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so in the early 2000's there was a little known fad in the internet of "ghostcams" literally webcams in haunted locations, and the whole thing is a goldmine of lost media that is mostly untapped , you can still find quite some stuff about it in the internet archive of the website ghost study from what i can tell there were dozens of websites like these back then, and i remenber quite a few still being extant as late as 2016 or so, nowdays all that remain is the willard library one and some guy with an old house but there used to be many more some of these date back to the late 90's (i think willard might have been the first but i don't known). but the one i am most interested about is asylumcam.com, to keep a long history short this was an forum with 30+ cameras started up sometime in 2003 by a family in missouri that turned into a general paranormal camera sharing website, because you needed an account to even watch the cameras pretty much nothing was saved by the internet archive but you can still find some captures in the ghoststudy website, but i genuinely wonder how much is lost cause the captures we have are absolutely insane , specially when you think these were watched live by an audience over the internet.
here are some links (i higly reconmend trawling trough the old ghoststudy website for more, there is so much):
https://pastebin.com/ECM4Hav1
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>>41830873
sorry i posted this when you previously posted the thread
>2004
>T. couple of 13 year olds
>look up "ghost cam" vids
>both pretend we arent spooked.avi
>find a cam watching a stair case
>several seconds pass
>horrifying black apparition appears
>both involuntarily start saying "ew"
>friend is vietnamese #1 smart boy and says we should watch it again cus it feels off
>turns out to be a loop
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>>41830873
this reminds me of an old webcam I saw back maybe in the early to mid-2000s? i found it on one of the early unsecured webcam forums. most of them were pretty boring. There were a couple that were in people's living rooms and a lot of the time they would go down pretty quickly. the one that I remember best though you had to work at to get access to it. like you had to telnet into a terminal thing and enter a command and then access the ip address on a non standard port. i think maybe i needed to use real player or something like that to view it as it wouldn't work through a normal web browser but i might be confusing it with one of the other cams. once you connected you could use the telnet terminal thing to switch camera views. basically several of the cam views were dark like maybe the lights were off in the rooms or something. but the main one looked like some sort of lab or factory. i remember the image was low resolution it was hard to tell exactly what was going on but there were pipes or rails or something like that on the ceiling and some sort of machine that had a big cylinder like a drum or something like if you've ever seen the giant early dialysis machines from the 1950s? kind of like that but maybe smaller. hard to tell from the image with how shitty the quality was. somebody in the forum had figured out some of the commands to type into the telnet terminal like to switch the cams and somebody said they saw something moving on one of the rails on the ceiling when they typed in something but they never elaborated. i don't remember any of the commands now specifically since I just copied them from the forum and pasted them in. like cam 1 view etc. also i'm prolly remembering it wrong. i think the forum eventually went down and it's been 20 years at least. i would have had to have been like 14 or 15 at the time.
i haven't seen anything else about it since then. anyone else know anything about this?
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>>41831923
i have seen similar things in those unsecured camera websites, it was likely some sort of factory floor, those are actually pretty common, its interesting how much effort you had to acess it though, usually its pretty easy
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>>41832116
>factory floor
it may have been. it was hard to get a sense of scale because the resolution was so low but it didn't seem like much of anything was being made there. also i never saw any people. like ever. i don't remember if anyone else in the forum mentioned seeing people on that particular cam or not but i guess it was totally automated whatever it was.
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>>41831646
bro id be forever grateful if you could find it and help me relive my yoot
>>41831698
I think it just evolved into spooky youtube channels and ARGs and such
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I remember a local radio station back in the 90s had a link to their "fridge cam".
You'd click on it and the image would just be black and the caption said, "I guess the light really does cut off when you close the fridge!"
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I miss this time on the internet, my friends and I used to be obsessed with paranormal stuff. Nights of going on Willard Library's site while I had RuneScape on another window.
GhostStudy was also one of my favorite websites, I remember this tragic story that the owner's daughters both died in a freak car accident where they crashed into each other or something like that. I was probably still in middle school when that I read that so I could be completely misremembering that. I used to go on so many paranormal websites, so it could've been any of those
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>>41831698
>Why did the cool internet stuff all but disappear?
Because everything started to be centralized on the internet. There's so much interesting shit that got wiped that people still can't properly comprehend.
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>>41858367
This and the nature of hosting anything on the internet at all. People don't want to self host because it's a massive tech headache, and unless something really takes off, they don't pay a hosting provider forever and then one day, shit is just gone.
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Bumping for ghost cam captures.
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Where you got these?
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>>41831508
Here you go.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060616142414/http://www.geocities.com/tr ampingground/LIVEFEED.html
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another capture from asylumcam, this one showing some kind of small entity hiding behind furniture
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>>41832116
I used to love unsecured webcams, you could search Google for a few strings of code relating to webcam manufacturers and hosting websites and stumble upon live feeds that the owners forgot to set to ‘private’. There was the occasional computer webcam and dogsitting/house security ones which always felt icky looking at so I skipped them. There was a Paintball center in Texas or Tennessee or something, and the webcam was one of the more advanced mechanized ones controllable via arrows on the online control panel. Often multiple people would find the feed and we would fight over panning/zooming (I think the cameras could only take one input for every few seconds so if two people input a command it would decide arbitrarily which one to choose). I remember the employees and patrons being somewhat freaked out and then after several days annoyed, i think it eventually got shut down.
There were really wonderful ones though. A ski resort in Japan. A mall food court in Russia or maybe somewhere else, I can’t remember. The one in picrel was a highway in Stockholm where the Trinstod ARG was dropping clues. I remember we all freaked out when a crow perched in front of the camera and stared it dead in the lens (this one only refreshed its feed every few seconds or so, with some webcams refreshing every half second or sometimes only once a minute.)
Never saw anything spooky but it was nice. These were the days before livestreamers and almost before YouTube got really big. It was nice to feel like a quiet observer of some place thousands of miles away and know that there were always a few other webcam-crawlers watching with you.
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>>41858367
>There's so much interesting shit that got wiped that people still can't properly comprehend.
this so much, even these days we’re seeing it with tiktok now, vine got wiped, but all the little websites of old were so awesome, little niche sites about one aspect of Ancient Rome, or alien stuff, comedy sites. There’d be like a random website that focused one thing and it was the best fucking thing ever. They’d all link to eachother it’d be like
>this is all info on gladiators, for weapons go to this guys site>>
>these are hand weapons for siege weapons see this guys site>>
>these are siege weapons, for structures and defenses see this guys website>>
>these are Roman fortifications, for other ancient civ fortifications see this guys site>>
And they’d all be full of info you couldn’t find anywhere, pictures and categorizations and resources. Now you can’t find shit, everything is gay.
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Here
https://youtu.be/j3XfgFfGepU?si=54wa4uXHyjHcPw6Q
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>>41893759
that guy is fake, "the shape" in youtube has a bunch of videos showing bloopers of his, some are pretty damning
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>>41893865
Uh no he has like 100 videos for years his life is living hell from this. Its a spirit that called itself mormo which is an ancient babylonian vampire body snatcher. It ruined his life he did this for years and discovered xbox kinnect and alexa can pick up apparitions
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>>41894347
Its really weird how you are saying that he doesnt make any money since i been watching every comment is supportive you are just making that up im pretty sure trying to convince people there is no spirit world on a paranormal website yes very strange and sus
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>>41850814
https://theshadowlands.net/
The Shadowlands is still up, and very much unchanged.
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No one has proven that ghosts are real.
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>>41831508
reminds me of this one ghost video I saw with some friends. It was of some old abandoned prison or some shit. On the staircase, practically pitch black, you could see something run up the stairs and around the corner, then disappear into the darkness. Looked like a person crawling on all fours. Scared the fuck out of me and I could barely sleep for a long time.