why the hell does everyone all of a sudden say oh it's fake yup bug on the lens.cuz your all fucktards I'm not saying it couldn't be a bug on the lens or something explainable but who's to say its not something MORE i mean come on people what the hell kind of bug changes shape like that? and lets not forget the genius who said "kid with a blue laser pointer" rofl thats gold.

SirNirian

its definitely an angel

a blue angel

(see what i did there?)

Kricket

@Hiphopopotamus: lol

tamoko

Are we a country of morons? Ghosts my ass!!

tamoko

On closer inspection... this was all a hoax so Camel could get some free advertising for their No. 9 brand... more interviews with the cashier dammit! Joe Camel demands it!

Hiphopopotamus

It's a program doing something it's not supposed to be doing. Along with vampires and werewolves....

IUSEAMACSOSUEME

Sadly this made it to nationwide status on news, because I saw it on our local news over 1000 miles away from Ohio. I seriously fear for the human race.

DashTheHand

@ KINGPSYZ: you are right, its an insect. I see this on our camera system from time to time.

@ rest of the world: Its Gee-Whiz!

remps

Fuck, people are stupid. Really stupid.

aquaosx

Hey you know what I'm polish, but YOU'RE the DUMBASS, actually, sorry, you're an assclown.

samueladamski

The news was provided by our local Fox News affiliate, which may explain a lot. That and that Parma (a burb of Cleveland) is home to a large polish population. Say no more.

Curves

photoshopped

guynamedrob

Here's a still shot folks!

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samueladamski

Call Mulder and Scully!

coach

It's a moth, people. I'm just surprised no ones is calling it the Virgin Mary. No cheese sandwiches around, I guess.

AdmNaismith

That's absolutely some little blue moth or something walking on the lens. Notice it always moves facing the same direction when it moves around.

Player2

My comment disappeared! This place is damned! DAMNED I TELL YOU!

solartaco

It's night time at a well-lit gas station... it's a bug crawling on the lens - if you watch the last view in the video you can actually tell that it's crawling on the lens.

If I really cared, I could find out what kind of bug it is pretty quickly as well (need to know if the color is true or if the camera's sensor is filtering or not filtering specific frequencies like UV and IR which are common).

huygir

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but cases such of this are most likely insects. If you remember the case of the ghost caught on the security camera at the Santa Fe courthouse, it has been proven to be bugs.

[www.livescience.com]

There's your story. :-)

techmuse

@fallenturtle: I think you're mistaking the edge of the screen frame and the monitor bezel for the gas station "roof".

deeddawg

@EBone: I beg to differ. The shape looks more like that of Singapore.

DetergentDinners

Its the gas price fairy!

solartaco

I think it was this: [tmbw.net]
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blue bag or piece of the blue towels next to window cleaner. Remember, there are people that flock to billboards and windows or buy toast on eBay to see Mary or Jesus (not Diaz)

wk1234

I hate local news. And national news since the couric era.

SeattleTed

Wait... is.. that.. a... Leprechaun???!?! There! In the trees!

qbrad

INDUSTRIAL LIGHTS AND MAGIC!

Joseph

@Atrahasis: I'm more distressed by the people who attribute the out-of-the-ordinary to a piece of lint! no imagination!

Taiwan FTW.

weatherman

Where was Booberry at the time? Hopefully the beloved cereal mascot hasn't fallen so far that he's hanging around outside of gas stations bumming for change.

CColdsmoke

@Ozyman666: Hehe, good one.

BMErdin

Wow - Ohio will do anything to distract from the embarrassing loss to Illinois this past weekend. Ouch!

agrajag42

the only issue with it being a bug is that the blue image when it "floats" upwards appears to go outside the gas station's roof. If it was something on the lens, it would been seen on top of the station's roof.

fallenturtle

I'd keep an eye out for Pac Man.

Ozyman666

It's sad how when anything even slightly out of the ordinary happens you inevitably have people attributing the occurence to the supernatural.

Occam's Razor, people! You guys need to focus.

Or, just post it on the web and have a thousand science-types poke holes in your ghostly theories with generous amounts of scorn and ridicule.

Atrahasis

@EBone:

I'm going with Taiwan. ROFL!!

Sir_NightSky

i love the 'man on the street' interviews they do. especially the morbidly obese man who was obviously there for ghostly chili dogs. spooktacular.

jdunns4

Who else was immediately reminded of the infamous Leprachaun (sp?) in a Tree video?

Someone from the news ever tries to get me to comment on something stupid like this, the headline may read "Fluff Piece Reporter Punched in Face by Man Refusing to End Up Looking Stupid on Internet".

That's kinda long for a headline though.

EvilJ

[www.cnn.com]
Orange ghost, blue ghost... still just insects...

Hiphopopotamus

Ball lint. Definitely stray ball lint. Someone is drying their Calvin Klien man-thongs at the laundr-o-mat next-door to the gas station. Move along, nothing to see here.

virtualmatt

Maybe this was crawling on the lens.

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Stang70Fastback

It actually moves like an insect. Could be the digital color correction giving it the bright blue hue. I've seen small green insects before, so it could easily be that and because it's too close to the iris it's completely out of focus.

I bet if that camera had an autofocus you'd find a small bug walking around on the lens.

KingPsyz

It's Definitely "Gasper" the friendly ghost!

nmcglynn

i'm going with kid with blue laser pointer who is bored.

EMoShunz

It's a booger. Or possibly Taiwan.

EBone

Great news Giz :/

FlashSandbox

its tuesday giz, not sunday

discounteggroll

It's a piece of lint on the front of the camera lens. Out of focus, buffeted by the occasional wind, and completely without newsworthy merit.

Keighvin

I see blue vapors like this at my local station all the time, but it's usually chili-dog related.

HeyBeav

Ghosts or lint balls: Next time on Mythbusters!

Mondoz

Or a bug. Wichever

nightsky

it's a bug, I had something almost idental happening to me on a security camera at the shop, only different color. Infact it puzzled me to the point I set up a 2nd camera to record the first camera. The 2nd camera revealed it was a small moth of some sort sitting/walking on the lens.

Xanthan

It's a voolihoo(sp?). A super intelligent shade of the color blue.

nightsky

Some sort of bug either on the lens or weatherproof housing, and being lit by either the canopy lights, or maybe that camera has built-in IR illuminators. Not a ghost though.

TVGenius

What is sad about this is people getting all "OMG, this has changed my life! I touched the hand of God. Wait, I'm having a vision now!" because of some lens-dust.

Also, why is this on the news?
I mean, WTF? I can only imagine if someone tapped into the video signal and made some real time editing with some convincing effect... not just some dust or insect in lens.

The whole circus would come into town.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Who cares... the reporter is a total babe.

knickers

reporter:
"too bad it's not the ghost of cheap gas prices..."
;->

angels?! american indian spirits!? ghosts?!
wtf?
what has happened to critical thinking?
we have become a nation of idiots.

Terranova

@EBone: <--- waste

Earthslide

@funkenstein: Sorry to say we have no geckos in Cleveland. They would freeze to death even in our summers.

Curves

Lucky for that ghost it's not magenta. T-Mobile would have their lawyers suing the supernatural.

Jmarsh04

it's a gecko eating bugs. you can see the leg movements are quadrupedal in nature. most of the geckos that lived on my porch in austin were translucent and slightly pink/blue they'd sit still for 30 min until a bug got close and WHAM! plus it saved me a bunch of money on my car insurance. oh yeah. i went there.

funkenstein

Moral of the Story: Don't live in Ohio, because this is the most exciting thing that will ever happen to you.

Moonshadow101

Just a bug moving on the lens glowing weird from IR illumination those cameras use, have seen such "ghosts" before in my business...

DucatiGuy

While it is likely something on the lens, there are so many places that something could be going on. It could be in front, on or behind the CCD. If it's an older camera there are so many places for a critter or condensed vapor to hide. It could be in the camera signal processor. It could be at the recording source.

My bet is that it is a silver fish hanging out on the back of the CCD assembly, where for some reason there are exposed contact points.

DeadWriter

*sigh. People are so naive.....and stupid.

MeNotYou

You guys need to open your eyes. All I see is a sexy naked woman.

wizzledizzle

I ain't afraid of no ghosts! Bustin' makes me feel good yeah yeah yeah...

scarbrtj

Would someone go get Mario to get rid of this Boo?

nintendude

WHAT THE CHRIST WAS THAT?

Stacky Botrus

OBVIOUS BUG

tin

Drew Carey gave them one too many Buzz Beers.

gadgetfreak

It was me! woot

D_Zarster

I was me!

D_Zarster

I'm going to put my money on this being the start of some half-baked viral marketing campaign.

johnnyabnormal

Ahh, the post # was at 69, so I just HAD to jump into THAT party ;^)

DAMMIT!! Now I effed up the 69'ing. Damn, and I've been doing tongue limbering exercises all day long too. Now I'm sad.

Sorry for the irrelevant post to follow this irrelevant video. My bad. Or was it? ?HAH!!

banmojo

Quick Feed: Diamonds, Best Buy Practices, and Ghosts on Techie Diva's Guide to Gadgets

I know what it is -

It's the self respect of America's media, desperately trying to escape the glut of shit "news" stories.

Go back to sleep, everyone.

cbdsteve

probably a publicity stunt...

nuance

it might have been just a slug or something crawling on the camera out of focus, casting a blue glow from the lighting..

kidnamedmoe

Holy S**T, Regular Unleaded only $3.099!?!?! Quick the the Le Viathan! To Parma!

balloondoggle

Holy S**T! Regular Unleaded only $3.099!?!?! Everyone into the Chevy Le Viathan! To Parma!

balloondoggle

Looks like a bird when it flaps it's wings. That might be too big to create this effect, though.

But seriously, "Indian burial ground" guy is a total douche. And is that Asian reporter, Trisha Takanawa? :-b

robo

Pirogi gas from the pink flamingos throughout the town of Parma.

Turing_Machine

Ok, lets state what we know. Gas station, camera and a total douche.

Solved. The blue vapor is actually a "ghost" of a bug on the lens, not an actual bug.

JShort

"You moved the gas pumps but you didn't move the bodies!"
What, nobody watched polterguest?

toyotaboy

Ghostbustin followup. Everything was going fine until dickless here shut off the control grid.
Is this true?
Yes, this man has no dick.

JShort

it's obviosly a blue demon. you can accually see the ectoplasum as it flows from our dimention back to the evil place it came from. i gotta get bill murry this one is just too big for one man to handle

goastbuster

@techmuse:

The only possible way to ascertain what is it is by trying to duplicate what some people stated. Some say it is a plastic bag floating around. You duplicate that and it will be one less factor to worry about and then we go to the next one.

But I guess with all the mocking and speculations we will never know for sure.

Duplication is the only solution. Probably a paranormal group close to that place might want to follow suit and scientifically investigate this one.

lourdesm

Is it my imagination, or did that blue blur have a wide stance?

spiderhole

Actually, if you freeze frame the image, it is clearly a cartoon face that has been blurred out. If you go frame by frame right after the person in the white car goes out of focus (and they zoom in), you can see the cartoon image very clearly. Not a plastic bag at all. Funny though.

Cypher_code

How many people in America have seen a Silverfish? Apparently not a whole lot.

jayrobdapot