Comments on: Ghostly Gas Station Cloud

By: QUEEN

QUEEN — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:17:07 +0000

I can’t see why people think this is some kind of supernatural phenomenon. Open your eyes and you will see it is indeed an insect. When you watch the video try to think of it in 2d, walking on a flat screen, and you can see the insects movements quite easily. It’s only when you look at the video in 3d that the “blue cloud” seems to come closer and further away. Look here, that boy knows about “ghosts” http://www.veoh.com/videos/v3794361sqDMG5Rz

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:26:23 +0000

Here is something for all you hard core people who believe this is it and nothing more. Close your eyes and try to comprehend absolute oblivion or nothingness. Can you do it? If you are honest and a bit intelligent you will have a conflict within you because you exist therefore how can there be nothingness?? Oblivion and existence can not go together…To have oblivion and then existence means there was something there to create existence. This lead to the conclusion that there must be a realm with no time dimension, but how can this be? It must be pure energy with no loss, and hence no entropy and no time. It does not reside in this dimension just as the force of gravity nor a point charge. Physics only explains what we can observe and uses mathematic symbols to define relationships between observations. It does not give the understanding beyond this. If you are wise and grasp this you will understand that energy is not always physical or in this plane. You will also realize that a higher form of energy resides within us all and is there to bring you to a higher order! ENLIGHTENMENT! OPEN YOUR EYES! Do not be so shallow. We all will go on but the only hell there is, is the one we create for ourselves in our own realities. Forgive yourself and love and you will go very far in this world and beyond.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:37:30 +0000

To all who keep saying it’s something on the camera…Look at the lady in the car checking it out! Think people think! It is a very strange energy field, possibly from another dimension. String theory points to them, so all you scientist out there here is my take…As entropy increases in this plane perhaps other dimensional energies are becoming relatively stronger and its phase relationships are becoming closer to our own. I think there will be many more because our energy is rapidly losing strength. Chaos can only get stronger now so there is a need for an outside energy source. Quit being so afraid of everything! Any takers??

Yes I am Gnostic

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:39:47 +0000

It isn’t fair to insinuate that the people who think it’s a ghost or an angel are stupid. Maybe they just want to be part of something mysterious. I say we let them have their magic.

By: özi

özi — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:35:25 +0000

i totally agree with chris, the way it moves points quite clearly to a silverfish. given the resolution of the camera it most likely has a considerable small lense, therefor the size of the silverfish on the glass would fit as well. and great observation on the colorshift, gabi.
but maybe, just maybe, it was an extraterrestrial silverfish, or even the ghost of one. we will never know…

By: Gellner

Gellner — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:32:32 +0000

This could only happen in Ohio….

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:30:30 +0000

It’s GHOSTWRITER!

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:13:39 +0000

Maybe it’s gas. Just a stretch.

By: Gabi

Gabi — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:44:16 +0000

I think its rediculous how people shove off the possibility of it being an insect purly because it is blue. If you look, the colors that the security camera pick up are incorrect. When the reported is speaking to the security camera, her suit appears indigo or blue. However, when the camera switches to the one the news station uses, she is wearing red. Clearly, the only reason this “ghost” is blue is because of poor color quality on the security camera. My theory? A moth.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:59:57 +0000

Hey Joe,

GMA used your joke this morning! “It’s the ghost of gas under 1.50″ Go figure. I thought it was funnier when I read it here yesterday.

By the way…it’s a bug.

By: algonkin

algonkin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:25:18 +0000

Sorry Layla200…hummingbirds don’t fly at night

By: Layla200

Layla200 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:57:39 +0000

It’s a HUMMINGBIRD you can make out the wings and beak when it fly’s away. Also it isn’t “sitting” on the car its just under the camera and only the head of the bird is showing. Which explains the blue color, because lens couldn’t focus on it being too close. And it probably thought the camera was a nectar feeder.

By: fz

fz — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:14:37 +0000

Insect on the lense… epic phail

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:14:09 +0000

Right. There’s nothing like a free TV ad!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:00:15 +0000

Justin: All of us.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/26/fark-streetlight/

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:27:07 +0000

I wonder if the owner actually believes its a ghost or is just hoping to sell more gas with the hype.

lol @ nimeye!

I wonder how many people actually get that reference!

By: Gaby

Gaby — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:45:12 +0000

I’ve heard going back to the middle age way of thinking is really cool and ~~~vintage~~~

But I agree, it is the ghost of a smurf

By: Boo

Boo — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:44:11 +0000

Here’s a still picture, yes, it’s me.

http://members.aol.com/pseisen/booberry/booface.gif

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:43:30 +0000

Its a bug on the camera, i reckon a silverfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish). I find them in my shed all the time, and as soon as is saw the video, the shape, and the way it moved reminded me of silverfish straight away.
Is just because it is on the camera lens and it can’t focus on it properly so it looks blurred or “hazy” like a ghost.

By: K2

K2 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:40:25 +0000

Poor stoopid white people.

By: Sleestak

Sleestak — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:44:04 +0000

“Groups of ‘amazingly stupid people who barely have enough IQ to breathe’ have traveled to the gas station after word spread of the unexplained event.”

Fixed it.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:32 +0000

It’s the elusive yet DELICIOUS Boo Berry! No wonder why he’s so hard to find in stores.

By: Namowal

Namowal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:12:08 +0000

I bet some of the witnesses they interviewed had more reasonable explanations (like,as many have observed here, it was something on the lens). That footage was probably cut from the piece because it’d ruin their ghost story. Makes you wonder what else is getting cut from the news.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:03:08 +0000

No no no, it’s obviously the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:51:23 +0000

It’s the ghost of gas under a dollar!

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:21:10 +0000

Smurf. (I want to believe.)

By: el Gordo

el Gordo — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:16:07 +0000

It’s so easy to make people see what they want to see. That’s why eyewitness testimony is considered sketchy at best. The “eyewitnesses” are seeing the video imagery, not some actual event. The “cloud” is even the same color as the backlit Marathon sign. It’s definitely a bug in front of the lense, reflecting the sign light.

By: Spark

Spark — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:51:57 +0000

Ok, listening to it again, it says nothing about eyewitnesses seeing the phenomena. Nor does the story on the station website. All it says is that they’ve seen the video (although the story on the website is badly worded…it calls them witnesses, but all they’ve witnessed is the video, as is obvious by the clip).

Also, the “phenomena” never changes it’s plane. That is, it never gets bigger or smaller, as an object would if it were moving in a three dimensional plane…it stays the same size throughout the footage, whether it’s moving, or just “sitting on the car’s windshield”.

As was stated in the first comment, it’s something on the glass of the protective housing over the camera. Probably some small bug crawling around on it that’s much too close for the fixed focus lens to capture clearly. Thus it looks much larger than it actually is, and blurry.

And people wonder why I have no respect for the “news”.

By: kenna

kenna — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:47:36 +0000

“this was, like, a[n] old indian reservation, from what i understand. i’ve lived here for thirty-some years.”

obviously, it’s indian ghosts hanging out at the gas station.
it can’t be, like, a bug on the camera lens or anything.

By: Clutch

Clutch — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:47:46 +0000

It’s bullshit.