Case file
No. 001
Open investigation
· An archive of what appears on screen ·
Date: Sep 30, 2026
Status: Open
31 days to Halloween100 years since Houdini’s last séanceEst. 2013
Case 01 · Films & Shows
No. Other Mommy (2026) adapts Josh Malerman's novel Incidents Around the House. Its one real seed is a child's goodnight in the author's brother's house.
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Films & Shows
On Camera
Films & Shows
From the files · Madrid, 1992
“Officers recorded events they could not explain.”
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Take the caseWhat this archive covers
Section 01 · 8 files
Ghost films and series, the real cases they were built on, how the movies first learned to put a ghost on screen, and which ones deserve a dark room.
Latest in the sectionIs Other Mommy based on a true story? The novel and the goodnight behind itOpen the sectionSection 02 · 6 files
Videos and photographs that claim to show a ghost, looked at frame by frame: what the tape shows, which artifact explains it, and how AI ghosts give themselves away.
Latest in the sectionAI ghost photos: how a generated image gives itself awayOpen the sectionSection 03 · 3 files
The hauntings behind the films and the ones that never got one: what the witnesses said, what the record shows, who investigated, and what happened to the house.
Latest in the sectionThe Enfield poltergeist: the case behind The Conjuring 2Open the sectionWhere to start
01Origins
02Films & Shows
03On Camera
04Hauntings
We look closely, and we say what we can see.
Most people meet a ghost on a screen first. A film opens on a card that says it is based on true events. A clip shows something in a doorway for three frames. A photograph taken with the flash on shows a shape in an empty room. Ghosting.tv starts where the screen does, then goes to the address it was pointing at.
Films & Shows follows the ghost from the first trick films to the fixed camera in a suburban bedroom, and goes back to the cases the famous pictures were built on: who lived in the house, what they said, and what the record shows.
On Camera stands at the monitor. Each piece takes one clip or one photograph and looks at it frame by frame: what is in the frame, which ordinary process could put it there, and what would have to be true for that explanation to fail. That now includes video no camera ever recorded.
Hauntings goes to the houses. Each case is told in the order it happened, with the witnesses named as the record names them, and with the tools and terms of ghost hunting explained before anyone reads a meter.
Everything on this site is one of two things, and the text says which. What the record shows: the police report, the dated letter, the timestamp on the tape. What the story says: what the family said, what the legend has it. We do not tell you a ghost was real, and we do not laugh at anyone who saw one. We look closely and say what we can see.
If you have footage, a photograph or a story of your own, the submissions page says what to send.
From 2013 to about 2018, Ghosting.tv was a live screening series in Los Angeles: experimental animation and video art, shown in fifteen-minute blocks to a room that came back every other month. Then the pages stopped changing and the domain lapsed. We are not the people who ran it. We keep its record in Origins, because a series that put moving images in front of a crowd and then vanished, leaving only snapshots of itself, is the first ghost this site ever had.
