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Holy shit, haunted swing.
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A 'HAUNTED' playground swing that rocks backwards and forwards on its own for days has scientists baffled. The phenomenon flummoxed police, who called physics professors into Firmat, Argentina. Locals claim the seat moves nonstop for TEN DAYS before stopping dead, while other swings remain still. Academics have now ruled out magnetic and electrical fields, and winds -- and called in ghosthunters.
While we're on the subject of ghosties, what is your stance on the paranormal?
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People on the comments are saying that it's a rewinded tape, however that is impossible as the dog is walking forwards.
I wonder what is causing this phenomenon...
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I really have no idea what to think about the paranormal. But if ghosts to exist, I wanna become one when I die, because I think it'd be more fun that going to an afterlife. :D
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Do share...
Oh, by the way, did anyone else notice the 'footprints' at 0:30?
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Not only we would hear female screams of agony...but more to it happened.
I would tell the whole story, but it would seem far fetched and insane, so I am going to keep it closed from the public.
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Concerned Citizen wrote:
It's nothing to brag about, but a couple of years ago, my cousin, a couple of her friends and I would go to this park called Wapato Park and some strange activity would take place late at night.
Not only we would hear female screams of agony...but more to it happened.
I would tell the whole story, but it would seem far fetched and insane, so I am going to keep it closed from the public.
Not only we would hear female screams of agony...but more to it happened.
I would tell the whole story, but it would seem far fetched and insane, so I am going to keep it closed from the public.
That completely ruins the point in telling us the situation in the first place you mean-butt. I hate you. Tell more.
Anyways, I find myself drawn to fun, creepy things like this. The swing sort of sucks though. While it may not be the way it was pulled off specifically, I know for a fact that there are several ways I myself could do it, and thus, it's not as fun.
If you come across an older post of mine, sowwy
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That, and ghosts are something made up by men. This might be.. anything.
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Definitely a harmonic oscillation set up in the frame causing the centre swing to oscillate as well as the two side swings to a lesser extent. I can see two possible sources of input energy in this video. 1) As many people have pointed out is the wind. 2) There is a person leaning against the frame of the swing set in the entire video. It would be quite easy to set up a harmonic oscillation by gently and subtly rocking the frame. There is always a rational explanation people. Look for it.
.. But keep on talking about ghosts :3
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Esuna wrote:
Why would spirits bother with a swingset?
Because they can- and they like ****ing with kid's heads.
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Poltergust wrote:
Freaky... o_O
People on the comments are saying that it's a rewinded tape, however that is impossible as the dog is walking forwards.
I wonder what is causing this phenomenon...
People on the comments are saying that it's a rewinded tape, however that is impossible as the dog is walking forwards.
I wonder what is causing this phenomenon...
I dunno but it is possible to create this effect on film.
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The paranormal to me might exist, but then again might not.
It simply makes my life more intresting ne?
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I don't see how there could be someone with a fishing line, considering people are walking around the swing set and there are no trees to hide in, it seems. Maybe the harmonic oscillation thing, but I can't see much in the way of other explanations for it.
Ghosts and the paranormal have always been an interest for me. They're just so... interesting to investigate and research. Of course humans naturally take an interest in what they can't explain, but still, this stuff is cool.
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Tinker wrote:
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Definitely a harmonic oscillation set up in the frame causing the centre swing to oscillate as well as the two side swings to a lesser extent. I can see two possible sources of input energy in this video. 1) As many people have pointed out is the wind. 2) There is a person leaning against the frame of the swing set in the entire video. It would be quite easy to set up a harmonic oscillation by gently and subtly rocking the frame. There is always a rational explanation people. Look for it.
.. But keep on talking about ghosts :3
That was actually one of the possibilities I thought up, alongside the simple Really-Long-Fishing-Line-Theory.
If you come across an older post of mine, sowwy
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However as for that swing... I'm not entirely convinced. Whats with the person at the start? And they all start off swinging, it's jsut the middle one that gains momentum. It's kinda creepy though, swings the way a child would... Its hardly a creepy set up though lol I'd be the first person scouting for fishing lines. It's the kind of thing someone would set up to say 'explain that then'. Of course it'd be the middle swing wouldn't it? Might be the wind if it was the right or the left...
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The swing is obviously a hoax, created to bring tourists to a town that would otherwise never be visited, and there's many ways they could have pulled the hoax off.
The only thing about the video that I find interesting is the indentations in the sand that appear around 0:30, I'll go ahead and call them footprints. I have no idea what created, although of note, is the blur that follows the 'footprints'... after the blur goes away, the footprints have vanished. Leading me to believe that the indentations were in fact something on the camera lens, and the blurry thing, is likely to have been someone wiping the camera.
Oh, for the record, I am a believer. :S
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Gozu wrote:
That's actually pretty cool/scary.
I don't see how there could be someone with a fishing line, considering people are walking around the swing set and there are no trees to hide in, it seems. Maybe the harmonic oscillation thing, but I can't see much in the way of other explanations for it.
I don't see how there could be someone with a fishing line, considering people are walking around the swing set and there are no trees to hide in, it seems. Maybe the harmonic oscillation thing, but I can't see much in the way of other explanations for it.
I've actually done something like this before. You basically stick ... christ, what are they called, a few inch tall staple-like things in the ground, only slightly loose enough that the fishing line can pass through freely. That way, the fishing line is slightly above the ground, but people can walk around it.
That's just not what they did for this swing thing in particular.
If you come across an older post of mine, sowwy
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XDDDD That is seriously freaky and awesome at the same time xDD I love to swing, and this would be the most epic swing to ever swing in (or by, dun wanna squish the ghost o.o) there is no way this is wind, that is unbelievably cool
As for the "foot prints", that really looks like water hitting the camera and that really does look like a finger wipeing it off, but for the water or whatever it is to be in a line like that... tis creepy
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I quite like Holy Hell's theory.
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i've had WAY too many instances where there was some kind of paranormal thing going on not to believe that there are ghosts in this world. i've had stuff move on me,stuff turned on without me touching it (i'm serious O_O,my coffee maker turned on by itself once),sounds like a person moving around ect. . i've seen a ghost once actually,it's like most people say when they see a ghost,they only see it for a second,then it dissappears from sight.
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The video was intresting. i didn't see any footprints personally or whatnot,but if it wasn't fishing line that created all that momentum,then it has to be one of my favorite subjects,ghosts XD.
i've had WAY too many instances where there was some kind of paranormal thing going on not to believe that there are ghosts in this world. i've had stuff move on me,stuff turned on without me touching it (i'm serious O_O,my coffee maker turned on by itself once),sounds like a person moving around ect. . i've seen a ghost once actually,it's like most people say when they see a ghost,they only see it for a second,then it dissappears from sight.
i've had WAY too many instances where there was some kind of paranormal thing going on not to believe that there are ghosts in this world. i've had stuff move on me,stuff turned on without me touching it (i'm serious O_O,my coffee maker turned on by itself once),sounds like a person moving around ect. . i've seen a ghost once actually,it's like most people say when they see a ghost,they only see it for a second,then it dissappears from sight.
Electrical problems can cause things to turn on; sounds can be attributed to natural movement of houses, animals and/or hallucinations, there's almost always a logical explanation for things moving, but most people will ignore any possible explanation because they want to believe that they'd had a paranormal encounter. Catching a glimpse of a figure is definitely over-active imagination, and most sightings aren't like that. The only paranormal creatures that supposed to disappear when you try to look at them are the supposed "shadow people".
However, I'd like you give me more details of your experiences so I can debunk them fully.
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GearsoftheApparatus wrote:
Ayame Fan9 wrote:
The video was intresting. i didn't see any footprints personally or whatnot,but if it wasn't fishing line that created all that momentum,then it has to be one of my favorite subjects,ghosts XD.
i've had WAY too many instances where there was some kind of paranormal thing going on not to believe that there are ghosts in this world. i've had stuff move on me,stuff turned on without me touching it (i'm serious O_O,my coffee maker turned on by itself once),sounds like a person moving around ect. . i've seen a ghost once actually,it's like most people say when they see a ghost,they only see it for a second,then it dissappears from sight.
i've had WAY too many instances where there was some kind of paranormal thing going on not to believe that there are ghosts in this world. i've had stuff move on me,stuff turned on without me touching it (i'm serious O_O,my coffee maker turned on by itself once),sounds like a person moving around ect. . i've seen a ghost once actually,it's like most people say when they see a ghost,they only see it for a second,then it dissappears from sight.
Electrical problems can cause things to turn on; sounds can be attributed to natural movement of houses, animals and/or hallucinations, there's almost always a logical explanation for things moving, but most people will ignore any possible explanation because they want to believe that they'd had a paranormal encounter. Catching a glimpse of a figure is definitely over-active imagination, and most sightings aren't like that. The only paranormal creatures that supposed to disappear when you try to look at them are the supposed "shadow people".
However, I'd like you give me more details of your experiences so I can debunk them fully.
(sorry,i don't get to use this often ^_^"")i'll start off with the coffee maker thing. mainly from what i remember,i was alone in my living room,but it felt weird that night,maybe because i was alone...but anyway. i started to drift to sleep when i hear crackiling and the coffee pot was turned on. there was no energy spikes or anything of that sort that had happened at that time. it just simpily turned on by itself
there's no possiable way that there is natural movement of my Apt. unless the whole building is moving (or i'm just being stupid by saying this). i was tired at the time of the sounds and we have mice...(not because the Apt. isn't kept up,the Apt. building maintance and cleaning crew are really shabby >_>).
now it might have just been my imagination,i have no idea,but i saw my G.mother when i saw a glimpse of the ghost... (might have been my mind...and what are these 'shadow people'?.)
now prolly you'll shoot down my explanations easily ^_^""
however...one thing is un-explainable in any way possiable. sometimes in our Apt...it seems like mothballs (weird smell...),my great G.mother always smelled of mothballs,and there is not one mothball in this entire Apt. . i've smelled this strange smell,my mom has,even my friends have (and one isn't into ghostly stuff)
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My mom and her sisters prepared her favorite cake for her. The next day, we found her footprints embedded in the cake.
I also revealed I had/have some control over local winds since I was a toddler.
Soo...there's the paranormal. I believe in it, but I think my attitude towards it is a little different from you guys.
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I have a particular fear of things inexplainable by science and therefore I think I'd just break if I witnessed a ghost-encounter.
Although I do think it's a possible occurrance I haven't experienced anything personally. I had a cousin who used to live in a place where there was a river nearby... apparently a young girl drowned in it, but she didn't know this until she asked around after a certain incident.
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