Thaninee Chuensomchit/Vecteezy
In Bolivia, the sport of soccer rules the roost. Estadio Hernando Siles is the largest soccer stadium in Bolivia, allowing around 49,000 people at capacity. And now it’s taken on a more of a spectral persona, if a stadium can in fact have a persona. Just over a decade ago there was a mysterious shadowed figure of a person seen sprinting through the soccer stadium. It was traversing the stands rapidly, and it was not letting the physical universe get into its way. This “spirit” ran right through a row of people witnessed by thousands on a nationally televised event, and nobody even bothered looking at it.
The video of the entity soon went viral, prompting reactions from ghost hunters and sports fans all across the internet. Practicality and reason amongst otherwise intelligent people got tossed aside. Speculation ran amuck. It seemed nobody quite knew what to make of it.
Blessing or a curse?
Some local fans saw this apparition as a curse on their team. Afterall, they’ve still never won the World Cup. In fact, they’ve only ever made three appearances. Those were in 1930, 1950 and 1994. But after a while the rumors died down. You might say the soccer ghost went radio silent.
Then last year, it happened again. On camera. Right in the middle of everybody. Dead center. We can’t guarantee it was the same entity. But it was allegedly running in the same direction.
There will always be retractors. Surely there was a technical explanation for it. Mismatched impedance? Multipath distortion? Perhaps a spell of cross-cutting into the Chroma key? We don’t know what that is either.
Fans are perhaps even more concerned about the more recent incident. Especially the more superstitious ones. Afterall, a second sighting on a national level implies certain creepy things the locals just can’t seem to overlook.
