Ghost? Glare? Arizona trucker shares footage of chilling sighting

Fox10 Phoenix ^ | March 11, 2023 | Lindsey Ragas

[Twotone]

A truck driver passing through Arizona says his dash cam appears to have caught what looks like a ghost – but of course, that's unconfirmed.

William Church said he was driving on SR 87 near mile marker 200 around 2:30 a.m. on March 11 when he passed by a transparent figure standing on the side of the road.

Church says he was between Phoenix and Payson with no cars in sight.

He described the figure as "just standing in the roadway as I passed by looks like you can see the lines through the legs making the figure."

SR 87 has seen its fair share of deadly car crashes as it's one of the state's main highways to get to and from mountain communities.

[Perseverando]

That’s cultural appropriation!

What? The ghost? You hate him because he's white? LOL!

[Vision]

No the women. Ghostbusters are men.

[Notthemomma]

Sigh.

That is so obviously a 4-legged animal, with its head initially down, with side-glare from the vehicle and an unfocused camera. A deer.

[RedMonqey]

It’s either a deer or coyote.

[Kartographer]

Baby do you dig g your man......

[Political Junkie Too]

I think it's a weird refraction of the road sign that the driver is passing. What looks like "legs" is probably the blacked out part of the sign where the road speed is printed.

-PJ

[DPMD]

Truckers; uppers; hallucinations.

[Red Badger]

hallucinations don’t usually show up on videos...............

[know.your.why]

Glitch in the Matrix.

[Organic Panic]

The ghost of Corn Pop

[maddog55]

It’s a coyote.. tail, 4 legs and a head.

[MayflowerMadam]

He was a bad dude.

[GMThrust]

Not saying this is real, but the image is stationary on the road. If the image was a reflection from inside the cab, then it would have to move inside for it to remain in the same place on the road outside.

[GMThrust]

Did that look like a reflection of a sign? In your own example, the sun, the reflection is another sun. So in this case, the sign appears as a human standing there and not a sign?

[dr_lew2]

I’m sayin’ it was “engineered” by a driver side door mounted spotlight.

The image certainly does correspond to the sign. Of course note that these signs use “corner reflectors” ( similar to salt grains ) that reflect light back along the incident direction.

The reflection line from the sign to the ( assumed ) image on the windshield places the light source to the left of the camera position, which is presumably hand held by the driver.

[Beowulf9]

I saw an interview with the couple talking about how they saw it, can anyone tell me where to find that interview ? Link?