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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:45 pm

Lester wrote:

Plus those girls are smiling liek they know there is a joke being played Laughing

Or they're just full of Lambrini and Bacardi.

Looking at the face, it has more detail than the legs surrounding it - smoother shading and less compression.

FIlm is very good for making ghosts. My old Nikon has a decoupler which allows me to re-cock the shutter without winding the film on. I can photograph my "ghost" against a black background, then photograph my straight scene on the same negative. Instant ghost, lol.

You can do similar devilry at the printing stage but your ghosts will turn out differently depending on the method used. It's good fun and very hands-on.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:07 pm

Looking again, there's something funny about that whiney kid, it looks shopped in to me, as the lighting isn't the same as the girls. If its lit by the flash then its front should be lit, if its being lit from the bright light above then the arm should leave a shadow over the chest.

I think it may have been put in later to help the back story.

At first I thought 'jumping to conclusions', now I think 'willfull fake', particuarly as everyone knows someone who took it, like most urban legends. A guy in a pub told me recently about Elvis' Harley being discovered in a local garage, Snopes tells me it turns up everywhere, and nowhere, because its another hoax.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:29 pm

Speaking of finding weird things in pictures I was just looking through the pictures of my cousins wedding this past weekend and I saw this!

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:48 pm

Well there you have it, in my haste to disprove a bold claim by a family member, by objective reasoning went out the window.

My nan is one of the most gullible on the planet so I should have realised that there was a chance she didn't have her facts straight (unless she spends her latter years trolling Laughing

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Schoolboy error on my part for not doing enough research - but many thanks to everyone here for the help Smile

Now, enough with the ghosts- back to baiting satan's spawn residing in the internet cafes

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:52 pm

BRAVO! Evidence of paranormal goat activity!!! It's the "holy grail" photo, yes a pygmy apparition.

I really need to get a RealTree(tm) limo. That would be an asset to various huntings I partake in. Needs a sunroof though. Maybe two.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:30 pm

I saw a place setting, a candle stick, a pear tree (no partridge), a fishing pole, a black cat. I didn't find the hey or the Santa Claus. I'll keep looking though, they ust be there, the legend says so.

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:46 pm

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You can do similar devilry at the printing stage but your ghosts will turn out differently depending on the method used. It's good fun and very hands-on.

Cross processing chems is also great for this, ILFORD XP2 ( a C41 B&W film) dropped in E6 chems gives great blue/green hues that go great with double exposures. Very Happy

shoot me a PM if you wanna see the results.

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:15 am

Might as well make it ghosts

419Eater is my life Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 441

They all need more fingers!

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Seems that picture has been around a while in the press and internet

Daily Mail 2008

but Bad Ghosts has researched it and debunked
Bad Ghosts

@ Ghost thank you, NOW I see the ghosts, I believe I believe!

oops sorry iMike has already posted the Bad Ghosts link
Ignore me I need coffee

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:15 am

I totally believe in ghosts. I've lived in a genuine haunted house and have seen way too many things to ever believe they're all coincidence, from glowing orbs to unexplained events to full apparitions, but that photo could be anything.

If ghosts do exist (and I think they do), why would they choose to appear in the strangest and least likely of places?

For the record, I also believe in Bigfoot, Loch Ness, UFO's and astral projection, so I may not be the most logical person in the room!

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:49 am

^^ Do you also believe that somewhere in deepest, darkest Africa there is a consignment box full of millions of dollars just waiting for you to collect it? Laughing

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:41 am

I like Cryptozoology, lends a rational hand towards unexplained animals, and it's always exciting to think about some previously un-found animal stalking the shadows.

As for ghosts, I don't think it necessarily makes one irrational, but until scientific proof leads towards a more solid existence, I think it's just something you have to either believe in or not.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

@ Chugg you are quite right to believe in Loch Ness.
It exists.
I've been there.
My son peed in it.

Though I doubt there's anything more exciting in it than some fish and little boy's urine.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:35 am

Chugg wrote:

I totally believe in ghosts. I've lived in a genuine haunted house

No you haven't, but you may have lived in a house with unexplained noises and draughts etc that made you feel uneasy.

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For the record, I also believe in Bigfoot, Loch Ness, UFO's and astral projection, so I may not be the most logical person in the room!

I used to believe in UFOs. I now live near a major airport, and often see the weirdest lights moving in the oddest ways at night - if you wait long enough it 100% ALWAYS turns out to be an aircraft, seen from an odd angle.

Master Baiter Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 127 Location: USA

I actually am...or was...a "ghost hunter". I used to go to houses and locations that were "haunted" and try to find evidence one way or the other. Know what I found after 5 years of doing this? NOTHING. Well, I can't say "nothing" really as I did find that the majority of people claiming ghosts and such were either so caught up in what they believed that they couldn't see realistically or that they were straight out lying.

I also was a moderator on a forum for a popular ghost show in the US and one of the sections I was in charge of was the photos. You wouldn't believe how many dustballs, smudges, leaves, shadows, etc; were all ghosts. Once someone believed they had a picture of a ghost, no amount of reason could convince them otherwise.

That said, I did like this pic. Wink

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:27 pm

This picture has been around the internet for years. I don't mean to ruffle any feathers but I must say that the chances of someone you know taking this photo are slim to none.

http://www.shopoflittlehorrors.com/party-ghost.jpg

http://www.shopoflittlehorrors.com/real_ghost_pictures.htm

http://ghostsofearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/party-ghost-real-ghost-picture.html

-Murder

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:23 pm

^^ I think the joke was played in the OP's Grandmother and passed onto him.

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:26 pm

^ That would make sense.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:34 am

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@ Chugg you are quite right to believe in Loch Ness.
It exists.
I've been there.
My son peed in it.

So have I. Not only did I pee in it, but also puked into Loch Ness. A friend I was visiting in Scotland rented a boat for a few days there. Spent most nights drinking, and getting sick overboard.

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:17 am

@ Roycropper:

I said I totally believe in it. I didn't say I had anything that anybody would ever accept as proof! Very Happy

People believe in all sorts of things that have never been proven.

Strangely, I never once felt uneasy in that house, not even after all the weird crap that went on. The people who bought the place from us asked me if I noticed anything "unusual" while I lived there. After I said yes, they said they'd have paid more if they knew that in advance.

I've never peed in Loch Ness, though. That would be pretty cool. Not because of any lake monsters, but I'd really like to get drunk in Scotland some day! I peed on the world's largest nickel once... does that count for anything?

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

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I peed on the world's largest nickel once... does that count for anything?

Only if you made it dissolve

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I'd really like to get drunk in Scotland

you'll fit right in with the natives
Legal drinking age here is 18
My son and his pals have all not long turned 18...

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:07 am

Even as a teenager I was always the last person to calmly walk out of the cemetery at midnight thinking my friends were complete morons for scaring themselves. I was young enough to accept anything but there just was nothing there and that chirping noise was so obviously birds. What in the hell do you mean birds don't chirp at night? Never mind, just keep running. Oh a cold spot! You are walking in wet grass in the middle of the night you dummy Laughing

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:42 am

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I think the joke was played in the OP's Grandmother and passed onto him

Quite right bravo

My nan is the type of person who believes in ALL things paranormal, unexplained etc - so this worked well on her. No amount of Richard Dawkins reasoning will change her mind.

I'm going to be using Ghost's modified picture and the link that was found to explain it. Although...I could say when I looked again at the picture - there were more ghosts!!! :yikes:

She'd probably believe this over the rational explanation.

Knowing her gullability means I'm forever preaching about 419 to her just in case (yes, she does have an email address which is generally used to forward chain mails to me Rolling Eyes

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Bless her, I love her really Very Happy

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:56 pm

Nanny Ogg wrote:

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I peed on the world's largest nickel once... does that count for anything?

Only if you made it dissolve

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I'd really like to get drunk in Scotland

you'll fit right in with the natives
Legal drinking age here is 18
My son and his pals have all not long turned 18...

They waited til they were 18? Shocked

Interestingly in Holland you can buy wine and beer at 16, then at 18 you can buy whisky and gin and other distilled/fortified drinks. Different.

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