The Undeparted – March Update

On the morning of February 26th, 2017, we arrived at the Antique shop for what we thought would be our final shoot day!

Flash forward.

When I arrived back at my office late that evening, I began transferring the day’s footage and soon realized something had gone wrong…
Our first interview is clean, but half way into our second interview the video glitches and goes black. (For the record: In 18 years of working with video and film, I have never lost footage. In this instance we had a proxy back up recording that covered much of the lost footage. We rolled a 2nd camera angle and we have also shipped our Odyssey 7Q+ recording devise in for review.) This file corruption causes us to lose around 40 minutes of very high quality 4k footage. What is interesting about the files is that they are the exact file size as if we had captured all the content during the 40-minute span of time, but what is actually present in these files is around 4 minutes of playback audio. This is quite strange! The remaining audio is for the most part an arrangement of nonsensical cuts with missing gaps of time. With that said, there are clear elements that stand out and in order to properly investigate this issue I decided to edit out these moments. I then brought the edited moments together and cleaned things up a touch. When I played the resulting clip, I was surprised by what seemed like a message…

The next day, Rob and I went back to the shop to investigate a small but separate issue and I felt compelled to tell shop owner Rebecca and her fiancé Steven about the message. It had been recommended that we disclose this information away from the shop as to not alert the wrong spirits. Steven was absent at the time, so Rob and I walked with Rebecca to a noisy area along the main road and away from the shop. Over the course of 20 minutes or so we told Rebecca and Steven (Who had joined us.) our findings and even walked over to my car to played back the message. We wrapped things up and both Rebecca and Steven returned to the shop. Rob and I got into my car to talk and immediately the sky darkened, a very short violent storm hit, and a massive tree split and crashed to the ground right at the spot where we had told Rebecca about the message…

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