If it wasn't your relative who put the dentures there?
If it wasn't your relative who put the dentures there?
carrps
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Auditory "spirits" are what I've mostly experienced. I used to think I heard the phone ringing when I was in the shower. All the damn time. This was back when I was on call-out, and I was stressed about it. Now that I'm retired I don't notice this 1/10th as much.
We don't have a/c so when it's hot I have a fan running in my bedroom. It's amazing how much, at certain angles, the hum of the fan sounds like people carrying on a conversation. It feels like if you really concentrated you could understand what was being said. But then you turn your head to a different angle, and the "conversation" -- poof -- goes away. It's a cool phenomenon.
We don't have a/c so when it's hot I have a fan running in my bedroom. It's amazing how much, at certain angles, the hum of the fan sounds like people carrying on a conversation. It feels like if you really concentrated you could understand what was being said. But then you turn your head to a different angle, and the "conversation" -- poof -- goes away. It's a cool phenomenon.
abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
LOL, in my former abode, due to prevailing winds, if one opened the back door and afterward the front, the back door would slam shut. And vice versa.Drafts will also move doors and things on wheels.
Also, in our house, if h Th he front door isn’t completely close (pushed shut but not matched) opening the back door can make it swing open due to pressure changes.
So many things that aren’t considered, like cows
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My youngest found that out the hard way by shattering the window on the back door.
She had a brown hemorrhage. But it never happened again.
Sherman Bay
Master Poster
There are pictures that show something. Your imagination supplies the rest.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
Ghosts *are* the explanation.
You see something in a photo you can't explain. Maybe it's an in-camera optical effect. Maybe it's a trick of the light. Maybe it's... Ghosts?
Ghosts aren't something you explain, because there's no evidence that ghosts actually exist. You explain gravity. You explain color. You explain headaches. You explain optical illusions. You explain fusion processes in the core of the sun.
You don't explain ghosts. You use "ghosts" to explain other things. What causes fusion processes in the core of the sun? Maybe it's gravity and quantum mechanics. Maybe it's ghosts. But probably it's gravity and quantum mechanics. Because we know those things exist and have explanatory power. Ghosts? Not so much.
You can't explain something without first showing that it exists and needs to be explained.
abaddon
Penultimate Amazing
Sure. Here is a pic of two ghosts in my hallway.
Can you explain those?
ETA: I should explain. I took that photograph, that is (or was, I have move twice since then) my hallway at the time, I know who those figures are, and I know that they were present in that place and at that time and in that photograph. No photoshop or similar was used to manipulate it beyond cropping it for size.
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arthwollipot
Observer of Phenomena, Pronouns: he/him
Those images don't show ghosts. They show other, perfectly normal things that people think look like ghosts. And that's not even counting those that have been deliberately manipulated.
AmyW
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What do you guys think to the link below -
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/scary-photos-ghosts-2018-3?amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/scary-photos-ghosts-2018-3?amp
Yes.
Steve
Penultimate Amazing
Yes.
Steve
Penultimate Amazing
Double exposures, intentional fakes, and very poor photography.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
Cheesy clickbait from a media outlet that isn't your friend and isn't trying to inform you, but rather just wants you to see their ads.
If I can't see the photos without turning off my ad-blocker, then I figure they're probably not ghosts. Because if they really were ghosts, all the reputable scientists would be falling all over each other trying to explain them, and the world would be full of freely-available* information about them.
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*I.e., not information that you have to look at some ads in order to get. Do you think if Business Insider really believed they had evidence of ghosts on their hands, they'd make you look at ads before they let you see it? That's the behavior of a charlatan, not a scientist.
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Steve
Penultimate Amazing
Reasonable people explain them as ‘not ghosts’.
Axxman300
Philosopher
All of the photos on that link you posted have been debunked, all are fakes.
Let me walk you through it from my field experience...
East Garrison is the oldest part of Fort Ord, California. The Army used the area as a bivouac area for the 76th FA to shoot Howitzers from before WWI until Camp Ord became Fort Ord in 1940. The area saw construction to house the men of the WPA who would build the original base over near Highway 1. Later it was home for ROTC students and later German POW's.
This building began life as a storage depot:
Nobody died in this building to my knowledge. From 2000 until 2006 I entered over 300 abandoned buildings on the base in search of murals to photograph before the structures were demolished. I wasn't there to hunt ghosts at first but the abandoned base became the perfect laboratory to develop a neutral base of knowledge. Out of those 300 buildings I would only have strange occurrences in a handful.
This building had no explainable activity nor did it have a "vibe" or give off any uncomfortable feelings (other than having to be careful where I stepped as to not go through the floor). The weird this was that this building was the only one where I got anomalous photographs.
Here are two:
This one was taken on 35mm film with a disposable camera (take note of this detail) as I was simply burning through the last exposures so I could drop it off at the drug store for processing. I didn't see the streak of light when I took the picture but it is definitely on the negative.
This one was taken about 2 years later, again with a disposable 35mm.
Were I a less than ethical ghost hunter I would play these up as ghost photos. This building was the only location on the entire base where I got these unusual pictures. East Garrison has a reputation for being haunted which dates back to the 1970's while the base was operational. The building sits next to the site where the first death at Fort Ord occurred in 1941. Before the Army bought the land East Garrison was home to the Whitcher family (great name, right?) who lost six children to the Spanish Flu at the turn of the century. They are still buried there.
I could play all of that up into marketable woo if I wanted to...
...but I didn't. I kept working the problem. Over the years I took around sixty pictures inside of that building and I only got three. I took around two hundred and fifty pictures around the base using the disposable Kodak 35mm cameras and got nothing unusual even in the weird buildings. Eventually I figured it out.
That second photo was just bad film. It happens.
The streak of light in the first photo is a result of a cheap camera and cheap-but-high tech flash wherein the sequence is designed to remove red-eye. If I had a good camera I would have got a full orb caused by the misalignment or mis-timing of the flash and shutter.
The last time I went into the building I had my Canon DSLR and took 70 pictures and got noting but high resolution photos of an empty building.
As far as I'm concerned even if ghosts are real they don't show up on camera.
Let me walk you through it from my field experience...
East Garrison is the oldest part of Fort Ord, California. The Army used the area as a bivouac area for the 76th FA to shoot Howitzers from before WWI until Camp Ord became Fort Ord in 1940. The area saw construction to house the men of the WPA who would build the original base over near Highway 1. Later it was home for ROTC students and later German POW's.
This building began life as a storage depot:
Nobody died in this building to my knowledge. From 2000 until 2006 I entered over 300 abandoned buildings on the base in search of murals to photograph before the structures were demolished. I wasn't there to hunt ghosts at first but the abandoned base became the perfect laboratory to develop a neutral base of knowledge. Out of those 300 buildings I would only have strange occurrences in a handful.
This building had no explainable activity nor did it have a "vibe" or give off any uncomfortable feelings (other than having to be careful where I stepped as to not go through the floor). The weird this was that this building was the only one where I got anomalous photographs.
Here are two:
This one was taken on 35mm film with a disposable camera (take note of this detail) as I was simply burning through the last exposures so I could drop it off at the drug store for processing. I didn't see the streak of light when I took the picture but it is definitely on the negative.
This one was taken about 2 years later, again with a disposable 35mm.
Were I a less than ethical ghost hunter I would play these up as ghost photos. This building was the only location on the entire base where I got these unusual pictures. East Garrison has a reputation for being haunted which dates back to the 1970's while the base was operational. The building sits next to the site where the first death at Fort Ord occurred in 1941. Before the Army bought the land East Garrison was home to the Whitcher family (great name, right?) who lost six children to the Spanish Flu at the turn of the century. They are still buried there.
I could play all of that up into marketable woo if I wanted to...
...but I didn't. I kept working the problem. Over the years I took around sixty pictures inside of that building and I only got three. I took around two hundred and fifty pictures around the base using the disposable Kodak 35mm cameras and got nothing unusual even in the weird buildings. Eventually I figured it out.
That second photo was just bad film. It happens.
The streak of light in the first photo is a result of a cheap camera and cheap-but-high tech flash wherein the sequence is designed to remove red-eye. If I had a good camera I would have got a full orb caused by the misalignment or mis-timing of the flash and shutter.
The last time I went into the building I had my Canon DSLR and took 70 pictures and got noting but high resolution photos of an empty building.
As far as I'm concerned even if ghosts are real they don't show up on camera.
curious cat
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As for anecdotal experiences: about 30 years ago I by some weird circumstances ended up spending night in an old farmhouse in the remote rural Australia. A widowed farmer who lived there told me, that nobody has entered the room in which his wife lived for 40 years. He got my undivided attentions and after a few more shots of Scotch the farmer agreed to open it for me. What I saw just took my breath away: the old furniture in the room was covered wall to wall by a spider web like a trampoline thick as a blanket. Scene like from an Indiana Jones movie, only MUCH better. I asked for permission and made a number of pictures with my SLR camera.
After arriving back to civilisation, I couldn't wait to have the film developed. I opened the camera - and there was NO FILM in it! I am an experienced photographer and this never happened to me before or after. Ghosts!
After arriving back to civilisation, I couldn't wait to have the film developed. I opened the camera - and there was NO FILM in it! I am an experienced photographer and this never happened to me before or after. Ghosts!
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Tassman
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As for anecdotal experiences: about 30 years ago I by some weird circumstances ended up spending night in an old farmhouse in the remote rural Australia. A widowed farmer who lived there told me, that nobody has entered the room in which his wife lived for 40 years. He got my undivided attentions and after a few more shots of Scotch the farmer agreed to open it for me. What I saw just took my breath away: the old furniture in the room was covered wall to wall by a spider web like a trampoline thick as a blanket. Scene like from an Indiana Jones movie, only MUCH better. I asked for permission and made a number of pictures with my SLR camera.
After arriving back to civilisation, I couldn't wait to have the film developed. I opened the camera - and there was NO FILM in it! I am an experienced photographer and this never happened to me before or after. Ghosts!
Absolutely. It just screams "supernatural".
catsmate
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Seriously? Long debunked fakes are the best you have?
Does anyone have any really good spooky ‘real ghost’ movies? Like the stuff they’d show you five seconds of in hour long tv spooky ghost docos in the 80’s? I remember one that was like, a light going down a staircase. I’d love to see some vintage spooky. I don’t care if it’s really a moth but I don’t mean the more obviously staged stuff or the ‘definitely nobody out of frame just threw this’ variety, but nice good spooky footage.