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Top 10 Ghost Photos

Why is it that ghosts seem to prefer black-and-white film? Several of those pictures were taken long after color photography was prevalent. They also seem to prefer photographers who can't take a sharp picture. Maybe they're shaking too much from seeing a ghost.

Of course, several are obvious fakes.
 
yeah i always liked ghost photos when they were at least decently creepy looking. what surprised me is how most of them arent. they tend to be really poor. i would at least like to see some decent photoshop work nowadays, haha
 
Electric Chair Ghosts

When you just look at this one all by itself there isn't much to see, but if you start zooming in on the flash effects you can see some very disturbing pareidolia. The very fact that you have to have somebody pointing to most of the "entities" to make them out makes it all that much more creepy.

Plus few things are going to be creepier in real life than an antique electric chair!
 
ChristineR said:
Electric Chair Ghosts

When you just look at this one all by itself there isn't much to see, but if you start zooming in on the flash effects you can see some very disturbing pareidolia. The very fact that you have to have somebody pointing to most of the "entities" to make them out makes it all that much more creepy.

Plus few things are going to be creepier in real life than an antique electric chair!
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i dont really get that one, is there a link pointing out the "entities"? looks like a few flash artifacts and then i sort of see what appears to be one face in the place where a person would sit. could easily be the old "photograph thru glass at oblique angle to superimpose a reflection" thing.
 
gfunkusarelius said:
i dont really get that one, is there a link pointing out the "entities"? looks like a few flash artifacts and then i sort of see what appears to be one face in the place where a person would sit. could easily be the old "photograph thru glass at oblique angle to superimpose a reflection" thing.
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The only place I know of where they point out the entities (and also show how the photo was supposedly taken) is this movie. I looked for better info online but I didn't see it. If I get a chance I'll replay that part of the movie and try and explain where the entities are. The only other one I remember is a "hand" on the left (to the viewer) arm.
 
I'm glad the Watertown photo made the list. One of the first and coolest ghost stories I ever read about.
 
I watched the scene in the movie again. They only showed the two "entities" I mention above, the face and the hand.

Leucther (the photographer) is well, an extremely odd person but it seems unlikely that he would delibrately create a fraud. One the other hand, his stepson was helping him with the photos.
 
cool photographs!

I remember Stirling castle has a postcard you can buy of their ghost. Not too shabby a view.

Though the tall monk is just a joke!
 
The Newby monk kind of looks like he's wearing the mask the killer wore in the Scream movies
 
Odd not to see the (in my opinion) double exposure from the Greenwich Queen's House ghost. I think it's a time delay with a member of staff walking up the stairs.
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Although I accept the possibility of ghost experiences I am a complete sceptic when it comes to ghost photos, though I do find the Wem one really eerie.

cj x
 
According to the article, Rev Hardy's wife made sure nobody used the stairs while the photo was being taken.
The exposure was long and the quality of the photo is poor--the ghost is probably nothing more than an illusion caused by light.
Did you notice the extreme length of the "spirit's" right arm?-- I didn't realize ghosts were able to stretch.
 
Teetop said:
According to the article, Rev Hardy's wife made sure nobody used the stairs while the photo was being taken.
The exposure was long and the quality of the photo is poor--the ghost is probably nothing more than an illusion caused by light.
Did you notice the extreme length of the "spirit's" right arm?-- I didn't realize ghosts were able to stretch.
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yes, the long right arm is entirely consistent with the theory of a real person in a white lab coat walking up the stairs, in along exposure! I'm a believer in the paranormal, but here we can actually replicate the photo quite convincingly, by a time exposure on the staircase. I therefore concluded that Mrs. Hardy was simply wrong. I'm open to other suggestions though.

cj x
 
cj.23 said:
yes, the long right arm is entirely consistent with the theory of a real person in a white lab coat walking up the stairs, in along exposure! I'm a believer in the paranormal, but here we can actually replicate the photo quite convincingly, by a time exposure on the staircase. I therefore concluded that Mrs. Hardy was simply wrong. I'm open to other suggestions though.

cj x
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Whatever the case--it is very unlikely that the image is a ghost
 
cj.23 said:
yes, the long right arm is entirely consistent with the theory of a real person in a white lab coat walking up the stairs, in along exposure! I'm a believer in the paranormal, but here we can actually replicate the photo quite convincingly, by a time exposure on the staircase. I therefore concluded that Mrs. Hardy was simply wrong. I'm open to other suggestions though.

cj x
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When I first viewed the photo in a book (decades ago--hehe)- my first impression was that the ghost appeared to look too dramatic - the photo appeared to be a complete fake to me---I wonder if anyone has ever examined the negative. Usually with photos of this sort, negatives tend to mysteriously disappear.
 
Teetop said:
When I first viewed the photo in a book (decades ago--hehe)- my first impression was that the ghost appeared to look too dramatic - the photo appeared to be a complete fake to me---I wonder if anyone has ever examined the negative. Usually with photos of this sort, negatives tend to mysteriously disappear.
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yes, it has been examined. I wondered if it had been replicated, and i suddenly recalled yes - Ian Wilson, In Search of Ghosts, I'm fairly sure. I did a similar thing in the early 90's with another supposed ghost photo. I even managed to recreate the ghost on demand - wood smoke and a hole in an upper room, and heat drawing it down the stairwell.
 
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