Ghost photo

[poliphilo]

Most photographs of "ghosts" are unconvincing. They show "orbs"- which could be illuminated dust motes- or light anomalies- which could be anything.

But here's one I hadn't seen before which deserves closer inspection. Of course you have to trust in the good faith of the sponsors when they say it isn't a fake.

But it's oddness is compelling. If I were faking a "ghost photograph" I don't think I'd have come up with anything quite as peculiar as this.

http://paranormal.about.com/library/graphics/boothill_ghost_lg.jpg

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The photographer was taking pictures of his mate in western gear at the Boothill cemetery outside Tombstone. He says he didn't notice the guy in the black hat until he came to develop the pix.

The girl on the gravestone is a classic. So is the Hampton Court Ghost. Most of the others look pretty doubtful to me.

I know that these images- even the best of them- can never prove anything, but I trawl the Net for them all the same.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

I have a book as thick as a dictionary by Hans Holzer: Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond.

It's pleasantly creepy and has lots of photos, all in black and white, of old houses and stairwells.

There's a whole section about psychic photographs. Here's an excerpt:

Miss Ritter was a middle-aged woman...a pensioner who lived quietly and occasionally saw friends of friends who wanted "readings" or psychic consultations...On the occasions when I requested photographic prints of her negatives she would not even ask for her own expenses.

From about 1955 on, Betty Ritter obrained unusual photographs with her old-fashioned bellows camera....She was guided by an intuitive feeling that she should photograph the audiences where psychic energy might be present....I often examined her camera and found it in perfect working order....

(I tried and failed to scan a photo for you. It shows four streaks of light, a ball of light, and someone during the seance.)

Holzer's book is interesting because he interviews at length people who live in haunted houses, and then he takes mediums inside and has dialogues with the ghosts.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my kind of book.

I've just been reading about giant skeletons (7, 8 even 9 foot tall) that were unearthed- by the barrowload- in New York State in the 1800s. For some reason all of them have now disappeared.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Wait! Giant skeletons: I have read about them, and recently.

Is that in Fort?

As for the Holzer book, it's now in pb and is very inexpensive--$15--considering that it's 750-something pages long.

It's nicely spooky, written mostly in the 50s in an old-fashioned ghost-story style.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think they may be mentioned in Fort. Apparently New York state was full of long barrows and earthworks and the farmers flattened 'em all.

I'm a little suspicious. Britain has been intensively farmed for hundreds of years and there are still plenty of earthworks left.

I'll have to visit Amazon and see if I can pick up a Holzer