There is a video making the rounds on the Internet in the past week or so regarding a so-called haunted house.

It is about 90 seconds long and depicts a single camera point of view of poltergeist activity in a haunted house. The narrator sounds like a woman who is on the phone with someone describing what is happening. She claims there are noises through the house and the dogs are crazy.The video starts out in a kitchen that has an island with a sink in it and several drawers on either side of the sink. There is a table with chairs near a set of windows and the video is shot in broad daylight.At the beginning the water is running from the faucet full force. The camera operator's hand can be seen turning off the faucet as the person retreats from the island and into an entryway near the kitchen.The video pans around in a circle, and as it refocuses back in the kitchen, the faucet can be seen and heard to be running full-force again.She moves into the kitchen, describing the faucet running as she shuts it off. There is a door to a laundry room to the left of the kitchenette table. She steps into this room and almost immediately, loud crashing sounds and noise can be heard followed by the dogs barking, even though they cannot be seen on the video.She is hysterical, and as she turns around and enters the kitchen area again, she pans the camera, and all of the drawers are open with their contents scattered on the floor in front of the seat.Opposite the island, she films overturned chairs, and as she pans back, the oven door can also be seen to be open. She turns back toward the laundry room door just in time to see it slam shut.She opens the door and goes into the room and the video ends with a frightened "Let me out" from the woman.On the surface it seems to be frightening. It's broad daylight and all types of apparent physical manifestations are occurring, but nothing is seen on camera.The first thing that is suspect is the only video is the one shot by the apparent narrator. In the beginning of the video, the narrator turns off the water and backs out of the kitchen.The dogs, unlike her description, seem calm and not frantic as she was relating to a person supposedly on the other end of the phone. For some reason she pans 360 degrees and then focuses back on the kitchen. All of a sudden the water appears to turn itself on.This little feat could be accomplished a few ways, but the most obvious could be a fishing line attached to the handle. The video quality is not clear, so it could hide that type of mechanism or even less evident could be a rigging on the faucet that turns the water on by itself or opens a valve hidden in the sink. The dogs are still calm at this point, which counters the typical behavior of animals around documented poltergeist activity.She moves back into the kitchen, describing how scared she is as she moves into the laundry room. The problem is the video is showing the laundry room and leaves the entire kitchen area out of video range for at least three or four seconds.As she moves past areas that later have supposed evidence of poltergeist activity, out-of-camera-range areas are unseen for 14 seconds, in which loud noises and the dogs barking can be heard.The mess looks amazing, but a lot can be done behind her silently in 14 seconds since realistically we see three open drawers and a few overturned chairs and an open oven door. Two dogs are in the video, but only one can be heard barking. In addition, the woman seems relatively calm considering her entire kitchen was overturned in a matter of seconds.I suspect an unseen accomplice made the mess behind her as she moved into the other room and then ducked out of sight as she returned to the kitchen. It sounds like only one chair can be heard overturned when three are obviously lying on the floor, which could be attributed to editing or to someone placing the chairs on the floor and knocking one over by itself.She turns back in time to see the door close by itself, and then the most unusual behavior occurs. The woman leaves the kitchen bathed in daylight to retreat into the darkened room whose door just closed seconds before BY ITSELF.A typical person in this situation in my opinion would not head into a darkened room that just manifested such a physical phenomena. Retreating from the area would be a more natural response.In the end, I would officially rule the video to not show any evidence of paranormal activity. There is no footage of the action as it occurs, which makes it all scary but circumstantial.The behavior seen can be easily faked, and neither the dogs nor the woman seem as scared as she claims to be on the narration. It is a shame that the actual activity is not filmed as it occurs, because in that case it could be more plausible, although even in that situation there are at least a dozen ways to fake the activity.While it is an entertaining video, I think it is simply an entertainment clip and shows no evidence of paranormal phenomena.I shared it to myFacebook page

www.facebook.com/pvparanormalpress if you want to view it for yourself. Tell me what you think.Till next time …