A Florida high school janitor posted a video claiming a ghost followed him as he cleaned a classroom after school.
The unnamed janitor shot the video at Tampa's King High School and posted it to social media.
He later deleted the alleged “ghost video,” but not before it went viral.
The 'creepy' video shows a classroom covered in confetti and several balloons, including a red one that stood alone in the corner.
The 'creepy' video shows a classroom covered in confetti and several balloons, including a red one that stood alone in the corner
The janitor begins to focus on the lonely red balloon, saying that the inanimate object is 'freaking him out'
The janitor begins to focus on the one red balloon, saying that the inanimate object is “freaking him out.”
He said, “No matter where I am in class or what I decide to do, it just follows me.”
Footage shows the balloon floating in the corner for a while before it begins to move forward, somehow following the man.
Things get worse for the janitor when a shadowy figure is seen sprinting down the back of the hallway for a split second.
Footage shows the balloon floating in the corner for a while before it begins to move forward, somehow following the man
Things get even worse for the janitor when a shadowy figure is seen sprinting through the back of the room for a split second.
By then, viewers see him running away saying, “No, you can't.”
He also claimed that his predecessors had warned him about strange happenings in the school at night.
The alleged sighting follows the discovery of 145 coffins in a former paupers' cemetery on the school grounds in 2019.
The former Ridgewood cemetery was found at King High School and records show that there were 250 to 268 burials in Ridgewood during the 1940s and 1950s. Most were for black people, but some were also for poor white people at the time.
The cemetery is listed on the school district deed, but was forgotten over time.
Tampa opened Ridgewood Cemetery in 1942, the American newspaper said Tampa Bay Times. The city sold a 40-acre parcel, including the cemetery, to a private company in 1957, and the company sold it to the school district in 1959.
The graves came to light when cemetery researcher Ray Reed told the school board that there was likely a former cemetery on campus years ago.
Scott Purcell, a senior geophysicist at GeoView, left, and Mike Wightman, president of GeoView, use ground-penetrating radar technology to scan part of the King High campus
A map of the campus shows in blue where the scans were performed, and the coffins are shown in pink. The suspected cemetery site is outlined in red
Contractor GeoView used ground penetrating radar to scan various possible areas
However, pauper cemeteries rarely have headstones, and officials did not know where the buried caskets were located on campus.
The district then engaged contractor GeoView, which mapped various possible areas with ground-penetrating radar.
In total, the scans identified 145 coffins or cavities where coffins may have decayed.
As for the other 100 or so graves in the burial registers that are not listed, Chief Inspector Eakins said there are several possible explanations.
It may be that some graves have simply been missed or are under a nearby outbuilding, or that the remains have been moved.
Eakins also said children's chests may have been too small to register on the scan. Records show that as many as 77 children were buried in the cemetery.
Although the findings are nationally known, many Reddit users believe the janitor used fishing line or static electricity to move the balloon in the video
Yvette Lewis, president of the Hillsborough County NAACP, expressed outrage at the time, telling the Times that she believed the cemetery was lost because most of the people buried in it were black.
Although the findings are nationally known, many Reddit users believe the janitor used fishing line or static electricity to move the balloon in the video.
One user joked and said: 'Hahahahaha. Elaborate joke or not, this one did me good. Imagine if this really happened to you. I'd shit my pants.'
While another explained why people saw a ghost running. They wrote: 'Do you see the phone frames trying to autofocus? That split-second distortion is the mind. I've had the same thing before.'
One user wrote a 'point of view' comment, writing: 'Balloons like: “I'll be waiting in this classroom until you get the camera ready.”
The concierge did not respond to such comments.