I read recently of a hoax in Thailand in 2000. It was a video of a monk in a forest calling upon ‘spirits’. Apparently it was in the ‘Kham Chanot’ forest. Its quoted “one spirit was of an impossibly tall and skinny man w/ no shirt, running in the forest howling and screaming.”

They found out it was a man named Kitti Papasarobol who faked the video… it sounded very interesting.
I’ve searched everywhere for this video said to be aired on many T.V stations in Thailand at the time.. but I can’t find it. Does anyone know what prank I’m talking about, and possibly have a link to said video? It sounds neat.

Thanks!
~Erowin

Well, I would probably start by looking at this, since I have found the site to be VERY reliable…

The Thailand Ghost Swindle

In late April and early May of 2000, TV news shows in Thailand repeatedly aired apparently authentic footage of a ghostly seance that had occurred deep in the heart of the Kham Chanot forest. The video had been shot at night using an infra-red camera, and it showed a man dressed as a Buddhist monk making contact with other-worldly spirits. One spirit appeared as an impossibly tall and skinny man who wore no shirt and ran through the forest, howling, screaming, and waving his arms. The shakiness of the footage, combined with its sounds of the night-time forest, produced an air of eerie authenticity…...

(I was able to bring it up by searching the MoH from the main page, but not here in the forum….go figure.)

And a quick search brought this info up….

* * * UPDATED * * *

          Thai ‘Ghost’ Caller Arrested
          Bangkok - Police have arrested a man believed to be the mastermind behind Thailand’s great ghost swindle, police said on Thursday.

          Kitti Papasarobol, who produced a widely-viewed videotape in which he dressed as a monk and supposedly contacted a screaming ghost, was arrested late on Wednesday night on charges of cheating one of his followers out of 300 000 baht ($7700).

          A video showing Kitti dressed as a Buddhist monk and contacting ghoulish figures, including one terrifying and real-looking howling spectre, has been shown repeatedly on television broadcasts in past weeks and has been the subject of in-depth articles in several newspapers.

          The ghost in the video was extremely tall and skinny, wore no shirt and appeared in the video screaming and waving its arms in a forest at night.

          After the release of the video, a number of people travelled to the area, in north-east Thailand’s Udon Thai province, where the film was supposedly shot, to look for ghosts.

          Before the video was released, a woman whom Kitti had told he could contact ghosts gave him approximately 300 000 baht so he could improve her fortunes through his spirit links, police said.

          But when Kitti was exposed as a fake, the woman pressed charges against him for cheating her out of money, police said.

          Police said they believed the “ghost” in the video was actually an acquaintance of Kitti standing on a box.

          Kitti has denied the charge of cheating and has maintained he can genuinely contact ghosts. - Sapa-AFP

          • Story originally published by •
          News 24 / South Africa - May 25 2000

It referrences the video, but doesn’t list a link….

DavePrime - 02 July 2009 11:21 PM

(I was able to bring it up by searching the MoH from the main page, but not here in the forum….go figure.)

Probably because the search function on the forum only searches the forum.  The search function on the main page searches all of MoH.  (Well, main page/blog and forum.  Not sure about the Hoaxepedia.)

But good searching, Dave.

Awwwwww.   Thanks!

The location of older pages on the site is actually kind of a mess. There’s random stuff all over the place: old, hand-coded pages from the first few years of the site, hoaxipedia pages, and now the hoax archive. I’m trying to consolidate all the hand-coded pages and the hoaxipedia stuff into the hoax archive. But it’s a slow process. (The hoaxipedia, I discovered, has annoying software quirks, which is why I decided to get rid of it.)

I’ve only recently started looking through the old forum and such.  So far, it has been pretty easy to navigate.  the only odd part is that this thread came up okay in a search, but trying to get there from the main page just isn’t happening.

Kind of a “You can’t get there from here” kind of thing.

I think you have put together a pretty terrific site, Alex. That’s why I’ve stuck around so long!
(Well, that and the fully stocked Med Lockers.)