POTTSTOWN PA – Members of JAM Paranormal, an Allentown PA-based group of researchers who say they “conduct serious investigations into the paranormal,” believe they’ve found evidence of a “light anomaly” in what was described as the kitchen of a Montgomery County firehouse located near Pottstown, and captured it on video.
It apparently wasn’t quite what they hoped for. JAM investigators had been invited to the firehouse, according to group director Jimmy Johnson, “to investigate claims of shadow figures, objects moving and a full-body apparition roaming the fire department.” None of them showed up.
The specific firehouse isn’t mentioned; the “department and the client who brought us in will remain anonymous as part of JAM Paranormal’s policy to protect our clients,” Johnson wrote Saturday (June 16, 2012) in a post at its YouTube channel.
What the investigators found, instead, was “a glowing light (that) appears about seven minutes into our investigation and never reoccurs,” Johnson wrote. “It was caught in the kitchen, beginning near the ceiling and fluttering down on an angle to the left toward the floor before traveling parallel with the floor.” He later added, “this light seems to fluctuate and morph in size. It actually reaches its biggest size after reforming while traveling parallel to the floor.”
Johnson is convinced the light is not that from a passing car, or a reflection from dust motes or bugs.
No, he reported, this was something else.
- Watch the video (above), shot May 18 by JAM Paranormal, or see it at the group’s YouTube channel.
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That is a piece of dust that is close to the lens being illuminated by the IR lights on the camera. I have seen this countless times.
Bryan, I’ll take it on faith, as I assume you’re an expert. I admit I have no clue. Thanks for offering your observation, though!
Joe Zlomek, Managing Editor
The Pottstown Post
You are CERTAIN that it’s paranormal? Seriously?
What an astounding thing to say since “paranormal” activity has not been demonstrated to even exist. Did you test objects falling? There is obviously a light source. Why didn’t you consider that this could be a feather or dust bunny or spider web reflecting light. Am I supposed to buy your unsupported notion that “this is paranormal” which would overturn much that we know about physics just because you say so? No. I’m not going to that.
“I don’t know”, therefore, “paranormal” is a severe logical blunder.
Thanks for the certainty of your opinion … I think.
Joe Zlomek, Managing Editor
The Pottstown Post
A very small sliver of lint falling from the ceiling but actually very close to camera lense being illuminated by the IR. Note the spiral shape of the dust mote as it floats on the air current and twists.
Paranormal dust…. These folks need to be more selective in what the deem “parnormal” and dust in the wind is not such…
As an investigator who has utilized countless IR surveillance intallation I can tell you this is dust….
What you wnat to do to prevent such misidentifcation is to use camera’s that have each other in view and can provide a reasonable degree of triangulation of objects in view. This way if something odd appears it should be present in both images and the path and the distance trajectory determined…
Also use remote Pan&tilt camera’s so that you can track anything in the FOV for a good while…
by the way “all we are is dust in the wind” or so the song goes…