True Ghost Video

One of the difficult things about trying to find true ghost videos on the Internet is that there are so many fake ghost videos as well as videos that don't really represent anything paranormal at all. By looking for certain characteristics in online ghost videos, you can easily sort through and pick out the videos that are most likely to truly capture spirit activity rather than videos that waste your time.

True Ghost Video

A video that contains material that most likely represents authentic paranormal activity is rare. Among the pile of videos you'll find when you search for "ghost videos" are pranks, fake videos and even videos where the person posting it online believes that the phenomenon is a ghost, when it is clearly a natural phenomenon or an artifact of poor videography. However, there are things you can look for in order to identify a video that's most likely a real ghost video.

Whenever you're searching for ghost videos online, the first thing you'll notice is that a significant number of them are spoofs or prank videos that are meant to poke fun at the entire field of the paranormal. For anyone who takes hauntings seriously, these videos are very disheartening and annoying. In addition to these, you'll find a lot of videos where you spend a minute or two watching a scene where the alleged "haunting" is nothing more than a light reflected in the window or an orb created by dust in the video camera lens. The large number of videos like these makes it very difficult to weed out the truly valuable videos that could contain true paranormal activity. In order to narrow your list of videos to watch, look for the following characteristics before you press the play button.

• A serene opening - Whenever you first open a "ghost video" where the first part of the video is a very calm and quiet scene, the odds are good that you've just opened up a "scream" video. These are one of the most common prank ghost videos on the Internet. The premise of these videos is that the first part of it creates a sense of peacefulness and calm, and then at the most unexpected moment the scene quickly changes to a close-up of a very scary or grotesque face. These videos use shock and surprise to scare the viewer as much as possible. Either avoid these videos completely, or if you aren't sure it's a prank then mute the sound and minimize the video so it doesn't fill the entire screen - this will reduce the shock factor if it's a prank.
• Check comments first - Often, prank videos are posted on communities like YouTube where viewers can comment on the video. One of the quickest ways to single out fake ghost videos is to scroll down to the comment area and preview whether people are saying the video is funny or otherwise fake.
• Too real - In many cases, people who fake ghost videos don't do it for fun, but simply to pass off the video as a real ghost video either for attention, fame or for any number of other reasons. If you watch enough videos of authentic paranormal phenomenon captured by legitimate ghost hunters, you'll notice that most paranormal events are very brief, not very distinct and very difficult to immediately notice. For example, you may need to watch a video a few times before you recognize the faint mist in the shape of an apparition standing in the doorway. On the other hand, people who create fake ghost videos make the event very clear and distinct. A human shape immediately appears behind a window, or an apparition in a dark room is very clearly defined and unquestioningly material.
• Too theatrical - Another element of ghost videos that make it clear they are fake is the theatrical nature of those videos. You know they are not true because the timing of the scary event is too ideal and too perfect. In one example, a person enters a dark doorway, turns a corner and there's an apparition immediately approaching the camera. In another example, there's a person kneeling by a gravestone with long hair in her face. She slowly turns toward the camera to reveal glowing eyes. These are scenes you would expect in movies like The Ring, not in videos that capture true paranormal events.

Keep an eye open for these sort of videos, and do your best to avoid them. By focusing your ghost viewing time on the videos that lack these characteristics, you'll be more likely to see some of the impressive paranormal events on video.

The following websites feature some excellent ghost videos that lack all of the characteristics listed above. Review these videos yourself and decide if you think they are real or not.

• Angels and Ghosts offers a whole library of great ghost videos.
• Spookable offers a short list of some decent sightings.
• Your Ghost Stories has an entire section of "real" videos.
• Ghost Hunters captured one of best ghost sightings of all time.

While there are many paranormal events that people experience throughout the world, few of these people capture very good videos of the experience. However, in some cases they do, and by knowing how to differentiate between those videos and all of the fakes, you may be able to find one of those rare true ghost videos.

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