Haunted Library?

[bettyray69]

In the defence of the people who actually make videos "ghost hunting" and not just random videos with pop up images; the "orbs" they claim to encounter DO actually change in size (unlike yours) and look as though they're moving towards/away from the camera. They also look a lot smoother, yours look like still images being shown for half a second. Whilst you're trying to prove one point you're also proving you're awful at faking it yourself. In the name of science, you're not being objective!

[Rarae192]

Cotton balls -- the most balls a paranormal activist will ever have.

[loszhor]

ORBS! Like on Ghost Hunters! .... Ha!

[shkotay]

LORD GOD save us from teh cotton balls :O

[uatemycow]

lol yup i agree with be haunted by cotton balls lol whats even funnier is to try to make it look scarey they put a skull book holder in the back lol

[kwill81]

All Libraries are haunted by ghosts of frustrated authors and cotton balls.

[textr]

It's haunted by spirits of past cottons, obviously.

[Etyde]

Hahaha. Funny ^^

[oraclecrank]

It's all explained with science, isn't it? You people see so well with your EYES but are blind in the HEART. You can dissect and inspect something and know all about it physically, but never see its SOUL.

All ghosts look like cotton balls because all cotton balls are ghosts. Cotton balls are ghosts that the cotton ball factory captured and put into bags. That's why they disappear when you leave the bag open!

[darris321]

@jeffreyprevost well done!

welcome to the james randi foundation

you must be new here.

lol

[TheBlueFalconX]

>kehwa

That bug explanation is describing OTHER occurrences of this specific phenomenon.

This VIDEO however, is a cotton ball on a stick to show HOW EASY it is to fake it, and to reproduces the effects.

Yeah, way to delete all your comments and down rate mine. Little whiny ass girl.

[wespyro1234]

that is fake stupid

[ShitMovies2000]

this is so obviously fake lol....

[ZombieCallum]

why the fuck is the ghost still here it needs to go all the way randi help this spirit go to peace please dont let it get stuck here help it its scared spirit

[secretsocietywinks]

I hope you're joking?

[GameDocumentaries]

it's a beard! randi must have had a busy day reading lol

[ZombieCallum]

LOL this old senile crazy cunt has know Idea about videos thats why he uploaded this hes never seen a camera before its new technology.. what a werid old fruit he just reads and reads and reads (some one pu him in a home hes fucking obsessive pedo)

[GameDocumentaries]

i don't know why you replied to me with this ridiculous and clearly confused comment, but the fact that you did is embarrassing enough. i'm not a randi-hater...on the contrary. may be YOU should read a book once in a while. at least you'd learn some basics from it like spelling...you know, stuff that kids learn in school. you apparently had your head up your ass at that time, which would also explain why you talk so much shit...

[meteosurreal]

...That was random.

[ZombieCallum]

this video to some is just a harmless hoax with some sort of inteligent meaning.. but to others this is a fucked up poyscholigal look at what hes trying to fucking call for help for.. hes a pedo and wants little girls in bed with him

[meteosurreal]

Why would he be calling for help? And how would anyone know he was a pedophile simply by looking at a cloud digitally inserted into the background? You have some random ideas about who's pedophilic and who isn't.

[meteosurreal]

Oh, then why did you say that JAMES RANDI was the pedophile if it is in fact YOU who is the pedophile? That's pretty illogical right there.

[ZombieCallum]

I need his help please help me randi I cant help but get boners over young girls

[meteosurreal]

Yeah yeah, so it's YOU who's the pedophile...

...And you still haven't shown how Randi's one.

So, since you haven't shown anyone to be a pedophile other than yourself, why bother?

[ZombieCallum]

coz i'm only 17 and was kidding but you could be one too

[meteosurreal]

1: That was pretty random. Being totally random rarely works all by itself. It's easy to make something about Michael Jackson funny because of that child molestation thing and the plastic surgery and such, but making random claims about people is far less likely to be funny unless there's some actual truth to it, and I see none in Randi's case.

2: Since I pay very heavy amounts of attention to myself, that's not bloody likely.

[ZombieCallum]

not even a 11 year old in short skirt?

[meteosurreal]

More like a 20-something in a leotard.

And it still sounds more like YOU are the pedophile.

[ZombieCallum]

look i'[m off now.. not a pedo just like youger girls well bye

[FretNinja]

if you think its acceptable to go around baselessly accusing people of being a paedophile then you need to take a good look at your self because its almost as bad as being a paedophile yourself.

[SexyMelon]

ITS A GHOST

[BrutalMachines2]

No it isn't, read the description.....

[SexyMelon]

...That was kinda the point.

[charlienecro]

very clever :-) this should be posted under a different account name, claiming that it is "really" haunted, and see how many "nuts" believe it

[FretNinja]

yeah even with the description still intact you will still get nuts believing it!!!

[ZombieCallum]

how is pedophillia bad.. heck I like the icea cream, pigtails, skirt wind blow, little pussies mix :D

[FretNinja]

then speak for yourself

[GR1o6180339887498948]

They should have placed a jumping scary face in the end. That would teach people not mess with ghosts again @.@

[beautifulspam]

Clearly the library is haunted by the intimidating mutton chops of isaac asimov.

[JorgensZelda]

@beautifulspam Dude! I thought so too! Those things scare the crap out of me.

[chromolitho]

HaHA Fake! Real ghosts could never go in a room  protected under the portraiture of IA.

[MilesB1975]

Anyone who knows about photography (Aperture and Focal Length affecting Depth of Field) , would not be fooled by 'Ghost' photos like this.

[youtubkicksass]

You can see this is edited. You are all fools. The background of the library is frozen as if time is not moving. While the images appearing have the property of time.

[Koss42]

ROFL

[3yE]

First i thought it might be a moth, then i read the info and was disappointed. :/ All you have to do is let the moth fly in a set the light source yet a bit closer to the camera, i bet you get much better ghost than that, and in the end you can always say it wasn't your fault that it's fake.

[TheBlueFalconX]

lol i can see the stick like object holding the cotton.

[TheBlueFalconX]

calm down little girl, this shit isnt real. moron.

[TheBlueFalconX]

you're such a moron. how about you read the description. this is, in fact, a video from James Randi....

description reads "It's a piece of cotton on a coat hanger wielded by James Randi himself."

Douche.

[TheBlueFalconX]

You really don't understand what it's saying do you?

Quit being such a moron and realize that this shit is fake, assclown.

It clearly explains the object is REAL, and SOLID, but very close to the lens giving appearance of transparency.

Kill yourself. Kthx. :)

[TheBlueFalconX]

Yeah, cause assuming really helps you here. -_-

It wasn't even a 'bug'.

Need I say this AGAIN?

"It's a piece of cotton on a coat hanger wielded by James Randi himself."

Not a bug. Cotton. Learn to read, you malignantly misinformed moron.

Please, don't reproduce. Kthxbai.

[HazelEhren]

I prefer the gost video where it tells you to look realy hard and then a huge loud puppet comes up and screems.

[HappyWulf]

Clearly no one reads the video info.

[IzzyBunneh]

i did x3

cotton hanging from a coat hanger

[BrutalMachines2]

and a bug of course

[CureforPain]

this is really poor in the sense that it fails to stir any reaction at all. Well maybe a yawn.

[lostagainrob]

That's so fake!

[Arghira]

WOW so fucking scary !!! dude this vid should be censured...

[neomp5]

this isn't accurate at all. where's the creepy ambient music to get people worked up before the image appears? what good is a ghost video without the appropriate theatricality?

[jollyatom]

woah! Randi you should win your own million dollars.

[LookMaNoBrains]

WOW This video scared the shiit hell out of me!!!

[mjr256]

The people at the JREF have finally gotten so sick of cranks they've decided to try for the money themselves. LOL

[Catrambi]

I wanna under which account this was also posted. Anyone?

[uberjim83]

Clearly, this is the ghost of Isaac Asimov dangling a cotton ball in front of the lens for shits and giggles.

[IzzyBunneh]

you win!~ XD

[DrMojoPhD]

An attempted ad hominem tu quoque, eh? Pointing out that you are making assumptions about a hypothetical creator doesn't mean I am making the converse assumption.

Understand this: If we know something concrete, such as the fact that the universe had a definite origin, does not mean that what originated it is bound by the same laws.

To put it in a way you might make an effort to understand, you're asking "what created the Big Bang singularity?" as if it was actually a valid riposte. It's not.

[uberjim83]

It's like if someone gave the chicken/egg riddle. One guy says you can't know, because you can't have an egg without a preexisting chicken and you can't have a chicken without a preexisting egg. Then someone else comes along and says "The egg. A leprechaun created it with magic and the chicken hatched out of it later on." Does this person have a valid point?

[deadlyfatality]

its a golf club james your noting more than selfishe

[DrMojoPhD]

The fallacy that if the Universe needed a creator, and if that creator was God, then God also needed a creator is just that. Specifically it's reasoning from lack of imagination. It doesn't help your critical thinking skills to rely on logical fallacies at all.

If X needs a creator, and Y is offered as a creator, it does not mean Y is bound by the same set of rules as X. Reasoning that it must be because you can't imagine otherwise is a defect in reasoning, not in your opponent's argument.

[uberjim83]

If "Y does not have a creator" is true, then the premise of the entire argument, "Everything that exists has a creator" is false. The whole argument then goes to shit, because now X doesn't need a creator either.

[cfbalfour]

It looks to me like someone is swinging a golf club in front of the camera which takes pictures every few seconds in order to make it look like a blurry ghost. If you pause the clip on any of the inages you can clearly see the driver head and a shaft in all the still images.

[Denshuu]

It's a streetlight.

/sup Fark

[wolfinside]

And it is very weird. It is a piece of the puzzle, but the puzzle isn't complete as yet. Someday it may be. That is why it's a mystery and very interesting. Maybe one day we will get varifiable evidence, and the puzzle complete. Until then, it shall remain a facinating mystery.

[wolfinside]

I take "supernatural" to mean things that are not subject to natural laws. I think what ever truly exists must be subject to natural laws. Even some kind of god. Therefore if god existed, it would be a natural part of the universe. It would belong here.

[wolfinside]

I'm not saying people are all lying. But eye witness testimony is very falible. Check into this, scientific studies clearly show that what we see, what we think we say and our memory of it is very pliable and subject to our own pre concieved ideas. But as for the "ufo" trailing the space craft sighting, it is wierd, but it doesn't prove there were aliens trailing them. It could have been soviets etc.

[wolfinside]

Except of god exists he would not be supernatural, he would be natural. But also, some people claim that the aliens that "abduct" them fade through the walls and can't be captured on video etc. Have you ever wondered why with all the people being abducted on a regular basis, they can't catch "alien abducters" on video with a motion sensing camera? Or why investigators just don't stake out their homes and catch the whole thing on tape? These are logical questions that need to be asked.

[wolfinside]

Yes, not definitive proof. (scientific proof) But I too find the whole subject very interesting and am glad people are investigating the what people are seeing. And I hope someday we are visited aliens, I really do. I also hope that someday some hunter brings in a bigfoot scull. That would be proof. As an aside, eye witness proof in court is considered some of the worst evidence there is. I don't think much of eye witness testimony. Many an innocent man is sitting in prison because of it.

[wolfinside]

My original point is that UFOs are only interesting because the are NOT PROVEN. If they are ever proved they will lose there special fun. Do you see people heatedly discussing gorillas or the coelacanth fish? No, because they have both been proven to exist by science. UFO's would become boring if they were understood and known.

[wolfinside]

I could gather expert witness testimony of miracles preformed by god. I could get you photographs of statues of the virgin mary crying blood. Why don't you believe in god? Or miracles? If you will believe in UFO's without scientific vetting, then you might as well believe in god, and bigfoot, and gnomes and faries and leprecahns and anything else that comes down the pike.

[wolfinside]

I believe that what you say is "possible" but that is a very different thing than believing it outright. Do you see what I mean. A lot of the "evidence" for UFO's is interesting. And I find much of it very compelling, but it is not scientific proof that aliens are visiting this planet. And before I commit to actually believing in anything I do require proof. God may exist, but before I would believe I would want real scientific proof. (like maybe him actually showing up once in a while)

[wolfinside]

When an alien lands on the white house lawn and lets the press and real scientist's examine him and his craft and then other scientist's examine the evidence and confirm it, that would be proof. Fuzzy recolections, even if accompanied by fuzzy photographs is proof of nothing. No more that fuzzy talks with god is proof there is a god. Every muslim bomber will tell you he talked to god. Do you believe they do?

[wolfinside]

Lots of people claim to have seen aliens. Even more people claim to have talked to god. Lots of people claim to have been abducted by aliens. Lots of people claim to have seen god. None of this constituts proof of either. Believing in things unproven is indeed just like religion. I find it extreamly amusing that atheits who demand proof of god, go right ahead and get lead down the primrose path when it comes to other unsubstantated beliefs.

[wolfinside]

Again, ... you're putting words in my mouth I never said. I believe in all sorts of stuff that science has proven and that has been clearly and carefully vetted. It is believing in unproven things that is irrational. Refusing to believe in things unproven is indeed rational. (as well as sensible)

[wolfinside]

you're putting words into my mouth. I never said aliens could not exist, I am just saying there it is no real proof that they do in fact exist. I think it is a high posibility that other life forms exist in the universe. But I don't believe that they do, because it has not yet been proven. I'm not trying to rain on anyones parade here, I myself am very intriques by the posiblities, but really believing is a different matter altogether.

[wolfinside]

Believing in things that are not real leads to muddled thinking. Muddled thinking leads to foolish actions. I wish it were something to "LOL" about, but it's not really.

[wolfinside]

It's not only a genuine it's already happened. Have you not heard of the "heavens gate cult"? Dozens murdered and suicided because of a belief in "alien visitors". The case of the man who convinced two people that his ex wife was an alien in disguise and had them murder her. There are others. So yes, people believing in things not proven lead to murder and death.

[wolfinside]

The nazi's believed in Astrology, it helped guide them to kill millions of people. Faulse beliefs lead to muddled thinking. Muddles thinking results in foolish actions. History is riff with this stuff. So before I believe anything I want scientific proof. I'm not saying alien spacecraft aren't buzzing earth, or that ghosts or god or santa claus or the tooth fairy can't exist, I'm just saying I don't believe in them and won't until proven.

[wolfinside]

None of what you mention is proof of anything. And no, I don't have to take someones word for it. People taking someone's "word for it" has led to to countless deaths on this planet. Believing in things not proven is a road to ignorance and other problems. I would love to have alien spacecrafts proven to be real by science. But just because I would enjoy something to be real doesn't mean I will believe it without scientific proof.

[wolfinside]

After almost half a century the famous Patterson bigfoot movie, proved faked. (one of the people involed came forward) After almost a century the most famous Lock ness photo proved fake. (one of the perpetrators admited it) The famous fairy photos admited to be faked (by one of the women involved) after almost seventy years. Photographs or personal antidotes prove nothing.

[wolfinside]

Well, people are allowed to believe whatever they please. All I am saying is, I want proof before I believe in things. Because believing in unproven things can hurt people. Both the believers and other. We have people bombing innocent people in this world based on a belief backed up by nothing.

[wolfinside]

They certainly can't be classified as alien spacecraft. All they can be classified as is an "I don't know". That is what the word "unidentified" in "unidentified flying object" means.

[machwon]

A bug on the lens perhaps. Occam's razor ftw.

[wolfinside]

We know UFO's exist because UFO stands for UNIDENTIFIED flying object. But doesn't it sound a bit silly to say that something which is by definition "UNIDENTIFIED" exists?

[Paintballer455]

No, because we're just saying we don't know what it is. I've seen plenty of UFOs. But I know that it's probably a bird or something. It's ridiculously unlikely that it's an alien spacecraft,

[wolfinside]

Exactly what I meant. But most people use the term "ufo" to mean alien spacecraft. So when they say they believe in or have seen a "ufo" what they mean is they have seen an alien craft.

[cardante979]

ha ha...love the method :)

[wolfinside]

Well I have seen many UFO photos that where the UFO was sitting perfectly still. My point was that none of this constitues scientific proof. Only interesting photos. And also, many of the best UFO photos turn out to be fakes. I would love it if ghosts or UFOs could be proven, but I want it to really be proven, not just believed in like some kind of new age religion.

[wolfinside]

Isn't it funny how all of this mysterious unknown stories you see on tv, are ALMOST proven. Hazy out of focus photos that ALMOST show a lake monster. Videos at night of UFO's that show indistict light that ALMOST show a space craft. Audio fibers that could ALMOST be identified. For science ALMOST isn't good enouph. It requires some real proof.

[Perlustrate]

If you stop the frame, zoom in with photoshop, invert the colors, turn it upside down, distort it with an art effect, distort it with another art effect, change the alpha levels, distort it with another art effect, print it out, get drunk, and hold it up to the moonlight on friday the 13th, you can CLEARLY (cleary!) see the face of a demon in the white blur.

[jerrylewis333]

A haunted cotton

[shoemanbundy]

I swear the way some of you talk you haven't even read the description for the video. If that's the case this truly is an ignorant world.

[websnarf]

A piece of cotton. The problem is that its too disjointed.

In the case of silly story from CNN, the security cameras are usually inside of glass bubbles -- so it seems to me that if you shine light at the bubble itself from a weird enough angle then internal refraction itself may cause an light spot to appear on it.

[keithmoslak]

You can see the coat hanger at 00:01 and 00:15.

[Twobitz1]

00:04 as well.

[riff287]

so fake u poopface lol

[cinderfella86]

a hoax

it can be anything from condense to sun rays

or a editing joke

funny to see people believe in this so 5 stars

thats my entertainment for today reading funny comments

[spencersghost]

it's all explained in the description

[cinderfella86]

oops didn't read it funny trick anyway

[jamesrobertdobbs]

The skull is staring at me!

[PurpleinLA]

I knew that was a hoax...that's no "ghost" there are no such things.

[andreiduffy]

yea, i saw those ghosts in my kitchen too. they are real man, they are among us

[jesterspace]

Evidence of this statement please.

[danbison]

Yup, that's what ghosts look like... I know cuz I am one.

[Arghira]

is not even a video is a image. LOL =)) why people believe weird things?

[0xFE]

these days a kid with a computer and free computer programs can do it in a matter of minutes

[BEANMANOR]

Wait! Did someone actually turn this in for the one million dollar prize?!

[BEANMANOR]

nm, i read the description section

[JamesRandiFoundation]

No, this was done to poke fun at the many videos on youtube where people mistake bugs for ghosts.

Rich Montalvo

[AisuSeijin]

Yes, James Randi himself wanted to win his own prize, so he made this up.

[Catrambi]

It would've been even funnier if you had posted this from a different account and claimed it to be a video of an authentic ghost. Just to see the reaction of youtube morons. But this is cool too.

[JamesRandiFoundation]

it is also up under a different account.

Rich Montalvo

[Catrambi]

Once again I've underestimated you, Mr. Montalvo.

[15963256]

00:12 oh it looks like typical prokaryotic cell ghoust.

[lumpcouch]

It's the evil ghost which devours all psychic POWARZ in the JREF!

just kidding.