Can any one explain this phenomena?

Question

On a TV programme a team of paranormal experts set up a movie camera inside an old manor house which was said to be haunted. When the film was developed,it showed a dark image of a person walk through a wall. The strange thing is that the ghost did not appear in the frames but between the frames. The team could not understand it. Can any one explain this phenomena?

Answer 1

Cameras are tricky.

Answer 2

First of all, hardly anyone uses film cameras.  Therefore, there is no developing of film taking place.  Digital media and electromagnetic tapes allow for immediate playback.  If these people were indeed working with film, there is nothing "between the frames".

I will assume you're referring to videotape of some sort.  If so, you need to recognize how the image is captured, how the information is stored and then how the image is displayed.  It's not impossible to layer multiple images on a single screen, but it's not done at the time of taping.  It must be done after the fact with editing equipment.

This is just a general explanation.  I'm not saying this sort of thing never happened.  I'm saying this sort of thing didn't happen in the manner in which you describe it here.  I would be happy to examine this videotape to make my comments more specific.

Answer 3

people believe anything they want to and then fit the evidence to support it.

Answer 4

You know I just hate it when someone complains about a bad camera when they were the one that blew their nose when changing the lens. Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean dried buggers off the sensor? Number one rule of film motion photography (Clean the gate, the lens, and remove all dust bunnies before you waste a can of expensive film and pay for developing it.)  These guys need to go to a basic film school.  see---

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_gate

A little piece of c**p in the gate and wiggled by the motion of the film or shutter can make some real strange looking things.  A friend of mine develops film for movie studios, he sees all the films in the raw state and has told me stories about bad camera problems making weird things on film.

Answer 5

Sure can't but I think the show your talking about is awesome

Answer 6

No...That's why its called "paranormal". Nothing of that ilk can be explained.

Answer 7

The point of t.v. programs is to get people to watch them.

You only have their word that they are

1) experts

2) honest

and, even if there are, there might be other people

involved in the production who are influencing the

results.

film can have faults, or be tampered with.

I would say that you really can't trust such programs.

Answer 8

I can't explain it.  There are some things in this world that will never be explained or proven.  But I would have liked to have seen that footage!