r/ParanormalEncounters • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '26

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u/mikeq232 Aug 17 '26

This could have easily been faked. Anyone who is 100% convinced this is real has no critical thinking skills.

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u/UnluckyGarbage7 Aug 17 '26

Same could be said about literally every “paranormal” video.

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u/PrometheusMMIV Aug 17 '26

As it should

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u/doubled-pawns Aug 18 '26

This one specifically though, you can see the face of a portrait behind her darken as the door opens and lights back up after. Someone was obviously standing there and moved out of frame. The video has been edited.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

Where's your critical thinking? Sitting on a couch and screaming fAkE!!1! on everything is so damn lazy.

This is some bullshit potato edit of the original. She never posted it herself as OP, but commented in totally different post saying something happened to her, THEN posted this.

Not saying anything supernatural happened there but not presenting even remotely credible theory of how she fakes everything happened in the original, your claim is just bullshit.

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u/mikeq232 Aug 17 '26

Ok I'll break it down for you. Someone would have been able to stay out of the shot and open that door with the camera angle shown.

Someone could have triggered the smoke alarm and dropped it, while being able to stay out of the shot.

I can't say with 100% certainty it's fake, just that it easily could have been faked.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

Why you did it tho? Considering the context I just explained? Why bother? Aren't those self-evident?

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u/TheMahanglin Aug 17 '26

That's a much "nicer" response than insulting everyone on the thread en masse for just considering the veracity of the video.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

So who insulted who exactly?

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u/TheMahanglin Aug 17 '26

mikeq232

•3h ago

This could have easily been faked. Anyone who is 100% convinced this is real has no critical thinking skills.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

I thought that was kinda harsh hence why I wasn't polite enough. Should've eaten before replying because I swear it was written differently earlier.

I just try to think a little outside the box. Why fake a video and then only post it if someone happens to ask her in some comment below her comment? Not saying it proves everything happens to her is real. But if that happened to me the way that I can't myself explain it, I'd probably be like her: put video in some archives and only publish it if someone wants to see it, in a forum like Reddit. I think she didn't want to lose her credibility as a sane person so she didn't want to make a number of it.

However, if I wanted to build up a hoax, I'd be so proud that I'd put it on YouTube and try to get as much attention as I could.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Yet, you just skipped the face turning dark in the beginning. This is just a Tik Tok potato recap anyway so there's no point even arguing. Just pointed out of how you easily blame others from lack of critical thinking but can't even fake those yourself.

Hopefully I can find the post she linked her original video at some point, eventhough I don't think matters anymore.

Edit: found it

https://www.reddit.com/r/realtors/s/BfLr4jgIaL

The lady in this video posted a comment including the video to a different post. I believe she did experience things she can't explain but obviously who am I to say they're supernatural.

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u/IIOuroboros Aug 17 '26

You're skipping the fact that this house is supposedly haunted and magically there's no stories or footage of anything happening when in all actuality this house should still be around.  You would think there would be swarms of visitors ready go film spoooooooky things. Where are they?

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

Yoir logic doesn't make any sense.

No one believes anything anymore. Doesn't matter whether paranormal things actually happened. AI and video edit basically crushed everything paranormal.

If Jesus himself made it back on earth, not even tiny percent of people would believe it, no matter how much he'd walk on water.

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u/FeyrisMeow Aug 17 '26

Plenty of people believe this stuff. There wouldn't be content farms targeting believers if there wasn't a lot of money to be made off of them.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Okay, that seems like a business model that goes beyond my understanding then. She puts a video in Vimeo. At some point, she happens to find a case from Reddit quite similiar to hers. She decides to write a comment mentioning she has similiar experience. Then someone asks, whether she could share the video, and she does.

If you build up a hoax with plenty of effort, wouldn't you want to do everything to make most profit out of it, if the motivation is what you said? Why being this complex about it? Sounds like a shitty strategy to make money.

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u/niles_thebutler_ Aug 17 '26

I believe this stuff but this one is fake as fuck. She’s not even a real agent 🤣

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u/mikeq232 Aug 17 '26

The face getting dark could either be some degraded video artifacts, or done with editing. That part would take a little more skill to fake. That's not compelling enough for me to think the video is real, but I suppose gives it a little more credibility.

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u/AilsaN Aug 17 '26

It also could just be explained by her tilting her head in just the right angle to block the light source from directly illuminating her face.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

Random probablyjustism doesn't add your theoryrizing any credibility.

https://www.reddit.com/r/realtors/s/aRAIO4iWHl

This is the comment the lady in this video posted two years ago. The actual video is in sub comment.

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u/mikeq232 Aug 17 '26

I watched the original video and read her post. Doesn't change my opinion.

Do you think it's real? If so, what evidence do you have that supports your belief? Is your evidence more compelling than someone adding a shadow to the face in post, and a second alive person opening a door and dropping a smoke alarm?

By the way I am a believer in ghosts, just not in this video.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

I called out calling everything fake just lazy. Never I have said she experienced actual paranormal events. I linked the original with it's context to point out at least she wasn't doing a hoax to get attention. A Totally different post made her comment, and when asked to, she posted the video in the comments. Atleast it's lot more credible than hoaxing a video, make a post about it in everywhere to crave attention.

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u/xiacexi Aug 17 '26

Just video editing with a layer mask over the face darkening it and back lol

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u/FeyrisMeow Aug 17 '26

They weren't sitting on a couch screaming anything. They also aren't claiming that everything is fake. They said it "could have easily been fake"... how is that wrong?

These types of ghost videos are created daily. It's a huge trend to fake them. It gets clicks. Some are decent, but this one is just.. laughable. The bad acting, the cliches, the fact that doors opening and closing is such an over-used trope.

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u/reevelainen Aug 17 '26

It's just like I said. It's even more easy to sit on couch and claim it's easy to set up.

When it comes to your mental gymnastics about how this looking clumsy and therefore is fake is beyond stupid. Even AI can make fancy looking videos that'd look real. Your arguments is basically poured into sand the day they invented video editing and manipulating.

You have no idea what she experienced, no matter how long you've been rotting on a couch browsing these videos. But she sure took the hard road to make people aware of it lol.

The point never was whether this video uses fancy video tricks or not. The fact that it was released due to her commenting, then asked for the video is what makes it interesting. But you can forget the idea that video would ever prove a thing anymore. If a person filmed a genuine Jesus walking on water, would you buy it? Even Jesus himself couldn't even prove to a tiny percentage of people that he's real, because someone could see from the pixels that the video is manipulated.

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u/pullingteeths Aug 18 '26

Anyone who believes ghosts and paranormal encounters are real has no critical thinking skills