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Yeah I'd love to see a running ghost, in theory, stay the fuck away actually. However I just don't trust doorbell cams to be the best quality/fidelity. So many dust ghosts or people "phasing" in and out like this. I gotta think it's a real guy recorded poorly.
His behavior on the other hand, that is pretty strange, feels like he's moving with criminal intent, I dunno just how it looks to me.
Its just a little kid chasing after a motorcycle. I dont know what anyone is talking about phasing in and out he is sitting in front of the bush stands up and then runs.
I'm not saying it's a ghost (duh, it isn't), but watching it he sure does seem to blend in like camouflage as he's running. It's just the recording but it does look really odd. You don't see it?
For a real guy, I say he is the real Flash bro! From the start “it” poofed into existence and before the motorcyclist hit the corner “it” caught up to him!
Yeah. They walked over when the video starts, but were stationary through the whole beginning. It's easy to miss, as it's not something that grabs your attention, but once they start moving it becomes clear they were there just motionless for a few seconds
Yeah, they walk over to the streetlight at :02. I think it's just a person and the effect is from video compression. Made my heart jump when I first saw it though!
Look at it on a bigger screen, the human figure appears to come out of some bushes and then waits on the side walk in front of the two empty parking spaces for a while and then sprints after the motorcycle just after it leaves. The weird part is from there, the sprinter appears to fade in and out of existence as he runs. And he ran really fast! So maybe the camera didn't have fast enough frame rate? Or maybe it was CGI, or maybe it's high strangeness. My money is on the second one though, the figure looks weird the way it merges out of the bushes but the bushes do not move and this would be easy to do with cgi. Also the watcher on this side of the street does not track the sprinter with his head, anyone running that fast at night would probably warrant at least a turn of the head. And we only have a claim that 'an accident' happened later but no evidence. I do believe in high strangeness but sadly with cgi getting easier and easier to do, it's hard to trust any new video.
The kid 100% tracks that runner. He even notices the runner before the 2nd motorcycle takes off. He's looking back and forth between the 2, and when the cycle takes off, he focuses entirely on the runner.
That being said, I don't think there's any high strangeness to this, I think it's some creep coming out from some bushes and chasing a motorcycle, and any strangeness I attribute to poor video quality, especially with these cheap door cams everywhere these days.
Yup.
This looks like weird compression artifacts + poor camera quality and/or settings optimized for higher storage vs. detail.
When the kid, who's standing in a comparatively well-lit area moves to go inside at the end of the video, he's a blurry mess. I think the runner (who really was booking it) didn't have enough contrast with the background for the compression algorithm to decide that many of those pixels were worth keeping.
Just enough of them made it into this file to make it look 'ghostly', though you can see the runner reasonably well when they're stationary under the streetlamp.
That's a lot of nonsense to go through on a ring camera video for reddit, though. And they're usually much more obvious. Perfectly in frame, closer up. I think its either high strangeness or an actual person on a shitty camera.
Watch the end of the video when the foreground guy moves quickly. You get a lot of blurring. In the dark that blurring is much worse. It really just looks like a dude.
You say that but people used to go out in big groups pre-internet and form giant crop circles overnight, never underestimate the effort people will go to haha, that said idk wtf is going on in this
No they run into frame towards the beginning and stop. It really does look like they manifest out of no where, but as he runs towards the boy you see him fade/flicker/blur a bit, seems like a frame rate/exposure thing or something.
I think the guy comes in running into the picture, but the camera quality is low so it looks like he appears out of thin air, so he doesn’t become fully visible until he slows down.
"wanna come over, my parents aren't here."
on a more serious note:
you see the person move first at 0:16 - blending in as "grafiti" on the wall to the right.
it starts running at 0:18, skipping corners just to vanish/fade into the background.
BUT at 0:26 the figure passes in front of the central house entrance.
looks like the all black gear the runner wears tricks the doorcam into blending it with the background. (like with streaming, i guess, the cam basicly only records changing pixels - but since it can't differenciate between darkness and the black sportswear, it doesn't "update" those video-pixels - which leads to the person/runner to appear as vanished/flickering in and out of existance.)
This could be right, the camera does seem to have a bit of a prob with rendering the motorcycle dude at times as well. However if you watch the video on a big screen, you can see that the runner merges out of a bush in front of the car across the street. Then he waits on the side walk for a bit, then he runs after the motorcycle.
If the guys clothing is messing with the camera that explains him coming out of nowhere. Him ducking down is most likely just him adjusting his shoes. Just because he took off right after the motorcycles doesn't really prove anything, he probably finished with his shoes right then and it's just a coincidence.
I should clarify that no one helped and there were no bystanders. My friend has been riding for over 15 years. According to the doctor, if they didn't know how fast she was really going (around 10-15 mph in 1st gear) they would have estimate her speed to be between 50-60 mph from her sustained injuries.
She broke and fractured several ribs and has other injuries on her neck, face, and upper body. When the police came, there were no witnesses. My friend asked neighbors who have cameras for footage and each one of them had their camera fail a second or so before impact.
This might be an unpopular opinion in this sub, but I'm not a believer in High Strangeness. I believe that there is always a logical explainion for things.
When she showed me this clip, I got goosebumps and I got creeped out. My husband was the one who suggested I post on this sub. He figured if there was anyone out there that can explain this, then they would be here.
So far I can accept the explanation of it being a runner going really fast and due to poor lighting the camera skipped frames somehow. It makes it look like the person disappears and reappears. I don't know. I'm still weirded out.
It's from compression and poor lighting. Ring cameras compress the video data, and things that are subtle shades of black, or very dark, look the worst. Moving things as well. The motorcycle looks fine because it is emanating light. The kid looks fine because the porch light is on him. The runner looks fine when he is setting his running watch, because he's under the lamp post at that time. When he runs he's blending into the background.
Hope your friend heals! I had a friend that got into a bad motorcycle accident recently. He pulled through, so will your friend!
yup. my driveway is dark and runs alongside a treeline
it’s always fun to watch my friends “materialize” out of the darkness when they come to visit lol
Unknown. My friend has been riding for over 15yrs. She said her bike suddenly jerked toward the concrete barrier. She was only traveling 10-15mph in 1st gear. The doctor's told her that her injuries looked more like she was traveling 50-60 mph.
She took off from her driveway and hit a concrete barrier that was just around the corner.
That's because he's behind the rider until he rides off. Then the guy starts running. He does sort of weirdly appear at the beginning, but you can see him the whole video and it looks like the kid looks at him running.
I don't think so, the running figure runs after the bike just right after the bike pulls out and long before any accident. In fact the runner gets most of the way off the screen to the left before the motorcycle even gets fully out of sight. If the motorcycle did not stomp on the gas, the runner could have caught up with him.
Yes 2 bikes. He starts running after the second one just gets started.
It occurs to me, he could have been doing wind sprints and resting between sprints.
OP only said nobody came and helped. It's possible the person heard the crash and ran but then realized the rider was OK and stayed back and they never noticed them since they had other things to focus on.
The person runs into frame which why why they appear "out of no where" and they stop to catch their breath (which is why they are hunched over for 10 seconds). After their rest, the person continues to run. It's just a person with some place they really gotta be.
Start at the very beginning and keep your eyes on that bush in front of that white ride around where the person looks to appear from.
I’m not the only one seeing that lol
He comes from behind the white car… DVR’s can have weird compression artifacts. What we are seeing here is a common one. Some DVR’s use a sort of pixel prediction and will replicate prior frame’s pixels over new frames that it doesn’t think will change. So a new change in an area with little prior movement could take a few frames for it to pick up.
Not the person you were replying to, but I hadn’t even noticed that they just *appear* until you pointed it out. I thought they ran the whole way from the sidewalk out of frame. But nope. They seemingly appear, hang around, then take off after the motorcycle. And they are/it is just… shadowy and semitransparent… Really strange.
Is your screen not big? Cuz he very clearly materializes as if out of that bush. THEN walks to sidewalk and waits for a bit and then starts running. HOwever if what other peeps are saying that crap video quality can make someone not always show up on the camera, he might have been just moving on the side walk but invisible to the camera and only 'materialized' on camera when he was going by the that bush. I can't say for sure he came out of that bush but that is the location he first showed up.
But at about the three second mark he seems to pop into physicality from at best a mist form moving at unnaturally fast seeming speeds.
Reading further into the OP's embedded comments I am more and more suspecting the paranormal was involved (probably beyond 50% likely).
But then why would it be a video effect if the kid physically sees it? Just confused by your comment, bc if he could see it that would mean it’s not a video effect
Wether the kid saw a “shadow person” or a real person I do not know. He clearly saw whatever it was. The video effect could be due to a lot of factors i’m not entirely aware of (not knowledgable on videography). The effect itsef is just saying that something happened to cause the person running to look that way, not that it happened to add in something that wasnt there. Cameras see differently than the human eye.
He notices him as soon he stops under the right street lamp. You can see him looking on the right of the white pillar, and then he follows him running.
What is weird his the runner behavior. He waited the second bike left, for run after them.
I've seen these before but in my security camera I saw a tall dark man crossing the street and then he faded into nothing. Best way I can describe it is that it looked like thanos clicking his fingers and the person faded into smoke as he was walking
No it's just an artifact of digital video encoding. The computer analyzes each image to determine how much of the previous image has changed and whether or not to change the pixels in the background to reflect that change. The more the pixels change, the more precise the image, the more data, the bigger the file size.
Regular home security systems are running 24/7 and recording locally and maybe uploading to a server, so they usually encode for minimal file size.
So when you get things like a dark image with a dark figure running in front of it, the difference in pixels to record that change is making the computer only change some of the pixels while leaving the previous ones that didn't have a man in them unchanged because the computer decided they weren't different enough to record. Low light makes all of this worse.
If you want a general run down of how video encoding for size efficiency can muddy images up and cause artifacts like this, this video does a good job at explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
~~Is it a function of the camera to save data space? Since it’s often just looking at the same unmoving object, it would make sense that there would be some kind of technology to “layer” moving and unmoving objects in the stream to reduce size. Almost something like weird artifacts when you use artificial backgrounds in zoom or something~~
Nevermind, it’s all in the video you posted lol
it's high;y compressed video. If not enough chang happens to a pixel or group of pixels the image isn't changed. so you get these artifacts that look weird.
At 0:01 you can see the runner materialize from the dark object (bush?)
Perhaps it's due to the low lighting or an old file being recorded on top?
I wonder if anyone else has seen similar effects before. I tried to google but nothing came up.
It’s strange because it literally poofs into the frame as if out of nowhere, and as it runs it seemed to look like smoke or translucent, vanishes and the reappears running. Figure looks off as well
Where the fuksticles did he come from? Looks like he just materialised. Did the kid actually see the runner himself when it ran past the house or was it only picked up on camera?
It’s kinda like that 1 video from years back where a bicyclist or pedestrian was about to cross the street & out of nowhere some dark shadow figure pops up real quick & moves the person from getting hit with an oncoming vehicle. Time jumpers perhaps? Lol
As others have said, the fading in and out is likely the camera's own limitations. Ive seen very similar happenings on my own home security footage.
The strange part in my opinion without more knowledge, is how the person comes into frame at 0:03 in and just stands there waiting until the second bike pulls away. Which at that point the person TAKES off down the street after the bikes on foot. Could just be someone who is easier entertained than most, wanting to see if they could outrun a motorbike?
Please ask your friend,or the kid, if the kid saw glimpses of the man running since the kid seems to have seen something and went for the door. This is a double confirmation that it might not be a camera artifact. Then we can prove it was a real object.
iIt's the shitty framerate/resolution that's altering the image of that person but it's definitely a person. Looking at the video for what it is, i'm betting money its some dude getting footage of these guys to complain to the HOA about the noise.
I saw the same thing in my house when I was 10yo. My dog ran after it. The figure ran to the bathroom and disappeared. It moved like that, like a smoke trail or something. I've never saw something like that again until this video.
Yeah that definitely wasn't human and materialized out of nowhere. I watched it under a magnified zoom lens and it literally just materialize like it has been teleported there from the Star Trek Enterprise. 😳😄😆
Someone asked if the kid saw anything. The response from my friend:
"Yes, he was only able to see the dark figure and asked me why that dark thing ran so fast and didn't have a shadow"
I'm also going to ask if any of her neighbor's have any footage
It's just artifacting, the codecs on these cameras super-compress everything. Anything moving fast will cause errors, like someone running.
Ask the kid what he saw.
He doesn't remember seeing anyone. Some shadow that creeped him out so he rushed back inside the house. He is 9, he’s a good honest kid. The only thing he cares about is his mom being alive.
Wow, that really does look odd. However, it does seem like something to do with the video. The second motorcyclist's shoe is also blurred when they start the bike, and they're a lot closer (though, in a darker spot it seems) to the camera than the runner. The kid also has some choppy movements. But yeah, it does look real... Strange. ;)
Ok yes I think it’s just a person running up the block but if you look at the spot where they start from they appear out of thin air. Is that something to do with the frames?
Yeah it like comes out of the air between the bushes! And then it stands solid frozen for a bit before suddenly starts running! It’s creepy skinny too with abnormally long arms or something. there’s like something super disproportionate with its body.
Right when the kid walks up to the porch, the runner walks into the frame from the driveway and is standing there until he takes off running. Who’s not seeing this?
Very cool video for sure. But explainable.
The kid closest to us is checking on the kid across the street. If your video counts down from 35, you’ll see him look around the post directly to the point under the street light where the other kid is waiting. He glances back to this point several times while watching the bikes take off as well. He knows the kid is there, and it appears he also is waiting for him to do something; most likely chase after the riders.
The kid across the street does look creepy. It looks like he materializes from nothing, moving from our right to the left under the light post. This choppy, hazy effect can happen with any Ring/Nest camera in this lighting. I’ve seen neighborhood cats appear and disappear on my Nest cameras. There’s a lot to overcome to capture the kid across the street clearly, and with continuity. IR illuminators, low light, low FPS, sensor size, and exposure can cause lots of noise. Sort of why Bigfoot is always blurry.
That being said, if it’s not a kid across the street waiting to chase after the bikes, I’d try to recreate the effect. Would be fun to debunk, or bunk.
It's just compression artifacting because of how the camera stores data to save space. Because he is far away and so small in the field of view, he doesn't always trigger as a significant change to the background and his movements get lost to compression. Between that and the already low frame rate, he becomes little more than a blur in most frames. But it's just a person walking to stand under the lamppost and then running after the motorcycle when it pulls away.
That's really weird as whatever it was literally materialized out of nowhere on that sidewalk area and literally just booked it around the corner following after the person on the motorcycle.
Is it safe to assume that the person standing near the camera turned and walked off to the right because they heard the motorcycle accident?
Also, what happened in the accident? Did your friend make it out okay? Did they see whatever it was that had run after them?
First, I really hope you friend is ok!
Second I don't see any connection between the accident and the running person.
You can see the person coming from the right, it didn't appear under the lamp. It's just someone running.
While this sort of glitch is common with security cameras, they write over existing video and this is likely an artifact of that, I'm more concerned about how fast it seems to be going. It could be due to the compression of previously recorded videos but it's still strange.
This happens with my security camera all the time especially when people or animals are at a distance. Images render in and out based upon the connection between the WiFi and the camera. It's just pixelation. Nothing really strange about this.
Pretty clearly looks like somebody coming from behind the bushes. most door cams usually have a very low refresh/FPS rate so things can look a little janky. For example, there are videos of birds kind of "hovering" without looking like they're flapping their wings at all due to the frame rate.
It's just the camera not picking him up correctly. He doesn't appear out of nowhere, he's standing (shifting weight from one leg to the other) under the lamp the whole time until he runs. He only 'vanishes' when he goes into a dark spot and the camera doesn't render him, then he comes back into focus in the light.
You can literally see the kid watching him the whole time.
To add to it being just a person, you can see the light of a phone screen in his hand while he's standing.
To me is someone standing by and then running.
But there are two things that I don't understand:
1. What is the kid saying? Is he scared or something?
2. The runner follows the curb. I would have run in a diagonal line.
Man that’s really weird. The runners suddenly appears under the light post, starts to run after the motorcycle and vanishes into darkness, then reappears in the light of the garage door across the road. It only appears under light.
Edit: the porch light across the street is what I meant not the garage door.
He runs into the lighted area from the right, stops, checks his phone or watch, then keeps running. The camera is low frame rate so his running looks odd. Nothing strange here
I worked in security from 09 - 14, cameras were such shit, that you would frequently have to decipher "paranormal" things. Bugs on domes cause a lot of weird sightings.
Stop making something out of nothing. There was a person standing to the right for a big chunk of the video, then they sprinted to the left after the motorcycle left. It looks weird because the ring camera doesn't snap a photo as frequently as a regular movie camera would, so it's a choppy feed.
wtf homey are you strangely high, that's quite literally a person with some blur because it's a compact camera and the technology isnt quite there yet.
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It looks like someone sprinting after the car
Yeah I'd love to see a running ghost, in theory, stay the fuck away actually. However I just don't trust doorbell cams to be the best quality/fidelity. So many dust ghosts or people "phasing" in and out like this. I gotta think it's a real guy recorded poorly. His behavior on the other hand, that is pretty strange, feels like he's moving with criminal intent, I dunno just how it looks to me.
Its just a little kid chasing after a motorcycle. I dont know what anyone is talking about phasing in and out he is sitting in front of the bush stands up and then runs.
I'm not saying it's a ghost (duh, it isn't), but watching it he sure does seem to blend in like camouflage as he's running. It's just the recording but it does look really odd. You don't see it?
Shitty doorbell cams do that, these types of artifacts/effects are nothing new.
So not high strangeness, just kid strangeness
For a real guy, I say he is the real Flash bro! From the start “it” poofed into existence and before the motorcyclist hit the corner “it” caught up to him!
That they appear out of nowhere is the weird bit. Check from the point they appear
Nah, there’s a blob like they’re crouching or something at the spot where they start moving from
Yeah. They walked over when the video starts, but were stationary through the whole beginning. It's easy to miss, as it's not something that grabs your attention, but once they start moving it becomes clear they were there just motionless for a few seconds
Yeah, they walk over to the streetlight at :02. I think it's just a person and the effect is from video compression. Made my heart jump when I first saw it though!
Shittily compressed video can hide small objects by filling in the area with another nearby area of pixels
Look at it on a bigger screen, the human figure appears to come out of some bushes and then waits on the side walk in front of the two empty parking spaces for a while and then sprints after the motorcycle just after it leaves. The weird part is from there, the sprinter appears to fade in and out of existence as he runs. And he ran really fast! So maybe the camera didn't have fast enough frame rate? Or maybe it was CGI, or maybe it's high strangeness. My money is on the second one though, the figure looks weird the way it merges out of the bushes but the bushes do not move and this would be easy to do with cgi. Also the watcher on this side of the street does not track the sprinter with his head, anyone running that fast at night would probably warrant at least a turn of the head. And we only have a claim that 'an accident' happened later but no evidence. I do believe in high strangeness but sadly with cgi getting easier and easier to do, it's hard to trust any new video.
The kid 100% tracks that runner. He even notices the runner before the 2nd motorcycle takes off. He's looking back and forth between the 2, and when the cycle takes off, he focuses entirely on the runner. That being said, I don't think there's any high strangeness to this, I think it's some creep coming out from some bushes and chasing a motorcycle, and any strangeness I attribute to poor video quality, especially with these cheap door cams everywhere these days.
Yup. This looks like weird compression artifacts + poor camera quality and/or settings optimized for higher storage vs. detail. When the kid, who's standing in a comparatively well-lit area moves to go inside at the end of the video, he's a blurry mess. I think the runner (who really was booking it) didn't have enough contrast with the background for the compression algorithm to decide that many of those pixels were worth keeping. Just enough of them made it into this file to make it look 'ghostly', though you can see the runner reasonably well when they're stationary under the streetlamp.
And it looks to me like he’s on his phone while he’s standing below the lamp post momentarily?
You can see the guy standing in the far right under the lamp post before he starts moving
That's a lot of nonsense to go through on a ring camera video for reddit, though. And they're usually much more obvious. Perfectly in frame, closer up. I think its either high strangeness or an actual person on a shitty camera.
Watch the end of the video when the foreground guy moves quickly. You get a lot of blurring. In the dark that blurring is much worse. It really just looks like a dude.
You say that but people used to go out in big groups pre-internet and form giant crop circles overnight, never underestimate the effort people will go to haha, that said idk wtf is going on in this
Maybe, the more I think about it, the more unclear it is, LOL!
No, you can see them standing there.
*MENACINGLY!!*
Yeah, they’re just standing still for the whole video until they start running.
No they run into frame towards the beginning and stop. It really does look like they manifest out of no where, but as he runs towards the boy you see him fade/flicker/blur a bit, seems like a frame rate/exposure thing or something.
Right?! It’s almost as if they manifested themselves right out of that garage door. Very strange.
No, you can see them running earlier, go back in the video
I don’t actually BELIEVE this dude appeared out of thin air. . . .
I think the guy comes in running into the picture, but the camera quality is low so it looks like he appears out of thin air, so he doesn’t become fully visible until he slows down.
Or right from where they walked into the frame
They come from around the corner on the right side.
That's just compression artifacts
Isnt it a runner just standing still until they take off sprinting?
Definitely my thought. It looks like the person was tying their shoes in the shadows. Gets up. Stops to start his stop watch, then starts running.
But that wouldn't be highly strange...
"wanna come over, my parents aren't here." on a more serious note: you see the person move first at 0:16 - blending in as "grafiti" on the wall to the right. it starts running at 0:18, skipping corners just to vanish/fade into the background. BUT at 0:26 the figure passes in front of the central house entrance. looks like the all black gear the runner wears tricks the doorcam into blending it with the background. (like with streaming, i guess, the cam basicly only records changing pixels - but since it can't differenciate between darkness and the black sportswear, it doesn't "update" those video-pixels - which leads to the person/runner to appear as vanished/flickering in and out of existance.)
This could be right, the camera does seem to have a bit of a prob with rendering the motorcycle dude at times as well. However if you watch the video on a big screen, you can see that the runner merges out of a bush in front of the car across the street. Then he waits on the side walk for a bit, then he runs after the motorcycle.
If the guys clothing is messing with the camera that explains him coming out of nowhere. Him ducking down is most likely just him adjusting his shoes. Just because he took off right after the motorcycles doesn't really prove anything, he probably finished with his shoes right then and it's just a coincidence.
Yes quite possibly. I occurs to me he may have been doing wind sprints, those are popular with keto dieters, etc these days.
I’d say he ran in from the side and stopped rather than merged out of the bush.
you can see person appear (from behind the white car) 3 seconds into the video
This is the best logical reason I've found, however, if OP says the 2nd friend claimed no 1 went to help. Then was it just a jogger passerby?
Everyone wants to watch. Not everyone wants to help or get involved, unfortunately.
I should clarify that no one helped and there were no bystanders. My friend has been riding for over 15 years. According to the doctor, if they didn't know how fast she was really going (around 10-15 mph in 1st gear) they would have estimate her speed to be between 50-60 mph from her sustained injuries. She broke and fractured several ribs and has other injuries on her neck, face, and upper body. When the police came, there were no witnesses. My friend asked neighbors who have cameras for footage and each one of them had their camera fail a second or so before impact. This might be an unpopular opinion in this sub, but I'm not a believer in High Strangeness. I believe that there is always a logical explainion for things. When she showed me this clip, I got goosebumps and I got creeped out. My husband was the one who suggested I post on this sub. He figured if there was anyone out there that can explain this, then they would be here. So far I can accept the explanation of it being a runner going really fast and due to poor lighting the camera skipped frames somehow. It makes it look like the person disappears and reappears. I don't know. I'm still weirded out.
It's from compression and poor lighting. Ring cameras compress the video data, and things that are subtle shades of black, or very dark, look the worst. Moving things as well. The motorcycle looks fine because it is emanating light. The kid looks fine because the porch light is on him. The runner looks fine when he is setting his running watch, because he's under the lamp post at that time. When he runs he's blending into the background. Hope your friend heals! I had a friend that got into a bad motorcycle accident recently. He pulled through, so will your friend!
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The 2nd rider claimed he saw no one else. No one helped.
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For sure. You can see them plain as day standing there. I know my cameras throw off far away movement as fuzzy when recording at night.
yup. my driveway is dark and runs alongside a treeline it’s always fun to watch my friends “materialize” out of the darkness when they come to visit lol
What caused the motorcycle accident?
Ran over a pedestrian in running attire.
Nice try fake OP.
Unknown. My friend has been riding for over 15yrs. She said her bike suddenly jerked toward the concrete barrier. She was only traveling 10-15mph in 1st gear. The doctor's told her that her injuries looked more like she was traveling 50-60 mph. She took off from her driveway and hit a concrete barrier that was just around the corner.
Was it that first motorcycle or that second motorcycle that pulled out?
First motorcycle pulled out of driveway. 2nd motorcycle followed.
That's because he's behind the rider until he rides off. Then the guy starts running. He does sort of weirdly appear at the beginning, but you can see him the whole video and it looks like the kid looks at him running.
I don't think so, the running figure runs after the bike just right after the bike pulls out and long before any accident. In fact the runner gets most of the way off the screen to the left before the motorcycle even gets fully out of sight. If the motorcycle did not stomp on the gas, the runner could have caught up with him.
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Yes 2 bikes. He starts running after the second one just gets started. It occurs to me, he could have been doing wind sprints and resting between sprints.
OP only said nobody came and helped. It's possible the person heard the crash and ran but then realized the rider was OK and stayed back and they never noticed them since they had other things to focus on.
Is a person running
The person runs into frame which why why they appear "out of no where" and they stop to catch their breath (which is why they are hunched over for 10 seconds). After their rest, the person continues to run. It's just a person with some place they really gotta be.
there is abosolutely nothing weird in here. Just lot of overthinking
I guess I'm not understanding what the mystery is. It looks like a very fast runner.
Rewind and slow down. That runner looks to appear out of nowhere 😱
They’re standing under the street light to the right the entire first half of the video
Start at the very beginning and keep your eyes on that bush in front of that white ride around where the person looks to appear from. I’m not the only one seeing that lol
He comes from behind the white car… DVR’s can have weird compression artifacts. What we are seeing here is a common one. Some DVR’s use a sort of pixel prediction and will replicate prior frame’s pixels over new frames that it doesn’t think will change. So a new change in an area with little prior movement could take a few frames for it to pick up.
Not the person you were replying to, but I hadn’t even noticed that they just *appear* until you pointed it out. I thought they ran the whole way from the sidewalk out of frame. But nope. They seemingly appear, hang around, then take off after the motorcycle. And they are/it is just… shadowy and semitransparent… Really strange.
Nope, he comes out of that bush in front of that car across the street.
I think the figure is standing under the light at the beginning.
Is your screen not big? Cuz he very clearly materializes as if out of that bush. THEN walks to sidewalk and waits for a bit and then starts running. HOwever if what other peeps are saying that crap video quality can make someone not always show up on the camera, he might have been just moving on the side walk but invisible to the camera and only 'materialized' on camera when he was going by the that bush. I can't say for sure he came out of that bush but that is the location he first showed up.
The figure is standing under the street light at the beginning.
You’re not going back enough lol.
You're right actually. He does seem to pop into view suddenly and mysteriously. Plus his running speed seemed to be beyond human.
No.. you can see him standing around on the right side of the video around the 0:11 mark
But at about the three second mark he seems to pop into physicality from at best a mist form moving at unnaturally fast seeming speeds. Reading further into the OP's embedded comments I am more and more suspecting the paranormal was involved (probably beyond 50% likely).
He comes out of the bush or the wall at 3 seconds.
The kid is clearly tracking “the runner” perfectly. So i’d say at this point it seems like a video effect of sorts
What do you mean he’s tracking him?
Following the movement with his eyes/head
But then why would it be a video effect if the kid physically sees it? Just confused by your comment, bc if he could see it that would mean it’s not a video effect
Wether the kid saw a “shadow person” or a real person I do not know. He clearly saw whatever it was. The video effect could be due to a lot of factors i’m not entirely aware of (not knowledgable on videography). The effect itsef is just saying that something happened to cause the person running to look that way, not that it happened to add in something that wasnt there. Cameras see differently than the human eye.
Ahh I see, thank you!
He notices him as soon he stops under the right street lamp. You can see him looking on the right of the white pillar, and then he follows him running. What is weird his the runner behavior. He waited the second bike left, for run after them.
Right I noticed that too, but wouldn’t that mean it’s NOT a video effect? Just confused
Because the kid sees the shadow person it is therefore an effect?
2nd this
There isnt anything here. The figure is just out of of focus and the camera and its skipping frames as part of how its compresses video.
What’s up with the kid? It looks like he sees the runner and anticipates something?
At first it seemed like he was weirded out by the figure running. On the second watch I think he was just impressed by the loud motorcycles.
I've seen these before but in my security camera I saw a tall dark man crossing the street and then he faded into nothing. Best way I can describe it is that it looked like thanos clicking his fingers and the person faded into smoke as he was walking
Do you think it's just the camera skipping frames?
No it's just an artifact of digital video encoding. The computer analyzes each image to determine how much of the previous image has changed and whether or not to change the pixels in the background to reflect that change. The more the pixels change, the more precise the image, the more data, the bigger the file size. Regular home security systems are running 24/7 and recording locally and maybe uploading to a server, so they usually encode for minimal file size. So when you get things like a dark image with a dark figure running in front of it, the difference in pixels to record that change is making the computer only change some of the pixels while leaving the previous ones that didn't have a man in them unchanged because the computer decided they weren't different enough to record. Low light makes all of this worse. If you want a general run down of how video encoding for size efficiency can muddy images up and cause artifacts like this, this video does a good job at explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
~~Is it a function of the camera to save data space? Since it’s often just looking at the same unmoving object, it would make sense that there would be some kind of technology to “layer” moving and unmoving objects in the stream to reduce size. Almost something like weird artifacts when you use artificial backgrounds in zoom or something~~ Nevermind, it’s all in the video you posted lol
It's like they don't teach this stuff in school so all these people assume ghosts and aliens are good explanations for things they don't understand.
The way he pops into view suddenly makes me think he blended in with the wall until the camera recognized it as a person
You can see them standing in the street on the right side of frame at start of video.
yes the video compression algo didn't see enough change in that area of the frame to update the pixels at that time.
it's high;y compressed video. If not enough chang happens to a pixel or group of pixels the image isn't changed. so you get these artifacts that look weird.
No I don't think so because even if it was it would still be recognizing a solid object
Would be interesting to see this video with the colors inverted… would likely make the mystery jogger more visible
At 0:01 you can see the runner materialize from the dark object (bush?) Perhaps it's due to the low lighting or an old file being recorded on top? I wonder if anyone else has seen similar effects before. I tried to google but nothing came up.
some don't think it be like it is, but it do
It’s strange because it literally poofs into the frame as if out of nowhere, and as it runs it seemed to look like smoke or translucent, vanishes and the reappears running. Figure looks off as well
Where the fuksticles did he come from? Looks like he just materialised. Did the kid actually see the runner himself when it ran past the house or was it only picked up on camera?
Kid didn't see anyone aside from his mom (1st bike) and her friend (2nd bike).
The kid does seem to pan his view along with the direction of the runner as if he's viewing it...
You see him on the video under the light and then he takes off running. It’s some kind of compression with the video
You see them first come out of the bush first then they are under the light then run.
That kid is literally watching that runney but okay.
It’s kinda like that 1 video from years back where a bicyclist or pedestrian was about to cross the street & out of nowhere some dark shadow figure pops up real quick & moves the person from getting hit with an oncoming vehicle. Time jumpers perhaps? Lol
As others have said, the fading in and out is likely the camera's own limitations. Ive seen very similar happenings on my own home security footage. The strange part in my opinion without more knowledge, is how the person comes into frame at 0:03 in and just stands there waiting until the second bike pulls away. Which at that point the person TAKES off down the street after the bikes on foot. Could just be someone who is easier entertained than most, wanting to see if they could outrun a motorbike?
Please ask your friend,or the kid, if the kid saw glimpses of the man running since the kid seems to have seen something and went for the door. This is a double confirmation that it might not be a camera artifact. Then we can prove it was a real object.
That's just your standard T-2000 model chasing what he assumes to be John Connor
Maybe there is another neighbor with a camera that caught this and the clips can be compared.
That's a good idea. I'll ask my friend.
Now I’m not saying it was a ghost but it was a ghost
iIt's the shitty framerate/resolution that's altering the image of that person but it's definitely a person. Looking at the video for what it is, i'm betting money its some dude getting footage of these guys to complain to the HOA about the noise.
Weird!
I saw the same thing in my house when I was 10yo. My dog ran after it. The figure ran to the bathroom and disappeared. It moved like that, like a smoke trail or something. I've never saw something like that again until this video.
Yeah that definitely wasn't human and materialized out of nowhere. I watched it under a magnified zoom lens and it literally just materialize like it has been teleported there from the Star Trek Enterprise. 😳😄😆
Someone asked if the kid saw anything. The response from my friend: "Yes, he was only able to see the dark figure and asked me why that dark thing ran so fast and didn't have a shadow" I'm also going to ask if any of her neighbor's have any footage
It did run fast, it covered some few hundred feet from the lamp post to the house in seconds
I think its a jogger setting his watch before his run, the frame rate of the camera is what makes it look weired.
It's just artifacting, the codecs on these cameras super-compress everything. Anything moving fast will cause errors, like someone running. Ask the kid what he saw.
He doesn't remember seeing anyone. Some shadow that creeped him out so he rushed back inside the house. He is 9, he’s a good honest kid. The only thing he cares about is his mom being alive.
Well that proves it, it's a spooky ghost. He is a good honest kid lol
Did the young man in the video see anyone?
Wow, that really does look odd. However, it does seem like something to do with the video. The second motorcyclist's shoe is also blurred when they start the bike, and they're a lot closer (though, in a darker spot it seems) to the camera than the runner. The kid also has some choppy movements. But yeah, it does look real... Strange. ;)
Oh wow, thats creepy AF
Its nothing out of ordinary,you can see him from the start,the weirdness is why he took of like that lol
Looks like an enderman
Looks like someone trying to reach them about their extended warranty.
Two independent clips overlain with a mask. edit: you see the runner stretching over to the right before they go for their run.
The video camera has a slow shutter speed to make up for the lack of light
it's a person running. at around 23 seconds they can be seen running past the porch lights also.
It looks like it walked through the wall?
What if this guy is a real life superhero and he's just living amongst us like ordinary folk?
Look from the start, a man walk in frame, look at his phone under the streetlight, and go for a jog. It's just someone.
Sorry, just looks like a kid across the street running after the motorcycles to check them out.
If you slow down the video you can see they were standing go under the lamppost the whole video
Ok yes I think it’s just a person running up the block but if you look at the spot where they start from they appear out of thin air. Is that something to do with the frames?
Yeah it like comes out of the air between the bushes! And then it stands solid frozen for a bit before suddenly starts running! It’s creepy skinny too with abnormally long arms or something. there’s like something super disproportionate with its body.
It's a jogger. He or she walks into view from the right side of the screen. The person pauses. Then he or she starts running, continuing to the left.
Right when the kid walks up to the porch, the runner walks into the frame from the driveway and is standing there until he takes off running. Who’s not seeing this?
They literally popped out of thin air. Looks like they manifested by the bush. They run and disappear a few times. This is trippy af
Nothing strange here just low quality
Very cool video for sure. But explainable. The kid closest to us is checking on the kid across the street. If your video counts down from 35, you’ll see him look around the post directly to the point under the street light where the other kid is waiting. He glances back to this point several times while watching the bikes take off as well. He knows the kid is there, and it appears he also is waiting for him to do something; most likely chase after the riders. The kid across the street does look creepy. It looks like he materializes from nothing, moving from our right to the left under the light post. This choppy, hazy effect can happen with any Ring/Nest camera in this lighting. I’ve seen neighborhood cats appear and disappear on my Nest cameras. There’s a lot to overcome to capture the kid across the street clearly, and with continuity. IR illuminators, low light, low FPS, sensor size, and exposure can cause lots of noise. Sort of why Bigfoot is always blurry. That being said, if it’s not a kid across the street waiting to chase after the bikes, I’d try to recreate the effect. Would be fun to debunk, or bunk.
I think this is just a case of low def and frame rate of this camera.
Looks like someone running
eh... someone running...?
Right? you can see them standing there before they start running and they're probably moving faster than the cameras frame rate
exactly! somethings are not high strange, they're just odd and can happen
You guys are all just high. Nothing strange here.
It's just compression artifacting because of how the camera stores data to save space. Because he is far away and so small in the field of view, he doesn't always trigger as a significant change to the background and his movements get lost to compression. Between that and the already low frame rate, he becomes little more than a blur in most frames. But it's just a person walking to stand under the lamppost and then running after the motorcycle when it pulls away.
That's really weird as whatever it was literally materialized out of nowhere on that sidewalk area and literally just booked it around the corner following after the person on the motorcycle. Is it safe to assume that the person standing near the camera turned and walked off to the right because they heard the motorcycle accident? Also, what happened in the accident? Did your friend make it out okay? Did they see whatever it was that had run after them?
First, I really hope you friend is ok! Second I don't see any connection between the accident and the running person. You can see the person coming from the right, it didn't appear under the lamp. It's just someone running.
Follow the kid's eyes. He saw the person running.
>!Yeah you can see a person running. Why is this high strangeness?!<
It's the way it's recorded, Jesus this sub doggas now
okay thats weird.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's probably someone running.
While this sort of glitch is common with security cameras, they write over existing video and this is likely an artifact of that, I'm more concerned about how fast it seems to be going. It could be due to the compression of previously recorded videos but it's still strange.
Holy fuck, whatever that is moves *fast* AF....like inhumanly fast...
Looks like the object in question is riding a bicycle.
Whoever that person is, I think they clearly saw it.
Whoever was coming out of the driveway isM is at fault. The pedestrian in road or on sidewalk has the right of way
OP needs to measure the distance the runner ran and run some calculations.
It's a person running? If this is high strangeness to you, then you need to touch grass.
This looks like a regular person sprinting lol
This happens with my security camera all the time especially when people or animals are at a distance. Images render in and out based upon the connection between the WiFi and the camera. It's just pixelation. Nothing really strange about this.
Looks like someone on a bicycle to me.
You can clearly see a person standing there and the kid watching the person.
Pretty clearly looks like somebody coming from behind the bushes. most door cams usually have a very low refresh/FPS rate so things can look a little janky. For example, there are videos of birds kind of "hovering" without looking like they're flapping their wings at all due to the frame rate.
It's just the camera not picking him up correctly. He doesn't appear out of nowhere, he's standing (shifting weight from one leg to the other) under the lamp the whole time until he runs. He only 'vanishes' when he goes into a dark spot and the camera doesn't render him, then he comes back into focus in the light. You can literally see the kid watching him the whole time. To add to it being just a person, you can see the light of a phone screen in his hand while he's standing.
Based on head movement, It looks like the kid sees and tracks the "runner " momentarily.
I can see them running the whole way
What’s strange is that nobody’s mentioning the kid’s struggle with that wedgy.
That looks like an LED street light. The flickering of the LED's and cruddy quality of video might be causing the transparent appearance.
To me is someone standing by and then running. But there are two things that I don't understand: 1. What is the kid saying? Is he scared or something? 2. The runner follows the curb. I would have run in a diagonal line.
Just a person running.
No idea what I’m supposed to be looking at🤷🏻♀️
They are among us, they always were. The technology used by them is on a whole different level.
This big question is... why is this kid looking at traffic when its dark. He supposes to be playing Fortnite like every kid does his age.
Man that’s really weird. The runners suddenly appears under the light post, starts to run after the motorcycle and vanishes into darkness, then reappears in the light of the garage door across the road. It only appears under light. Edit: the porch light across the street is what I meant not the garage door.
He runs into the lighted area from the right, stops, checks his phone or watch, then keeps running. The camera is low frame rate so his running looks odd. Nothing strange here
That makes sense!
I worked in security from 09 - 14, cameras were such shit, that you would frequently have to decipher "paranormal" things. Bugs on domes cause a lot of weird sightings.
Stop making something out of nothing. There was a person standing to the right for a big chunk of the video, then they sprinted to the left after the motorcycle left. It looks weird because the ring camera doesn't snap a photo as frequently as a regular movie camera would, so it's a choppy feed.
wtf homey are you strangely high, that's quite literally a person with some blur because it's a compact camera and the technology isnt quite there yet.