Ghost Car Debate - Video Inside

[benzoboy]

I must admit it's quite creepy, how the car disappears and reappears out of nowhere, here are my views...

Un-explained disappearance #1:

The car pulls a fast U-Turn, by time the police car turns around the car has disappeared, or has it? I must admit that it does look scarily like it, but from 00:26-00:28, two tail-lights can be seen rushing across the screen. This could very well be the car, for anyone who has trouble spotting the lights, I have made this picture...



...sure seems suspicious

Un-explained reappearance #1:

At around 00:40, the car reappears in 'The Blink Of An Eye', or does it? The answer is no, the frame changes completely when the car reappears, I'm talking about the backdrop here folks, it can't be real. Another point is that when the police car is travelling up the stretch of road between the time of the cars disappearing and reappearing, tail-lights can be seen be seen on the horizon (Pic below), this is more than likely the 'Ghost Car' in question



Un-explained disappearance #2 - The Big One:

At around 1:30 the car swerves off to the left of the screen, the police turn a couple of seconds later and all we see is the car driving through the iron fence, the film is very grainy and the 'Ghost car' leaves a dust trail, futher impairing our view of the car in question, it is unknown how the car actually gets through the fence as it does not break the fence or damage it in any way. The picture below shows the moment the car gets through the fence...



...it looks like there is a fence panel missing, this is later proved wrong by the police cars headlight shining on the fence panel, which can be seen below...



...so how did he break through, there is no doubt that this is out of the ordinary.
Another point is that just before the car in question disappears behind the fence, it makes a strange motion, like it is floating, and its tail-lights disappear way before they should



So what do you think about it then? Did the car enter The Twilight Zone? Or was it just a trick of the eye? Only you can decide, let me know what you decide by replying to this thread

 

[Mark T]

I could easily see the car in the previous section of the tape.

The fence at the end looks strange and I couldn't really think of any explanation for it.

 

[land sea air]

I had seen this a while back and the "dissapearance" part doesn't really add up as it seems the car just got some space while the cruiser turned around, it does seem wierd however, that what appears to be a Lumina could so easily get ahead of the cruiser as this one seemed to, the only really wierd part is the fence at the end that keeps me watching the clip over and over.

 

[benzoboy]

You're right about the fence, I read on another forum that apparantly the guy went under the fence, this is how it works...

It is known that this particular car in the video (Chevrolet Lumina I think) has a very low and pointed nose...

...and apparantly, if there was a hole in the bottom of the fence, high enough so the Lumina's nose could get under, but low enough so that the on-board cam couldn't see it over the cop car hood. The Chevy could get it's nose under the hole and sort of push it up and over the roof, but the thing is that the hole wouldn't be pushed up enough to be fixed in that position so therefore it would revert back to it's normal size, so the cop car couldn't see it...

...just my theory

 

[Kelvari]

if there was a hole in the bottom of the fence, high enough so the Lumina's nose could get under, but low enough so that the on-board cam couldn't see it over the cop car hood. The Chevy could get it's nose under the hole and sort of push it up and over the roof, but the thing is that the hole wouldn't be pushed up enough to be fixed in that position so therefore it would revert back to it's normal size, so the cop car couldn't see it...

...just my theory

Either way, that would still severely stretch the fence, and would likely leave it shaking quite visibly when the cop car pulled up to it. The only thing that I can think of is that there may still have been a part of the fence that wasn't there, and the car they were pursuing went around it (maybe where the fence met a hill, giving the "floating" appearance to the taillights).

 

[Perfect Balance]

I don't see how the cops watching the tape didn't notice the car driving ahead of them in the first part, but the fence part was weird,

 

[socomplayer2]

I think there was a break in the fence to the left out of view. Watch it again. It kind of looks like there is no fence there but I dont really know.

 

[Slick Rick]

yea I think it did something like this:

 

[stumpydino]

yea surely it went around!

 

[land sea air]

yea surely it went around!

That certainly is possible and seems more likely than something super natural however if that was the case then surely the police would have noticed shortly after the tape ends that there was a place to go around and it never would have become a mystery. Also the drawing indicates that that sharp turn would have been made at a pretty high speed considering how fast hes going at the end of the tape. It's also very possible IMO that he could have gone under the fence but once again wouldn't the police have been able to figure that out?! Doesn't really add up unless the po-po were just looking for an excuse to not be able to catch some pot head in a Lumina and made up this "supernatural" story

EDIT: anyone else noticed how just as the car is about to move off frame as its going near the fence the tail lights flair up as if they are being reflected off the fence the car just went through?

 

[ND4SPD]

Are you sure that its an old Lumina? Looks more like a Chevy Beretta to me. Either way, whats I find weird is how a Chevy Beretta can take off so fast compared to what seems to be a Chevy Caprice police car, seems a little to fast for a Chevy Beretta....

 

[land sea air]

Are you sure that its an old Lumina? Looks more like a Chevy Beretta to me. Either way, whats I find weird is how a Chevy Beretta can take off so fast compared to what seems to be a Chevy Caprice police car, seems a little to fast for a Chevy Beretta....

Is the Beretta available in 4 door? I agree about the speed though, and his ability to not loose control of the car though it seems that he will.

 

[Car-less]

Questionable editing methinks.

When the car first 'disappears', it has noticeably gone off to the left of frame.
When it 're-appears' the clock in the top left moves forward by over a minute. Hardly a blink of an eye.
The film is sped up when he 'tries to outrun the police' and again for the 'supernatural speed', but it then cuts back ten seconds resulting in a jump.
Throughout the film the car is regularly weaving. Although 'baffling to the police', this is likely deliberate as it is just such a move at the end that allows him to drive round the fence. Notice how he turns earlier and sharper than the chasing police. This could easilly have allowed him to 'pass through the fence' one or even two panels to the left of what the camera shows when the police pull up.

Definately not the twilight zone, but not as entertaining as the story given.

 

[Keef]

There's no mystery about the chase to my eyes. The car was there the whole time. A fleeing car can seem to be very far away when you're stuck trying to turn around completely to catch him.

As for the fence, I believe the fleeing car broke through the fence or went through an opening far to the left of the police cruiser. They were travelling at a good speed, and there was about a second or more of delay before the police officer swerved left. If they were going even 30 mph, that could be a very long distance, and 45 feet or so sounds about right. That's about three car lengths. It's hard to judge the speed of the police car because there aren't many markings on the ground and the camera is high off the ground. It appears that the fleeing car was travelling mcuh faster than the police car when it swerved to the left. If the police car was going 30 and the fleeing car was going even faster, then it's plausible that the car could be very far away, maybe a couple hundred feet, by the time it came back into the camera's view.

I suspect the fleeing car's entry point was left of the police car. The officer simply passed it, and wouldn't be able to tell because his lights weren't pointing that direction.

So far Slick Rick's drawing is the only other plausibel explanation, but it doesn't seem to illustrate how the car could be so far away when it came back into view.

 

[ND4SPD]

I just think that he actually did hit the fence, but to an extent that it actually bent up and over his car like how a doggy door works. It just went back to its normal position before the cop got there.

 

[Keef]

That is also possible. Especially if the chain link was mounted behind the poles, which would be idiotic, but which I've seen before.

 

[benzoboy]

EDIT: anyone else noticed how just as the car is about to move off frame as its going near the fence the tail lights flair up as if they are being reflected off the fence the car just went through?

I managed to capture the moment you speak of...



...looks strange

 

[ND4SPD]

I managed to capture the moment you speak of...



...looks strange

The lights reflect up onto something before he gets to the fence, so I think that rules out the fence. What I think you saw was the tailights being reflected from the dust coming from the back of his car, they seem to be going down a dirt road before he goes through the fence.

 

[GT_Jim]

yea I think it did something like this:

Yeah I agree with this. I believe that the car went around despite of the fact that I love paranormal phenomenons

 

[Barracuda]

my theory about the disappearing part is he may have turned his lights off.

I know if i was ever in a police chase and had a pretty safe distance and knew where id be going for the next few hundred feet i'd turn my lights off and do a quick turn into some unknown place like a low ditch or something. Most plausible way to use this method would be going around a long sharp corner with the police at least 6-10 car lengths back. off topic, sorry.

the fence part baffles me a little but both your theories seem very possible

 

[puricele7e]

my theory about the disappearing part is he may have turned his lights off.

I know if i was ever in a police chase and had a pretty safe distance and knew where id be going for the next few hundred feet i'd turn my lights off

I kind of did that once..... it's kinda off topic and shameful, but oh well.....I was triying to do some *maneuveurs* (middle of nowhere, at night) on a very large and wet piece of tarmac, and I drive away, and 10 secs later I reach a pavement and there was a man with a dog and I caught it with the boarder of my eye that he gave me a wierd look, so I turned off the short beam (so that the rear numberplate-light went out) and pulled the lever to use the high beam only...... That solved it, then.... Oh the adrenaline I felt

 

[forsaken]

You're right about the fence, I read on another forum that apparantly the guy went under the fence, this is how it works...

It is known that this particular car in the video (Chevrolet Lumina I think) has a very low and pointed nose...

...and apparantly, if there was a hole in the bottom of the fence, high it...
enough so the Lumina's nose could get under, but low enough so that the on-board cam couldn't see it over the cop car hood. The Chevy could get it's nose under the hole and sort of push it up and over the roof, but the thing is that the hole wouldn't be pushed up enough to be fixed in that position so therefore it would revert back to it's normal size, so the cop car couldn't see
...just my theory

its a corsica but pretty much same thing

 

[inferno]

the car in the vid is a corsica, i can tell by the tail lights. typical midsize GM four door, same platform as the lumina, etc. none of that looks suspecious to me at all except for the fence bit. not a clue what happened there.

[EDIT]

dangit, got beat to the car name.

 

[GT40 MKII]

i am not sure