Ghost captured on camera phone? (1 Viewer)

[James T]

Kevin, do you have the link for that site or other sites relating to that topic?

 

[Scott Leopold]

It sounds like the rubber band was outgassing (or triggered it by pushing the photos together rigidly - the center photo was probably improperly processed and still had the fixer in it) an acidic substance and it affected the photos.

I've seen photos where this has happened, and with these that was not the case. The face in the photos changed visibly, and the smoke in the photos was clearly smoke, and not a result of too much fixer. Also, the photos in the sequence that matched up with each other (for instance, 2 & 14, 3 & 13, 4 & 12, etc.), were identical to one another.

As for taking them to an expert, the photos were not mine. IIRC, someone mentioned taking them to someone who could determine if they'd been doctored or not after the girl's report. She honestly couldn't see a point in that since they had never left her posession. And to dispel any notions that this could have been something done in Photoshop, I took the class in either late '87 or early '88.

 

[MickeS]

That just means it was a chemical reaction or she faked them herself.

Why didn't anyone insist on haveing the pictures checked out by a professional?

AFAIK, every time something "ghostlike" has been investigated it's turned out to be either a hoax or a natural phenomenon. I see no reason why this case would have been different.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

What's funny is that I've told my friends that if I die an accidental death, I'm haunting the University of Kentucky's campus.

If that happens, you're more than welcome to check out the place.

 

[Max Leung]

I found this nifty Wired story on photo-fakers while surfing Bluesnews.com today:

Warning: Mature subject matter. Spoilerized for your protection. Well sorta. Guess the link still shows. *shrug*


These Are Definitely Not Scully's Breasts: Inside one man's crusade to save Gillian Anderson and the rest of the world from the plague of fake celebrity porn.


I wonder how many ghost-photo fakers are out there...

 

[Dave Poehlman]

I do believe that there are things we don't understand or even comprehend moving about in this universe. However, I don't think they'd stop to pose for a picture.

 

[Scott Leopold]

That just means it was a chemical reaction or she faked them herself.

As I already stated, these clearly weren't the result of a chemical reaction. The girl also didn't have the ability to fake these. This was back in '88, so it wouldn't have been something as simple as doctoring them up in photoshop and printing them off on your printer. The woman in the photographs clearly changed from one picture to the next. You could still tell it was the same person up until the last two in the sequence, but her face became more withered and emaciated in each successive photo.

As for why nobody in her family didn't insist on having them tested, I can't answer that. I've experienced some disturbing, inexplicable things myself, and at the time it never occurred to myself or anyone else involved to have any sort of authority investigate what went on. Looking back on it, it would seem to be the logical thing to do, but at the time it never crossed my mind.

 

[Scott Wong]

I don't know. The photo very well may have been "doctored". I only say that because of the arm. The definition of it just seems... too perfect? There's almost far too much definition and clarity to it as compared to other parts of the same picture. It certainly may be a reflection but it doesn't appear to be that way at all. *shrug*

Scott.