Strange Mist Caught On Camera MUST Be The Ghosts Of Seven Monks

As a self-proclaimed rational and scientific ghost hunter, Lee always tries to debunk anything he captures in a photograph or video and in a video posted at the weekend, it can't be denied that Lee has captured something unique and interesting.

The video was captured in children's play centre in Mansfield, The village and shows a strange, ghostly mist drifting past the lens of night-vision security camera.

Take a look at the video below and see what you think...

While Lee himself has remained rational about the footage, describing it as nothing more than "ghostly mist," others have got their hands on the video and jumped to some wild conclusions.

Lee however did tell Huff Post that on the site of the building there once stood a barn "on farm land which had a secret tunnel to St. Peter’s church 500 yards away from the location. Monks at the church used the barn to hide in. The barn was eventually burnt to the ground with seven monks inside."

It seems like a bit of a leap of faith to me to assume that this smoke must be the spirits of dead monks but many people commenting on the video have said it looks like spirits walking past the camera, "the first manifestations of something such as a ghost or poltergeist."

Mist is caused by tiny droplets of water suspended in the air, it most commonly occurs when warm, moist air suddenly drops in temperature, often when it meets cooler air. It happens in cold building when you breath and the air warmed by your lungs is visible.

In large buildings this could occur when warm air from one part of the building flows through into a colder or unheated room. This could well be the case during a paranormal investigation when one room might be packed full of the researchers and the air warmed by their bodies escapes into another room, as it's night time and the venue is close, the room is probably unheated.

But Lee did say "What is even stranger is that the vigil team did not see it while they were there, even when it was appearing on the CCTV." This too is pretty easy to explain and backs up the mist theory.

Night-vision cameras use infrared light sources to see in the dark and it just so happens the small particles are highly reflective when drenched in this light, despite it being invisible to the naked eye.

This is the cause of the "orbs" on television shows like Most Haunted when bits of dust fly past the camera's light source and water vapour in the air is just as reflective, the kind of water vapour you'd find in mist. It would be visible to the camera with its infrared light but in a dark room it would be very hard to see and we know the room is dark, hence the use of a night-vision camera.