You might be surprised!
By DE
@DaddyEvil (137249)
United States
December 14, 2018 5:18pm CST
I stayed at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago. She showed me something really weird!
Try this at your house and see what happens...
With your smartphone in a room with no lights running, turn on your video camera. Then turn on your phone's flashlight. Just let the video run while you watch closely.
Do you see occasional light circles that shoot across the screen? Maybe you see a dark shadow (with nothing to make the shadow) looking at you or running through the video?
I wish I could post what I saw when I tried this at her house... It was very interesting! And a bit on the weird side, too!
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Dec 18
I have caught orbs in photos while taking them before I rent a house, or just spontaneous anywhere.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
14 Dec 18
Are orbs the only things you saw in the videos you took?
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
14 Dec 18
@andriaperry In the one I took at my friend's house "something" looked at me and then ran across the room. She has a cat but he doesn't run anywhere and he was curled up beside me at the time, anyway.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil No, I have seen ...... things.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
I think I'd rather send it to you, Plethos! Then you can add haunted to your list of things that could happen to you!
Have you ever taken a photo and seen one of the white orbs shooting across the photo? And did you try doing what I suggested in the discussion starter? If so, did you see anything odd or weird?
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@Plethos (13581)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil - apparently brujeria runs in my family. both sides !
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@much2say (55318)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Dec 18
You are scaring me, DE!
I have never seen a ghost, spirit, alien or anything because I've always felt I must not be "useful" to them. With my luck I will see a lot of nothing . Those circles or shadow do sound interesting - but kinda scares me at the same time ! So what exactly did you see?
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@much2say (55318)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil I'm no video expert, so I can't help (but can you believe my son's 8-9 year old friends tell me they already have their own YouTube channels ?)
Orbts - I think of spirits when I hear orbs. That's so crazy freaky. Did you freak out? I'd probably drop the phone and run !
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@much2say No, but my friend did use some adult words while we were filming! I'd have to edit them out before posting the video on YouTube.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
I honestly don't know what I was seeing, SmilePie. Some things looked like white orbs shooting across the camera lens. Other things looked like shadows. One looked at me and shot across the room afterward. The ceiling showed shadows in part of the 2 and 1/2 minute video that moved across the room and disappeared or just flicked on and then were gone again.
I may try to figure out how to post the video on YouTube for everyone to look at themselves. (I don't know how to do that but Pretty says it isn't very difficult, although she hasn't posted a video, either.)
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@Shavkat (139377)
• Philippines
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil I will try my best to do it. I am quite busy with my younger's sister's baby. He is my boss at night.lol I need to check him time to time at night.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
21 Dec 18
@Shavkat I see, Shavkat! You might get fired by your "boss" if you take too much time away from him to make a video experiment! (But it doesn't have to be done at night, either. Both videos I made (one at Leah's and one at my own house) were done in the daytime. We just both happen to have black-out curtains on our windows. *shrug*)
BTW, I just posted both videos on YouTube and wrote a discussion about setting up a YouTube channel, if you're interested?
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
It might be fun if you tried this experiment, Shavkat. I know you have a smartphone, so it would be easy enough for you to do.
If you do, please let us know if you see anything.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
14 Dec 18
Yes, that is a photo of me. My avatar might be of a slightly younger me.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
14 Dec 18
"very off"? It still looks like me, right?
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@TheHorse (217891)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil (whistling innocently emoji)
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@chavezrmc (6095)
• Philippines
14 Dec 18
Nice photo. I will try what you suggest. Why you can't post it here? I am curious what is it.
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@chavezrmc (6095)
• Philippines
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil hmmnnn interesting. I might try it. I hope it's not scary.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
Thank you!
I can't post videos on myLot. And I don't have a YouTube channel.
The video shows white orbs shooting across the lens of my phone/camera and also shows shadow "things" that move around the room very quickly. (I promise, there wasn't anything in the room with us that could have caused these things.)
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@chavezrmc I didn't think it was especially scary, but my friend did! It was more interesting to me.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil So there was no luck for you
I am not fine, too cold in our place and am affected badly. Yes, after too long time we are meeting.
How about you? Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil In office I have a room heater.
I think that may make me worse as I have to travel in cold weather (to office and back). Then at home, who is sitting one place inside home, I am busy on working. Usually I get affect at the time of changing season, this time I don't know what went wrong. There was some community celebrations on last Sunday so we were practicing late evening after work in this cold climate, which may be the reason for my sickness.
Regarding Christmas, no we do not celebrate Christmas.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
No, she had just heard that sometimes you can see interesting things when you do this experiment, so she wanted me to try it with her. (When she and her daughter tried it in her daughter's bedroom, she said the little white glowing balls were really thick and kept flying straight at them. I'm glad that didn't happen when I was recording things! )
How have you been, Sreekala? It seems like a long time since I've seen/talked with you.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
4 Sep 19
I went to the video on youtube. It was interesting but I don't care to freak out trying it myself. Keep your ghosts to yourself. you can handle them better then I ,
you know I love ya' though
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
5 Sep 19
@DaddyEvil I have just remembered a ghost used to be in my house when this daughter I live with now was with her first fiance living there also. The 3 of us didn't know the name but my daughter said his name was Christopher and he told her that. Never talked to the rest of us. anyway, he would turn the fan on or the tv suddenly for no reason and move things around the kitchen when no one was in there. She would say loudly "Christopher stop that! " and he would. when we said it he ignored us. I was worried he would follow her when we all moved but poor guy must have had to stay behind with his broken heart .
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
6 Sep 19
@bunnybon7 I agree, sometimes there will be a woman who doesn't have the "mother" instinct or it will be warped in some way.
Patsi (Pretty's mom) had three daughters. Her oldest daughter was in foster care when I met Patsi. (I didn't know she had an older daughter until two or three years after we got married!) I wondered, once in a while, how her middle daughter, Misty, would have turned out if I hadn't taken over caring for her when she was nine and treated her like my own until after her mom and I got divorced. (Misty is a fine young lady. She lives and works in Hawaii as a cosmetic consultant. I understand that she travels around the world, helping the wealthy pick and choose cosmetics that work for them. I have no idea how she came across that job or exactly what it entails. As long as she's happy and healthy, I'm not too worried about her.)
One of my brothers had a brain tumor that ruptured when he was pre-teen. He has always been somewhat "off". He is a hoarder. The last time I saw/talked with him he was living in a nursing home because he either wouldn't or couldn't care for himself properly. (The nursing center made a mistake, though. They allow him free access to his own funds and allows him to come and go as he pleases, as long as he is there at light's out and for breakfast the next morning. The nursing staff complained to my oldest brother, who is technically my brother's guardian, that he has filled his own room with "stuff" as well as a room in the nursing home's basement. I have no idea what he suggested they do. It wasn't my problem and I wasn't interested in how/what they did about it.)
No, not silly at all... Every child wants to believe they are normal and have a normal family/life. (That is a psychological imperative. It is there so no matter what actually happens, the child can cope with life. Sometimes it doesn't work as well as nature intended, but usually it does help.)
I am so glad you had your aunts, Bonnie!
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
5 Sep 19
@bunnybon7 I am so sorry, Bonnie.
I can tell you something interesting, though. After nine years of fighting for custody of my daughter, the judge agreed that her mom wasn't fit to have her. After the judge dismissed the case he told me I was the first man to win full custody of a child (especially a female child) in Missouri courts. My ex had supervised visitation rights only! She chose to exercise that right one time after I got full custody... She took Pretty outside so they could walk while talking and kidnapped her right out from under a deputy's nose! When he told me what happened, I'm surprised I didn't go to jail! I called him every name in the book except a white man at the top of my lungs! (He didn't try to calm me down or do anything besides stand there and let me yell. Probably for the best, I'm thinking. *shake my head* I was a bit upset with the man.)
When Pretty could get to a phone she called me to come get her. The deputy drove me there and told Patsi it would be best for Pretty if she stayed away from her from then on.
A few days later I got a letter from the court confirming what the deputy said.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
14 Dec 18
Wish you could show us the video, I had seen a lot of weird things in my life so I'm always open to new ones.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil wow that is something to see, does your friend's house have a history of haunting and paranormal activities?
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@louievill Yes, it does. In one discussion I wrote here I tell about a spooky time I had in the same room that the video is taken in.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
14 Dec 18
There are white orbs that flash past the lens as well as shadows that do odd things on the video. One shadow looked at me then took off running.
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
15 Dec 18
maybe they are fairies.
p.s. your avatar is really you. no worries.
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@Mavic123456 (21893)
• Thailand
15 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil for once I thought you took a picture of Ken doll now, I realized.. naahhh the picture is really you.
good better accept mine... there will be no better explanation than that.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@Mavic123456 I did post the two videos I took on YouTube. I put up the links for the videos on my new(er) discussion about making a YouTube channel. (I posted the videos as "unlisted" so the only way to see them is by using the links I posted. I wanted to keep them, more or less, private so only myLot people can see them.)
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
Oh, thank you! I was a bit worried.
Hmmm... fairies you say? That's possible, I suppose. I'll accept that explanation until/unless someone gives a better one.
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@LadyDuck (470746)
• Switzerland
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil LED light (it's the case of the phone flashlight) "flickers" a lot more that incandescent or fluorescent lamps. You cannot see this with your eyes, but if you use a digital camera near a led light source you will notice how much the light "flickers". The circles of light are lens flare, nothing weird or supernatural.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@LadyDuck Okay, but what about the shadow that seemed to look at me and then shot across the room? That can't be caused by the LED bulb flickering, can it?
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
Were you able to give this experiment a try, Anna?
The only explanations I've found online about this is that the video recorder on my phone is picking up specks of dust and the flashlight on my phone was causing the shadows. (I know that explanation isn't correct. I can SEE the orbs flying quickly at my phone and at my face. Dust doesn't react like that. And my flashlight on my phone doesn't "flicker" so can't be causing shadows, especially shadows that dart across the room.)
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
It wasn't creepy when I was taking the video, Marie. It did start seeming to be creepier after I watched the video I'd taken later, though.
I made a YouTube channel so I could share the videos with people here on myLot. (I wrote a new discussion explaining how to set up a YouTube channel and gave the links to the two videos. One taken at my friend's house and one I took at mine, if you want to see for yourself.)
@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I know it sounds weird. I wouldn't have believed anyone if they told me they saw things like that if I hadn't tried the experiment and saw what I caught on the video.
@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@vandana7 You ask me if I faked the video, vanny.
I'm honestly hoping you already know how many people I've killed in the last 55 years.
@shaggin (72021)
• United States
15 Dec 18
Umm that sounds so creepy so I am not ever going to try this or I may want to move out. How was the trip I would love to hear more about that especially since there is a photo of a gorgeous waterfall I am curious all you did while there.
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@shaggin (72021)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil Oh man so this photo was before everything went down hill. I found two years back I am allergic to wasps. I am so glad you had the epi-pen in your car but yikes what if the walk had been longer to get back to the car. Maybe next time your doing something outdoorsy you should carry the epi-pen in a bag with you in case since now you know you have a severe allergy like that.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
Yeah, it wasn't creepy at all while I was filming it. It did seem to get creepier though the more times I watched what my phone captured in the video.
Most of my trip was wonderful! I love going to my friend's house, Shaggin. She is a great friend and I just love her mom and her two kids!
I didn't have nearly as much fun after we reached the top of the waterfall, though. A bee stung me, causing me to jump and land on loose gravel at the edge of the cliff. The gravel rolled under my shoes and I slid right over the side of the cliff... Falling over the side of the cliff wasn't bad... I landed in water and mud, so wasn't hurt from that. We did find out very quickly that I am allergic to bee stings, though. I started swelling up and had large purple blisters start forming on my skin... I was glad I had an epi-pen in my car or I wouldn't have made it back from that trip.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
30 Dec 18
@shaggin I started carrying an epi-pen in my car because I was driving the first time I had a major allergic reaction... to pollen being blown by the wind. I ended up in the ER having all kinds of tests run on me. (I can't keep an epi-pen in my glove box. The weather here is too inconsistent. Yesterday it was 60 degrees when I left home. When I returned five hours later it was 29 degrees. Too much heat or cold ruins an epi-pen.) I'm lucky I bothered taking one on the trip with me. I usually don't.
I can't carry an epi-pen in a pocket because of the large temperature differences between morning and afternoon or morning and night. (It's true that temperature differences that large are fairly rare, but they do happen.) Those things cost $300 each. I can't afford them as it is. I really can't afford to let one get ruined by carrying it on me!
Here is another of the photos I took that day. This is looking back over the way we came up the cliff. I fell from the other side. I didn't get to shoot a photo showing the view from that side.
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@vandana7 (100123)
• India
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil Ah...that is true. But I am putting on..rather rapidly.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@vandana7 Gaining a little more weight is okay, vanny... as long as your health is otherwise good.
@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
I TOLD you I was losing weight! I wouldn't need to lose weight if I was skinny, right?
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil
Sounds interesting and maybe one day I will try it.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
30 Dec 18
@Hannihar I'm sorry, Hanni. I tried to keep what I said simple but when describing something on a pc, simple kinda eludes me.
I was pretty sure you wouldn't be interested after you watched part of one of the videos, but couldn't be completely sure, so posted the links for you, anyway.
Thank you for watching part of the video. It's a bit on the spooky side.
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
30 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil
Thanks Rob. I had to reread what you wrote. I watched a little of it.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
Should I ask about them or should I just smile and leave that alone?
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@nela13 If you ever do talk about the weird things you've seen, please tag me to your discussion. I'm not on myLot as much as I used to be, so miss a lot of discussions I'd really like to be included in.
Thank you!
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@nela13 (58491)
• Portugal
16 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil maybe one day I will talk about my weird things
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
You're right. The photo was taken while I was climbing to the top of a waterfall.
The videos I was talking about have been posted to my YouTube channel. You can find the links on the discussion where I explain how to create a YouTube channel.
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
26 Dec 18
@leny34 You're welcome. If you aren't able to find the links on the other discussion, tell me. I will post them again for you here in your box.
@leny34 (8506)
• Sidoarjo, Indonesia
26 Dec 18
@DaddyEvil yes thank you I will try to find out your link, thank you for sharing it here
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
While filming the video I missed a lot of things I saw after watching it a few times. (Some of the things I didn't realize what I was seeing until someone else pointed them out, either.)
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@DaddyEvil (137249)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@Karenmm I saw white orbs zooming around, at the camera lens and over the top of my phone. I saw something standing at the edge of the picture and then dart quickly out of the view. I saw shadows flowing across the ceiling that then disappeared.