IR FUN

So pretty much any team whose been investigating has used a DVR system. You know normal night vision IR lighting trying to catch a glimpse of the otherworldly way you possibly can. Well it's kind of funny sounding but don't cross the beams. So one night we had an investigation going and there were a couple of people sitting in front of the monitor. One of them happens to catch a flash of a shadow on the floor in a very odd position. So they were caught off guard and rather stunned being this doesn't happen often and called everyone to check it out. So we remind the DVR back to the spot where this incident had happened and started playing it back. Now the shadows were crazy looking like nothing else I'd ever seen. The first one looked like a man standing moving his arm up and down. The second one looked like a large mouse holding a butcher's knife. The third one I can't even describe it was just crazy. So thinking that we caught something rather special we were all overjoyed and a little freaked out. Well it being in the middle of the night and everyone's a little tired, it's really hard to make a firm decision on what you've experienced. So the next evening I went over the DVR footage and was freaked out again the entire time right up until I got to the very and of that portion. That's when I realized what it was. So the shadowing was nothing more than created by one of our own team members. You see the way we had our IR cameras set up in this area there were two almost facing each other. This is a no-no. IR shadows are always crazy and you can never jump the gun and thinking that something's paranormal when you're using IR cameras close together. You would think we would know this by now but we still have a tendency to set up how we want to see stuff. But you always have to be careful even when taking pictures around IR cameras because the shadows that you create most of the time look like something that shouldn't be there.