By Tim Binnall
An Australian family were understandably unsettled after their home security system captured footage of what appears to be a ghostly figure walking alongside their dog. The eerie incident reportedly occurred this past Sunday at Matthew and Lauren Kane's house in the village of Nerriga. While checking on instances in which the motion-sensor camera stationed inside their home had recently been activated, they were stunned to see a spooky moment wherein their dog can be seen crossing through a room as what seems to be a figure briefly manifests and walks with the animal before vanishing into thin air.
"It has a perfectly round head and leaves a trail of light behind it," Matthew marveled, "it walks like it's on a mission, like it wants to get somewhere. You can almost see the arms swinging." Intriguingly, the couple observed that the suspected apparition appears to emerge from a "pretty creepy" cabinet in which they keep the ashes of several dead relatives. Based on that perceived point of origin as well as the fact that their dog was completely unfazed by the encounter, the Kanes theorize that perhaps the unnerving anomaly was the spirit of a departed loved one who would have been familiar to the animal.
While such a scenario may be heartwarming to some, the generally skeptical couple are actually hoping that oddity in the video might have a prosaic source rather than it being a genuine ghost. "We want to believe it's a play on light or something," Matthew mused, "but we can't explain it." To that end, he noted that their house has blackout blinds and is in a fairly remote location, which would seem to preclude many of the theories that have been put forward by viewers online, such the figure being produced by the headlights of a passing car or the shadow of someone outside. As such, for now, the nature of the chilling oddity remains a mystery. Think you can offer a plausible explanation for the suspected ghost? Share your theory with us at the C2C Facebook page.