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Many say that Remington Arms is cursed from the hundreds of thousands that have died as a result of the products manufactured there. If that weren't enough, there were dozens of accidental deaths and murders inside the factory.
There is one story about two men who fell into the lead smelting pots within the factory. As they fell into the molten lead, they were instantly killed. There is a theory that when you experience such a quick tragic death your spirit can't leave that place. The guys decide to leave a static camera in this location and you won't believe what they find.
Before the investigation even gets started, the guys feel unwelcome. While they are walking around in the middle of the day they hear unexplained hammering around the building, their camera lights stop working and they hear voices. The spirits were letting Zak, Nick, and Aaron know that they are in for an interesting night.
They've teamed up with HauntWorld to provide a Haunted House search. Simply go to MapQuest.com and either type in a city or zoom in to a city. Click the ghost icon on the On Map Search Tool. Ghost icons will appear on the map indicating the location of Haunted Houses. Click on an icon for more information about a given Haunted House. (If you want more results, zoom out a little.)
On 7th Avenue, what looks like a dead man sits behind glass on the corner and appears to be splattered with blood. He's got human hair, a disheveled look and empty beer cans all around him, which makes it look all the more real.
So much so that people have rushed to the window, banging on it to see if the poor guy is still alive.
Well, he never was to begin with.
The bloody massacre is part of the promotion for The Devil's Disciple, a haunted house that will be located just behind the plastic, life-like dummy. The dummy is being displayed at the O.H.W.O.W. art gallery and is causing quite a stir.
Managing Your Ghost Hunting Data Collection
Once Webcam Viewer collects a volume of streamed images to your hard drive, the final step is to search through those images for something that jumps out as unique or different than the rest. This would signify a potential anomaly that you may want to check out. The best method I've found to do that is to view the images in sequence using thumbnail view in Windows Explorer.
As you scroll through the frames, you may spot a shadow, mist or movement from one frame to the next. The next step is to conduct a more thorough analysis of the movement or change. To do this I use ImageDiff, a free image comparison application that allows you to conduct a complete pixel-by-pixel comparison between two images.
The settings I use are: use overlay, monochrome colors, and set the threshold over 90%. This will force the difference in pixels to be at least over 90%, and the differences will display on the bottom window as big red dotted areas.
It's never a good idea to trust only your eyes. Even though you may spot a difference in the video frames while you're scrolling through, this pixel comparison will scientifically verify that you aren't just seeing things. As you can see in the photos above, the only differences were the time stamp, and some very slight lighting or shadow differences. If someone (or something) were to walk across the hallway, the lower image would light up like a red Christmas Tree.
How Internet Technology Can Help Ghost Hunting
In time, ghost hunters around the world will recognize that they can't be everywhere at once. And while there's some chance of capturing something interesting on film by sitting for a few hours in a haunted location, those odds are multiplied exponentially when you set up a webcam to monitor many locations over hundreds of hours, around the clock. Let your computer do the watching, and you can capture that elusive ghost on camera at your leisure.
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