As someone who doesn't "believe" in ghosts (I wish we used a better term, because belief shouldn't enter into the equation when it comes to this stuff), that clip did leave me a little unnerved. If it wasn't full-blown fakery, then it might have been a quadruped animal whose silhouette was distorted by shadows or digital video artifacting.
It is kinda freaky though. Years of watching horror movies gives us the ability to fill in the blanks with something like that, and it's easy to imagine some kind of slender humanoid writhing across the hallway, or crawling on all fours.
I can see why the producers used that episode for the pilot, because once the image clicks into place in your head and you recognize the shape, it's pretty scary to imagine.
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