Around 2007–2009, when I was a kid in late primary school (roughly equivalent to early middle school), my friends and I were obsessed with ghosts. We called our friend group the "ghost club," and we'd spend school breaks/lunch periods watching ghost videos and screamers on the school laptops. YouTube was blocked at school, but Dailymotion and Google Video weren't, so that's what we used.

One video in particular has stuck with me for over a decade. I first posted about this on r/tipofmytongue, then crossposted to r/ghostvideos, and I've since done a lot of digging trying to trace it. Those posts didn't contain all the details but, that digging led me to a documented, confirmed-deleted YouTube video that I believe is either the source of, or directly related to, what I originally watched, which is the actual subject of this post. I'm laying out the full search below.

The confirmed lost video: "ghosts Paranormal video" by shudog420

This is the well-documented part of my search, not something I'm asking anyone to take on faith:

• Title: "ghosts Paranormal video"
• Uploader: shudog420 (Channel ID: UC9bJX-B34bhvjrCF4wKv6bQ, known alias youtube.com/@shudog420)
• Original video ID: 2U3xfbZhPo0
• Uploaded: January 17, 2006
• Confirmed via Wayback Machine capture of the YouTube watch page, which recorded: 752,394 views, 698 comments, favourited 1,063 times, category "Music" (certainly mislabeled), tag "ghosts"
• Currently: Deleted from YouTube (confirmed unavailable as of today)

I checked findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca for this video ID as recommended in this sub's sticky post. No archived copy of the actual video file has turned up there, only the metadata trail below.

Selected comments preserved in the archived page, for context on the content:

>"Alot of doctored pic's in that bunch..." — scottrevss "Pics went far too quickly to get a decent look which is a shame. Some are well known ghost pics, some look like they could be doctored - 9/11 ones especially." — littlejacksbitch "That was hella scary..." — LetTheTruthBeSpoken

Significance

This wasn't some obscure video. the fact that its exact video ID (2U3xfbZhPo0) shows up independently posted across at least four unrelated forums in four different countries between 2006 and 2008 tells me it was a genuinely viral piece of ghost-photo content in exactly this era, not a niche upload nobody saw (some of these need to be posted into the internet archive because they're dead now):

• Spanish forum (Foro Vandal), 2006: https://vandal.elespanol.com/foro/mensaje/367247/experiencias-paranormales-verdaderas/
• UK car forum (PistonHeads) (lol?): https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=&t=302199
• Arabic forum (qudamaa.com): https://www.qudamaa.com/vb/node/997
• Czech forum (signály.cz), 2008: https://www.signaly.cz/diskuzni-spolecenstvi-nevysvetlitelne-zaha

I want to find any surviving copy of this video, or confirm whether it (or something extremely close to it) is what I remember watching as a kid. though this upload has been deleted and may not be easy to be find, it certainly isn't the original upload, and it's possible that the same compliation exists elsewhere. if not the original copy, then a reupload by a different user, or an earlier version than the Shudog upload.

The research trail

1. "Ghost Picture Slideshow" was embedded on True Ghost Tales (trueghosttales.com)

I found a page on trueghosttales.com titled "Ghost Picture Slideshow," self-described as "a slideshow of some of the most well known ghost and paranormal pictures." The site's content is copyrighted 2007–2012.

• Live page (embed long dead): https://www.trueghosttales.com/videos/ghost-picture-slideshow.php
• Earliest Wayback Machine capture (10 March 2008, first capture 07 Nov 2007): https://web.archive.org/web/20080310173127/http://www.trueghosttales.com/videos/ghost-picture-slideshow.php

2. The page source revealed the embedded YouTube video ID

Viewing the raw HTML of the 2008 Wayback capture revealed the original embed code, which is what led me to the video above:

<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2U3xfbZhPo0"></param>

3. shudog420's other uploads, and why they're probably not the original creator

I found two different archived snapshots of his channel/profile, from what appear to be two different points in time, with slightly different stats:

Via Archivarix Tube Search (tube.archivarix.net):

• 74 subscribers, joined Jan 1, 2006
• 5 videos total listed, all currently flagged "Live": "My Lil [N-word use removed by me]," "Bumbles Bounce," "Taco Fight," "Lets get it onnn..," and "Ghost on tape" (video ID Xs0hs2ugXxg)
• Notably, "ghosts Paranormal video" itself does not appear in this index, possibly a gap in their crawl data, or possibly evidence the video was removed earlier or more thoroughly than his other uploads

Via an archived old-style YouTube profile page:

• 8 videos are listed here (more than the Archivarix index shows): "nucalr" (1,048 views), "fat girl cant ride" (3,063 views), "lil punk" (268 views) [based on the thumbnail, this is the same video as the one containing the N-word, but renamed], "ghost crossing" (47,441 views. a THIRD ghost-related upload I hadn't found before), "taco fight" (4,938 views), "aww this is gonna be so good, i cant wait..." (646 views), "Ghost on tape" (7,850 views), and "ghosts Paranormal video" itself

Given the rest of his upload history is unrelated content, my read is that shudog420 was just one of many people re-hosting an already-circulating video rather than its original creator, which lines up with the same video ID showing up organically across unrelated forums in different countries around the same time. His other ghost-titled uploads ("Ghost on tape," "ghost crossing" with 47K views is nothing to sneeze at) may be worth someone else's look too, though they're outside the scope of what I originally remember.

The personal memory that started this (unconfirmed beyond my own recollection)

This part I can't back up with external documentation, I'm including it transparently as the actual origin of my search, not as something I expect anyone to verify exists independently:

I specifically remember a Dailymotion video (title something like "Ghost Pictures Gallery" or "Ghost Images Gallery") that used red slideshow text on black, scored to Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (the section used in The Exorcist), showing well-known ghost photos: the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, the Amityville "ghost boy," and the Chinnery "Backseat Driver" photo among other famous ghost images that anybody who is enthusiastic about this kind f thing would definitely recognize.

The part I remember most vividly is the opening: a sequence of 3 or 4 night-vision images of someone sleeping in a hospital bed. An orb moves into frame from the right, becomes a humanoid figure looking down at the sleeper, then exits left. This gave me actual nightmares as a kid.

I've since confirmed these specific hospital bed images are a real, independently circulating set sometimes called the "Sleep Study Ghost". they show up completely divorced from my video, in a 2014 slideshow by YouTube channel ParanormalAsso, and in a Ranker listicle:

• Ranker listicle: https://www.ranker.com/list/hospital-asylum-ghost-photos/eric-vega
• ParanormalAsso video reusing the same images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uPqdtmD38

This confirms I'm not misremembering source material that never existed, but I have not found the specific Dailymotion edit that used them as a cold open, and I'm not asking anyone to treat that specific edit as "proven" to exist. I'm hoping someone here recognizes it regardless, possibly as another reupload of the shudog420-adjacent video above.

What I'm still looking for

1. Any surviving copy of shudog420's "ghosts Paranormal video" (ID 2U3xfbZhPo0)
2. Any earlier "original" source for this content than shudog420's Jan 2006 upload, since i strongly believe he wasn't the original creator, and was just reuploading an already circulating video
3. If possible, the specific Dailymotion/Google Video mirror I remember watching around 2008, with the red-text/Tubular Bells styling and the hospital-bed orb sequence as its cold open. though since this specific part is memory based and not evidence based, it's outside the scope of this subreddit.
4. Anyone else who independently remembers this specific compilation or the hospital-bed sequence from a video of their own.

If anyone has an old download sitting around, recognizes the uploader, or even just remembers the "Sleep Study Ghost" opening from a similar video, I'd love to hear from you.

TL;DR: Tracing a confirmed-deleted, well-documented 2006 YouTube video ("ghosts Paranormal video" by shudog420, 750K+ views, independently linked across Spanish/Czech/Arabic/UK forums 2006–2008) that I believe is the source of, or closely related to, a Dailymotion ghost-photo slideshow I watched around 2008 (red text, Tubular Bells soundtrack, opening with a "Sleep Study Ghost" orb-to-figure sequence over a hospital bed). Looking for any surviving copy of either.

This one's a long shot. Hopefully you can help me uncover some silly childhood trauma! I posted this on TOMT first, but figured this place would be more appropriate

My friends and I used to be obsessed with ghosts. We called our friend group the "ghost club", and we'd stay in the school building during break/lunchtime and use the laptops to watch ghost videos and screamers. YouTube was blocked, but Dailymotion and Google Video weren't, so we'd use those instead. Most of the videos were re-uploads of videos that can be found on Youtube or elsewhere. A few years ago, I went looking for one that I vividly remember and couldn't find it.

The video was on Dailymotion, and it was called "Ghost Pictures Gallery" or "Ghost Images Gallery". It was a slideshow with red text, from what I remember, with Tubular Bells (specifically the part associated with The Exorcist) playing in the background. The video contained a bunch of famous ghost images: the "brown lady" (i think it's called) hovering over a staircase, that image of the supposed ghost child in the Amityville house, and the image of a man sitting in a car with a shadowy figure with glowing eyes behind him, among others. If you've ever been a ghost enthusiast, you probably know the pictures that I'm referring to.

The video opened with a slideshow of ghost pictures that I haven't seen anywhere since, and this is the part I remember most clearly, and that used to give me nightmares: it was a sequence of three or four images, likely taken with some kind of night vision, of someone sleeping in a bed (maybe a hospital bed?). An orb moves into frame in one image from the right side of the screen. In another it's changed into the shape of a humanoid figure looking down at the person sleeping into the bed, and then in the last image, the shape has become an orb again and is moving off of the left side of the screen, away from the sleeping person. If anyone knows where \*those\* images can be found, that'll be good enough for me.

If anyone can help here, that'd be great! Thank you in advance!

This one's a long shot. Hopefully you can help me uncover some silly childhood trauma!

My friends and I used to be obsessed with ghosts. We called our friend group the "ghost club", and we'd stay in the school building during break/lunchtime and use the laptops to watch ghost videos and screamers. YouTube was blocked, but Dailymotion and Google Video weren't, so we'd use those instead. Most of the videos were re-uploads of videos that can be found on Youtube or elsewhere. A few years ago, I went looking for one that I vividly remember and couldn't find it.

The video was on Dailymotion, and it was called "Ghost Pictures Gallery" or "Ghost Images Gallery". It was a slideshow with red text, from what I remember, with Tubular Bells (specifically the part associated with The Exorcist) playing in the background. The video contained a bunch of famous ghost images: the "brown lady" (i think it's called) hovering over a staircase, that image of the supposed ghost child in the Amityville house, and the image of a man sitting in a car with a shadowy figure with glowing eyes behind him, among others. If you've ever been a ghost enthusiast, you probably know the pictures that I'm referring to.

The video opened with a slideshow of ghost pictures that I haven't seen anywhere since, and this is the part I remember most clearly, and that used to give me nightmares: it was a sequence of three or four images, likely taken with some kind of night vision, of someone sleeping in a bed (maybe a hospital bed?). An orb moves into frame in one image from the right side of the screen. In another it's changed into the shape of a humanoid figure looking down at the person sleeping into the bed, and then in the last image, the shape has become an orb again and is moving off of the left side of the screen, away from the sleeping person. If anyone knows where *those* images can be found, that'll be good enough for me.

And as a disclaimer: no, i don't really believe in ghosts (though I did when I was younger). I just want to revisit something that scared me as a kid, and find it interesting! I just want to preempt that possible response.

If anyone can help here, that'd be great! Thank you in advance!