TheFakingHoaxer, has been all over the blogs today. He makes CGI videos of UFO’s and Space Shuttle disasters mainly. The videos are made with faked camera shake and lens fuzziness to give them an authentic, raw film quality that helps to cover up the tell-tale signs of digital manipulation. His tools are commonplace (Photoshop, Adobe Premier), but the results are uncommonly cool.

He has one video of ghost photos. Unlike his other vids, this one is just a slide show of still images. They look like vintage photos taken in settings from around the turn of the century. I hope he gets around to doing a ghost video with moving action. I would love to see him fake a night-vision style video like the Ghost Hunters’  shows.

Better or worse than a haunted house?

The case of the haunted scrotum

A 45-year-old man was referred for investigation of an undescended right testis by computed tomography (CT). An ultrasound scan showed a normal testis and epididymis on the left side. The right testis was not visualized in the scrotal sac or in the right inguinal region. On CT scanning of the abdomen and pelvis, the right testis was not identified but the left side of the scrotum seemed to be occupied by a screaming ghostlike apparition (Figure 1). By chance, the distribution of normal anatomical structures within the left side of the scrotum had combined to produce this image. What of the undescended right testis? None was found. If you were a right testis, would you want to share the scrotum with that?

This is awesome. Michael Jackson’s ghost has been spotted in Zimbabwe. The article is from the Association of Zimbabwe Journalists. I’ll copy it here to cut down on your clicks:

Michael Jackson’s Ghost terrifies students in Zimbabwe

By Jadyn Cassidy

A reader has informed us of a bizarre story involving a sighting of the ghost of deceased singer, Michael Jackson, that is spreading through the African nation of Zimbabwe.

The sighting of Jackson’s ghost occurred at the St Mary’s Mission School,a  Catholic institution, in Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare.

This news story isn’t my usual thing to post, but I thought it was so odd that I wanted to pass it along. Here is the link to the story that I’m pasting below:

Woman sexually assaulted by ‘ghost’

Fri, Dec 25, 2009
The China Post/Asia News Network

TAIPEI, Taiwan – A man was charged for sexually assaulting his neighbor by taking advantage of her being scared by his bizarre and ghostly appearance.