Not claiming anything yet. I found family VHS from 1998, county fair picnic, terrible audio, worse camera work. like, truly awful camera work.
At 12:41 there is a cow behind the picnic shelter standing at what looks like the edge of a flooded low spot. It is not the subject of the video. Nobody reacts. It is just there, half in frame, doing that calm thing people here keep noticing.
I can digitize a better clip if this is useful for historical examples. If it is just mud and nostalgia, fine, but I wanted eyes on it before the tape gets worse. The tape already sounds haunted.
