Caught on
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Done for scares in The Conjuring when a bedsheet is blown off of a clothesline, only to be briefly caught on a human figure.
Source: Bedsheet Ghost -
His failing is that someone clever enough to be capable of assisting her, would also be clever enough to outwit him, and thus all his machinations fall apart because Caleb caught on to the game and played into it, which Nathan didn't figure out until it was too late.
Source: Film / Ex Machina - The Big Bad of the first two seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise was only ever shown in silhouette; the official character name was "Humanoid Figure", but fans dubbed him "Future Guy" (which quickly caught on; even Memory Alpha used the name for a while).
Source: The Voice
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