By Tim Binnall
A security camera at a Peruvian market captured a guard seemingly speaking to an unseen person and the man at the center of the now-viral video has come forward with the fantastic claim that the footage shows him having a conversation with a ghost girl. The chilling scene reportedly unfolded in the city of Ventanilla last year, though the footage appears to have only popped up online earlier this month and, since then, has spread like wildlife on social media in Peru. In the video, the security guard can be seen walking towards the center of an empty room and moving his hand in a manner akin to patting a child on the head. He then crouches down and appears to speak to someone in front of him, before standing back up and continuing the conversation.
Very often such stories of suspected ghost encounters caught on film end when the video itself concludes and provide little insight from the perspective of the person seen in the footage. However, in this instance, the security guard has actually shared his account of what unfolded during the puzzling scene. According to the man, who opted to remain anonymous when speaking to a Peruvian media outlet, the incident began when he was making his rounds that evening and stumbled upon what he thought was a little girl crying. Understandably concerned, he asked her what was wrong and the troubled youngster explained that she was looking for her mother, who worked in the market's meat department.
The guard claims that he offered to bring the girl to his security office, but she wanted to stay put and wait for her mother. The man says that he subsequently left to get some help with the situation and, when he returned, the youngster was nowhere to be found. When he later looked at the security footage from his run-in with the little girl, the guard was shocked to discover that the video showed him speaking and interacting with thin air. What do you make of the strange footage and the unsettling account that accompanied it? Did the guard genuinely encounter a ghost or is the eerie event merely a tall tale put forward by the night watchman? Weigh in with your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.