This post falsely claims digitally edited videos of car crashes as scientifically unexplainable occurrences - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
August 24, 2022
A post is being shared on social media that shows a video of cars getting crashed into thin air. The post claims that science can’t explain this. Let’s fact-check the post in this article.
Claim: Scientifically unexplainable or supernatural car crashes.
Fact: The clips of various cars crashing into thin air are taken from a shot film named ‘Ghost Crash’ made by an Italian Visual Effects Artist Donato Sansone. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
After performing a reverse image search on Yandex with screenshots from the video, we were led to a news article published by a UK-based Inews website. The article titled ‘Ghost crash? The explanation behind this viral ‘supernatural’ video.’ A photo collage in the article contains the same cars from the viral post. This article explains that snopes.com has debunked this video as a hoax.
We searched with relevant keywords on the internet and found the fact-check article published by Snopes. As per this article, real car crash videos were used to create this video, and cars were digitally erased from the original clips. This was created by an Italian Artist named Donato Sansone. All the clips from the viral video can be seen in his short film titled Ghost crash; it can be watched here and here. It can be concluded from this evidence that the car crashes that the post claims as supernatural or scientifically unexplainable are actually digitally created by Donato Sansone.
There is a clip in the viral video in which a man is mysteriously thrown into the air; we found a YouTube compilation video of weird and scary videos posted by a YouTube channel named Slapped Ham. The host gave no explanation in the video, and we could not trace the source of the clip.
To summarise, this post falsely claims digitally edited videos of car crashes as scientifically unexplainable occurrences.