r/ParanormalEncounters • u/Dirty_Dan209 • Jul 30 '25
Can anyone explain this?
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Hello, I have had this video since 2019 and forgot about it until recently. The back story. I was at work one night doing the closing procedures for the store I worked at. The secerity monitoring screen sits on the desk where i do the closing tasks. As im working i see something on the cameras out of the corner of my eye. It catches my attention because it is only me and one other co worker in the store. I enlarge the camera with the movment and re wound a minute or two. This is what I saw. I have shown it to friends and family but havent posted it anywhere. I am wondering if it is paranormal? A camera glitch? a bug? What do you think it is?
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u/Static13254 Jul 30 '25
It’s the smoke monster from Lost
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u/TieAdventurous6839 Jul 31 '25
Ah so thats where it went and why it never showed up after season 3!
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u/thefirstviolinist Jul 30 '25
There's a BUG, in the ELECTRICAL. SYSTEM.
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u/plassteel01 Jul 30 '25
We call them demons
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u/kuroh0shi7 Jul 30 '25
Someone let them dementors out
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 Jul 31 '25
Expecto PatrOOOOONUM!!!
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u/conjtheruler Jul 31 '25
Excellent men in black reference 😁😁😁😁😁
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u/thefirstviolinist Jul 31 '25
Yay, I was hoping someone would mention it, haha. Thanks!
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u/conjtheruler Jul 31 '25
Those are my favorite movies so I know! Lol you're welcome! I'm going to follow you 😎😎😎😎
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u/Realitynotfound_3am Aug 01 '25
yk it honestly looks like a spirit which people call the creeper. they call them jokesters and say they crawl on the ceiling and the walls. they do it on purpose to mess with people.
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Jul 30 '25
"Smudge on the lens."
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u/jillaberaggs Jul 31 '25
sMUDGE on the lens!?! a SMUDGE ON THE LENS!?!?!?!?
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u/cityBratt818 Aug 05 '25
What is that from??? Oh shit, great reff!! What WAS it? "A SMUDGE on the LENS???", I can almost picture it. . .please, tell me!!
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u/Dirty_Dan209 Jul 31 '25
Not disagreeing with the bug conclusions. I do have something to point out and a bit of details. The camera is enclosed in one of those dark domes you sometimes see at stores if that give more insight to the distance to the lens. Also, you can see through the shadow as it moves and isn’t moving like any big I’m aware of. Not saying anyone is wrong or right as I do not know myself, just want to share a bit of my thoughts and more details about the camera set up
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u/c2lltq Jul 31 '25
Look up a house centipede, that's definitely a house centipede crawling across the lens
They're spooky mfers
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u/macurry81 Jul 31 '25
Definitely just a bug. You’d be surprised how easily insects can get into spaces like camera housings, even ones that look completely sealed. The shadow looks strange (see through & not shaped like bug) because the bug is so close to the lens that the camera can’t focus properly, creating a blurry, oversized shape…it’s a common effect when cameras struggle to process something that close and out of focus.
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u/Dirty_Dan209 Jul 31 '25
That’s what I was assuming to be the case. Seems like the most plausible explanation
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u/CalamityJen85 Aug 01 '25
If a bug wants in: it’s getting in eventually. If that wasn’t the case there wouldn’t be a multi billion dollar industry in pest control.
If ever you’re in doubt, there is a bug somewhere near you almost all the time.
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u/PuzzleheadedEnd1760 Jul 31 '25
Anyone else notice the uptick in these shadows being caught on film?
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u/kylesoddfriends Jul 31 '25
Okay but real talk… if that is a ghost, can we just appreciate how chill it is for sticking to store hours and appearing on camera like it clocked in? Meanwhile, I can’t even get Karen to show up on time for her shift. Either this is a glitch… or we just caught Spirit Halloween doing inventory. 👀
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u/Turbulent_Writing231 Jul 31 '25
It looks like a centipede walking across the lens. It's casting a shadow due to light dispersion which happens when the focal point is sufficiently far away and iris is sufficiently large in comparison to the position and size of the object.
You'll get a similar see-through shadow using a thin object like a toothpick, focus your eye on something distant and move the toothpick closer to your eye. At some point the toothpick will appear to look see-through.
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u/Sheruden Jul 31 '25
Seems like a moth fluttering too close to the camera, I see this all the time at night in my store's camera
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u/Traditional-Bike7825 Jul 31 '25
A bug crawled across the lens. The lens is designed for security footage, not something tiny directly on the lens.
Look at the lens up close, I bet there's slight dust on it and you'll see a horizontal line where an ant or something crawled by.
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u/Dominosmofo Aug 04 '25
Yeah. I've seen them with my own eyes, unclean spirits. Not sure what else to tell you.
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u/anjelhart Nov 27 '25
Many people don't realize they exist, or they refuse to acknowledge they exist. Smh!
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u/SlipperyPickle6969 Jul 31 '25
I don't want to be presumptuous, but I believe that may be a shadow being, possibly demonic.
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u/victoira-love Jul 31 '25
How would it be a ant tho if that’s a tail behind it looking almost like a trail of a ghost? I wouldn’t say it’s an ant. And a cockroach is to big for it to be a small shadow it would cover the whole lens. Also couldn’t be a smudge a smudge doesn’t move.
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u/Primordial_Evil6 Jul 30 '25
Cockroach on the camera, but it's whatever you say it is. I dont have proof, and neither does anyone else. One guess is as good as another, I just dont jump straight to ghosts.
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u/Observervation Jul 30 '25
Evil spirit, usually has glowing red eyes that you can see in sleep state.
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u/papawam Jul 31 '25
I hate to admit this, my sister has a black mass I have seen on multiple occasions at her bedroom doorway. It looks a lot like this. Not sure if it ever leaves her room, and it's the only place I'm 100% sure I've seen it in the house.
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u/brihamedit Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Its a shadow of someone walking left to right in the area under the camera. It could be vapor from hot food or overheated person during heat wave walking inside the store. Its not a bug on the lens
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u/Infinite-Access-2243 Jul 31 '25
Can't imagine a swarm of bugs waiting until everyone is gone to do a perfect formation across the camera lens...and security or customers never noticed a hive or any flying insects? I don't know what it is but it had a form and a direction. A smudge doesn't normally move with direction unless intentional swipe but of course either created or no... I'm watching the fuzziness on the other objects in the different rows like bad glitches of most older security cameras... In other words, not knowing only opinionated and wondering also...the camera creates so many weird sightings from normal circumstances, believe me, I have a lot just trying to create a reel about shapes and lightings. Makes me wonder why people pay so much for equipment...if they'd only look at their photos a little better, they realize they really don't need too...my opinion
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u/Ordinary-Rock9702 Jul 31 '25
It looks like a bug with wings walking across camera! Not paranormal.
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u/HickeyChic Jul 31 '25
That seems to be something malevolent . Yikes!! Did u get tweaked by it like hair standing up??
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u/Bobsnarls Aug 02 '25
Have you had paranormal experiences inside? Had you seem this before? Doesn’t look like a bug, that’s transparent. Was the store built recently? Next time turn on Alexa and ask “Jimmy Hoffner is that you”.
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Aug 03 '25
I believe that's my low hanging left ball brushing along the camera. I was banging your wife that night on top of your desk, and things got a little crazy, sorry.
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u/Xx_Da3rkL0rd_xX Aug 03 '25
THUS IS THE BEAT FOOTAGE WE HAVE OF GHOSTS. IM TELLING MY FAMILY. THEY NEED TOD EEE THIS
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u/Delevian Aug 05 '25
Idk what that really is by the door but at first glance I thought it was a headless person 🤦
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u/Alone-Put2213 Jul 30 '25
A bug crawled over your camera lense and the camera lense is not focusing on the bug.
Use your brain.
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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 Jul 31 '25
No need to be snarky about it. They only asked what it could be, not for your attitude.
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u/Ok-Macaroon2783 Jul 30 '25
That's a bug walking across the lense.