http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=50285084
This has the look of an authentic home video for someone's birthday. In as much as I'm skeptical of its paranormal authenticity, I might say it was a real video that someone doctored after the fact with the ghostly effect if the mirror didn't also fall. The mirror would be rather easy to rig with minimal effort.
What does everyone think of the reflection, in PPI land?
F-A-K-E
The mirror is hanging on a brick wall painted white. No biggie. The issue is that the entire wall area under the mirror and to the left of the girl on the end (our left, that is) has been digitally obscured, all the way down to the floor. I'm presuming it's to conceal whatever they've done to rig the mirror to fall--which, by the way, is completely unnecessary and stretches credulity, but it was probably easier to pull off than making one of the bricks levitate and fly out of view. ;)
On the face of it, I see three fashion-challenged teenagers posing as an Abba tribute band, skilled enough to use video software and bored enough to choreograph a cheesy birthday videogram. Surely their real agenda was to make this fake "ghoust" video for "YouToube," no?
It reminds me of that video this guy shot of his living room (while supposedly at work). His hall closet appears to open by itself and then close. His dogs freak out and then something shoots across the room. Same thing though: a part of (in this case it was a couch) the background was distorted.
Can anyone dig up that video? I can't go to You-Boob-Tube-Top at work, so I can't get it.
So much for german engineering.
I think this is Kaput.
You know, I didn't notice the background distortion in the video. I'll have to look at that again. It could just be coincidental, though; video codecs can be notoriously bad at processing large areas of uniform color but heterogeneous texture, especially if they're significantly lighter or darker than the surrounding areas, and especially with very high compression settings. It might just be that the video was distorted by youtube, which by a turn of luck makes the fishing line harder to see ;)
Yeah, I wondered about that too, Brigham. But the phenomenon does not occur in other areas of the same wall, notably behind the kids, and the base of the wall that meets the floor is very strangely blurred, even though the chair arm directly behind the girl is in sharp focus. That's what made me suspicious. In any event, it's a cheap stunt to pull off. And, the image in the mirror is so OBVIOUSLY something static. I wonder, too, why the reaction to the mirror falling is so blase.
Have you seen the video footage of the so-called apparition in Tehachapi. We've not come to any agreement about what it is, or whether it's paranormal, but it's at least genuinely untampered footage. I was immediately reminded of it when I saw the Abba kids:
http://www.pacificparanormal.com/evidence/022_070428/VID/022_0527_VID_HWY_014145_CH3.wmv
Pay attention to the framed picture in the hallway on the left side. You may need to download this and expand the viewer to get a good look.
That's an interesting video. There's definitely a whole lot of something going on in that reflection.
So what was the mirror attached with? I paused just after the mirror started falling and I wasn't able to see anything it could be hanging on.
I still say it's a reflection!!! ITS A REFLECTION I TELL YA!! ;D
Quote from: PPI Karl on January 21, 2009, 01:32:06 PM
Yeah, I wondered about that too, Brigham. But the phenomenon does not occur in other areas of the same wall, notably behind the kids, and the base of the wall that meets the floor is very strangely blurred, even though the chair arm directly behind the girl is in sharp focus. That's what made me suspicious. In any event, it's a cheap stunt to pull off. And, the image in the mirror is so OBVIOUSLY something static. I wonder, too, why the reaction to the mirror falling is so blase.
Have you seen the video footage of the so-called apparition in Tehachapi. We've not come to any agreement about what it is, or whether it's paranormal, but it's at least genuinely untampered footage. I was immediately reminded of it when I saw the Abba kids:
http://www.pacificparanormal.com/evidence/022_070428/VID/022_0527_VID_HWY_014145_CH3.wmv
Pay attention to the framed picture in the hallway on the left side. You may need to download this and expand the viewer to get a good look.
Quote from: PPI Glenn on January 21, 2009, 03:28:41 PM
So what was the mirror attached with? I paused just after the mirror started falling and I wasn't able to see anything it could be hanging on.
The resolution or compression might be obscuring it. It's possible, though, that whatever it was hanging on fell out of the wall with it. A small nail or tack precariously hanging in the wall might be easily pulled down with a bit of string or fishing line.
Looking at the slowmo replay of the Teutonic Trio, it does look like a static image that's moving across the aspect of the mirror. I can't really make it out, but it looks like maybe a figure with its arms raised?