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Picked up a box of old home movies from a garage sale in Tacoma and found something that wasn't a birthday party.
I grabbed a cardboard box full of tapes for ten bucks at a garage sale last month. Most were just labeled 'Trip 98' or 'Christmas,' but one had no label at all. When I played it, the first few minutes were a normal family barbecue. Then it cut to what looked like a different camera, handheld and shaky, filming a group of people in what seemed like homemade animal masks walking slowly through a wooded area at dusk. The audio was just wind and footsteps. It went on for about seven minutes before cutting back to the barbecue like nothing happened. No one in the original footage was in the masks. I've checked the tape and there's no obvious splice or edit point. It's just spliced into the middle of this family's old tape. Has anyone else ever found a random, unconnected scene like this buried in a normal home recording?
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james_martin936d ago
Yeah that whole thing is just... unsettling. I once bought a box of VHS tapes and found one labeled "Let's Make a Pizza" with my own handwriting on it. I don't have a VCR, I've never owned a VCR, and I definitely don't write in that bubbly middle school script. I watched it anyway and it was just 45 minutes of a frozen pizza slowly spinning in a microwave. So either I'm haunted by a very bored ghost, or I'm just really bad at thrifting. Your footage at least sounds like it could be a good horror movie. Mine was a cooking tutorial for the clinically depressed.
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Found something similar on a VHS tape from a thrift store. It was a wedding video that suddenly showed a completely empty room for a few minutes. Creeped me out, so I get it. Makes you wonder how it got there.
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