# What's The SD On The "Corroboree" Ghost Photo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 11, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339 "2010-07-11T23:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/41 "2010-07-12T19:39:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think we are to see the two left-side headlights as eyes and the lower light (running lights?) as teeth, inside the air vent mouth. Oh, I was looking for ghostly images in the headlights and not an anthropomorphization of the car. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/42 "2010-07-12T19:46:57Z")
Ghost girl in the town hall fire is a [fake](http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/17/does-postcard-solve-ghost-riddle/). ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/43 "2010-07-12T20:01:36Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > it is much easier to spot the child in the second picture where they coloured all the exposed skin yellow. look for the child’s face and arms. > > ghost trapped in a [car](http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/530/brickscarez9.jpg). I just shat brix. ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/44 "2010-07-12T20:31:26Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ghost girl in the town hall fire is a [fake](http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/17/does-postcard-solve-ghost-riddle/). Interesting. I should send that link to Forgetomori. I should also note that both the “Jesus” photo and the fire photo are on the “Slightly Warped” site. I chose the Forgetomori link because it specifically discussed pareidolia. That [“demon” photo](http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/ghastlyghostgallery/ghosts/demoninthepicture.htm) indeed looks an awful lot like a dog to me. I strongly assume that it’s either a willfully produced hoax or an opportunistic one (dog jumped into the original picture and participants decided to “run with it”). ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/45 "2010-07-12T21:28:35Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ghost girl in the town hall fire is a [fake](http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/17/does-postcard-solve-ghost-riddle/). Further, any mention (that I could find) of Jane Churm is on the paranormal sites. [Wikipedia says](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wem) of the incident, in it’s entirety: “_In 1677, a fire destroyed many of the wooden buildings in the town._” ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/46 "2010-07-12T22:27:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ghost girl in the town hall fire is a [fake](http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2010/05/17/does-postcard-solve-ghost-riddle/). [This](http://www.kuxas.com/94/spooky-case-of-the-wem-ghost.html) makes things even clearer, slide the ‘fade’ bar to overlay the photos, it is clear that they are the same. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/47 "2010-07-12T22:59:37Z")
Thank you for those sites, I’ll be able to sleep easy now tonight. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/48 "2010-07-12T23:36:18Z")
> [@Umbriel2](#): > > My money is on a simple incident of “pareidolia”, [which can be surprisingly vivid](http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/best-pareidolia-ever/). Not having seen this particular photo before, I want to hereby add that it it’s quite a wow. Utterly astonishing. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/49 "2010-07-13T00:55:35Z")
Aaah, I’m an ex-theist and newly-minted skeptic but that dog photo is giving me the willies! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/50 "2010-07-15T12:07:06Z")
Well, my interested in the (Australian) photo comes from the fact that there seems to be little or nothing written about it. Did the minister just happen to point his camera and shoot? Why was he in the bush? The photo appears to show a woman holding something-or maybe not. Has any kind of analysis ever been done on the photo? Ghost are said to be connected to some awful events; so why would the minister be snapping photos at randome, to find this image coming up. If it is a fraud, why wasn’t it dismissed long ago? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/51 "2010-07-15T12:15:30Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > If it is a fraud, why wasn’t it dismissed long ago? If I may take a stab at the last question, it may be because it is not an interesting or popular enough image or story to bother debunking. There is no need to examine closely something that no one is advocating. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/52 "2010-07-15T12:45:27Z")
Also, proving a ghost photo a fraud has absolutely no connection to whether or not it’s still making the rounds of internet ghost photo sites. Many times, even when you categorically debunk one of these things, the ghost woo-woos dismiss the debunking completely and go right on their merry “IT’S REAL!” way. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/53 "2010-07-15T14:07:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Also, proving a ghost photo a fraud has absolutely no connection to whether or not it’s still making the rounds of internet ghost photo sites. Many times, even when you categorically debunk one of these things, the ghost woo-woos dismiss the debunking completely and go right on their merry “IT’S REAL!” way. Yes. Long after _The Amityville Horror_ was exposed as a hoax (the lawyer of Butch DeFeo, the convicted killer, admitted that he and the Lutz family [made it up for money](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp)), fans of the paranormal were citing it to me as “the BEST-documented proof of paranormal activity.” People who want to believe will ignore anything that they have to in order to keep believing. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/54 "2010-07-15T18:55:07Z")
> [@bup](#): > > The blown-up inset of that photo also shows how un-headlike the ‘head’ is - it’s too small and the wrong shape. Not for a ghost. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/55 "2010-08-11T03:36:30Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > > [@elfkin477](#): > > > > That’s pretty neat. _Can_ we make double exposures with a (non-SLR) digital camera, I wonder? I like “ghost” photography, and while I’ve made ghosts though photo manipulation [like this](http://mulderscreek.com/genres/lilghosts.jpg), it’d be interesting to attempt it with a camera instead too. > > Some can. > You need to see if the camera firmware supports it in its list of effects. > I’m pretty sure that my D90 can do it, but I can’t figure out why anyone would want to do it in-camera, except for the sheer challenge of it. So, I found out by accident that yes, you can indeed [do double exposures](http://threateningloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/08/photo-mishaps.html) with a digital camera. ---
**Author:** ![asian\_riff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@asian\_riff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asian_riff)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/56 "2010-08-11T07:27:00Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > If it is a fraud, why wasn’t it dismissed long ago? How do you know it wasn’t? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339/57 "2010-08-11T10:22:46Z")
So glad these links are blocked at work. I don’t even know why I’m here, ghosts scare me so bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-corroboree-ghost-photo/546339.md?page=2)