Santa Fe courthouse ghost

Benjamin Radford, a managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer investigated the sighting and concluded that the origin of the ghost was a bug crawling across the camera lens.

On Friday, June 15, 2007, a bright, round object was recorded by a surveillance camera moving around in the image of the rear entrance of the First Judicial District courthouse, Catron Street, Santa Fe.

[2] Soon after the footage was released to the public, a large number of people contacted the Santa Fe New Mexican and Auslander proposing various theories on what the object was.

One woman who claimed to be a spiritual reader said she saw five separate spirits in the video and another person advised the journalist to consult a "reputable channeler".

[1] Vanessa Pacheco, who was the supervisor of the court security for the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, said people's opinions on the video depended on whether they believe in ghosts.

[7] The sun hit one of the bugs crawling across the lens and the effect recreated an accurate "ghost" down to its color, size, shape and movement.