Lame Debunking Article On the Hampton Court ghost
London: The so-called 'Hampton Court' ghost which was allegedly captured on video has turned out to be a hoax.
In pictures splashed worldwide earlier in December, a supposed figure stands in a doorway at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London in the image which was caught on closed circuit television.
Now the website Paranormal-Investigation.com after examination of the 'ghost' video has concluded that the figure was infact very much of the earth.
After video enhancement, the investigators conclude: "When enhanced and stabilized the video looks far less like a ghost and more like an attendant of some kind (wearing a period costume). The press and media took the most ghost like image of the low resolution sequence and circulated the low resolution and shaky images from video without any processing to balance contrast and used this to claim it was a ghost, but when you look at the sequence once enhanced and stabilized it looks less convincing.
The investigator goes on to say, "Would a 17th century spirit know how to operate a Fire exit door? I'm sure most modern people have difficulty closing them but the 'ghost' seemed quite able to get it to work, closing one side then the other. The motion of the legs, arms and hands appear totally solid and are consistent with that of known human articulation".
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Points to consider:
#1. According to the video, an alarm for the door went off and security was there within 2 minutes, and discovered no one. The building was empty of everyone anyway, there were no "attendants" in costume or otherwise.
#2. If you actually watch the video, the doors open
before the figure comes out. That's a neat trick in any case.
#3. "Would a 17th century ghost know how to operate a fire door?" Well, duh...I guess peoples IQ's were in the single digits if you can't see that a door opens by pushing on a bar.
#4.
The motion of the legs, arms and hands appear totally solid and are consistent with that of known human articulation".....Ummmm, isn't a ghost of a human being
supposed to be fully articulated like a human? Does being a ghost lock up the joints or something like ectoplasm arthritis?
#5. "...
but when you look at the sequence once enhanced and stabilized it looks less convincing. " That's only if you assume all ghosts are spectral see-through vapor forms. If you do
any research into ghost reports, quite a few of them have full fledged forms that appear solid and corpreal.
Intelligent Debunking is a necessary part of investigations into anything paranormal or bizarre. It keeps researchers honest and makes them have to use their brains to see if the explanations really do fit the situation.
THIS article has neither intelligence NOR brains.
Oh, one other thing I missed. Notice how they "proclaim" it turns out to be a hoax, without ANY evidence that it's actually a hoax. They say (paraphrased) "most likely" or "could be". .....Not "we found the person who did it"....or "we have PROOF it was hoaxed".
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