Did a viral video really show dead bodies moving on their own in a morgue? No, that's not true: The video, showing four different scenes of bodies appearing to move their legs as four different women sat next to them writing some kind of report or doing paperwork, had the typical glitches of footage generated using artificial intelligence. A specialized detection tool indicated it was likely the video was generated using OpenAI's Sora model.
The video appeared in a post on X (archived here) published on November 16, 2025 by an account named "@MemeKingc" and with a caption that read:
Bodies Move on Their Own?!
Bodies Move on Their Own?! pic.twitter.com/Lg6SZBGkJL
-- Meme King (@MemeKingc) November 16, 2025
This is what the first frame of the video looked like:
(Image source: screenshot of @MemeKingc video on X.com)
The video showed several glitches typical of videos generated using artificial intelligence tools:
- An oddly distorted timestamp with weird letters and/or numbers
- Two different clocks on the wall showing different times
- Inconsistent and odd-looking doors and shelves on a freezer
- Inconsistent length of some of the shelves or gurneys
- One of the gurneys has different legs with wheels on both ends, one bent, one straight.
- One of the women appears to be writing on a piece of paper she holds in the air
- The foot on one of the corpses appears to grow an extra tag as it moves
- An odd-looking sink without a hole or drainpipe at the bottom
(Image source: collage created by Lead Stories of glitches in the @MemeKingc video on X.com)
Specialized detection tool Hive said it was 99.9% likely the video contained "AI-generated or deepfake content", with Sora being the most likely model that was used to generate it:
(Image source: Hive results for @MemeKingc video on X.com)
