Paranormal Caught On Camera - General Discussion

[Meredith Quill]

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A panel of experts analyze footage from some of the world's most eye-opening and terrifying paranormal videos. From poltergeist activity to lights in the sky, these firsthand accounts just might turn skeptics into believers.

 

[Meredith Quill]

This show is my guilty pleasure. Some of it I seriously side-eye, some of it I can't find a rational explanation for but those are the ones that keep me coming back for more.

The so-called 'experts' - lol, I can take them or leave them, a couple of them are so biased in their beliefs that I cannot take any of them seriously at all. So I mostly ignore those bits of the show.

[Welshman in Ca]

To paraphrase someone more famous than me, "it's either ball lightning or a camera glitch" but I'll give it a 6 on the woogie boogie scale.

For most of the footage on this you really need a very vivid imagination & the ability to see things that aren't there but there is usually one of them that makes you think mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I watch it if there's nothing much else on & need something to watch at bed time.

[Meredith Quill]

It seems to be the hauntings/ghost ones that tend to be the most inexplicable for me. The ufo ones....ehhhhh, most of them are too obscure to be able to make any sense of one way or another. Some of the bigfoot/cryptid stuff has been interesting, some not.

[Mahamid Frauded Me]

I watch this too, I usually FF through the "expert" commentary as it wastes time. I like the ghosts/bigfoot footage, the UFO ones kinda bore me

[mojito]

I agree about the "experts". They know about paranormal lore, but their explanations are nothing more than guesses.  UFOs have been around forever, so the portions of the show devoted to them are a waste of time. Yeah, there are things floating around out there. 'Nuff said. Just once I wish someone who encountered a Big Foot was carrying around a DLSR camera with a telephoto lens that can actually capture the zipper running down its back. Comedian Mitch Hedberg declared that Big Foot himself is blurry, and that's why no one can find him.

Some of this footage, though, is so compelling because you can't even figure out how the incident or the being could have been faked. 

Edited January 27, 2023 by mojito

[Gharlane]

I used to watch this if I caught it playing but I got tired of the credulity of the "experts" and end up getting so annoyed that I search online for explanations if they haven't already been debunked on another show, that is.

[Gharlane]

On 9/13/2023 at 10:54 PM, iRarelyWatchTV36 said:

I love watching a clip get dissected on P:CoC as "soo supernatural!".

..... knowing it was already debunked as a CGI-generated hoax on The Proof Is Out There a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I got tired of that happening on this show.

[iRarelyWatchTV36]

I still watch, but only for guessing which clips could maybe be actual paranormal activity and which ones are obviously hoaxed.

My biggest problem with this show is the complete and total lack of realism by 'expert' commenters.  Everything is 1,000,000% supernatural, no question about it, all the time.

Some of the clips provided are from people who are out hunting for ghosts/poltergeists/shadow people, etc, and have been on the series 5+ times already, but oh yeah, they are getting undoubtedly pure supernatural footage each and every time.  I mean, c'mon!  It's like expecting nobody to question how Zac Bagans somehow went from just a ghost hunting TV personality to a full blown conduit of & for paranormal activity.  Right.

[iRarelyWatchTV36]

Are we allowed to talk about other aspects of the clips, aside from the supposed paranormal aspects of them?

Watching the Top100 Countdown marathon, and it reminded me of something that I think every time I see the segment;

Putting aside that if what was happening was paranormal was pretty creepy, can we touch on the unmissable display of child neglect in the one about the very young boy that pulls himself up and balances on the top railing of his crib for a bit?

I can't help but have questions.  Where is the parents' bedroom in relation to the boy's?  There's no room-to-room child monitors involved, especially with a static cam in there to catch what happened??  That kid is crying, wailing, and screaming before he pulls himself up on the railing, which means there's minutes of these sounds happening in total, but from all indications the parents never even rolled over in bed due to it.  The dad even comes across - as he talks about the capture(s) - as caring more about the 3 minutes of fame garnered by sharing the clips instead of the welfare of his son.

I'll get off my soap box now, but that entire segment just really irks me.

Edited October 5, 2023 by iRarelyWatchTV36

[Gharlane]

That never occurred to me! 😮

[Gharlane]

 

 

Edited October 29, 2023 by Gharlane

[iRarelyWatchTV36]

Ok, I can side-eye this series with the best of them, but they have gone waaaaay tooo far this time.

New episode airing tonight (7.2) and that supposed "Bigfoot" in Colorado, caught by train-riders?

All the commenters are "That is 1000% totally a Bigfoot!!!".

L.O.L., holy shit AYFKM?!?!  That was sooo obviously a man in a hairy suit it was totally and utterly RIDICULOUS!!!

Unbelievable the total BS they think that they can try to fool us with.

[iRarelyWatchTV36]

I'm sure I have thought about it offhandedly in the past, but I stopped to actually realize what makes most of this 'caught footage' likely very fake.

When something visually is caught on camera/video, 99.95% of the time the caught footage is 'directly centered' in the frame.  Almost every clip, or set of clips, its directly centered on the supposed 'paranormal activity' without fail.

Even when moving just beforehand, either intentionally or gravity changing the camera's angle, every non-locked in place recording device always stops exactly where it needs to bullseye the action.

Some of the time, sure ok.  But nearly 100% of the time?  I seriously doubt the validity of most of those claims.

[mojito]

On 6/20/2024 at 12:41 PM, iRarelyWatchTV36 said:

I'm sure I have thought about it offhandedly in the past, but I stopped to actually realize what makes most of this 'caught footage' likely very fake.

When something visually is caught on camera/video, 99.95% of the time the caught footage is 'directly centered' in the frame.  Almost every clip, or set of clips, its directly centered on the supposed 'paranormal activity' without fail.

Even when moving just beforehand, either intentionally or gravity changing the camera's angle, every non-locked in place recording device always stops exactly where it needs to bullseye the action.

Some of the time, sure ok.  But nearly 100% of the time?  I seriously doubt the validity of most of those claims.

It's easy to reframe a clip in editing software. You can even add pixels so there will be less grain when you reframe.

So many landscape and nature photographers with dedicated cameras out there, yet the people who shoot this content only use smart phones with tiny sensors and limited zoom capability.

 

 

Edited July 22 by mojito

[Gharlane]

 

[Gharlane]

I must admit that I got a good laugh from the "expert" who tried to suggest that the "UFO in the woods" that was obvious a string of lights was the result of a portal to another dimension showing us a house that was decorated for Christmas!