This happened last night, in a fairly old suburb of Highgate in Perth, Australia.

It was a warm winter's night, and it was about 8 pm when we said goodbye to our friends at the pub and started making our way home. I only had half a cider and my partner had one pint of beer. We were definitely sober.

As we walked by a fairly lit park with outdoor workout machines, my partner stops and points at the eliptical machine and goes "Hey look! There's a ghost on that exercise machine!", with the intention of scaring me as he knew that I was superstitious.

I looked over at the eliptical machine which was about 10 metres away, and sure enough, it was moving with conviction, as it someone was executing a high intensity workout.

I started freaking out and I was so pissed off at him and hissed " Let's get the fuck out of here, are you kidding me?! Don't stop just leave!". This stem from my south east Asian cultural superstition of if you see something weird, don't say anything. Don't point it out. Keep walking and don't look back.

He just stood there, confused and went pale after 3 seconds of realising that the elliptical machine has not lost any momentum.

I kept harrassing him to move and not look back.... as he kept looking back stubbornly, puzzled and wanting to know if the machine is still moving. He confirmed that even 20 metres down the road, the machine had not lost momentum.

Finally he said to me "Babe, I know your culture requires you to ignore the supernatural, but my American culture requires me to communicate with it, conduct an investigation and put it on TV" 😅😂

In the heat of the moment of course I was thinking with my panicked lizard brain and did not take out my phone to record the incident.

We did try to debunk the ghost theory. Was someone on it a second prior to us walking by? If so why did it not lose momentum after a few seconds? This theory did not quite fit bill.

Was someone playing a prank and attached strings to the elliptical machine? Why the heck would this be the case?

Here is a link to the exercise machine

Here's the location of the park

The park has a few 100 year old fig trees for reference.