Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s no such thing as ghosts. Or ghouls, specters, phantoms, spirits, etc. However, people keep taking pictures of things and claiming they are ghosts. Just like with UFO pictures, most of them are debunked and proven through careful analysis to be double exposures, photoshopped or other things.
Yet, just like with UFO photos, I’m sure there are some pictures that could not be rationally explained. I’m not talking about the “floating orbs” which really just look like water spots on the lens or light reflections. Does anyone know where I can find these kinds of photos? It’s Halloween time so someone must be able to scare up a couple.
Please don’t jump into this thread to say that ghosts aren’t real or that anyone who believes in them is an idiot. Thanks.
I have to say, the last sight you listed has absolutely the worst ghost pictures I’ve ever seen. Prisms and reflections that, if you step back and really, really use your imagination, look kinda sorta like part of a face.
Thanks. So many “ghost” photos are like seeing the Virgin Mary in a tortilla. If you look at it sideways with one eye squinting during a total eclipse…
I like the ones that you can almost tell that it is a person and not just a shadow or reflection.
Ah, Dio! I knew I could count on you to say something like that. That is why I explicitly stated in the OP
It is not true to say that some photos cannot be explained. They might not have an explanation yet and they might be explained sometime in the future but as of October 19, 2007 CE there really are photos that do not have rational explanations.
Photos were taken outside “Area 51” for years showed objects flying through the sky that could not be identified as known aircraft, technically an Unidentified Flying Object. Later they were identified as stealth, high performance or drone aircraft of configurations that were previously unknown to the civilian world and that had been kept in the “black” world of military security. So don’t tell me that there might be photos without rational explanations. They exist. We just haven’t been able to figure out what the items in the photos are yet.
So, anyone else have a contribution besides Mr. Poopy Pants?
I have a big interest in the paranormal, and I always try to keep an open (and curious) mind about these things.
But to be fair, especially to Diogenes, the proposition of the OP comes across as “some pictures that could not be rationally explained = photos that *must *be of a ghost, since there’s no other explanation = ghosts exist, and this is a photo of them”. And in that case, Diogenes is right to point out that ghosts have not been scientifically proven to exist (although my personal emendation would include: not yet. But that’s me).
Somewhat random side note: I brought up the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall in another thread, and somebody pointed it out as an early example of a double-exposure technique. Would that kind of thing be possible on earlier cameras?
Hmm. Interesting interpretation. OK, let me rephrase it:
“Does anyone have a link to a photo that is purportedly of a so-called ‘supernatural’ manifestation that has not been debunked? This photo should not be of an unidentified flying object or of a potentially cryptozoological nature but should be limited to a subject typically referred to as a spirit or ghost. Said photo must be one that has undergone scientific/technical analysis that has not been able to determine the nature of the phenomena that has caused the subject to appear in the image.” Is that better? Geez. Now OPs have to be vetted by the legal department!
Hey, I don’t believe in ghosts but I know that there have been photos taken of things that people claim are “ghosts” and I would like to see the ones that people can’t say, “Hey, you can see the wires! And the sheets have a tag on them!”
Floating head is great. It’s not included in the “fake or easily explainable” section. Oh My! A photo of a computer workstation with an image being displayed on the screen! Uh huh.
Also Faces in the window which are… well, faces in the window. Ah, but there was “nobody in the house at the time”. At least it wasn’t a clever forgery.
There were two older B&W photos that we had a thread about some time ago. One looked like a face in a jar and the other was some sort of weird family picture on a porch. Does anyone remember what I’m talking about?
[Official Moderator Warning]Off-topic. It has been explained twice what the OP is looking for, and you’ve ignored the explanations both times. Don’t do this again[/Official Moderator Warning]
I didn’t save the link, but there’s a tutorial floating around that teaches you how to make ghost photographs using photoshop or paint shop pro. This was my result from following it.
