- Joined
- May 15, 2021
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- Rural New York State
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This was a difficult video to shoot for many reasons, including the steel grave markers, as well as the profound sadness of the place.
I also have a ghost story, with video evidence to back it up; but am hesitant to share it. You'll probably think I'm nuts when I describe what happened without the video to back it up; but what the video would illustrate would be that one of the decedents didn't want their tombstone recorded. So publishing it seems... wrong.
I may obscure the identifying information and publish the video when I have the time, but it would be quite a chore because of the erratic nature of the drone's behavior in front of that one stone.
Most of the drone's quirky behavior while I was shooting in the cemetery can be explained by magnetic disturbance from the hundreds of markers. A few minor moments of weirdness seemed more like child ghosts playing with the drone.
But one grave seemed to react violently to the drone, eventually attempting to pull it toward the stone from about six feet (two meters) away to destroy it. I wound up landing it in the grass inches in front of the stone because pulling back on the stick did nothing and the OA didn't kick in.
The controller and the drone have been calibrated. I've had no problems with the controls other than at that one grave, which defied multiple efforts to record the stone. I'm not aware of anything about a granite stone that would throw off a drone's systems and override the OA. So take it for what it's worth.