# Photo identification help requested **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400 "2017-04-13T19:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/1 "2017-04-13T19:20:00Z")
[![](https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/buzzrall/imgs/f/c/fc13079b.jpg) ](https://livedoor.blogimg.jp/buzzrall/imgs/f/c/fc13079b.jpg) I have seen this image a couple of times on the internet. It’s usually labeld as a holocaust victim, an alien or a ghost. I just spent some time trying to track down the real story but I’m not a good googler. Anyone know who this really is? ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/2 "2017-04-13T19:35:42Z")
I am pretty sure that is a costume, that picture has been around forever. It is no holocaust victim, even hitler couldnt change to form of the human body. Its much too corporeal for a ghost, and no self respecting alien would arrive looking like that. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/3 "2017-04-13T19:52:59Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > …no self respecting alien would arrive looking like that. It may not have ARRIVED looking like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/4 "2017-04-14T18:34:00Z")
Oh! I know this one— It’s a [Halloween prop.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8415ETR0o) Obviously, photographed in a deliberately creepy way. As I recall, I saw the original photo used as an illustration for the “Russian Sleep Experiment” creepypasta horror story, but by chance found another photo of the same model in a less scary context some time later, inspiring me to track it down. There seem to be a couple of different variants of the thing, but they’re still commercially available, if you’d like to own your own. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/5 "2017-04-14T20:15:42Z")
Wow, cool! Thanks. You saved me from bumping this thread, ha ha. Now the question is… should I start an urban legend that Spazm is modeled after a photo of a real person!? :eek: 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-identification-help-requested/784400/6 "2017-04-14T20:27:19Z")
Looks to me like the photo is a JPG file … hope that helps …