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Hey everyone what does everyone think about these pics. I'm sure people have probably seen them before but it's the first time I've seen them. I don't know much about cameras or what could cause some of these things.

http://www.ghost-hunting-equipment.com/c...of-ghosts/

I went to a ghost walk a number of years ago, well the presentation part of it. I was trying to find one of the pictures they presented but so far no luck. But I came across these which seem somewhat interesting.

I'll address number 2 tonight and some more tomorrow.

Ok this picture was claimed to be real, it was also claimed an expert verified it wasn't faked. Ok so much for the expert as if you look at the other picture its the same girl, the picture was on a postcard and was placed in the burning building photo .... So a hoax. Also if you look at the picture you see intense fire behind her. If a person was there the front would be blacked out. Next if you blow up the picture they did a really poor job putting the railing back in front of her.

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I will also add number 5 is already a thread somewhere on here. If you look at the picture and understand the trim back then its interior trim with a bit of pareidolia.

Here is the thread about the "ghost" in the car...number 5 on your link, Dax.

http://www.talkparanormal.com/thread-9430.html

Ok number 3 the Brown lady ghost ..... to some the most famous of all ghost pictures was a fake and even proved a fake back then. Of course like so many sightings of all kinds of paranormal people conveniently forget or intentionally ignore the truth

Thought this might be of interest.
I ran across this article today in The Independent regarding one of the country's most well-known 'ghost' pictures. Apparently investigations conducted at the time the picture was published uncovered evidence that the picture had been faked using photographic trickery.

Alan Murdie - a barrister and also a researcher into the supernnatural - found the evidence in a dusty folder in the manuscripts department of Cambridge University library.
The file details an exhaustive investigation into the phenomenon shortly after the image was taken. Conducted by the Society for Psychical Research, it concludes that there is almost certainly a mundane explanation for the "spectral" image in the photo.
The evidence includes the discovery that the camera may have leaked light on to the photographic plate.
It's funny how this information get's left out of any descriptions of the image!
http://www.ukskeptics.com/forum/showthre...ynham-Hall
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1. Freddy Jackson The photo is clearly not an illusion or trick of the light, but many sceptics claim that because the photo was taken so long ago, that a fault with the camera could be to blame. Also photos like this had typically long exposure times, which means during the exposure someone may have quickly walked past the top row and accidentally had their face half exposed on the photo, producing the creepy effect. We see this today with long exposures anything with over 1/2 second exposure can make items transparent when they move.
Also look it wasn't brought to anyones attention in 1919 it was 1979 when it was reported.

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4. This one is the hardest to find any wrong doing on. I will say it was supposedly taken with a black and white infrared film. Infrared photography makes things look differently so was this someone on a bench? was it a statue? Many times when doing an investigation we lose track of where we take photos and worse yet we lose track of what was in the picture. Google bench statue and imagine any of them taken with infrared.

Now the part I don't like is this was supposedly released for a publicity stunt.

This is something I found and we all know many people will use false information to promote something.
This story was released in the local media as a way to advertise a location to make money, and yes, they sure did make money... It was humorous to a point to watch that story become an urban legend in itself, but now it makes me sick to see how that same person is trying to use the cemetery directly as a means to make money.

So this one I will say I lean heavily towards fake or mistake of what was taken.

Thanks for the clarification on the pics, when I saw them they really caught my attention. I have a cannon rebel but in general I'm not that good with the working with all the settings and knowing what will cause what to happen. I think it's a shame so many people like to fake these types of pictures, in my opinion it really hurts the field. I really want to find the picture that was shown by a local paranormal investigators group a number of years back. The group had a picture taken by a family that called them for an investigation. Apparently they had been experiencing what they thought were paranormal occurrences. If I remember right they had two young children, one of which was the victim of some weird stuff bordering on injury. The family provided a group with a picture they took of their two children dressed up before a family function, however the picture shows the two kids but standing in front of them is an appertain of a disturbed looking little boy. Every feature was fairly clear on the child but the eyes were something that made a chill go down even my back when i saw it, he looked pissed off. The group sent the photo to the camera manufacturer to try and figure out what had happened with the camera, they received a response back saying after a review of the camera and picture, they could find nothing that could explain the photo and it was possibly paranormal in nature. I want to find that picture and letter but I have a sneaking suspicion if i wanted to get it I would have to contact the group directly.