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synthesis
5th May 2014, 08:37
It's not even, like, Poughkeepsie Tapes found-footage-serial-killer horror. It's a fucking ghost, or a "wraith" as they call it, it looks just like that scene from Ju-On: The Grudge in the office building, and there is apparently no doubt in their minds it's real.

link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619529/Spine-chilling-video-shows-moment-man-knocked-floor-shadowy-wraith-dragged-corridor.html?ito=video_player_click)

Spine-chilling video shows the moment man is 'knocked to the floor by shadowy wraith and dragged along a corridor'

Video appears to shows a man knocked to the floor by a shadowy figure
Man in the clip is unknown but is dragged along the floor by 'ghost'

Terrified victim scrambles to his feet and flees in direction he came

Clip's origin is unknown but has had nearly a million hits on Youtube

By Damien Gayle (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Damien+Gayle)
Published: 12:24 EST, 3 May 2014 | Updated: 03:20 EST, 4 May 2014

The echoes of departed spirits often show up on camera when those in shot were unaware of their presence.

But, as this spine-chilling video shows, sometimes the undead are more than capable of making their presence felt.

It purports to show the startling moment that a phantom pushes a man to the floor before seizing hold of his leg and dragging him along a deserted corridor.

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The unknown man wearing the hoodie walks along the corridor unaware of what is about to happen

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11BE00000578-121_634x350.jpg

The man becomes startled when a black shadowy figure appears in front of him

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11C200000578-449_634x346.jpg

The man falls to the ground as the 'ghost' appears to grab his foot and begins to drag him along the ground


But just as it seems the demonic entity is about to drag its no-doubt accursed victim to the deepest pit of hell, it lets go and vanishes, as mysteriously as it appeared.

The minute-long clip, which emerged online, shows footage of unknown provenance shot on a CCTV camera which captures a hoodie-wearing gentleman striding purposefully along a deserted corridor.

With few signs of life in the stark, clinical-looking corridor, it is already an eerie scene, but hardly looks like the kind of place where the dead might visit.

The clip is silent, presumably since the surveillance camera on which it was shot has no microphone. As the man reaches the end of the corridor a forbidding shadow-like apparition materialises ahead of him.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11CE00000578-551_634x353.jpg

The terrified victim is continued to be dragged across the ground by his foot

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11D200000578-835_634x341.jpg
Man and 'ghost' appear to be locked in a tussle on the floor as the victim tries to get on his feet


His previous confidence evaporates as he is knocked to the ground by the spectral assailant. Before he can react, it snatches hold of his left leg, dragging him along on his back.

The victim of the supernatural attack, whose identity is not known, must have thought his days were numbered. He may have feared he would spend the whole of the rest of eternity in a pit of hellfire.

But without warning, the wraith relinquishes its grip and, as quickly as it materialised, it dissolves.

Terrified, its victim, scrambling to his feet, flees in the very direction he has just come from.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11E200000578-222_634x345.jpg

The 'ghost' releases its grip and the hooded man is left lying on his back on the floor

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11F000000578-499_634x342.jpg

He then struggles to his feet, still shocked by his supernatural experience


The video's origin is unknown, but it has made its was to YouTube where it has received nearly a million views on one channel.

Commenters were mixed in their opinions as to its authenticity.

Cassandra Jordan wrote that she fell victim to a similar supernatural attack as a teenager. 'I saw this dark entity looking at me with red eyes,' she wrote.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11AD00000578-134_634x344.jpg

Terrified, he runs back in the direction from which he came not wanting to repeat the experience

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/03/article-2619529-1D8C11B100000578-644_634x346.jpg

Not looking back, the victim, caught on CCTV, continues to run for his safety


'I tried to run but it grabbed me and dragged me back in my room. I passed out i didn't know what happen after that all I know is that I wake up running to my older sister and scratching her uncontrollably.'

But others dismissed it as a ultimately flawed attempt at amateur computer-generated imagery.

Mongodos wrote: 'Hey good attempt at cgi. Salute. I would recommend to change your filter and look at the floor. The floor lighting is not distorted. You did the wall well, but pay that in mind on the next attempt.'

I'm assuming that last part was added in the "edit" yesterday. Is this business as usual for the Daily Mail? Or am I just now catching on to old news?

Rusty Shackleford
5th May 2014, 08:44
some good editing

Ele'ill
5th May 2014, 08:59
nice last thing to watch before going to sleep thanks

Rusty Shackleford
5th May 2014, 11:25
Yeah I don't believe in this stuff but it puts you slightly off ease. I remember I went to see the conjuring and when my partner and I got back I went to the bathroom and the fan started shrieking. I said it never happened before and she was all freaked out. I was totally spooked haha.

Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk
5th May 2014, 11:44
this is actually true. i am the bloke in the video and to be honest, that inconsiderate wraith really ruined my day. next time i'm back there, i'm bringing a vacuum cleaner and taking that sucker down.

Ele'ill
6th May 2014, 01:26
Yeah I don't believe in this stuff but it puts you slightly off ease. I remember I went to see the conjuring and when my partner and I got back I went to the bathroom and the fan started shrieking. I said it never happened before and she was all freaked out. I was totally spooked haha.

was watching moth man prophecies with someone once many years ago and we were all alone at this friend's parent's house that wasn't in a neighborhood or anything it was fairly isolated, woods around it, all the lights out of course its a horror film, and then all the motion sensor lights on the outside of the house went on real fast one by one

Sperm-Doll Setsuna
6th May 2014, 01:43
Daily Fail posts this kind of stupid crap often, and it's common for the tabloids to fill their vacuous non-advert spaces with this sort of thing. Only two weeks or so ago Daily Fail posted cuts of aerial photography of Loch Ness, with a boats wake, claiming it as being THE (imaginary) MONSTERRRRRR!!1117

Rusty Shackleford
6th May 2014, 05:50
was watching moth man prophecies with someone once many years ago and we were all alone at this friend's parent's house that wasn't in a neighborhood or anything it was fairly isolated, woods around it, all the lights out of course its a horror film, and then all the motion sensor lights on the outside of the house went on real fast one by one

Ho man, thats a trip.

When I was younder, my mom and her dude rented some house in Bodega Bay for Spring Break and all the kids went along.

there was a fireplace with glass doors on it and I kinda egged the dude to put more wood in and later as the movie was going and the fire settled down a bit the glass doors were closed.

Then, out of nowhere they fucking EXPLODE.

Science says there was a draft that made for a pretty good heat difference, guts say holy shit i almost had a heart attack.

Red Commissar
6th May 2014, 05:52
See this is what happens when you're in the EU Britian, first Muslims with their Sharia Law and Poles taking our jobs, now ghosts? When will you wake up?

but yeah in all seriousness this is lame. I've always been surprised though that even in the US Daily Mail links are common in email chains and social media sharing, more so than to tabloids published stateside. They have a better internet presence I guess. Relevant (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Media/documents/2010/07/16/mail-tube-map-medium-large.pdf?guni=Article:in%20body%20link).

Ceallach_the_Witch
6th May 2014, 10:39
foreign corpses stealing our graves

what would Winston Churchill say

Rusty Shackleford
6th May 2014, 10:41
he would say foreign corpses are stealing your graves

Ceallach_the_Witch
6th May 2014, 10:57
either that or he'd crack on with stealing twice as many of their graves and then something something i'm not a racist but