By Tim Binnall
An eerie piece of footage purportedly captured by a ship's security camera shows what appears to be a full-bodied apparition manifest out of thin air. The rather fantastic video was posted to Reddit last week by an individual who explained that the incident occurred while he was working aboard a vessel that was sailing near the coast of Somalia. As a preventative measure to avoid drawing the attention of pirates, he explained, the lights on the ship were turned off and all of the crew members were ordered to stay in their rooms.
During that brief period in which the ship was devoid of activity, the security camera aboard the vessel spotted something truly strange. The jaw-dropping video initially shows an empty room aboard the ship and then a rather bright orb whisks passing through the scene. Shortly thereafter, a mist-like substance wafts towards a spot in the room where what appears to be a full-bodied figure slowly manifests. The startling anomaly stands in the location for a few seconds before simply dissolving.
As one might imagine, many viewers believe that the oddity seen in the footage is some kind of spirit, perhaps a ghost that resides on the ship and made a brief appearance during the lockdown in a curious attempt to find out why the vessel had gone quiet. More skeptical observers will, of course, argue that the 'apparition' is merely some kind of video artifact or, failing that, a hoax with a well-crafted backstory attached to it. With that in mind, what's your take on the peculiar video? Share your thoughts with us at the C2C Facebook page.