# Ghost captured on camera.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019 "2009-03-27T18:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/1 "2009-03-27T18:43:43Z")
…''and the [photo](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7967575.stm) wins " most convincing ghostly image competition" . :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/2 "2009-03-27T18:48:22Z")
I wonder why Emmett Kelly is so angry in the afterlife. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/3 "2009-03-27T18:48:25Z")
That’s about as scary as the Hubble Deep Field image. Oh. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/4 "2009-03-27T19:34:35Z")
Well, I guess that settles it. Who’s up for a human sacrifice and burning my college textbooks? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/5 "2009-03-27T20:23:21Z")
I really have to wonder why someone would automatically assume “ghost!” and not “some old lady who was taking a tour of the castle.” I mean…they say there are no mannequins or tour guides in period costume, but it doesn’t even look like period costume to me. It just looks like an old, scowling, woman in an overcoat. ETA: And is this really the best photo anyone can muster for proof of ghosts? Wow… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/6 "2009-03-27T20:30:57Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I really have to wonder why someone would automatically assume “ghost!” and not “some old lady who was taking a tour of the castle.” > > I mean…they say there are no mannequins or tour guides in period costume, but it doesn’t even look like period costume to me. It just looks like an old, scowling, woman in an overcoat. > > ETA: And is this really the best photo anyone can muster for proof of ghosts? Wow… It’s no different than the grainy photos of UFOs, bigfoot and Nessie. They have to be grainy, because clarity would expose the hoax. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-captured-on-camera/491019/7 "2009-03-27T20:40:15Z")
I thought maybe they had something at first, but I had assumed the photographer was the only person around at the time. Now knowing that it could have been another visitor- well, duh. But it reminds me of one of my favorite photos- a doctor that I work for and his wife stayed at the hotel that was in _The Shining_, and they had a picture taken in the hallway with him with one arm around his wife and the other hanging in mid-air. Then he digitally added a ghost like [these](http://www.freewebs.com/sheepies666/Materials/Ghosts%20on%20Black.JPG) so it looked like his other arm was around it, and they’re all three smiling as in a normal, happy vacation pic. It’s priceless- I want that picture.