I live for stupid stuff like this: A Japanese man “allegedly” captured a “Ghost Child” (aka a zashiki-warashi) on video. If you don’t know what a “Ghost Child” is (I didn’t) it’s a popular character from Japanese folklore and it’s considered good luck if one is seen roaming around your home. That sounds terrible to me, but whatever. Japan.

Footage of the encounter was uploaded to Facebook by the home owner in Japan and shows what appears to be a child moving around a light.

It is first seen floating from the left, before crouching down and disappearing. Moments later it reappears on the right side of the light and appears to hover above it, before vanishing completely.

Let me start by saying: I dig the soundtrack. I can groove to it.

One YouTube commenter named Phaota gave the following reasons for calling shenanigans on the “Ghost Child” video:

Fake.  The spirit is showing for way too long and too much detail.  If it was a real spirit, you’d be seriously lucky to even get a few seconds of detail that good.  Everything about the video is too perfect.  Also, the child is not “floating”, but clearly walking.

If it was a “real spirit” it seems unlikely that it would have a higher video resolution than the room it’s walking through, too, no? I mean, isn’t that the case with “real spirits”?

Again, did I mention that magical soundtrack? And is the spooky kid reading a magazine at one point? I like that detail. It’s so mundane! But can “real spirits” really pick up stuff? If so how?

So many questions. so many questions…

 
h/t Geekologie