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So I manage a movie theatre that has long been rumoured to be haunted by locals - It's a great way to market horror films so I never discouraged it. This morning I went into the office and the security camera was up and running showing one cinema door open. There was only one other person on site and I thought it was him I saw walk down the ramp from the open cinema but then the door shut. Our doors shut automatically when the film starts so figured that's the part of the show he was up to during the morning tests.
But then I hear him walking down the stairs next to the office - they're loud and creak a bit. He came into the office to remotely start the shows - which means the door shouldn't have shut because there was no film playing. He hadn't tested them yet and was just about to - so it wasn't him I saw on the security camera.
We went and checked it out but the cinema was empty, the door was shut and everything seemed really normal. I then went back and checked the security footage and the file threw up a corrupted file error for the couple of minutes around this happening. I've never had an error like that before, never had the autodoors fail like that before and the whole place has limited time based access - in fact I'm the only person who can get in at any time. I have no idea what I saw, or what caused the glitches. But I don't like it
ShaineRaizel
Call the Winchesters...
attackofthequokka
"Yo no creo en brujas pero que las hay las hay"
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zenoghost1
Just because you don't believe in them doesn't mean they don't exist.
mineovermatter
Just because you believe in them doesn't mean they exist.All the claims of ghosts over the years, ZERO evidence.
BangkokDanger
Unpopular opinion: I believe in ghosts just because I wanna and it makes life a little more exciting.
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Don't worry mate, 99.999% of the time they're completely harmless or practically not real or literally not real.
EverybodyAtCostcoLovesUsSoHard
usernumbersix
Huesh
@OP's all
ashmenon
Once met a man who refused to believe in ghosts but was so smug about believing in aliens "It's stupid to assume we're the only lifeforms >>
ashmenon
>> out there". And yet it's stupid to believe in beings living in another wavelength/dimension/etc ?
SgtCookie111
"Ghosts" as in "spirits of the dead" is silly. But the idea that the chemicals that create DNA ONLY occurred on our planet is also silly.
whowantsthefirstreacharound
greenlandic
Plot twist: it's you from the future
shiv11fourty1
.... i'd love to see a movie on a haunted theater that ends in a twist like this... good shit dude. +1
FuckMeRightInTheRepost
I've seen some scary things during my time as a fire fighter. I didn't believe in ghosts but now I do
kfccoleslaw
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Ilikeyogurt
Do tell
IridescentLotus
Post!
hockeyham
thedissident
Your mind wants to rationalize the event but it can't. Sometimes things happen simply from chaos effect that you have no control over.
BoopBoopDEEDoop
My 4 yr old started telling my mom about her mother, my gma. Telling her about her red hair and curlers she'd wear. She died when I was 8.
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
Kids just talk shit. For every hundred kids BSing about their dead grandparent's green eyes one or two are gonna be right. No mystery there.
HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet
AnthropomorphicMilkshake
ashipthatshipsshippingships
Worst. Ghost. EVER.
cyndr
kingj07
Ghost ✓ Open door ✓ comment is relevant
dreadpiratekhan
hahahaha awww
PlbMak
Meh. You said it yourself, glitch in the system. Your brain does the rest. Of course, it could be a glitch in your brain? Am I helping?
JoshVita
It's obviously a glitch in the matrix.
PlbMak
De ja vue? De ja me?
rouverius
Important question: was he eating yogurt?
AfroSamuraiRM
Him doing a half blink is starting to get to me man...
Ilikeyogurt
Yes, I was
fairybug
I tried my damndest to watch that show. Do they ever get better at plot progression? I love Burn Notice but that drives me nuts.
IrishBITS
IMO, well worth it for Bruce Campbell alone.
StoneThrowingDevil
I always say "I don't believe in ghosts, but I also know my belief doesn't affect their existence" I can't rationally accept that they (1)
Rifneno
1-I think the idea of dead spirits rattling around is absolutely preposterous. And in 99% of cases, there's a reasonable explanation.
Rifneno
3-almost all the really otherwise unexplainable supernatural events. It's a soundwave you can't hear, but induces everything from feelings
Rifneno
2-Usually working off the silly ways the human brain works, or infrasound fucking with people. Infrasound is a bitch, responsible for
Rifneno
5-by science, but that science is way the fuck beyond our current understanding. Advanced enough to appear magic and all that.
Rifneno
4-of extreme panic to hallucinations. Then there's the other 1% that just... IDK. It's not forlorn spirits, and it's definitely explainable
StoneThrowingDevil
(2) do exist, however I've had at least three experiences where that's the only explanation. used to live in a victorian town house.
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
"where that's the only explanation." Well no, it's just the only explanation you can think of or are willing to accept.
MeisterKleister
Problem is, an explanation actually needs to increase one's understanding. Saying "It's a ghost!" doesn't explain anything.
shiv11fourty1
also, I love your explanation. I think that's a great way to put it.
shiv11fourty1
I'd love to hear about this!
mineovermatter
"Where that's the only explanation". Um,yea. Please explain,in detail,how ghosts work.
IridescentLotus
Yeah, I've had a lot of people say I'm stupid for believing in ghosts, but I know what I saw and felt on multiple occasions so...oh well lol
IronicUsername
I don't think you're stupid but will point out that people suffering delusions also believe they know what they saw/felt/heard/etc.
IridescentLotus
Yeah, for sure, you have no reason to believe me. :)
FineYungCannibal
So, what you're saying is a ghost shut the door behind it, noticed the camera, thought shit, he saw me, best delete the footage.
Ahlyss24
No, presence of ghosts has been associated with electronic disturbances in several "ghost experiences".
JoshVita
Yes! Even ghosts have to go the extra mile to stay hidden! They gotta keep their reputation up, you know? ;p
VHS95
U got pranked baby!
TheGhostofElizabethShue
A little power surge tripped the doors and corrupted the camera. <- utter bullshit but every bit as plausible as 'ghosts are real, I guess'.
jimbobbobjim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFrR_q36o8
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Good point, could be a T Rex.
shiv11fourty1
this isn't bullshit, though... it's a perfectly plausible explanation (not a power surge, per se, but maybe a very brief loss in voltage
DickDastardly404
There WILL be a sensible answer. The human mind is always filling in blanks and making connections based on what you know. It's the 1/2
hockeyham
2/2 Loch Ness Monster wanting tree fiddy
DickDastardly404
Reasonable explanations that you don't currently know of or comprehend that elude you 2/2
bntli
You're getting robbed mate. That's the first thing they do in the movies, fuck with the security cameras
LokiKingOfJotunheim
Technically they are being burgled. Robbery involves threat.
Iassann
There's the treat of OP shitting his pants.
AdmJota
What's more threatening than pretending to be a ghost?
Gmayor61
Actually being a ghost
TomBrokaw
/a/RzsAf
MyDragonHeartedSpirit
FTFY
bntli
I only believe in the burgling of turds. A turd burglar if you will.
Sauroctonus
I think you'll find it's turd robbery. How are you going to acquire someone's turd without them seeing you?
bntli
Lots and lots of practice
AggressivelyPassive
Be spoopy and scare it out of them, obviously.
troublecliff
IridescentLotus
Think they stole the film reel?
bntli
There's probably Nazi gold under the theater, hence the ghosts
SirusKing
Depending on the film that could be worth a lot of money. Early screenings and such.
StrawberryPrincess92
The human capacity for cognitive dissonance means you can bolth believe you saw a ghost, AND believe they don't exist
DickCheneytheDefilerBanned
I believe I saw my penis, does that mean it doesn't exist?
Nikkiaz
Love your comment!!
MandaloreIncognito
I want to make a snarky remark on your misspelling, but I really like your comment, too.
Grenville
Well played
StrawberryPrincess92
I spell bolth that way on purpose. It's a reference to an episode of red vs blue.
InsanityCrab
Daaah Red vs Blue, I too have a boner for murder!
DevilInTheDetails
I like that it's almost a phonetic mispelling
kiarrr
Why not bolth?
KtH91
He kinda did both
MandaloreIncognito
Cleaver bastard...
PartyPete
I dated a girl for three years who said it that way. She also said fustrated. Top notch boobies though.
flamingflamingo
Uh, well, sure. That's what he's doing right now. That's why he's so uncomfortable. Cognitive dissonance is a conflict of beliefs.
rIOsK
Thanks, you made me spend a hour on wikipedia now.
shiv11fourty1
best, most rational and scientific answer i've ever heard. +1 - good shit.
hoofbeatsandsnowflakes
I definitely don't believe in ghosts, but as a kid I had a weird experience that may have been ghosts. It's very confusing.
BinaryFlame
An Alar as strong as ramston steel.
lightsabersinhawaii
I don't believe in ghosts, but a lot of weird stuff happened at my old work place. A LOT of weird stuff. Almost every day.
TheRoyalCatCuddler
Work stories??
austeregrim
Was it like butt sex weird?
lightsabersinhawaii
It was like things flying across the room weird. Or seeing people walk by you, but there was no one actually there weird.
Worgenmaster
. For stories
APackOfExcitedGingers
Sounds like denial to me.
killernerd
doublethink?
Shardikprime
this is doubleplus good!
djzapz
Sometimes when I wake up at night I see massive spiders in my room and I freak out. 2 seconds later I realize that my brain makes shit up.
SoapyWaterr
Doublethink.
cliffordsbigredhog
Bolth
StrawberryPrincess92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmf1kQL-to
kidcolt
English, please.
F1r3bird
I like too resole my cognitive dissonances, it helps me relax. The trouble is finding them
ScammyMcScammer
Daniel Kahneman
Morositas
The human brain also likes to fill in the blanks with junk. Just because you experienced something doesn't mean it happened.
RaisinZetaJones
That isn't cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the anxiety felt at having two opposing beliefs.
boywiththehappypenis
Internal conflict of the spotless mind.
StrawberryPrincess92
decisions and attitude change. 2/2
StrawberryPrincess92
Cognitive dissoance isn't the anxiety that comes from the two opposing beliefs, it's the state of having those beliefs.
ratfaceddog
"Dissonance."
RaisinZetaJones
Oh no, it definitely is the anxiety that comes from doublethink, not the doublethink itself. Having done my theses on cults, which is where
RaisinZetaJones
the idea of cognitive dissonance was first formed, based heavily on parallels to Orwell's 1984 by doctors like Lifton and Festinger, I am
RaisinZetaJones
very, very, *VERY* fucking familiar with what it is, what it is not, and where it comes from.
StrawberryPrincess92
Cognitive Dissonance. Noun. the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral 1/2
RaisinZetaJones
That's adorable. Condescending to a psychologist by using a dictionary definition. Try Leon Festinger's seminal 1950s work on defining cog-
RaisinZetaJones
nitive dissonance, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (ISBN 0-8047-0911-4) or Festinger's 1960s paper (doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1062-93)
Damari
Well well well, you don't see people citing their sources on the internet too often. Good on you.
fuzznubbin
CatBreadFace
What's with the empty room gif?
Nixeska
Look closely and you can see the mattress moving.
tiduszecht
3 spoopy 5 me
BlowOnItAndStickItIn
BandAidBrigade
There hasn't been a scientist die and come back to experiment with the afterlife. We can't know, and that's okay. This place is complex.
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
That's not a very convincing hand-wave imo. Ghosts as people describe them are in at least some sense observable without us having to (1/2)
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
die, so you can't just say it's "beyond scientific analysis" as a way to justify the millions of claimed, and 0 confirmed, observations. (2)
BandAidBrigade
The premise of the comment was there have been 0 scientific probes of the "afterlife" not ghosts.
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
Okay. And the context of them bringing up the afterlife as it were relevant to the conversation was "ghosts". That was the topic established
BandAidBrigade
And the context of my statement was even if OP doesn't believe in ghosts it does not rule out the possibility of afterlife (ghosts included)
BandAidBrigade
OP could have seen an angel, a demon, God himself, or elvis. All included in the afterlife and since we know nothing of it, it's possible.
inboxmeyourairedales
I spend too much time on Imgur. I read "scientist" and wondered what an adult film star would experiment with in the afterlife.
RaddRadda
No no no adult film stars are the science. We are the scientists.
ReJokeStatistics
Ghost porn?
Spoonland
you're in NZ. hobbits are pretty sneaky, you know
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Tywinning
Well we all thought ghosts weren't real and yet here we are. How do ya feel now smarty mcsmartypants
Barrberic
I hear they make good burglars.
RickRolledBamboozledAgain
And even better ghosts it appears
shiv11fourty1
sneaky hobbitses
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Perfzilla
Power failure could explain simultaneous camera glitch and automatic door failure
isteppedinpoop
Without evidence to the contrary, it's usually the most probable explanation. In this case that would be that OP is simply full of shit.
sillymapper
Yeah right. Like someone would go on the internet and just lie about something.
WaggyTails
Power failure caused by GHOSTS NO DOUBT
FuzzyX
Ghosts would have no more interest in messing up a security camera feed than a live person would. Is this the ghost of a grand jewel theif?
WigglesTheHoly
Dirty power can be blamed for this.
OtterAvalanche
Most cameras/servers are set up to a UPS to ensure that doesn't happen at my work... though that's a high budget sports facility
Highlander8795
My guess is swamp gas.
LuCiD5592
There always needs to be that guy with an explanation, ACCEPT THE UNKNOWN.
somewhatwiseguy
But would the camera still display during it?
Perfzilla
Depends on the setup
earlywormy
Sometimes, the driver for the monitor will only change pixels that have been signaled to change.
ThisNameLacksPunctuation
if the camera feeds into the recording system separately from the display, yes. if it is piped to the recorder, then out to the monitor, no.
bntli
As for the person walking, it was just the top tic mark in the cross hairs and his peripherals picked up the motion and interpreted it as a
bntli
Person
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
Or since the software obviously messed up enough to corrupt the file, it was probably just displaying an old feed or something.
bntli
I was making a video game joke
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
urk that's pretty obvious when I go back and read it again :s silly me
shiv11fourty1
I worked on electronic doors at a previous job. if it had been a power failure to that specific set of doors/sector of doors, [1]
shiv11fourty1
he would have noticed that and probably mentioned it when he told his story, as well as had to go into the panel for the doors [2]
shiv11fourty1
and either reseat the connector pins, or cycle power, or restore power, whichever would have been the cause for this [3/3]
Perfzilla
I'm thinking it would be something more transient like a utility glitch or voltage sag from a motor startup.
shiv11fourty1
I actually just posted that same comment on someone else's "power surge" comment. a very brief loss in voltage would do it "dirty power"
sunionbroman
Why would only one door shut? A power surge could have engaged the motor but idk about a power failure
shiv11fourty1
likely, the doors are not on a closure, as they require a good bit of power to run, but rather on a mag release. a magnet holds the door[1]
shiv11fourty1
open until the movie starts and then voltage is removed from the magnet, and the door swings closed, but that's just an assumption [2]
daneshannonsparks
Wow, that sounds like a great door design to put in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
shiv11fourty1
idontgetthatreference.jpg
shiv11fourty1
I used to work on electronic doors, access controls, and biometrics [3/3]
shiv11fourty1
A power surge would not have caused a mag release, because they only release when less than x voltage [4/4] i'm done now.