Ghost swing spooks locals
October 27, 2007
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AN out-of-control playground swing has spooked families and police in Argentina.
The swing rocks back and forwards without being touched - and anxious parents have decided the playground must be haunted.
Watch the YouTube video of the swing below:
In an attempt to explain the swing’s mysterious movement, police called in physics professors. But even they have been unable to explain the why the swing keeps moving. Residents claim the middle swing in a playground in the north-eastern town of Firmat can keep moving continuously for ten days before suddenly coming to a halt.Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said one child had nicknamed the area the “Blair Witch Playground”.
“We believe it is haunted,” she said.
Some have tried to explain it as a hoax using a piece of fishing wire or a mechanism installed in the swings frame. Although both of the explanations have been investigated and have proved not to be the cause.
Scientist theorize it is a phenomenon known as harmonic resonance. Investigations continue.
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The two outside swings move with it at first and then they begin to separate when the middle one goes between them. They then become still as the middle one increases it’s arc.
I suspect some kind of (sub sonic) low frequency vibration is setting up a weird harmonic occillation that acts upon the symmetry of the frame and therefore the middle swing (being at a balance/focal point or fulcrum) acts upon it and starts to slowly swing. Low frequency vibrations do all kinds of strange things. Think about vibrations in a machine unthreading nuts from threaded rod or bolts. Maginify this vibration and have a nice aplifier made up from a metal “A” frame and you’re off and running. You heard it here first folks…mark my words.
um, spooky
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
….i dont get it….
thats what you get for trusting a GENIE!
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