Footage of a door slamming shut on its own is really creeping people out

We don't know about this one.
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Samantha Scelzo
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Besides your own eyes, the internet is the absolute best place to find evidence of ghosts. With all the proof that's out there, what more could we need to believe?

Well, another creepy video has surfaced of a hydrant door allegedly opening and slamming shut by itself and it's freaking everyone out. Twitter user Enrique Lussich posted this video of the haunted hatch:

According to Massa News, the video was filmed by two caretakers in the Center for Comprehensive Care for Children and Adolescents (CAIC) in Araucária, Brazil. In the video, a security guard approaches the swinging door in a dark hallway, lit only by a flickering light. Once the guard gets close enough to the door, it stops slamming and the light stops flickering. When it finally quiets, the guard inspects the hydrant and finds nothing out of the ordinary.

Now we love a good creepy ghost video around here, but we may have to debunk this one.

The lights just happen to flicker in the spooky way they always do at the climax of a horror movie, but stop at the perfect time.

Someone also pointed out that there might be a pull cable under the guard's arm:

Others did some real investigating to puncture holes in truth of the video:

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Yeah, they're not buying it. Everything does seem a little too perfect.

So maybe this isn't the proof of ghosts we're all looking for. It's creepy regardless, but it might be demystified at this point.

I'm going to go ahead and say it's real anyway because I don't want some kind of hydrant ghost coming after me. But hey, that's just me.

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Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.

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