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May 29, 2008, 07:58:40 AM
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Who you gonna call?
« on: May 29, 2008, 07:58:40 AM »
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1216051.ece

Freaky. Could be doctored, I suppose, but....
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May 29, 2008, 08:06:41 AM
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 08:06:41 AM »
I dont buy it, looks good, but for a start i dont believe in ghosts so itll take a lot convince me i suppose!
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May 29, 2008, 08:13:42 AM
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Re: Who you gonna call?
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2008, 08:13:42 AM »
See, I'm conflicted on the subject. Not sure what to think, partly because of an experience when I was younger. I'm not saying I saw a ghost, but I saw...SOMETHING I can't explain. I woke up in the middle of the night, freezing and yet sweating, and saw some blurry shape rush from my bedside towards the closet on the other side of the room and just kind of vanish. Might have been my eyes playing tricks on me, especially coming suddenly out of a dead sleep, but I don't know. I know I saw something, I just don't know what. Doesn't help that I wear glasses (and obviously didn't have them on when I first woke up), so who knows how blurry the whatever-it-was actually was. If it was anything at all!

If that picture IS a fake (which it more than likely is), it's a darned good one. That "hand" on the rail just freaks me out.
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May 29, 2008, 09:01:13 AM
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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 09:01:13 AM »
Hahahahahahaha.....

Sorry. Don't buy it at all.

Look at this part:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6639/20652404ca8.png

See the repeated edge? That's one of the effects that you can get when you use a blur tool at the wrong settings, or try to go too fast with it.

It's not hard to make something like this. Just take a photo that has some reflection from the camera lens or something else, then blur it a touch into the right basic shape. And as for the hand, you just lighten a few lines along the banister. I'll make one of those myself and post it when I finish.
Anyone remember the Sherwood forest photo I had with the skull? Not that hard. And that one was barely doctored. All it takes is a photo that already has the basic shape.

EDIT: Here we go. The only significant change in here is the back of the skull, which I airbrushed green just to make it easy to see, and wasn't trying to keep it from being obvious. Other than that, no real change... except the eyes, jaw, face...
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3761/theghostofsherwoodvx2.jpg

EDIT AGAIN: And I just noticed... the hand is too detailed for that photo quality. The finger's aren't blurry enough. compare them to the rest of the photo. If those were fingers, they should be blurred to the point of unrecognizability. They'd be too small to be that clear.
« Last Edit: May 30, 2008, 08:55:48 AM by AgentDrake »
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May 29, 2008, 01:41:53 PM
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« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2008, 01:41:53 PM »
Ya thats a load of crap. "examined by experts". Who has ever heard of an expert ghost picture examiner?
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May 29, 2008, 08:31:30 PM
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Re: Who you gonna call?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2008, 08:31:30 PM »
I don't believe in ghosts as undead spirits of people with unfinished business, but I definitely could believe in them as physical manifestations of spiritual beings. Like angels and demons (particularly demons).

Of course, doctored photos are always a possibility as well.
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May 30, 2008, 08:42:49 AM
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Re: Who you gonna call?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2008, 08:42:49 AM »
The more and more I look at it and think about it, I think it's doctored. But all the same, certainly gets your attention for a second, doesn't it?
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May 30, 2008, 08:57:45 AM
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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2008, 08:57:45 AM »
I ditto NB. I believe that there are, occasionally, incidents with physical (or visible, anyway) manifestations of spirits.

But more often, we have things like doctored photos, and that bug that landed on the gas station security camera about a month ago. Now THAT one had me going for a few minutes....
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Re: Who you gonna call?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2008, 05:17:31 PM »
This is an article from the Sun newspaper. Which, to you Americans, is kind of like the National Enquirer, with a naked woman on page 3.

Think about it.
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« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2008, 05:20:13 PM »
Quote from: TheJord on June 03, 2008, 05:17:31 PM
This is an article from the Sun newspaper. Which, to you Americans, is kind of like the National Enquirer, with a naked woman on page 3.

Think about it.
The National Enquirer is my only source of news. :P
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« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2008, 05:30:37 PM »
Quote from: TheJord on June 03, 2008, 05:17:31 PM
This is an article from the Sun newspaper. Which, to you Americans, is kind of like the National Enquirer, with a naked woman on page 3.

Think about it.
I don't get what you are trying to say...
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« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2008, 05:38:43 PM »
Credibility is an issue with The Sun. Have you never seen a National Enquirer!? BS stories galore.
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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2008, 05:41:33 PM »
Quote from: TheJord on June 03, 2008, 05:38:43 PM
Credibility is an issue with The Sun. Have you never seen a National Enquirer!? BS stories galore.
What? It is all true!
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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2008, 07:52:10 PM »
Heck yeah! The pics of mermaids swimming around Atlantis, Moses coming back, the world ending yesterday, how dare you dispute it.
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« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2008, 09:40:45 PM »
Quote from: NBarden on June 03, 2008, 07:52:10 PM
Heck yeah! The pics of mermaids swimming around Atlantis, Moses coming back, the world ending yesterday, how dare you dispute it.
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