. The figure of an elderly woman appears behind one of them. She is standing in the same spot as where the light was flickering before. Then, the apparition starts staggering slowly behind them, possibly trying to offer them a home-baked pie, but being unable to reach them thanks to her feeble old-lady legs.
She is literally standing right where that guy was just a moment ago. That is creepy stuff. If someone showed this clip to that dude the next day, he'd go paler than the Stay Puft Marshallow man...smothered in bleach.
In all fairness, this how I look after being scared.
Video 2
The second video is just as creepy as the first. A man filming with a webcam at night (with the lights turned off for some reason) takes a peek outside his bedroom door. At the far end, a dark, huddled object is sitting in the corner. It appears to be the figure of a small child, transparent to the point you can see the wall behind some of it.
He stares at it for some time, not making a sound. He then shuts the door and starts going right back the other way. But, curiosity gets the better of him and he chances another peek out the door. This time, that child is halfway down the hall with arms outstretched. He looks at it in possible bewilderment for a couple seconds, then slams the door and makes a run for it.
NOPE!
The sheer amount of "Holy F***!" emanating from the guy had me laughing like a madman. I can't blame him at all, however. From my exquisite deductive reasoning, I venture that the thing staring at him is the goddamn Chucky doll. This man is a warhero compared to me. If it were me, those couple of seconds of filming would have including shitting my pants.
Audibly.
Video 3
Here we can see various unidentifiable objects moving among the distant foliage. They seem to be lollygagging, like they're a group of stoners that just discovered a huge plot of cannabis. Stoners with the power to levitate, that is. Just beyond that rock to the left is an apparent 10 foot drop. Yet, the objects can be seen simply walking right over it as if air was a doormat.
Like Jeff from accounting.
So, are any of those videos substantial proof of the existence of ghosts? Most likely, they're not. However, if these videos truly were not edited or tampered with in any way, then I think it's about time that Ghostbusters was a real thing.
__________________________________________________________________________Case no. 2: Scooby Doo Senses a Mystery
This lady was so pissed off at her dog barking in the middle of the night that she decided to film what the fudge was going on. She set up a camera at the source of the noise, and had it film while she slept, praying that she could have one night without Scooby throwing a tantrum. Regardless of whether she got some decent Z's, the footage she would see the next morning would throw all that shit out the window. Just like people did in the good ol' days before they invented plumbing.
The good ol' days.
For those who haven't watched the video, it consists of a dog running into frame and quietly whimpering as lights go on and off just outside. The more rational folk might claim that a squirrel or something tripped the sensor, and the dog simply hears one scurrying outside. This becomes a whole lot creepier and harder to explain when you notice that the curtain rises up every so often. On its own. Who's doing that? It's not the dog, that's for sure. Finally, what takes this to "I totes just saw a ghost" level is that if you look very carefully near the bottom right corner of the door, there almost appears to be a skull lingering in the background, staring directly at the camera.
Is that the mastermind behind all this? Is this what the Red Skull has resorted to after being defeated by Captain America? Creep the Scooby Snacks out of little dogs? We may never know if this is the truth or not, but whatever the case, I was feeling some serious goose pimples going down my spine. All the way down.
Down to my clenched butt cheeks.
Even if its just my brain being a dick and making me see a fake face, I still want to know how the curtain rose on its own. Does the dog have psychic powers? Is that the plot twist all along? Is M. Night Shyamalan the one recording?
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Case no. 3: Confused Ghost Lady Thinks Child is Her Own
This is a story written by a girl that has seen a ghost with her very own eyes. I like these types of stories. The written word has a different aura from a video clip. Even though they run the same risk of being fake like some videos, at the very least you can't argue that it's photoshopped.
Pictured: An actual, totally real, not photoshopped image.
The set-up is typical: she moves in with her family to an old-fashioned house with many years of history. It doesn't take long for the spooks to kick in. A myriad number of oddball shenanigans occur. Some such include small stuff, like her feet being tickled by some invisible force. Others include a normally placid dog starting to howl and jump around as the room turns dead cold. The good stuff comes later.
After a while, she learns that all their cleaning ladies had been scared out of their sexy maid outfits by a ghostly apparition.
The search for this pic was surprisingly not NSFW.
"And...it's gone."
A psychic was eventually called in, and the results were chilling. It seems that every person who has lived in the house has had some kind of connection. It turns out that the girl's room is where the ghost lady died. It was also the same room as the ghost's daughter. Why is this important? The ghost lady thought that the girl was her own daughter. Even when the family moved out, the girl still saw her in another house. A brand new one where they were the first residents. She was followed.
Fun fact: The psychic knew the ghost lady to have been a Mormon in life, and one that hated rodents. The girl and her sisters, by the way, each got a pet rodent as a gift while living there. Want to know what happened to the cute little fur balls? You guessed it! They all died! One of starvation (officially diagnosed by a vet even though it had eaten 5 bowls the day before), one murdered by another (not at all typical from female mice like the ones they had) and the third from a random cut in its rib cage.
Coincidence?
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If you were foolish enough to have been reading this before bedtime, take solace in knowing that if a ghost materializes in your room, at least you already have chills running down your back. That's at least something, right?
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____________________________________________________________________________In the future, I'll continue compiling more ghost stories and videos. I plan to make this a series. So, follow me on either Twitter or Google + (below) to stay tuned for more ghost compilations and other wacky articles! Your support is just the inspiration I need to keep writing!
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