# I think this may be a photo of a ghost or dragon. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226 "2001-01-22T05:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![muffinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@muffinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muffinman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/1 "2001-01-22T05:21:15Z")
I was hanging out on my friend Dan’s (Omega007) back porch and had my girlfriend snap a picture. (Thats me on the left, Dan in the middle, and a dude named anthony on the right). I had my girlfriend snap a picture of us together, but was completely unprepared for what I saw when it was developed. Look at this image! [http://www.geocities.com/guybud5/ghostpage.html](http://www.geocities.com/guybud5/ghostpage.html) The freakiest thing is that Dan claims that he once saw glowing eyes staring int he window at his face. The window in the picture… And doesn’t that figure look strangely like a dragon staring in the window? That figure is present in both the negative and the final print. Any thoughts anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/2 "2001-01-22T05:26:35Z")
Whether it’s a ghost or not that’s friggin wicked. I’d spend the night there just to see if anything happened. Maybe, though, it’s a developer’s fingerprint or something? bona fide skeptic here ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/3 "2001-01-22T05:30:41Z")
I think it looks like a horse, or a skeleton of a horse. Eerie. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/4 "2001-01-22T05:36:23Z")
I hate to break this to you, but it’s just a reflection on one of the lenses in your camera from a light that’s outside of the photo. Fairly common, just usually a little more obvious. I have a really cool photo that shows the same kind of reflection, it’s just a little more obvious what it is. ---
**Author:** ![muffinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@muffinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muffinman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/5 "2001-01-22T05:38:24Z")
Here’s another little bit of food for thought. Dan likes to use pendulems and such to try to tap into his supernatural powers… notice how the whatever-the-hell-it-is eminates from his head! ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/6 "2001-01-22T05:43:43Z")
There’s a lot of stories of ghost horses, even a few around here. If anything man (and let me come clean and say that i do, in a sence, believe in ghosts) i’d say you’ve got your self a poor lil’ pony there. Cute lil’ devil ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/7 "2001-01-22T05:47:28Z")
(_i would further like to point out that usually by this point in the evening, i don’t know what i’m talking about_) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/8 "2001-01-22T06:57:14Z")
I have god in my pants and pictures to prove it. Really, it looks like a reflection of something (kind of like the reflection that makes it look like I have god in my pants). ---
**Author:** ![Omega007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9adbd/32.png) [@Omega007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega007)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/9 "2001-01-22T07:03:27Z")
Everything that Muffinman has said is true. That is my back porch, I did see red glowing eyes, and I can’t explain what is going on in that photo. I myself am into photo manipulation, Black & White photography and stuff like that,but I can’t explain how that happened naturally. I have a few ideas of how someone could do that on a computer, but that is how it came back from the developers. I find it interesting that I wasn’t the one taking the picture, so I couldn’t use some trick I know of how to create the mist. Secondly, I haven’t had my hands on those negatives so I couldn’t do anything to them to create such a thing. Lastly, I love to cook and I am going into the culinary / hospitality industry and the mist is coming from my kitchen. I just thought those facts were kinda weird. Thanks, Omega007 P. S. This may not mean much to all you skeptics out there, but my friends Steven (muffinman), Anthony, and myself (Omega007) are not trying to deceive any of you in any sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/10 "2001-01-22T07:04:26Z")
Well, I took [url=“[http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/zyzzyva.html](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/zyzzyva.html)”]this\*\* picture. Anyone else see dead people in it? [sub]Um, it’s smoke from my cigarette.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/11 "2001-01-22T07:04:32Z")
Halleluiah Silver Fire! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/12 "2001-01-22T07:17:45Z")
Um, dude? What **Zyada** said. Not to burst your supernatural bubble but I’ve seen tons of pics that have that mist/light effect. It’s a reflection. ---
**Author:** ![Irresistible\_Impulse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dc4da7/32.png) [@Irresistible\_Impulse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irresistible_Impulse)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/13 "2001-01-22T07:19:30Z")
I know Steven, Anthony, and Dan personally (the guys in the picture) and they dont have any reason to deceive you. However, I dont think it’s a ghost, Steven swears he sees a face right beside anthony (the guy on the right), i dont see it. and as far as the image, it’s quite possibly a reflection/refraction of light (though the porch was very poorly illuminated at the time) or someone could have quite possibly breathed on the camera lense right before the shot and it had only partially dried up by the time the photo was taken, then again, it might be the mysterious and beyond… we have a problem with strange things happening to us ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/14 "2001-01-22T07:36:09Z")
Yeah… check this out… [Ghost](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/zyzzyva.html) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/15 "2001-01-22T09:12:39Z")
Occam’s Razor. Give us a reasonable and logical reason to believe it’s a ghost and maybe we could go with that idea. (Of course, first you have to prove that ghosts exist, _then_ you’d have to prove that they can be photographed.) Without that, the “light reflection” idea sounds like the most logical. Geez, what kind of fighter against ignorance are you anyway? ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/16 "2001-01-22T11:21:14Z")
Ohmygawd, it’s one of those evil, Satanic lens flares. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/17 "2001-01-22T12:41:41Z")
It’s Wildfire! (You know, the horse who was lost in a blizzard in some wretched song from the 70’s.) Anyway, it looks like a horse to me. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/18 "2001-01-22T23:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*I have god in my pants and pictures to prove it. Really, it looks like a reflection of something (kind of like the reflection that makes it look like I have god in my pants). \*\* And if you let me look in your pants, I bet I would scream “Oh My God!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/19 "2001-01-22T23:32:54Z")
It looks like a horse skeleton. More creepy but far less fun than Silver’s Magical Glowing Vagina[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226/20 "2001-01-22T23:40:59Z")
Hehehe, xizor. You have _no_ idea. 😉 Thanks for not calling the sacred MGV “creepy”, Gunslinger. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-this-may-be-a-photo-of-a-ghost-or-dragon/51226.md?page=2)