The real Neverland thriller.

July 6, 2009 4:43 PM

Perhaps it was bound to happen eventually, but it seems Michael Jackson's ghost is already haunting the halls of Neverland Ranch. Whether or not the spirt was moonwalking is currently inconclusive.

During a Larry King interview with Jermaine Jackson at the ranch, a CNN camera crew inside MJ's bedroom suite catch an inadverdent shot of...Micheal Jackson's incorporeal spirit. Or someone's shadow. Or a lens abberation. You be the judge!

posted by zardoz (61 comments total)

Michael Jackson's ghost

Virtually indistinguishable from actual late 2000's Michael Jackson.
posted by qvantamon at 4:44 PM on July 6

You be the judge!

Okay: Guilty.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:45 PM on July 6 [7 favorites has favorites]

I heard he died..
posted by kozad at 4:47 PM on July 6

If he was gonna come back, you'd think it would have been as a zombie.
posted by The Card Cheat at 4:50 PM on July 6 [5 favorites has favorites]

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

If there are better words to describe Larry King, I don't know what they are.
posted by hifiparasol at 4:52 PM on July 6 [13 favorites has favorites]

If he was gonna come back, you'd think it would have been as a zombie.

That actually happened a few months before he died.
posted by hifiparasol at 4:53 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I'm disappointed he didn't moonwalk across the room.
posted by cazoo at 4:54 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

What?! Michael Jackson's dead? I didn't even know he was sick.
posted by marxchivist at 4:55 PM on July 6

I'm a little bit of a wimp (had to walk out of Drag Me To Hell early), but that video legitimately cheeped me out. Don't think that it's actually a ghost, but whatever.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:56 PM on July 6

I just saw this on Reddit mere seconds ago! MERE!

It looks super-de-duper fake.
posted by Bageena at 4:57 PM on July 6

Watched it again. Obviously a shadow, look at the light in the hallway. Still creepy.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:58 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Alien vs. Predator
posted by The Card Cheat at 4:58 PM on July 6

The funk of forty thousand years!
posted by Artw at 4:59 PM on July 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

That's just Michael teaching GG Allin how to moonwalk.

*sniff* Two angels who passed before their time.
posted by bunnytricks at 4:59 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Oh, for fuck's sake. At least they buried Elvis before the sightings started happening.
posted by loquacious at 5:01 PM on July 6 [8 favorites has favorites]

Are we gonna get a couple of decades of MJ rumors, like we used to get Elvis rumors, and Bruce Lee rumors before that?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:02 PM on July 6

Also if this turns out to be a hoax and he rises from the grave to finish the tour I'm going to suddenly have a lot more respect for him and a lot less respect for the media.
posted by loquacious at 5:03 PM on July 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

Breaking News: a terrible discovery in the neverland basement
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 5:03 PM on July 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

due to my strong personal convictions, i want to stress that this comment in no way endorses my belief in filming or watching what happened in mj's bedroom.
posted by the aloha at 5:04 PM on July 6

You have to actually die before you can reach hainthood, right?
posted by heyho at 5:04 PM on July 6

That's actually the ghost of the guy who hanged himself in The Wizard of Oz.
posted by billysumday at 5:04 PM on July 6

Miko's a dude??!?
posted by gman at 5:05 PM on July 6

Neverland does not need ghosts t be creepy
posted by mattoxic at 5:06 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Too soon.
posted by rokusan at 5:06 PM on July 6

They've officially announced that they are planting MJ at Forrest Lawn tomorrow morning. The cemetery is a quarter mile from the gate I take into the Warner Bros. lot to get to work. They're shutting down the road tonight, and I can expect an extra half-hour of commuting tomorrow morning, as well as swarms of press helicopters overhead all morning long.

Is Michael Jackson haunting me? You're goddamn right.
posted by Bookhouse at 5:10 PM on July 6 [8 favorites has favorites]

they are planting MJ at Forrest Lawn tomorrow morning

That just seems like a bad idea waiting to happen. Why not save the trouble and vandalism and just plant him at Neverland now instead of down the road when they realize they made a mistake?
posted by Roman Graves at 5:15 PM on July 6

Who?
posted by brundlefly at 5:16 PM on July 6

I love that Pepsi conspiracy. The real MJ died January 27, 1984. It's quite elegant.

Sadly, using "skin tone" and "shape of nose" to determine someone is an MJ imposter doesn't seem like the best possible approach to me.
posted by rokusan at 5:18 PM on July 6

*stands and faces the hounds of hell*
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:19 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Heh heh, that video was really well done. Made me laugh.
posted by painquale at 5:20 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

They've officially announced that they are planting MJ at Forrest Lawn tomorrow morning.

What the heck happened to cryo-freezing?

Also, what Roman Graves said, eponysterically and all. A shame he's not a Robin.
posted by rokusan at 5:24 PM on July 6

Can't be MJ. If it was he would be doing the moonwalk.
posted by marcocampos at 5:24 PM on July 6

From the post: Is Neverland just creepy enough to warrant a spook?

I don't know why in 2009 people think racist language is okay for a cheap laugh.
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:32 PM on July 6 [7 favorites has favorites]

It's OK when newspapers die, because we'll have CNN to do our investigative journalism.
posted by Nelson at 5:32 PM on July 6

Ghost or no ghost, Larry King sure has gotten ridiculously melodramatic.
posted by graventy at 5:33 PM on July 6

I suspect it was a fragment of of Uri Geller's ego.
posted by diogenes at 5:35 PM on July 6

Breaking News: a terrible discovery in the neverland basement

Modern day minstrelry - not just in the Transformers movies!
posted by billysumday at 5:52 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Mayor Curley... have you seen Gran Turino? If not, don't go. I got a feeling it would really ruin your 2009.
posted by banished at 6:11 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Run, Casper!
posted by fleetmouse at 6:16 PM on July 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

It looks super-de-duper fake.

It's... it's... a shadow. A real one, I'm pretty sure.
posted by brundlefly at 6:20 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I wasn't sure until the music started. Now I'm convinced.
posted by Sailormom at 6:29 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

I suspect it was a fragment of of Uri Geller's ego.

Or the shade of Corey Feldman's career.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:46 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Wow, class V full roaming.
posted by dirigibleman at 6:53 PM on July 6 [6 favorites has favorites]

Breaking News: a terrible discovery in the neverland basement

There's no basement in Neverland, silly!
posted by greatgefilte at 7:03 PM on July 6 [3 favorites has favorites]

Also, the comments at ew.com make YouTube commenters appear bright. Ho-leeeee shit!
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:06 PM on July 6

I was going to say he's a camera whore 'til the end, but its clear that where MJ is concerned, THERE IS NO END.
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:18 PM on July 6

They've officially announced that they are planting MJ at Forrest Lawn tomorrow morning.

Also, this makes me wonder what sort of fruit a MJ tree would bear?
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:22 PM on July 6

I just made a piece of toast, and I saw MJ's face staring out of it at me!
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:48 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Speaking of moonwalking...
posted by deCadmus at 8:24 PM on July 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

Goodbye Michael's Nose...
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 8:59 PM on July 6 [1 favorite has favorites]

Ghosts aren't real and neither was Michael Jackson.
posted by IvoShandor at 10:13 PM on July 6

Cyriak has enhanced footage...
posted by creeky at 11:02 PM on July 6 [2 favorites has favorites]

He slimed me :-/
posted by turgid dahlia at 2:42 AM on July 7

In Neverland Ranch look out for my ghost,
Unwigged, with nose collapsed,
Playing in the bedrooms with little children,
Whose accusations caused many mishaps.

With apologies to Patrick Kavanagh
posted by permafrost at 6:29 AM on July 7

Mystery solved.
posted by sephira at 7:12 AM on July 7

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posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:39 AM on July 7 [2 favorites has favorites]

Mystery solved.

OMG MICHAEL JACKSON'S BEEN REINCARNATED AS A CNN LIGHTING GUY !!!
posted by mazola at 8:43 AM on July 7

Mystery solved.

OF course that's what they want you to think... carry on sleeping sheeple!
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:48 AM on July 7

I told you guys it was fake. Just like the lunar landing. Word up!
posted by Bageena at 9:04 AM on July 7 [1 favorite has favorites]

Or the shade of Corey Feldman's career.

On a related note:

levarburton: Why, today of all days, would Corey Feldman dress up like Michael???
about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
posted by elfgirl at 1:00 PM on July 7

Will PopCap retroactively censor Plants Vs. Zombies?
posted by Artw at 2:59 PM on July 7