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When it comes to paranormal evidence, video evidence is the most prestigious and sought after. There are literally thousands of videos online and thousands more of claimed paranormal footage. Some intentionally faked, others are genuinely unexplained. Below is a list of videos that are submitted and/or reviewed by PSIRO to offer our analysis and opinion of the video. If you would like to submit your paranormal evidence for review and analysis, please use the submit evidence button on the top menu.

 

 

Video Analysis - V03-0006

 

Video Source

 

 

Video Information

PRS delves deep into the pine barrens of the Garden State to separate myth from reality about the so-called "Jersey Devil." Accompanied by a cryptozoologist the team interviews eye witnesses and experts in search of the truth: is the "Jersey Devil" actually an undiscovered species or as legend has it, the ghost of a cursed, deformed child? This video that was captured during their episode is being utilized as possible photographic evidence of the Jersey Devil. 

 

PSIRO's Analysis

First, let me start by mentioning that even though members of PSIRO have former ties and affiliation with this organization, PSIRO is presenting the analysis as objective and unbiased as possible. Members of PSIRO previously debated with someone about this evidence and why they felt that PRS failed to offer more of a critical view of the evidence in question. Our goal is not to necessarily disprove the notions that this video is evidence of the Jersey Devil, but rather provide more of an objective overview as well as a highly critical review of the claimed evidence.

PSIRO has spent some time reviewing this footage with the only footage that is available through the Youtube site. The original FLIR video has not been offered up for evidence review by the organization, but rather a screen shot of the particular incident in which they believe that it most represents what they were searching for. Due to the fact that PSIRO does not have original footage to review, we can only go on, as well as the general public, whatever the organization and the television show make public.

PSIRO has reviewed the video footage above and made notes of certain points (also with screen shots) that we believe are important. We have labeled them below along with their respective time-slot. We reviewed the video footage with Windows Media player which you will notice in the screen shots, but the video is from the Youtube site above. There is about a 1 second difference in the screen time from the Windows Media Player and the Youtube site. All time notes are based on the Windows Media Player time codes (which are shown in each screen shot) and not on the actual video

 

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Video Analysis - V03-0005

Original Video as featured on Youtube

 
 

 

Video Information:

This video was shot in the summer of 2003 at the Hotel Conneaut in Conneaut lake park. On 12/22/09 this video was on " Paranormal State" They called me to do an interview about this video for the episode "Dead Legends" .

Something Strange At Hotel Conneaut at Conneaut lake park. You see what looks like a little boy. It is not any of my kids. I only had two kids at the time and they were behind me when I come into the hall way. My son is the one saying " out, out". He did not want to be in there. No one saw the "ghost" until we watched the video.

PSIRO's Analysis

This was an interesting video to review. Based on the testimony and description above, the person posting the video states that he has 2 children with him at the time of the filming, one of which is a young boy, whom he denies was the cause of the anomaly seen. Here is the interesting note to point out. In the description above, he states that the kids were behind him throughout the hallway, and this might be true, but the incident takes place in a stairwell. A doorway from the hallway must be opened to enter the stairwell and you see the gentlemen do so. At this point we must rely more on audio than visual, because as the door opens, the camera pans to the right (probably holding the door open for the two small children), and the sounds of echos in the stairwell by the children can be heard, indicating that they are no longer behind.

As the door is opening and you see the wall, you hear the echo of the boy squeal from what sounds like the stairwell along with the sound of stomping on the floors prior to the squeal. This would indicate that the boy and probably others were let in to the stairwell as he held the door or moved to the side, so they were now in front and to the side of him. The boy, probably in a moment of boredom was entertaining himself, as you hear with the stomping and squeals.  As he pans left you see what appears to be the top of a young boys head.

In the video, the person shooting claims that the boy just disappears into thin air. Careful review does not seem to make that the case. Upon closer examination, it appears as though the person shooting the video moves towards the stairs while the boy appears to possibly move back towards the door. The boy moves under the camera and away from the stairs, not in an attempt of trickery, but rather a desire to leave. The assumption that the boy was scared seems inconclusive. The moment is so quick that without the slowed down version (provided by the video submission) it would easily appear as though the boy disappeared. Finding no significance at the time, the person filming could have easily forgotten that it even happened, only to review and find it again with no recollection that it ever happened and finding a perceived extraordinary event. Forgetting can easily occur, even if we believe it cannot. As we process information, we filter, alter, or lose much of it . 

In fact, our memory by nature immediately filters out information that we do not need. While our sensory memory will take in amazing detail, our short term memory filters out insignificant information and a few items are noticed and encoded. Once the memory data moves from short term to long term, some items are altered and lost, leaving less details. Finally, retrieval from long term memory, depending on the interference, retrieval cues, moods, and motives, some things get retrieved, some don't (Myers, 2004).

Since there is no comparison video of the boy to refute the possibility that the boy was the cause, we must rely on the most logical solution. It is far more probable that the boy momentarily was captured on film, since there is no evidence to the contrary. 

References:

Myers, D. (2004). Psychology Seventh Edition. Worth Publishers. 

   

Video Analysis - V01-0004

Original Video as featured on Youtube

 
 

 

Video Information:

3 investigators were at the morgue and when left alone, the chair flips over in the same location that on a prior investigation, and investigator had been flipped out of a chair.

PSIRO's Analysis

There are a few suspect things to note in this video that make this hard to believe that something was not fabricated. While there is what appears to be parts of the video cut out, we cannot tell for sure how much time has passed between instances. At one point the man states that he is seeing shadows than says that he will be right back because he needs to get some batteries for his camera. The interesting thing to note is that around 1:42-1:43 in the video, you see the man step over something (Photograph A). What is he stepping over? Perhaps a wire? It is unclear and you cannot see what it is. This leaves a lot to be questioned about the video.

40 seconds after, the chair tips over. The chair appears to be tilted over as the two right legs are lifted while the left remains on the ground. Even more interesting is the direction in which the chair falls. It is almost exactly in the same direction as the mysterious object that the man stepped over (See Photographs B & C).

 

Almost immediately after, you see the man return into the screen and pick up the chair, coming from an entirely new direction. If he left to get batteries, why would he not return the same way he came in? Where did he go and why did he return from a completely different angle? Even more, why couldn't his flashlight be seen until he was already at the chair? It appears as though he is blocking the light from the flashlight or doesn't turn it on until he goes to pick up the chair. There are a lot of questions that arise from this video and until more evidence can be supplied to show otherwise, there is a strong possibility that this video was fabricated.

   

Video Analysis - V01-0003

This video was not submitted to PSIRO but rather we stumbled upon it while perusing through a paranormal related website. Having seen the video and offering our opinion, we have decided to post the information here on our website for the paranormal community to review and comment on. As with all of our analysis', we will never state that we are 100% correct on our final determination of the evidence in question, however, our evaluation report is one of personal and professional opinion.

Original Video as featured on Youtube

 

 

Video Information:

Paranormal investigation at Baci's Restaurant in Plainfield, IL. The restaurant is housed in a former church that was built in 1868. Minutes prior to this video being recorded several investigators were in the choir loft gathering base line EMF and temperature readings. They picked up EMF spikes that were moving around the room. They were able to follow it around the loft and downstairs to the main dining area.

We were in the process of setting up the remainder of our DVR cameras, when a loud crashing noise was heard coming from the upstairs choir loft. The DVR tech saw the access door fly off of the wall by its self. Notice that the cable that comes through the door moves prior to the door coming. It appears that two hands pull it, as it one hand or "string" would have done it, it would create a "V" in the cable. The door was examined, and fit firmly in place.

A number of experiments were conducted in order to try to naturally explain the door flying from both sides of the door. After nearly an hour, it was determined that it could not be explained naturally. Based the report phenomena, experiences, and evidence previously collected in the choir loft, it was deemed the door flying off was paranormal in nature.

PSIRO's Analysis

After reviewing the video footage, we quickly found that many of the statements from the organization were exaggerated. Making the statement that the access door flew off the wall by itself was highly exaggerated. In Photograph A below, you will notice that that door does not fly off the wall, but simply falls off from the top. 

We have highlighted the door in yellow to show the angle in which the door falls. You will notice that the bottom of the door is still attached to the wall, and in the video does not fall until the top portion of the door hits the chair causing the door to tilt and then fall to the floor. Based off this alone, I am led to believe that the door fell down from the top, which incidentally has a wire running through it. The group made a mention that the wire moves before the door falls (even talking about two hands pulling, which makes little sense). This is partially correct. The wire moves as soon as the door starts to fall, and this is most likely caused by the door giving way because of the wire, which is not meant to be placed through the door, causing the wire to move as the door starts to slip. Once the door and the wire no longer are in contact with each other, the wire no longer moves.

After reviewing this footage, we do not believe this to be paranormal in nature, but rather gravity and poor wire placement doing what it does best. Since this is also an access door, it is possible that a draft from the doorway dislodged the wire and the door, causing it to fall off. There are at least two logical explanations that we have come to suspect in this video. 

   

Video Analysis - V01-0002

This video was not submitted to PSIRO but rather we stumbled upon it while perusing through a paranormal related website. Having seen the video and offering our opinion, we have decided to post the information here on our website for the paranormal community to review and comment on. As with all of our analysis', we will never state that we are 100% correct on our final determination of the evidence in question, however, our evaluation report is one of personal and professional opinion.

Original Video as featured on Youtube

 

 

Video Information:

Posted by WCGHS: On August 24-25, 2008 the Will County Ghost Hunters Society conducted an investigation at Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. During the course of our investigation one of our DVR IR cameras captured this video. A stick like object comes bouncing into the view of the camera. The object comes in and out of view several different times. There are is a mist that rolls across the hall towards the top of the ceiling. We have been trying to explain this object as something naturally occurring, but we have not been able to thus far. If anyone has an idea of what this can be please let us know. 

PSIRO's Analysis

After reviewing the video footage, we believe that the anomaly that is discussed is a common spider web which is seen dangling and moving through the video. The spider web is most likely still attached to the spider or another insect that is walking or flying around the camera.