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SALT LAKE CITY — Dan Workman maintains there’s nothing all that haunted about his house, or at least that’s what he thought prior to last Friday.
At 2:14 a.m., an alert came across from the motion sensor camera in his son, Rocky’s, bedroom. He couldn’t believe the video that came with it.
“(I) saw an orb or a light or whatever just kind of go through the video,” Workman said.
The apparent light anomaly appeared to come through the wall just over where his son sleeps and arc in a slightly upward trajectory before vanishing on-screen.
“The only other weird thing on the video is there’s kind of a strange sound with it,” Workman said. “It sounded something like a scratch.”
Workman didn’t have a good answer for what caused the anomaly or orb. Other than a ghost, friends have said a passing car or dust could be responsible.
The room, though, is in the basement, and although the window well would look out on to the street, a thick wood fence blocks the view of the road and most of the light from it.
KSL’s attempts to replicate the light anomaly — through refracted light, reflected light and blowing particles at the camera — were unsuccessful. If it was a spirit, Workman believes it is friendly.
“If it is anything like that, I would probably venture toward the more positive side of things,” Workman said. “I don’t know. Maybe. It’s possible.”
