Posted on 09/27/2014 6:55:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On Saturday Officer Karl Romero was keeping an eye on surveillance cameras around the station when he spotted something in the sally port. A sally port is a controlled gate or passage in a fortified place.
Romero said what he saw looked like a ghost walking across the lot, right through cages and a gate.
He reported it to his supervisors.
Detectives said there is no way in or out of the secured area without the gates opening and an alarm sounding. Police said they hear strange noises and see unexplained images in the lobby of the building, too.
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As it happens “live” if still is recording over a tape....
If there was an old image on the tape, it will still show up “live”
Which begs the question, where does the monitor get its input? If the monitor input comes directly from the camera, it doesn’t matter what is or was on the tape.
Like I said, I'm not an expert, but I think the camera records directly to the tape first and then it feeds to the monitor...which would explain the ghost image...it was already on the tape and the current footage recorded over it
Good question...
It very well could come from the video output of the recorder.
Too bad we’ll never know since this story was obviously just fluff, filler since there’s nothing they consider important happening anywhere.
Since it's a jail/prison, it should be a live feed to the monitor with a back-up recording system. We had cameras all over the prison I worked in. Camera images were viewed via multiple monitors within the prison's arsenal. The views automatically changed on the monitors on a regular basis. The back-up recording system was in the arsenal as well. Everything was controlled by the officer who worked in there. He could change the angle of the cameras, pan in and out, and trigger the recording button. Our camera system worked in conjunction with a microwave alarm system around the prison perimeter. When an alarm was triggered, the camera in that section would automatically turn and focus on the area, and begin recording. Perimeter patrol would be sent to that spot to check out what had triggered the alarm, and the officer in the arsenal would watch it all from the camera image on the monitor.
My grandma used to scare my dad when he was little with stores about her. Told him that the screaming noises he heard outside at night (which were really catfights) were being made by La Llorona out to take any kids she found....He didn't go out at night for a long long time.
The Cal Youth Authority ran an institution in Whittier CA from 1892 until about 2002. The wards (youthful offenders) used to wear cadet uniforms up until the 1930s.
In the 70-90s I heard various ghost stories from the employees. At one time the incidents were so frequent the asst superintendent was assigned to interview anyone who saw a ghost.
Several control room officers working the night shift saw wards in cadet uniforms (usually 1 at a time) walk up the driveway to the sally port, through the chain link fence and out toward whittier blvd.
The superintendent used to let staff working double shifts sleep downstairs in the vacant shpt’s house. A guy I worked with was asleep on the couch one night and something grabbed his blanket and threw it against the wall on the other side of the room.
Those are my stories and I’m sticking to them.
It’s Espanola, the cops are probably driving lowriders with a lumanaria on top.
It’s Andy Kaufman.
I prefer the more modern and anatomically-correct term "Kill Box".
I say probably analog cameras, cabled to a distribution unit which feeds out to the monitors and the recorders (which may or may not be digital). The various feeds are usually buffered, switched and amplified in a muxer circuit with multiple channels going through a single chip.
Crosstalk between adjacent video channels can and does occur which can create a ghost image of one channel on another. So someone walking across a room seen by one camera, especially if it is a high contrast image, can bleed into another camera's feed.
THAT is the horse that belongs to those hoof beats, I believe.
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