Spooky CCTV footage showing a ghostly figure leaving a community centre in north-west London is creating a stir online.
The video shows a slim man suddenly appear outside the entrance of South Ruislip Community Association and Community Centre on February 1.
It captures the transparent figure walking calmly towards a metal railing before seemingly disappearing into thin air.
© YouTube/UKVideoLifeSpooky: Footage captures a ghostly figure.
'I was sitting inside the hall and noticed a figure on the front CCTV camera,' the caretaker is quoted as saying in the video.
'I looked up at the screen and thought I saw a person but wasn't sure so went out to check.'
He added: 'I went outside and no one was there but I thought they might have quickly walked around the side of the building into the park so I just went back in.
'After downloading the CCTV footage I was surprised to see that the figure had been recorded onto the system.
'I can't explain this.'
Run by a local committee since 1945, the centre was reportedly used as a prisoner of war camp for Italian prisoners during World War II - leading many to speculate the haunting figure may be from the 1940s.
A previous chairman is said to have believed the building was haunted and he used to greet the spirits when he entered the building in an attempt 'to make them friendly'.
The video has racked up over 100,000 hits online, with users remaining divided over the authenticity of the footage.
Reader Comments
ghost video. More like a video of a real guy walking out of a building and then the image of him faded to make it look "ghost-like"?
Well, you know, security guys get bored too, you know....
Oh... and how long does it take for a security guard to 'react' to said apparation? I think you have your answer here - too quickly!! It surely isn't usually THAT quickly.
Verdict? Bored security guards? For all those interested and capable, maybe re-examine that shimmer.
there's a ghost on 0:16 and the caretaker is out on 0:21
that's one fast caretaker
If you look carefully the figure seems to be by the door from the beginning of the video, and his left arm raises and the falls a couple of times, as if smoking a cigarrete.
I gotta' go with Joe on this one, I think he pegged it ''Dead on"!
Ghosts,Big Foot, all kinds of crap that mostly brings attention to
those proclaiming the existance of such crap.
I get a HOOT out of the searching for BIG FOOT TV show. All
these physically unattractive people running around in the woods
with expensive recording and sensory equipment.
I am betting 99% of the "Big foot" entities are produced by teens
who know the woods and have a great sense of humor.
Also why the need to denigrate people by calling them "physically unattractive"?
I know on old video cameras when I was a kid mid 70's that if you left the camera stationary for 20 minutes or so the image would burn in. You could then walk into the scene and be see through like a ghost.
This looks a lot like that and being a security camera I'm sure an image could get burnt in.
The problem is though that like TerToen said the figure is already standing there smoking. If it was a burn in effect they would have had to get into the scene by vp coming through the door or jumping the railing and you would see them immediately upon entering frame. Also, they fade out. Burn in effect does not explain that.
I also found it interesting that the angle he was walking didn't match up with the sidewalk. He headed for that railing and did not turn quite right to align with the bend. I wonder if the railing was added much later to the building and if this might be a residual haunting image from before the railing existed.