A turkey circle around a dead cat. Very odd bird behavior.

A group of wild turkeys has been see circling around a dead cat in the street and it's very strange indeed.

Check it out here

The Hamburger Lady - Creepy Deep Web Video Explained

The Hamburger Lady video is meant to have been pulled from the deep web some time ago and has had a lot of speculation over where it comes from.  If you are unsure on what the deep web is then this diagram should help make it clear.  There are layers to the internet at different accessibility levels.  The lower levels are the deep web and are not accessible on a normal browser.  These are the Tor networks and you need the Tor browser to find them.

I have seen people saying that it's a cursed video, one of those "if you watch it you will die in three days" things.  I have heard some say the story behind it was real and it was made by the orderly or the doctor or even the spirit of the Hamburger Lady herself.  

The story is about a woman in a hospital suffering from major burns all over her body.  The doctor has written a journal entry about her and the way her flesh looks like hamburger meat.  He speaks of taking turns caring for her in her suffering and how an orderly was sick all over the floor from dealing with her.

I have had a dig around and I found a few things out about this video.  It is creepy for sure, that we know, but what is the real story of it and was she a real person?  Click below to watch my explanation video and see the original video taken from the deep web.

The Hamburger Lady

Spooky Thursday with Haunted Britannia - Disneyland Ghost

Hello and welcome to the new Spooky Thursday which I am doing in partnership with Haunted Britannia.  The ghost hunting team are a new, more wide spread venture from the long standing local group Pontefract Paranormal.  I have been a member of PP for quite some time now, well over a year I think, maybe nearly two, and I am also now a crew member with HB.  I have a separate blog called Finding Slimer in which I enter my report as I see it from investigations I go on and I have a couple of personal spooky experiences on there too.  I am aiming to have something related to the paranormal world on here every Thursday for the purposes of debate among Haunted Britannia patrons and fans, so without further ado, let's get on to the first one and let's make it a big one to celebrate this newness.

This video was captured at Disneyland in 2009.  It is a recording of the security monitors as a ghostly figure roams around the closed park in the night.  Some people say it is a ghost, maybe even Walt himself, and others have rather different explanations.  I am going to try and go through some theories and ideas to see what I can make of this.  When doing any kind of paranormal investigation you need to try and debunk everything in as many ways as you can, otherwise you just end up believing anything and everything is a ghost.  Eg the cat fell off a table in the next room "ohh it was a ghost".  That kind of thing.  And that proves nothing.  Only once you have ruled out as much as possible can you then begin to really look at something as a real candidate for para normality.

So this video I have chosen because it is pretty clear to see what we are talking about and it is compelling.  You can see the figure is very human in some of the shots, not just a strange mass.  It walks across different cameras which all line up perfectly and passes through some closed gates and does a Jesus impression over the boat lake.  So what are the possible explanations for this?

Someone on the net has mentioned the idea of screen burn, the image has been shown on the screen for so long that it has burned in.  So the background would be burned in, not the figure.  I think the person was suggesting that there really is a person walking through the park but they didn't show properly through the burnt images.  This should not really make any difference to the image of people on the screen, they should still show up fine not like a white transparent figure.  If this was the case then all people would show like this all the time on that screen.  That would be creepy to look at but unfortunately there are no other people in the shot to confirm this.  Having watched old TV screens in my youth with screen burn though, I'm not buying this one at all.  If it is a real image of someone walking through, how do they walk through closed gates and over a boat lake?

Old VHS tapes being reused with the 'ghost' image still hanging around.  I buy this one more as that does happen.  Like a double exposure, you can see a little of what was on the tape before you recorded over it with something else.  I do have a little niggle with it.  This does explain how the figure walks through closed gates and I am guessing all the tapes will be recording the same cameras all the time over and over.  The figure walks the path perfectly but then walks over the lake?  It could be that the tape was changed from recording another location before BUT we are talking about this same image crossing over four different screens which are either A those same 4 cameras are on a constant feed to one tape so it would have meant someone did walk over the lake or B that 4 different tapes record each camera feed and this same image is on ALL of them separately at the same time which seems very unlikely.

It was suggested it might be a reflection on the screen.  This one I am not buying either because it's very human looking and it shows on 2 screens at once walking between cameras which perfectly sync up.

After all that you are left with the question of it being a hoax.  If this is a hoax then it's quite a good one and must have taken a bit of skill and time.  It was uploaded on a YouTube channel called ghostatdisneyland on the 15th September 2009 and was followed by another video on the 23rd and a final one on the 29th.  The channel has no real information on it and just these 3 videos all as from the security cameras.  So what can we get from this?

These were put here anonymously on a channel that was made just for them with the look of the name and the fact it was created on the same day as the first upload.  So it could be someone who works there leaking footage they have found or they have taken the basic footage and manipulated it digitally.  That could be just for fun as the videos do not seem to have been monetised for viewer revenue.  Seems like a lot of trouble to make content that you will not have credit or money for creating but some people do still do these things.  Another idea is that it was a viral ad created by Disneyland to promote Halloween events.  The date would check out on this one with it being mid to late September.

If you take a look at the other 2 videos on there you have this Tower of Terror one which shows flashes of someone sitting first behind and then to the side of this maintenance worker going through the ride.  Someone said this was images of the same man repeated and reflected but it clearly isn't the case as you can see from my still shots below.  This ride does however use screens and holograms to scare the riders.  I can't help but feel that the ghosts in this video look quite conveniently like holograms in a place where hologram projection is installed.

The final video does look to me like a good candidate for ghost image on VHS as it is one camera view of one spot.  It could be someone getting in the train before imprinted on the new recording.

So personally I am going with this being a Disneyland viral ad.  I think anonymous channel creation ties in to that well.  Not monetised so no links to another account for payments and no other advert interruptions over their videos which are in themselves adverts, well timed for Halloween and pretty good images like it might have had some real thought and money put in to it to make it quite convincing.  It does look from a quick search that they had a 2009 Halloween festival so that links in well too.

This is just my thoughts on it all and my personal conclusion but as with all things ghost, it is open to interpretation and it can be hard to truly pinpoint an exact right answer.  It is possible I am wrong and it really is a security guard who wanted to show the spooks without getting fired for releasing Disneyland security footage.  They could be real or there could be another explanation for them.

The main question is, what do you think?

Ever wanted to change your eye colour?

Thanks to modern day medical science you can.  Not just with regular contact lenses, but with a chunk of plastic permanently jammed under your cornea.  I don't know about you but I can think of nothing more appealing than having my eye balls sliced up like a cooked chicken.

Here is a news report on Bright Ocular and their eye changing ways, below this is a video from Bright Ocular of an implant being placed in the eye.  If that makes you cringe then get ready to hide behind something for the next video, removal of an implant that went baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

If you are happy with the current colour of your iris but still want to give your eye a little artificial pop of colour, why not consider an eye tattoo.  The white of your eye can be changed to any colour you like with a few injections of ink in to the cornea.  Lovely.

Botfly

Botfly larvae are the things of nightmares.  The human Botfly (Dermatobia Hominis) female will capture a mosquito and attach her eggs to it's body and let it go.  Once the mosquito lands on a human (and some other primates) the eggs will enter at he point of the mosquito bite to incubate for 8 weeks in the subcutaneous layers of the skin. It will fall out and develop for a further week in the ground.

This species is native to the Americas from Southeastern Mexico (beginning in central Veracruz) to northern Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The adult fly is quite large and resembles a bumblebee.

Here is a video of Botfly larvae removals.  Be warned, it's cringe inducing.  also if you suffer from Trypophobia it might trigger that too.

Tickle in the ear

Hi creepsters.  I know I had been putting a creepy thing on everyday and that just recently I have been missing a few days.  I have not had as much time to dedicate to the blog lately as I had before.  I don't want to stop the blog though so I am going to reduce the post frequency to weekly rather than daily.  On that note, here is a man going to the doctor with a tickle in his ear.

Botcaster

I was going through a site called PetitTube (go try it, it's odd) and I found this.  Botcaster.  It says it is a smart robot that learns from the net and uploads videos from what it learns.  It has shocking numbers of videos even though it was only started in January this year.  If you go on the playlists you will see the mammoth collections of different video types.  It's been telling jokes (bad ones) and reading the Bible as well as giving definitions for thousands of words.

Botcaster Inc

Creepypasta

I know this site is already a very popular one but not everyone knows about it so I am going to point you in it's direction anyway.  Creepypasta is the place for the public, yep that's you out there, to write creepy fiction and have it featured for the world to read.  The site is packed full of creepy stories for a night in alone.

Visit Creepypasta

The Sodder Children

The Sodder children were either killed in a fire or went missing. No one knows which, no one knows where they are and it's likely that no one ever will.  This video from the wonderful Cayleigh Elise tells you the full story in depth.

Salad Mix Up

I made this ages ago.  It's a cross over of David Firth's Salad Fingers and Aphex Twin.  Please do give it a watch and hop on over to the Holy Creep Sauce channel and subscribe to get the usual creepy stories in video form.

nana825763

This is one of those YouTube channels that just makes you go "Whaatttttt??"  The videos are quite diverse and some are just crazy.  I saw somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where it was, that someone managed to email the owner of the channel and they got a reply saying something along the lines of don't tell anyone, forget this email, you got too close already, delete this if you value your life.  Again.... Whaatttttt??

Take a look and see what you think.

nana825763

Poppy, creepy as hell

I have only just got on this Poppy band wagon.  This channel seems a bit normal and dull when you see the stills.  Yeah yeah another girl just talking about hair and make up and teenage drama stuff. Not of interest to those of us with a taste for the creepy stuff.  She is a pop star with fluffy music videos.

WRONG!!!  Just watch her.  You can't help but click on video after video.  They are all so short and....unnerving.  She appears to be an art channel that focuses on celebrity culture.  She's so creepy.

Visit Poppy's channel

The strange mind of David Firth

You may remember an online animation series from a few years back that goes by the name of Salad Fingers.  I know he wasn't a household name but he did become very popular with a lot of people.  

Well Salad Fingers is the brain child of crazy animator David Firth and Mr. Fingers is only mildly creepy next to some of David's other offerings.  I could sit and watch his animations all day as you never quite know what is going to happen and what the tone will be.  

Anyone who likes anything strange and unusual should have a David Firth night followed by a night of weird crazy nightmares.

Visit David Firth's YouTube

99 rooms

This is a very strange site.  Can you get through all 99 rooms?  I got to 37.  This is probably one of those for a dark night on your own with the headphones on.

99 Rooms

ARG's

Wiki says "An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions."

You can find a few of these on YouTube and below is one that seems only have been running since January this year. I will be highlighting a few others in later posts.

The games normally consist of codes and hidden clues and secrets that people have to work out and follow to find a message or meaning behind it all.

This channel uses Hex code along with others.  You can find decoders on the net just by Google searching for them.

I have not yet seen all the way through this channel myself but I am working my way through and have decoded some of the Hex in earlier videos.  The video 'Nervous Hex.avi' is numbers and letter read backwards.  I downloaded the sounds and ran it through Audacity to flip it.  Then I typed them in to a converter online and it said 'Northampton State Hospital Hassachusetts'.  No idea if the typo is intentional or not.  This is just an example of the kind of thing you might be looking for to follow an ARG.

UPDATE: I have gone through more of Slob Room and the channel has changed now with the creator talking about ARG's and YouTube channels.......still in the mask though.

Slob Room

Little ghost, little ghost, what I'm scared of the most

Can a ghost be caught on camera?  Maybe.  There are a lot of people out there saying they have done it though many of these tend to end up being faked.  Here is a picture for your consideration.

These lot were having a get together and decided to take some snaps.  The little girl had apparently been getting upset a lot and saying the boy was scaring her.  When she refused to pose with them for a photo and just stood crying at the scary boy they thought it was just her childhood over active imagination and carried on.  When looking back over the photos at a later date, they found a boy peering out from between them.

Is the story true?  Did they fake the image?  Was it some kind of tech glitch?  Or is it true that children can see ghosts when adults can't?

Sitting and Smiling

A YouTube channel that does exactly what it says on the tin.  

Benjamin Bennet is a performance artist who has been performing sitting and smiling for a VERY long time.  He puts on his web cam, gets comfortable and then he sits and smiles and nothing more......for four hours.

The first video is dated July the 28th 2014 and to date there are 219 videos (at the time of writing this, with the last one being added three hours ago).

In that time he has had a couple of slight problems.  In one episode he forgot to go pee before starting and wets himself, but the really crazy one is early on.  Episode 5 has a special guest.  He is sat there doing his thing when someone breaks in to his house and opens the door behind him.  What does he do?  He sits and smiles.

UPDATE: I am currently sat here watching Sitting and Smiling on live steam #221  There is something even more unsettling about it when it's actually live.  Knowing he is sat there right now with that creepy smile and his eyes burning a hole in to my soul.

Visit Sitting and Smiling

Human ice-pop

I have seen plenty of cases where people become frozen and then thaw out to survive but this one really takes the biscuit.

19 year old Jean Hilliard ended up walking in the snow after her car broke down.  She was frozen solid....but lived.

Unusual funerals

There are some strange funerals out there and here are just seven of them.  What do you think about posing the dead as they were in life?  I quite like it.

The Voynich Manuscript

Wilfred Voynich was a Polish book dealer who purchased the manuscript in 1912.  It's origins are unknown.

It is a codex, written in a text that is indecipherable but on studies by code breakers, they find that it does have some meaning behind it rather than random jibber jabber, and it is written left to right.

It has around 240 pages though there are some pages missing.  It is filled with strange drawings and diagrams.  Carbon dating has shown that it was made some time in the early 15th century.  No one has been able to read it and no one knows what it is or what it means.