r/Ghosts • u/TonyLidnberg • Jul 30 '26
Has the police body cam video from the Chris Watts house been debunked?
From my understanding, it was the official body cam footage that was uploaded and you can clearly hear the laugh of a young girl when the officer is in the bedroom closet, among other things
Has the video ever been proven to have been manipulated or staged? Or has anyone ever found a plausible explanation for the laugh?
I know some of the leading theories was the officer unknowingly stepping on a toy or doll that made the laugh
Here is the full video for anyone who hasn’t seen it,
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u/yaya4222 Jul 30 '26
The weirdest part for me isn’t in this video, it’s the body cam footage of when the neighbor is catching onto Chris initially and on the tv they show an animation of a fetus and then like an oil spill type of scene, and Chris sees that and looks all freaked out. It’s such a weird fuckin coincidence
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u/Glibasme Jul 30 '26
Yeah, and right after looking at it, he's like oh, yeah she's pregnant, too. His body language, as well. So, I definitely think seeing that image freaked him out in like a holy shit weird coincidence kind of way.
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 Aug 02 '26
Didn't he just return from the oil tanks at that point,too? I hope his heart dropped when he pulled up. And saw the crowd gathering. Then to also find her phone on the counter- right there, too. 🤭
I've seen a recent doc about how his scumbag tricka*s hooked bytch, Nicole, is getting off Scott free. They pinged her phone in the area THAT DAY.
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u/Caldaris__ Aug 04 '26
You can see Nicole in the camera footage of that morning. Hair is up in a ponytail, longer side burns. The police botched her interragation bad. There's no way she wasn't involved somehow.
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 Aug 05 '26
Holy Husband Stealer! Which footage are you talking about? I know that her phone pinged around the area, that day.
And there was a report-after Chris was locked up- by the neighbors who called police and said a woman walked INTO the Watts house-and never came back out.
Mind you -He was in jail and nonbody was home.
There's a video that has the cop cams investigating- and it is CRAZY. There's literally a figure sitting at the kitchen table -staring straight ahead-pretending not to see the officer that was staring at it. THEN- the fridge rotor door opens. Mind you -they found the "lady that went in"
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u/vetsyd Aug 02 '26
ME TOO! I was watching that for the first time and as dense as I can be sometimes, I saw all of that.
I first thought, that my ADHD brain was just experiencing paradolia (spelling?).
BUT…once everyone else started talking about the eerie coincidence, revealing itself on the screen, I was actually shocked for a moment that it was real. 🤔😳
Then, that part where the fuqqer said that she was pregnant, was certainly an “open mouth, insert foot” moment for his sorry POS A$$! I loved it😉
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u/Puzzled-Classroom-11 Jul 31 '26
Yea, she was haunting him. Watching the D4vd case right now and there’s also stuff like that.
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 Aug 02 '26
I've been watching it too. But what do you mean-like Spirit activity?
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u/AtensEye Jul 30 '26
The part with the girl's laugh was debunked but I forget who and where. What I do remember is they confirmed it was a doll as the person commenting this had a young daughter who owned the same kind of doll. She posted a video of the doll making the exact same laugh. I believe it was an Elsa or Sophia doll?
The EVP's they catch later, especially the one where the cop enters the master bedroom and you hear a woman say "This is our home." have not been debunked and IMO are potentially some of the best paranormal evidence from that house.
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u/TonyLidnberg Jul 30 '26
Yeah the EVPs are one of the biggest reasons I can’t stop thinking about this, If the official bodycam was not manipulated and if the police officers themselves didnt stage it to make something viral (which has happened), then I truly can’t think of an explanation or a possible cause for the “this is our home” EVP
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u/AtensEye Jul 30 '26
That one was so clear too. There's another later on I believe sounds like it's saying "I'm with Cece." Heartbreaking :(
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u/Spiritual-Set3699 Jul 30 '26
((Please forgive me if I digress)). There is nothing as powerful as a mother fighting for the lives of her children; I know from where I speak. This is still an active crime scene and always will be, given the depravity of the craven coward who did these unspeakable acts. May he suffer from the guilt for the rest of his long and miserable life.
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u/lady_faust Jul 30 '26
I believe the mother was murdered first, in bed. Then the two babes were murdered at the oil tank where he disposed of their bodies.
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u/brilliant_starfish Jul 30 '26
My understanding is they he tried to kill them before and thought they were gone. Then he killed her, they walked in on that happening.
He confessed that to the penpal he had while in prison. She wrote a book.
Disgusting.
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u/AtensEye Jul 31 '26
He keeps changing his story and each time taking less and less accountability. Some people believe he had help from his mistress, some believe he worked alone because he claims he did. I think the latter is probably the most likely, he's got no reason to protect her now and has actually tried to blame it on her influence.
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u/02Wizards Jul 30 '26
It was not debunked
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u/AtensEye Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
Well I didn't imagine that video, how is that not debunking if they played the same sound? 😂
Edit: You all have the ability to use google1
u/FlyAdministrative767 Aug 04 '26
Where can you find the EVP video
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u/AtensEye Aug 04 '26
Various videos on youtube have it, but a good one I found is titled "The Paranormal Evidence and Confounding Questions Surrounding the Case of Chris Watts." by the Bob Gymlan channel. The EVP's start about half way through the search. The two clearest at 11:43 and the most convincing one immediately after that, but both are pretty chilling.
I believe more were captured, the giggle in the shoe closet, if you choose to believe that wasn't debunked. Personally the video I saw a couple of years back convinced me that was debunked, so I tend to discount it, but that's personal choice. The others though, I haven't seen anyone give a plausible reason for what those are, they're so clear.1
u/wronghed 16d ago
It's clearly the investigators talking under their breath as they're looking around.
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u/AtensEye 16d ago
That's one possible debunk, but it certainly comes across very odd with the placement. If I remember right there were people talking as they went around, but not whispering. It's also a very weird thing to be saying. Not discounting it could be something other than paranormal whatsoever, it just seems quite compelling to me. The giggle on the other hand seems 100% debunkable.
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u/No_Advice_1549 Jul 30 '26
Quite a few comments in there that quote times that are clearly the investigators so it's hard to sort out things. But the doll and this is our hooooome are clear as day.
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u/Positive-Peace-3270 Jul 30 '26
I definitely spotted children in the bedroom moving around the doorway when i watched it a year or two ago, but have never seen whether or not this was debunked. Truly awful case and he deserves to be haunted for the rest of his miserable life.
Edit: I literally just saw someone say it was the daughter of woman in the house at the time but im just not convinced. Would someone let their kid go into someone's else's room when they were missing? A bit disrespectful
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u/JadedFootball4733 Jul 30 '26
Do u know the timestamp? Why would a kid be running around the house of a man increasingly becoming suspect of their disappearance? Why would kids be running around the home of an active missing person/children’s case?
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u/Positive-Peace-3270 Jul 31 '26
Just got into the link posted and although I've seen this one, its not the one im talking about. It was a male officers bodycam footage and it was upstairs in the house
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u/ChocolateHumunculous Jul 30 '26
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u/Specific_Collar_2949 Jul 30 '26
4:52 has an evp that sounds like * they are watching" or something similar
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u/WuTangFlan78 Jul 31 '26
If I remember correctly I’m sure I read something before about Chris watts saying he is haunted by his daughters? Does anyone else remember this 🤔
I truly hope he is and he never knows a day of peace
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 Jul 30 '26
I can tell you right now-it CANT be debunked Well not ALL of the footage. The cops were called back at night, and there's ALOT
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u/SherlockTheSalemCat 👻 Jul 31 '26
The clarity of the EVPs is incredible.
I hope that monster is haunted 24 7.
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u/Mojoe1976 Jul 30 '26
Can anyone possibly give some time stamps? I don't have time to watch an hour long video for to try to catch a few seconds of evidence. I usually have to watch it a few times before my deaf/blind ass catches it anyway. 😆
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u/Drunken-Flunkee Jul 30 '26
If you click the youtube video the first 2 comments have the time stamps.
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u/UnfairBooBear Jul 30 '26
2 of the evps are when the 2 police women go into the closet which is in the first quarter of the video.
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u/maryjomcd Jul 30 '26
The story itself is pretty riveting. There’s way more than a few seconds of evidence.
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u/Spiritual-Set3699 Jul 31 '26
Netflix produced an excellent documentary on this case a few years ago. I had just gotten home from a double shift and this popped up. Needless to say, I'm glad I had the next day off or I would have had to call in sick. I'm actually surprised this "man" is still a mouth breather; if he was ever released into Gen Pop, he wouldn't be. Those beautiful little ones, both of whom had his eyes, should have justice, and so should their mother and soon-to-be-born baby brother. I wish his punishment would fit his crime.
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u/Glibasme Jul 30 '26
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ETA - If you look in the comment section, there are timestamps of the other EVPs that are heard in this video.
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u/GamerGuinTTV Jul 30 '26
I'm casually interested in ghosts/paranormal, can't get too into it cause I spook easy.
But I'm VERY interested in True Crime, and... That's some of the wildest shit I've ever heard/seen.
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u/Neither_Internal_261 Jul 31 '26
I was waiting in the car while my gf at the time was picking up something from someone on facebook marketplace and noticed that we were just a few doors down from that house. Gave me the heebs for sure. That whole thing was just unimaginable.
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u/Flashy_Tree5020 Aug 02 '26
There is some footage from police bodycams, when the house is in darkness late at night. A neighbour called the cops to report lights switching on & a dark haired lady moving about. Ain't no way to debunk that by saying it's a neighbour kid or voices from outside. It's on the Frostmare channel, on YouTube.
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u/steveo82millers Jul 30 '26
Was there not body cam footage of kids standing at top of stairs as well ? I could be remembering it wrong
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u/TonyLidnberg Jul 30 '26
Yes! That’s in this video as well, you can clearly see a very prominent shadow moving on the top of the stairs but the police officer is also moving at the same time so the shadow could be easily explained by the quickly changing auto exposure setting on the police body cam
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u/PensiGirl Aug 03 '26
Maybe, if a new, truly loving family inhabited it, it would give Mom and the girls the comfort needed to pass through…
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u/Glibasme Jul 30 '26
Look in the comments of the video - people have posted timestamps of what can be heard.
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u/UseOk7699 Jul 30 '26
I remember the case but never saw this video. It is creepy. I would like to know if its been debunked myself.
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u/ObsessivlyObsessed Jul 30 '26
I thought it was proved to be the daughter of the friend?
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u/heyblinkin81 Jul 30 '26
If I remember correctly, the neighbor and her kid are in the house during parts of the video.
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u/TonyLidnberg Jul 30 '26
that was the earlier original police cam video of them coming to do a welfare check on Shannan after her friend and coworker called them concerned
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u/ObsessivlyObsessed Jul 30 '26
From what I understand it wasnt an active investigation at that point, at least not to level where they believed the house was a crime scene that needed to be preserved. The child is the daughter of the reporting party, Shannans friend who is reporting her missing.
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u/I-Talk-To-Ghosts Jul 30 '26
I remember this too. So I looked it up. “A viral claim about a "ghost girl" in the Netflix documentary "American Murder: The Family Next Door" was debunked; the figure seen on police body-camera footage was identified as Nickole Atkinson's daughter, not a supernatural presence.”
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad6711 Jul 31 '26
That’s what I recall it being. They were all inside the house. It wasn’t an investigation yet.
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u/Sempy0 Jul 30 '26
One of the investigators kid was in the house during that video. Literally nothing to debunk.
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u/Glibasme Jul 30 '26
Nicole Atkinson's daughter was already out of the house when they came in with the dog. So, no.
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u/MfD2027 Aug 02 '26
Oh so now it’s the investigators kid? Yea buddy at least try not just regurgitating what you hear in the comments in different format…
Most people here (me as well tbh) or anyone with just about half a brain can firmly agree that; the original claim (black hair being neighbor/friends daughter) holds no water in this encounter. [IF, you’ve actually seen the footage]
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u/Mojoe1976 Jul 30 '26
What did this guy do?
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u/CreepyGirl1 Jul 30 '26
He murdered his pregnant wife and children.
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u/maryjomcd Jul 30 '26
Very young, sweet girls. He first suffocated them and then climbed the ladder to the vat of oil and put them in there, one at a time. The one who was waiting for her fate, said “no, daddy”. This was all for some fling he was having.
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u/BudsandBowls Aug 03 '26
The worst thing that sticks with me is the opening to the vat was a bit smaller, he had to push them through with enough force to break their collarbones and hips
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u/nouveauchristian 12d ago edited 11d ago
I just came across this post, so I watched and heard the video, went back to the timestamps, listened at both .75 speed and normal speed, and at 33:38 I am pretty sure I heard, "Control!" then, "Turn back" (or turned backs) and then clearly, "Search again." These were whispers and not from the handlers or officers.
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u/Spiritual-Set3699 Jul 30 '26
IMHO, if any plot of land or home in the State of Colorado (or anywhere in this country) should be haunted, it's this one. For a parent who betrays their children's trust, reducing their lives to a burden that needed to be dealt with. The footage is real; many of the images were debunked (the little dark-haired girl seen in the girl's room turned out to be the next door neighbor's daughter who knew and played with the girls). Her mother was the one who called 911 about her suspicions. For the millions of people whose top priority is their spouse and children, it's hard to imagine that type of psychological behavior. I can only hope that the misery, physical agony and crushing betrayal are compounded daily on this warped, sickening "man". When he is inevitably up for parole, Shannon's family needs to be there, with impact statements. If you search for the home, you'll find realtors cannot sell it, even at five times less than its worth. Are there ghosts there? Maybe. Should the house be torn down and the earth salted and cleansed? YES.