The Ghost and the Mystery Museum

I found this clip of an alleged ghost in a museum on YouTube thanks to a Google alert about an alleged ghost caught on a CCTV in an office building in South Carolina. (I went to YouTube to try and find it, but of course got distracted and found this "ghost footage" instead.)

Trouble is, I have no idea what museum this is or where it is. It didn't say in the description. (That I saw. I'm not 100% YouTube savvy so perhaps I didn't click through to something else that would shed some light on the mystery.)

However, I did find another posting of it and this one alluded that the museum was somewhere in Mexico.

And I'm not all that certain what it is I'm viewing in the clip. Is it an entrance and revolving doors? Is it something in a glass box? (Like one of the museum's displays, perhaps some kind of toy?) Is it a piece of machinery?

I don't know, but I can tell something starts moving when nothing else is there to move it.

But I'd rather know (a) what it is I'm looking at, and (b) where this museum is. What if someone wanted to make a Haunt Jaunt there? Don't these people on YouTube understand there's a whole bunch of us ghost enthusiasts out there who'd like as much info as possible?

Sheesh.

Ghost Caught on CCTV in Chilean Mall

I love ghost caught on tape or CCTV videos from YouTube. I love trying to figure out if they're real, tampered with, shadows, reflections...you know. The standard kind of thing most people wonder about when viewing alleged footage of "real" ghosts.

The thing that lends some credibility to CCTV cameras catching ghosts is that who's really going to tamper with them? I know it can happen. I remember watching some camera experts disprove a ghost at a car impound or something. It was a hoax.

But this one I'm not so sure about. It's footage of what's claimed to be the ghost of a boy in a mall in Chile.

How someone decided it's the ghost of a boy I don't know. It's odd, for sure, but I can't make out either age or gender so... I don't know if it's a ghost at all much less one of a boy.

It gets stashed in the weird, unexplained (as of yet) , but interesting file. If I ever jaunt down to Chile, perhaps I'll put the mall on my list of haunts to check out.

At any rate, here's the footage. What do you make of it?

Ghost Cams: Ghost Hunt from Home

Today I joined Digg and came across some great articles, including one on a topic I've been pondering writing about/adding to HauntJaunts.net's Find a Jaunts page: Ghost Cams.

WHAT'S A GHOST CAM?

A ghost cam is a webcam set up to monitor paranormal activity. Then, you the at-home-ghost-hunter, can monitor the activity without the travel, hassle, or investment in equipment. And you can do it round-the-clock if you want to. For multiple locations all at once.

HOW DO I FIND A GHOST CAM?

One way is to Google "ghost cam." You'll get a mind-boggling list of hits. Some are for actual ghost cams set up monitoring activity, some are to try and sell you ghost hunting equipment...it's really kind of overwhelming.

Or...

You can save yourself all that work and check out this great article by Ryan Dube called "Go Ghost Hunting with Your Internet Browser." Not only does he list the top ghost cams out there, he shows you how to set up a Webcam Watcher. I didn't even know there was such a tool!

But Ryan sure does, and he uses step-by-step illustrations to explain how to configure everything you'll need to have what he calls your at-home "ghost hunting lab" to flow smoothly from your computer.

It was a really great article that had exactly what I was wondering about (best ghost cams) and a little bit more (a technology lesson).