- Perhaps you've seen
this video on the internet
of a supposed ghost haunting the hallways
of an Irish Christian boarding school
in the middle of the night.
I think it's bull (bleep).
And here's why.
(static)
Sure it looks convincing.
I don't see any evidence
of Adobe after-effects,
strings, or shadows from
people pulling said strings.
But if you take a step
back, it's easy to see
why this ghost is likely a hoax.
For my first piece of evidence,
I present a prior video
uploaded by the Deerpark
Christian Boarding School.
November 2016, they
upload a video of students
participating in the mannequin challenge.
It's not crazy to assume the school
was trying to make a viral hit.
So there's motive for a hoax.
But the mannequin video
also gives us an idea
of the layout of the school.
Okay, let's hold that.
Now let's put that side by
side to the CCTV footage.
It's not the same hallway, but notice how
the pipes on the left lead to a radiator,
and how a row of lockers
likely wouldn't fit
without partially blocking
the window beside it.
Now, look at the new video.
There are pipes that I
believe lead to a radiator
but they're being covered by lockers,
and the lockers appear to
partially block the window.
Now you might be asking,
"Why does that matter?"
It explains why we don't see what causes
the locker to rock back and forth.
I believe the lockers were moved here,
and the lockers are being rocked
back and forth through the
window from the outside.
Now for the locker swinging open.
What's great about this is that if
just the locker door swung open,
it wouldn't have been
nearly as convincing,
but because the books fly
out, that's why you buy it.
So the obvious deduction,
there's a thin string
attached to one of the books inside.
The string is pulled, the door flies open,
and the book flies to the ground.
My next piece of evidence: logic.
These are lockers.
Why isn't the locker locked?
All the doors around
it seem to have locks.
Not this one.
Now for the wet floor sign.
(loud bang)
Are we really supposed to
believe there is a wet floor
in this school at three
o'clock in the morning?
Come on.
The sign is set up, perfectly
facing the camera, by the way,
with a string at the back right corner.
The string is pulled in an upward motion
and the sign flips over itself.
And it actually looks like you might
get a glimpse of the string here.
You see that?
It looks like a string.
But perhaps the most damning
piece of evidence here
is the CCTV camera.
A lot of YouTube commenters pointed out
that the video is in HD and there's audio.
But there are CCTV cameras that shoot
in high definition and
include tiny microphones.
What I want to talk about is
the placement of the camera.
You can clearly see another CCTV camera
several feet away aiming at the same wall.
I'm curious why you need two
cameras to film the same area.
Even more curious, why is the other camera
several feet higher than
the one capturing the ghost?
Well, because I think our
camera is on a tripod,
because the whole thing is set up.
Nice try, Deerpark.
You made a solid video,
but you're gonna have
to try harder next time, if you
wanna get something past me.
I have something far more
dangerous than a scathing eye,
I have a lot of times on
my hand, and no friends.
(eerie music)
