Blue Ghost haunts Cleveland-area gas station?

**Skeptical**

There was a video a few months back taken by a closed-circuit camera in New Mexico that looked like a ghost but turned out to be a spider on the camera lens. Here is the redux on this - only this time it is a blue cloud that seems to hang out at a Marathon gas station in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. here's a link to a series of still pics:

http://www.local6.com/slideshow/news/14578624/detail.html

It could be the ghost of my dead wallet, killed by a few too many fill-ups. Seriously, I wonder if this is simply some kind of reflection?

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**TheScamDetective** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1351 Location: California

I just watched Anderson Cooper on CNN and they showed the video of that blue thingy.
He ummmmm said it was probably a gimmick to attract more customers lol.
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**Skeptical** · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

Here is a local news video of the blue thing. They speculate that, whatever it is, it seems to move like a seal:

The video was taken at night and, undoubtedly the bright lights of a gas station would attract plenty of flying insects. To my eye, however, this does not look like a something on or near the lens. It's movements are pretty fluid as well - not the jerky kind of movements we usually associate with insects. I suppose it is possible that the image bled through from another source (like the RF interference we've mentioned in other threads). Still it is pretty weird.

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**TheScamDetective** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1351 Location: California

The weirdest part was when it seems to "land" on the windshield of a car.
It certainly did not LOOK like an insect. If it was just some kind of reflection, then whatever was causing it would have to be moving.
Awwww it was probably a weather balloon lol ...or swamp gas!!!
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**Skeptical** · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:

I think Atar is on one of his secret missions - otherwise I'm sure he'd weigh in on this. Hopefully, he'll emerge from deep cover to comment.

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**Skeptical** · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

Youtube is now home to all kinds of odd personalities - this one calling himself Captain Disillusion. In this episode, the good Captain give a fairly cogent and humorous explanation for the gas station ghost:

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