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Mysterious Light Disappears From Gym Cam

Many Viewers Think Light At Fitness Club Is Ghost

POSTED: 8:38 pm CDT October 3, 2008
UPDATED: 9:00 pm CDT October 3, 2008

If it was a ghost at a local gym, it looks like it's gone.

In September, KMBC reported on a mysterious light that was captured on a motion-activated surveillance camera at Anytime Fitness in Overland Park. The recording was made during a two-hour period on Sept. 12.

The mystery is that no one was in the building at 95th Street and Quivira Road when the light was seen moving around the equipment.

More than 600,000 people watched the story on KMBC.com.

Some people called the gym, claiming to be a medium.

"One of them grabbed his head and said he felt someone died here from blunt force trauma. I assured him that was not the case and he said, 'Maybe it was a tumor,'" said Kim Peterson with Anytime Fitness.

Several people said the light was definitely supernatural.

"They sent me an e-mail saying it wasn't a ghost, but an angel trying to warn me about a piece of equipment and I should check the equipment in the gym," Peterson told KMBC's Bev Chapman.

Peterson said that an equipment vendor came the next day and discovered two pins were missing from a weight machine. The pins were soon replaced.

More than half of the people who contacted KMBC about the video think it is a ghost. Others said it's a bug in the camera or headlights from a passing car.

The light has not appeared since KMBC aired the story.

Peterson said they've had so much fun with the fitness phantom that they've decided to run a new member special through Halloween.

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