Ghost in the machine

The Williams (Ariz.) News reports that something tripped the surveillance video at Twisters ’50s Soda Fountain and Route 66 Place during the wee hours of Oct. 16, when the business was closed.

It wasn’t a burglar or a short in the camera system itself, as there was something visible on the film, a floating white shape, translucent and smoky, which seemed to “walk” from one section of the room to the other. […]

“I can access my camera system from home on the Internet and there were five alerts in the bathroom hallway from 3:01 in the morning until 3:18 in the morning,” Moore said. “After 3:18 there were no other cameras that went off. I checked all the other cameras. We have another camera that gets a different angle of this object as it’s walking through and it didn’t set off. The camera that sits next to that, which looks straight down at the register, didn’t set off. The camera in the west gift shop didn’t set off, where this object had come out of, so only one camera basically picked up a shadowy white figure moving from the old gas station part, which was built in 1926, into the new part of the building that was built in the 60s. This thing, whatever it was, just a white transparent cloud, it does look like a human figure in a cloud form, just basically appeared out of nowhere and walked down the hallway, approximately 15 feet and just disappeared into the bathroom. Why? I don’t know.” […]

The video can be viewed here.

Owner Jason Moore said the motion-sensor camera is only a year old.

Later, on this video from KTVK in Phoenix, Moore speculated it may be the ghost of a former owner that committed suicide there in the 1950s. The site formerly was a gas station on old Route 66.

I hate to be a party-pooper, but I think a bug simply crawled across the camera’s lens.