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This was supposed to be a German car commercial and, apparently, the spirit of some child was captured on film. I think the legend goes that this child was killed during a stormy accident on this very road where the commercial was shot. So, anyway, here is the finished commercial. It never aired because the crew were so freaked out by what was seen on film that they became very superstitious and begged to not have it air. I guess they all worked overtime to film a new commercial so as to live up to their end of the contract. Weird stuff. You can see the spirit as the car weaves around the bend and passes behind a thick treestand. If you have a good sound card, you can even hear some strange sounds that they think might be attributed to the spirit. I heard a little bit, but my sound card isn't the best. You really have to turn it up a little bit though.

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Neither could I. Little help?

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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I dunno what's wrong. Loads fine for me. It links directly to an mpeg video of the commercial.

Try copying and pasting this link into your browser...

http://www.spitcircle.com/content/videos/k-fee.mpg
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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I'd seen that one before, Bossk, but nice burn.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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The best part is that I showed it to people in my office and they were flipping out about it. Especially the whole "hearing it" part.
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That is true. And he thought he was just some kind of superbeing and that's why all our rounds go right through him. Sorry to burst your ectoplasmic bubble, Shimmy...
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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Where there's something wrong... in the neighborhood... who you're gonna call? No one. There are no ghosts.

I can't see this video right now, but there are a few possibilities on what it could be:

1- When the film is developed, sometimes the reflexion of another film gets printed, I've seen this happening to photographs.

2- Sometimes a defective camera can reflect something that's not onscreen or leak light into the film (you can see this in "Godfather" and "Last Temptation of Christ", the later actually used the film problems as the ending of the film)

3- Some prop or crew on the background? (such an example of this could tbe the films "Wizard of Oz", and "Three men and a baby" which actually had a whole legend of the ghost of a boy who haunted the set, and it was only a cardboard prop seen later in the movie)
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Did you try copying and pasting the URL that I provided a few posts above into your browser? Give that a shot. I really think this video will make you change your mind about ghosts.
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That "you" haunted? Dayv, what have I told you about killing children? Wait until they're at least pre-teens. Then you can kill them, and likely with the blessing of most of their parents.
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Sorry, I do not believe in ghosts. That was somthing rigged up by some special effects people no doubt.
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I have never had any experiences personally that would lead me to believe, or disbelieve.

However, there was an incident in 2001 occuring during Cleveland Indians spring training that swayed many people to believe.

WTAM, flagship of the Cleveland Indians radio network, sends its radio shows, 1 at a time for a period of 1 week, to Winter Haven, Florida for Spring Training. Also sent is the station's Indians beat reporter.

In 2001, this beat reporter had been at a rented house in Florida for a couple days, nothing much was really going on at camp and he was mostly spending his time at this house playing on a PSOne. He started to notice strange electrical things going on. Light bulbs burning out almost immediately after being replaced. Lights coming on in the house that he didn't turn on, etc.

At 3 AM, he called and woke the station's program director. The stuff going on was getting worse, and had gotten to the point that it actually scared him out of the house.

Eventually, the beat reporter spoke with the afternoon drive talk show host about what was happening, and a psychic called in. She spoke about 2 ghosts being in the house and that one of them was in the same room with the reporter, while they were on the phone and that this ghost was by a brown paper bag. At first, the reporter was confused. He didn't see any brown bag, until he moved slightly, saw it, then remembered that he had put some empty soda cans in this bag earlier that day. The reporter then felt a slight wave of cold and got very freaked out, right on the air. Not screaming-into-the-phone freaked, but you could tell he was very worried.

Well, the reporter left the house and stayed in a hotel for a couple days until a new place to rent could be found. The psychic sent some...cannot think of the name now, scratch sticks?? Basically incense sticks that have a calming effect on ghosts. They put them around the house and things started to calm down.
But as soon as they could, they got everyone from the station out of that house.

Now, I might have normally suspected that this could have been a station stunt, until the beat reporter was asked to tell his story on Art Bell.
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Uh no Bossk, I can't see the video right now because I'm working at a server with no video players and no sound.

Well, the thing is, I kinda belive in some of those things, yes, as I've seen two things who made me belive it. One of them I cannot share with you because I've promised a friend I'd never, ever tell anyone about it, but belive me, after I've heard that one, I started to belive there IS some sort of ghost or spirit thing going on.

The second one happened when I was about 11 or 12, I had this 486 computer with a creative labs soundcard (neat stuff back then in 1993, 1994), and it had those awful white soundspeakers, well, sometimes I used to listen to laughs and weird voices speaking in giberish. I'd get so scared I'd start to cry and turn off my computer right away, and lock the soundspeakers on the closet, or sometimes just hidden then behind the computer - it was like Haley Jley Osment (or whatever it's spelled) on Sixth Sense. It happened to me about 5 times, sometimes it was a spooky laugh, sometimes someone speaking stuff I couldn't understand, always a male voice. BUT I've always suspected I was getting some sort of a radio frequency or something of the sort: it never happened if the speakers were turned off, and it sounded kinda radio-like, sounded like the pilots on the Yavin battle, but I little bit more clearer. Wait a minute... laughs, giberish talk... I was getting a transmition of ROTJ, that was Jabba!
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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gah! not again!

But I swear it's true. I've heard other stories from other people, my grandmother's were full of stories of ghosts and stuff, some of them are kinda silly, some of them have some reality tone into it, including witnesses. Unfortunally I cannot share them with you because I don't remember the details of the stories.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Warbler, you've gotta check it out even if you don't believe in ghosts. Just give it a chance. It's worth it.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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I checked out the video. That could easily be faked.
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The description sounds to me like a scene from the finale of "What Lies Beneath", when the ghost of the killed woman appears on the bridge.

IMO it's a prank.

As an educated man I don't believe in ghosts. As a reasonable man I'm afraid of them
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