Elevator Ghost: The Video That Terrified 1.3 Billion People

Below is a video that was recorded on February 21, 2008 at the Raffles City Tower in Shanghai. At around midnight, two men enter the elevator. Watch closely...

So - real or fake? And if it's fake - who did it? How'd they do it? And why? Here's
the answer.

Comments

[NoSillyName]

Are you kidding me? This "terrified 1.3 billion people"? Who can count that high? lol.

[lmmb]

So, what: the Raffles City Tower stands on the former site of a hallowed old-age home?? The geriatric ghosts are shuffling out to the old bingo room?

Ooooooo, scary.

[vandegrasse]

You want to be horrified. Look at the one I made.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=28dMYAxHIH4

[cygnusdei]

What do you mean by terrifying 1.3. billion people?

[insouciantlad]

Is it real or fake? Are you actually asking that idiotic question?

[sparkandy]

Who cares? It needs to be sent to a lot of people's work and maybe it will scare the idiots who run the place and the real workers won't have to work late any more!

[JLee]

Pretty good short movie, I loved how the long, dead-ordinary sequences kept building up the suspense in the tradition of good horror movies. Who cares if it's fake, I enjoyed it!

[CarlyCorday]

That is so fake, but OMG, it scared me so bad!!! The little hairs on my arms are still standing straight up.

[RezidentBivrip]

How could ANYONE thing that's even remotely real? Especially in this age of special effects?

[KillgoreTrout43]

For amatures, it was pretty good. But I agree, who could really think it was real?

[bartonfink]

so what would a "real" ghost look like, exactly? like better cgi? those silly amatures...

[CarlyCorday]

What you said, bartonfink.

[shroomingnewman]

hey! thats my grandmama!

[SLCPunk]

Yeah, the fact that the two guys got on the elevator and situated themselves precisely in the camera frame gives it away.

Oh, that and it's completely fake looking.

[unscum]

Fake and a prank.

[JScott]

I didn't see the vid. Feel I don't have to the office building where I work IS haunted, how else do you explain it going fast, going slow, stopping at floors that no one requested, doing the roller coaster thrill ride stop, closing on people while still in the doorway. But you get used to it.

[CarlyCorday]

I believe you, JScott.

My sister's antebellum house in Missouri is haunted. One night she was arguing with me because i wouldn't spend the night--she kept saying there was no ghost, if there used to be one, it was GONE now, and suddenly, way upstairs, where nobody was, a door slammed so hard it was like a gun going off.

In that house, after you go to to bed, something thumps up and down the stairs, opens and closes doors, all night long. It's just horrible. My sister and her husband have "chemical solutions" to living with this nerve-wracking situation, if you know what I mean, so they're happy in their lovely old house, remodeling as they go, taking it easy, loving it.

[FeloniouslyAnnoying]

Um... any number of far more reasonable explanations... can't explain something instantly so your mind goes for ghosts... god I honestly hope you are joking.

[GrandpaMcCain]

God, that was painfully fake. Apparently all the simpletons who are freaked out by this old movie trick have never seen "The Ring."

[harumph]

The thing that tipped me off immediately was the fact that there is a bank of at least 3 elevators yet they only have a camera in one of them.

[MissingAmerica]

Although I fail to see what it has to do with working long hours, it is very clever and funny. Good going!

[harvboa]

I wonder if that's ghost's name is "modern day liberalism"? If not, it will be after Mccain BLOWS OBAMA OUT in November!!

[Hirnlego]

Nah, that "ghost" is a reactionary McCain kind of type, refusing to move on..

[cobraxus]

harvboa:go back to your methlab out behind the trailer and wait for your disability check.drink beer/smoke pot/listen to Rush Limbaugh and company bash the liberals.maybe call your accident attorney to find out how your latest injury lawsuit is going(it's your money and you want it now).and remember:Republicans Have The Best Of Both Worlds.You Get To Make The Mess Then Bitch About What A Poor Job We Democrats Do Cleaning It Up.GWB and the GOP used this country like a diaper.it's time for a change.

[GrandpaMcCain]

Wow, not only off-topic, but exceedingly stupid and naive as well. Bravo, freak.

[BigFootJesus]

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

[LibDrummer]

Off the computer, it is tIme for you rmeds.

[Blurp]

OMG it's real!!! It's Chinese Schlumpy Ghost!

[nellie]

Oh, come on, that was great. lol!

[jesuswazasocialist]

Saw this on Live Leak its an fake.

[thebanana]

Duh.

[CaptainHowdy]

Yawn... Is the rest of the world finally catching up to the hundreds of fake ghost videos on YouTube?

PS, there's also a bunch of fake UFO videos on YouTube.

[starrianna]

If the ghost said its name was Hillary all of these idiots would be scared too.

[romerocker]

ghost always=fake because there is no such thing as an after life. Also, FYI there is no god. You will become dirt when you are dead. Enjoy it while you're here.

Cheers

[amanda85]

Stop watching "Ringu" and its clones for the 1000000th time... :)

[csepwede]

fake because real security footage inside the elevator wouldn't just focus on one corner of the elevator.

[HardLeft]

Let's retitle this, "The Video That Terrified 1.3 Billion Gullible, Impossibly Superstitious People."

How did we know it was fake, long before its makers came clean? Because it shows a ghost, people. That's all we needed to determine it was a fraud. For heaven's sake.