SGHA Research

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Location:	Foster's Hotel, Chama, NM
Date taken:	13 Febuary 2005
Photographer:	Stationary IR camera
M/E/EM fields:	None detected, area not monitored
Camera Model :	Sony CCD TR 517

Last frame of the entire object before it vanishes

Event Four captured by camera one at 2:47am presents a interesting mystery. The object in the video changes direction multiple times and then appears to vanish into the floor. If this object was dust or an insect, it would continue to be visible to the camera until it leaves its point of view and disappears out of frame.

The camera itself is surrounded by Infrared emitters, which provides more than enough illumination to to keep objects visible while in the camera's viewing range. The object here does not do this. Enhanced frame by frame analysis clearly shows that the object disappears as it nears the bottom third of the camera's picture. The faint glow of the object mends into the floor as it appears to vanish into the floor itself. Foreign particles reflecting the IR light from the camera can not do this. This factor, combined with the sudden changing of directions, is highly suggestive that the object captured in this video is not dust, an insect, or other small particle moving in front of the camera's lens. Attempts to replicate this event were unsuccessful, the result being that any object near the lens stays visible until it leaves the frame completely.

The next thing that is interesting about Event 4 is that 30 seconds after the object moves through the picture, an investigator seated just outside of the doorway experienced a sound that resembled a woman gasping for breath.

This time differential is consistent with Persinger's theories on EM Transduction and the time delays involved in experiencing the perceived phenomena. The "gasping for breath" sound experienced by the investigator is one of the experiences reported by many others in this particular room.

As a result, this event is consistent with several of our hypotheses on how ghostly phenomena is perceived and offers some speculative data to those particular hypotheses.