Dec 13 2010
Great… A Ghost Showed Up in our Kinect
Wonderful… my husband was playing Kinect this Saturday, alone, and suddenly a full figure of a person showed up behind him, with its arm over my husband’s head. It couldn’t have been a shadow because the only light was above him so the only shadow was the one on the floor. Also, my husband didn’t have his hand up, soooo… I could only come to the creepy conclusion that it’s a ghost.
Now, a part of me wants to play (I haven’t even tried the Kinect out yet) to see if I can get a picture of this, but… another part of me is really creeped out and just wants to get the hell outta and move now!
I did a search for this and found that other people have been seeing strange things in their Kinects as well. In one forum someone posted:
EUREKA!!!! I found out why it does this. The Kinect can detect Thermal images, and as I was searching around, I realized that Paranormal investigators use Thermal imaging infrared devices to detect Ghost/Poltergeist activity in paranormal environments i.e. haunted houses, graveyards. Yep, you heard that right, the kinect is picking up passing semi physical disembodied energy forms. Your own personal Ghost detecting device, at home. Do some research with infrared and thermal imaging for paranormal research and ghost hunting, then look into the details of the Kinects camera technology, thermal, infrared capabilities.
That’s just… great.
So, anyone else out there experience something similar with the Kinect??
hey, i thought i should let you know, my partner works at bnlockbuser and was saying a customer had come in and told him his kinect had registered another player in the room when he was alone. he left and went to his girlfreinds lol. iv heard a lot of stories, apparently xbox have checked the kinects and said that it isnt them playing up, they are simply picking up whatever is in the environment.
That is freakin’ awesome… And creepy too!
The same thing happened to me, except it appeared as if someone was sitting on my couch. I found it very odd considering no one was sitting there or had been for several hours. After taking a look and sitting exactly where the image appeared, it was gone without a trace. I’m going to attempt to recreate the experience in a controlled setting and test a few things out.
Yep, this could be the basis of a thermal imaging “ghost detector” that dosen’t cost thousands of dollars. Indeed its ability to also connect the imagery to computer avatars on TV for even greater visibility might also be a useful asset.
Same happened to me I was playing alone on motion party game and in the top left corner you have a radar type thing that shows you as a green dot. After a few minutes a red dot appeared to my left and moved away as I approached the area it was in. I become a little bit freaked out and moved completely out of the camera view and the red dot moved to where I had been stood and it flashed up on screen player 2 connected! Also the red dot was very shaky and not as fluid in motion as the dot showing my position…… very creepy stuff! I was hoping it was a malfunction and not a ghost…..
You all should challenge your “ghosts” to a dance off. If you win they have to leave your house; but if you lose, they get your soooooouullllllll!
i was playing dance central alone in my house at bout 12 midnight! as i was waiting for my song to come on it shows me as a white figuer in top right corner as i was waiting i looked up at my figure and there was another body detected, a taller figuer standing behind but to the right of me! i paniked and switched everythin off and ran and hid in my bed terrified as i was alone in my house but i wished i had of stayed and found out what was going on
If you ever experience a weird shadow hanging behind you while playing a kinect, sing my song and call a ghost buster!
I had a similar experience and just started poking around online to see if it had happened to anyone else! Unlike the people who saw images of someone else on their screen, I don’t think mine really picked up another figure in the room BUT I had just got kinect this past friday morning, first game I played was dance central. I played for awhile then took a break. I picked it back up again about an hour later and played through a few songs, I got an achievement, no big deal, then a few seconds later I got another achievement so after the song was over, I checked to see what they were for and I almost peed myself hahaha I got an achievement for BOOTH BUDDIES which is for having TWO people dance at the same time…I never whipped my head around so fast in my life! I had been home alone all day. Creepy right? Still not sure what to think about that.
hi, we had something similar the other night, my husband and i were playing zumba together on the kinect, all of a sudden the shaddow images of us disappeared and picked up another play guest 1 and although we were still dancing all you could see was a woman in a long dress with her hair tied back and folded arms just standing there. a little freaked out my husband just said maybe its where it isnt picking us up but after a while it picked us both back up and the woman and i danced through her but after about 10 mins she just went :/
I just started looking this up because my daughter got an XBox with Kinect for Christmas. She wasnt even playing a game but was watching a movie in her room and the hand came on the screen to act as the controller and paused her movie. When she screamed for me and I ran down to her room it was all over the screen looking like it was trying to unpause her movie. I was laughing about it because I do believe there are spirits in this world and we co-exist. I’m not planning to put my newly purchased home up for sale because of this but it was a little freaky. She refuses to go into her room now and says she is moving with my mother. Guess it wasn’t the best present choice this year. I told her she needed to make a better selection in movies and then maybe they wouldn’t be stopping it.
My boyfriend and I were just playing the demo for the twister game and we were just standing there waiting for the next set of shapes to come on the screen and we could see a third figure move toward us and stood between us. All we could do was look at each other and then move to a different spot. We quickly turned off the xbox. We are both pretty freaked out right now.
My sisters friend came over n brought kinect we all had good time then me n my neighbor saw this thing “ghost like” person laying on the couch behind us nd honest to god no one was there