The Blackwell Ghost

- My high school journalism teacher

once told me, "A good journalist could make

"the most boring subject entertaining."

That stuck with me.

But in the end, just seemed like too much work.

My entire career is consisted of producing

and directing zombie movies,

an easy subject to make entertaining.

But now, I'm ready for a challenge.

A challenge that my teacher would be proud of

and that is to prove that ghosts exist.

For those haters out there that think this is fake,

I'll stop you right there.

I was the furthest thing from a believer

in the supernatural up until about a year ago.

Since then, I found that if you look in the right places,

the dark corners of your house,

the reflections of an off-television,

you can be amazed at what you will see.

(mumbles) hear screaming

coming from that room.

Yeah, I hear it too.

- Tell you what, it's starting to get cold outside.

There's nothin' like a cup of coffee in the cold.

Ooh, winter's coming.

Ooh, fuck.

Kentucky's always been home to me.

I moved to California about 10 years ago,

shortly after high school.

Did the whole movie thing, had a lot of fun,

but I just had to come back because I missed the winter.

I miss Kentucky, it's a good state.

So now that I've been in Kentucky,

I've been tryin' to find out

what kind of project I'm gonna do.

I've been debating another zombie movie

or this intriguing ghost venture.

It's embarrassing when I have to go downstairs

and tell my mom that I'm a ghost hunter. (sighs)

Oh God, lemme get my phone here.

If you guys haven't seen this video goin' around on YouTube,

you're probably one of the few people

who hasn't seen it.

The reason it's kinda intriguing me

is 'cause the guy that made the video

reached out to me just recently

and my first question was why?

But then I found out we have a mutual friend

through Facebook, so I figured out I would start there.

Hey, I'm gonna go.

My stepbrother's (mumbles)

- Do you want a coffee or is that all mine?

It's all you.

Well I just wanna take this moment

before I make this phone call

to apologize to my journalism teacher

because this is absolutely the most embarrassing thing

I'm about to do.

I'm about to call this guy

and ask him if he thinks ghosts are real.

I don't know why this just feels really embarrassing.

You know, you try to do a fucking documentary

and your fucking piece of shit tablet from ???

wants to poop the bed right the fucking last second.

I'm gonna throw you down.

Settin' up camera angle two.

Alright, we're gonna call this guy.

Call check, audio check, good.

Got a fuckin' balding head, it's terrible.

Hello?

Hey, is this John?

Oh hey, how's it goin'?

Tommy said you might call today.

- Yeah, I can't believe you worked with Tommy.

So I didn't ask him, did he work at the hotel with you

or where did you guys work together?

- No, we used to work at the restaurant together.

- So as you know, I'm doing a documentary on ghosts,

as I told you on the internet.

I had no idea who you were

or that you were responsible for that video,

but I actually saw the video organically

so I think it's pretty interesting

that now I'm talkin' to you, the person that was in it.

Please don't take offense by this,

but I think that the video is fake.

I just wanted to hear from the guy who posted it

because now that I'm doin' this documentary,

it would save me a potential a lot of time

if the person in the video just came forward

and told me no this is fake, this never happened.

I totally understand

and everyone automatically thinks

someone put this video together and that it's fake.

I mean, why would you think it's real?

It shows a ghost; there's no logic to it.

Well the truth (mumbles) lies in the fact that

anybody who knows me could tell you

that I'm simply incapable of pulling stuff like this off.

It is funny you're sayin' that

'cause that was one of the first things

Tommy told me about you was that

you are technically not advanced

and probably couldn't pull something like this off.

He said you could barely turn on a computer

let alone post something like this on a screen.

Sorry.

Unfortunately that's true.

a year ago, it's true.

I couldn't make this thing--

- Well it just seems like a bunch of visual effects to me

and I would appreciate it if you just told me straight up

no, this was somethin' me and my friend did or whatever.

- I don't know what you want me to say,

all I can tell you is what I know.

I can totally understand that people

will do a video of a ghost and automatically

they think it's fake because they don't know

any other way to justify it.

This is a real video.

It came straight from our machine,

yet people still think it's fake.

The public is always gonna think it's fake

even if it's real.

That makes sense actually.

Tell Tommy I said hello and I appreciate your time.

You'll hear from me in about a week, is that cool?

That's perfectly fine.

Alright John, I appreciate it.

- Anytime. - Alright, see ya.

- Bye bye. - Bye.

- No one is available to take your call,

please leave a message after the tone. (beeps)

- I'm callin' you again, can you just gimme a call back

whenever you get a chance please?

Thanks.

So I've left 10 messages with John.

Somethin's goin' on, I don't know what it is

but it's not good for me

because I'm makin' a documentary and I need him.

But apparently he's takin' a new job

and doesn't wanna mess that up,

so he doesn't wanna be in this documentary

which I understand but the least you could do

is just tell me that.

So here I am stuck, tryin' to produce this ghost documentary

and I have nothing.

I had this, now I have nothing.

I don't know what to do, I guess I'm gonna quit.

I hate quitin' but I don't really have a choice

and probably go back to makin' zombie movies, I guess.

I'm not even really good at that,

so I'm kinda screwed. (chuckles)

So I just found my camera, it was in my basement.

You can see my basement back there.

I decided to turn this thing back on

because I got new interesting lead for my documentary.

When I put myself on a forum lookin' for ghost footage,

I was approached by a lot of people that had ghost footage.

But as you would probably guess,

most of it was just complete bullshit.

One actually stuck out to me enough to make me

turn the camera back on, so that's what I'm doin'.

So I'm just gonna show you guys

a video that was sent to me that got me so intrigued.

I'm gonna play it for you guys.

This is from a guy named Greg

up in Pennsylvania, South Lake.

That's pretty much it.

Now I know a bunch of people are sittin' there sayin'

you're kiddin', right?

I get it because you may not have seen what I just saw.

That's why I'm here, gonna zoom in

and show you different things

that I noticed about this video.

First of all, you see a lamp turn on by itself.

Here, I'll play it back for you.

So the lamp...

Oh, I need to put some time code on this

because this shows what time.

It's apparently 1:06 in the morning

when all of a sudden the lamp turns on by itself.

Everyone out there is probably like

oh whoop-de-doo, that's not a big deal.

15 seconds later, the lamp turns off.

Big whoop, right?

See, there it goes.

So you watch it and you don't think anything of it,

until I played it back and looked a little bit closer.

Watch what happens right after the lamp goes off.

Right there.

So I'm gonna rewind it

and I'm gonna zoom in.

Yeah, I gotta brighten this up for y'all real quick.

You can definitely see whatever is crossin' that thing.

I know you're probably sayin',

"Oh my God, this is just stupid."

But you gotta remember, I'm just a real guy watching this.

You might be right, it might not be anything

but I'm doin' a ghost documentary