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There have been plenty of sites hosting horrible, and graphic content like the late LiveLeak site. But I've never heard of a good site for posting actual paranormal stuff.

Unless i am wrong.

Edit: I get it Lemmy, i might be asking for too much, but it doesn't seem too farfetched to have a dedicated site of actual video camera posts not edited tiktok or hollywood crap. I'm not looking for a movie, tv show, or a Halloween prank. I guess it does not exist because paranormal activity has been and always will be fake stunts.

Edit 2: dog sees something but they never show the floor. Could have been a spider.

Ghost car cop chase car "goes through fence" but it went out of frame before it went through. Either editing, or like the comments says, the fenced went over/under the car and this cop is just a pansy.

Edit 3: Skinwalker Ranch this was cool to start with, buuuuut again they talk of something blocking the airspace above but what they show doesn't match with their claims. The 3D animations explain what they see, but the actual footage has so many cuts it's obviously fake.

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 84 points 1 month ago (9 children)

actual paranormal stuff

I hate to break it to you...

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[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (25 children)

if it were (verifiably) on video, it wouldn't be paranormal, it would be science.

if you want paranormal content that may not be genuine i can recommend the horror section on netflix?

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only ones that host authentic paranormal footage are kind of ghost towns.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd still like to check them out if you have any in mind.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, all I had was a pun.

Tbh, your best bet is probably the 'related' videos of the ones you linked... but you kinda called it in your first edit - you're gonna get a lot of edited, scripted, etc crap cuz that's what 99% of paranormal footage is. The remaining 1% is stuff like this - just physics doing its thing, but super rare conditions that most of us have never heard of before that when it happens in the field of view of our dumbass monkey brains we tend to just pin an explanation to like "I saw a ghost/angel/alien/etc!"

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's pretty cool. Thanks for linking that.

I guess i was hoping for someone to post a link to a site that hosts "unexplained" phenomenon.

Like a nature cam that picks up something moving in a way that's not natural, or a CCTV footage of of a heavy ass cabinet falling over. Just something more interesting than what is currently available :(

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trail cam footage might have some potential to capture the whole physics-doing-their-thing incidents.

CCTV footage of a heavy cabinet falling over is 100% going to be a hoax. It's always going to be something like front loading to make the center of gravity unstable with a release mechanism that the angle doesn't show, or on a steeply inclined surface but with forced camera perspective to make it look like level ground. Movie magic. If you want good movie magic, look for paranormal movies with a decent budget and praise for practical effects - no random on the internet is gonna do a better job of that than Hollywood.

If you want unexplained phenomena, honestly I'd steer you away from the word 'paranormal' cuz that's just gonna get you theatrical shit; and turn instead to things like physics that deal with sub-atomic-tiny or like supermassive-black-hole-huge. We don't have a great understanding of physics extremes, so diving down those rabbit holes give a similar "...bruh what the fuck did I just watch..." but without watering it down with some dramatic asshole on screen saying shit like "WAS IT SPIRITS?? ARE THEY TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US???"

Theoretical physics too... like, watching a clip on the point-line-plane postulate up to the 10th dimension will have you nodding along thinking "holy shit this makes sense!" but then when you try to explain to someone later you'll be hit with this Lovecraftian madness cuz without the lecture holding your hand through the entire process, you don't actually retain near enough to articulate it lol.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your reply. I'd like to see trail cam footage of strange things happening.

I've got some research to do!

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

South Park had pretty good take on this subject.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

do you want to post stuff? lots of people use YouTube.

do you want to browse through videos?

how are you defining "good"?

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that's just a genre of video you can find on any video site.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah they don't have sites for actual Santa Clause, actual Easter bunny, actual space magic either man, I’ve been really suffering over it.

[–] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yet there are sites dedicated to God 🙄

[–] masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those are mostly fan sites tbh

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks. Now I'm mopping up tea from my keyboard. LOL

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