I am a skeptic, I have always been a skeptic. I have never been presented with sufficient evidence in any form to put any doubt in my mind that all super-natural claims made so far, are not at all super-natural. The paranormal interests me a scientist, but not to as a great degree as exobiology, viral pathology, quantum chromodynamics, and the other much more exciting (in my opinion), greatly better substantiated, areas of science.
But I'm troubled. Anyone familiar with the work of CTFxC will know what I'm referring to, those who don't, please watch this video from 11:20 - 11:24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5JuKjMwDc&feature=player_detailpage#t=679s.
Over the man's (Charles) right shoulder, in the mirror that the women passes by, moves a form, that looks like a person passing outside of the door.
As you can see, the person, seems to stop midway through walking past the open door, just as the pillar obscures them. This would mean either they stood in the doorway, or turned sharply 90 degrees, walking across the room. The direction the person (I'm going to keep saying person, form sounds silly, but if you don't think it's a person, just substitute this when reading) was moving was from a locked balcony, and no other halls connect that way. Additionally, if they turned 90 degrees sharply walking away from the door, they would be making an odd (but admittedly more likely than a ghost) choice to stride across an empty room to a locked door. The only way to leave would be passing by the pillar or going around the outside of the auditorium.
Obviously, it'll have occurred to more than one of you, this video could have simply been edited, to scare the individual they're with who believes in ghosts. My problem is, I am assured by Charles, whom has been very honest with his audience for the past 3 years, that he did not alter the video. He attests to this in the following video from 9:45 to around 12:00 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQz7vMrgRg&feature=player_detailpage#t=585s ). At the moment, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. It'd be very out of character to edit the video, and not confess the prank to us by now.
We're also told, though this is not observed, and based on the recollection of the people in the videos:
1) There was no one outside the room. We know this from when they entered, but that no one else entered the empty auditorium after they stopped filming there, is based purely on their word.
2) That, when Alli and Jesse were stood next to the door (as you can see they are), they witnessed no one pass by it. They say there wasn't, but how attentive they were being is debatable.
So Escapists, particularly fellow skeptics and people of science, but I welcome the perspectives of all, what do you think? Clearly, this, even if all of the above are undeniably true, is hardly evidence enough to attest to the exist of energy based life or "ghosts"; it would have to be put to scientific method and better observed and the experiments repeated for validity; but it's undeniably strange enough for me to write this about it.
I hope you can come up with some likely explanations, in which I failed to satisfy my skepticism, or just found it interesting.
Thanks
Oh yes, the location is the infamous "haunted hotel" Driskil, in Austin Texas.
But I'm troubled. Anyone familiar with the work of CTFxC will know what I'm referring to, those who don't, please watch this video from 11:20 - 11:24: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5JuKjMwDc&feature=player_detailpage#t=679s.
Over the man's (Charles) right shoulder, in the mirror that the women passes by, moves a form, that looks like a person passing outside of the door.
As you can see, the person, seems to stop midway through walking past the open door, just as the pillar obscures them. This would mean either they stood in the doorway, or turned sharply 90 degrees, walking across the room. The direction the person (I'm going to keep saying person, form sounds silly, but if you don't think it's a person, just substitute this when reading) was moving was from a locked balcony, and no other halls connect that way. Additionally, if they turned 90 degrees sharply walking away from the door, they would be making an odd (but admittedly more likely than a ghost) choice to stride across an empty room to a locked door. The only way to leave would be passing by the pillar or going around the outside of the auditorium.
Obviously, it'll have occurred to more than one of you, this video could have simply been edited, to scare the individual they're with who believes in ghosts. My problem is, I am assured by Charles, whom has been very honest with his audience for the past 3 years, that he did not alter the video. He attests to this in the following video from 9:45 to around 12:00 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQz7vMrgRg&feature=player_detailpage#t=585s ). At the moment, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. It'd be very out of character to edit the video, and not confess the prank to us by now.
We're also told, though this is not observed, and based on the recollection of the people in the videos:
1) There was no one outside the room. We know this from when they entered, but that no one else entered the empty auditorium after they stopped filming there, is based purely on their word.
2) That, when Alli and Jesse were stood next to the door (as you can see they are), they witnessed no one pass by it. They say there wasn't, but how attentive they were being is debatable.
So Escapists, particularly fellow skeptics and people of science, but I welcome the perspectives of all, what do you think? Clearly, this, even if all of the above are undeniably true, is hardly evidence enough to attest to the exist of energy based life or "ghosts"; it would have to be put to scientific method and better observed and the experiments repeated for validity; but it's undeniably strange enough for me to write this about it.
I hope you can come up with some likely explanations, in which I failed to satisfy my skepticism, or just found it interesting.
Thanks
Oh yes, the location is the infamous "haunted hotel" Driskil, in Austin Texas.