This picture has stumped everyone

[eric.u200x]

(10-23-2009 12:12 AM)trixiekins Wrote:  


I swear to you I have done nothing to this photo to retouch it. All I have done was edit it with contrast and sharpness. I have shown this to a lot of people and no one can give me a logical explanation. I promise I am sane and normal - just a 42 year old stay at home mom that is amazed by this photo!

A couple of years ago I got some old real 35mm film developed that had been sitting around for a few years. This picture jumped out at me! None of the other pics had anything like this on them. This was at my mother's house, on her birthday. I was taking pictures of the clay pots on her shelf that my kids painted for her birthday. There was nothing behind me that could have caused this reflection. No dish towels, no coat racks, no people...my mom keeps a very simple house without a lot of stuff. And I don't wear robes or dresses...or hoods, lol. Does not look like my reflection at ALL. The window behind the sink looks out onto their deck. You can faintly see the deck rails in the background. But there was also nothing outside that could have made this.

My parents don't live in an old house. But there has been noises, and my mother and I have both, on different occasions, seen "shadow people" in our peripheral vision.

The weird thing is that when I enlarged the photo, inside the space where the head would be is a little face. Not lying. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I included an enlarged pic here to see if you see the same thing.

There are 3 pictures here combined in one - the original, then the "ghost" enlarged on the right, and under that the "face".

The pixellation in the zoomed picture makes it look like it has a face. Two eyes and a rectangular mouth.

I can see why this picture stumps everyone. Lol.

[mom72]

I am completely stumped. I do not see a face or figure at all. All I can see is a bag.

[trixiekins]

Well in that case I am completely stumped too...because there was no bag hanging in the kitchen - nothing to hang it on!

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(10-25-2009 05:27 AM)Haunted Wrote:  I do see a face in the smallest picture, but have no idea what it really is. It does look like there's a reflection of a cabinet or something in the window on the original photo though. So whatever it is that does look like a ghost could be a reflection of something as well.

Actually, since their deck is right outside that window I thought it was the deck rail, but now I am thinking it's the reflection of their living room windows behind me. They have tall windows without curtains, as they live in the woods. But it can't be a cabinet reflection as there aren't any cabinets in the place that would create a reflection like that.

[bleedme]

(10-23-2009 11:31 AM)trixiekins Wrote:  Ugh. Thanks so much for all your input. But there are no towels or bags hanging ANYWHERE in the kitchen. My mom hangs her dishtowel very low, on a bar attached to the counter. Also I don't see how the kids' pictures could be reflected in the window, when they are facing away from it?

If it is a reflection of the pictures of the kids then it can be done so because your camera acts as a mirror.

Also, the point about overlapping, over exposed film does happen. Maybe it's a case of both or neither. Either way it's cool to look at.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I dont see the face in the smaller pic at all, it's the big pic, that I see the face.
there is no rectangler mouth, not sure who said that, but obviously they arent looking at what I'm talking about.
the veil/sheet/hair partialy covers the mouth.

[bleedme]

I added this to show how tricky film can be or what happens when it doesn't develope right.
It is only an example, nothing more nothing less.

This picture actually has 3 seperate pics in one. There's the day at the races, a pic taken in the laundry room where I had a colauge of pics on the wall, and one of someone at home in Buffalo, NY.





Again this is nothing more than an example of what I said about poorly exposed film. I am not saying that this is what happened to your photo.

Oh, and for some reason I can not enlarge it any better, but it can be copied and saved to view it larger.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

pretend that this pic, which I'm fixing to post, is the pic above, now picture this woman looking up and her right side of her face is shown, while the left side is covered by a sheet/veil/whatever.

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/PMO4862.jpg



can you not see the ghost face above, the eyebrow,then the eye, then the partial nostril,then below the partial mouth?

[rebecca]

cool picture, creepy! no one can really say for sure what it is. hopefully its nothing bad. thanks for sharing!

[trixiekins]

(10-26-2009 12:44 AM)Dr.Teufel Geist Wrote:  pretend that this pic, which I'm fixing to post, is the pic above, now picture this woman looking up and her right side of her face is shown, while the left side is covered by a sheet/veil/whatever.



can you not see the ghost face above, the eyebrow,then the eye, then the partial nostril,then below the partial mouth?

I still can't see it! Maybe it's because I have looked at this photo SO many times, and all I can see is what I originally saw.

[jadewik]

Okay, so we've seen a photo of the window-- but what's behind the photographer? At this point, we can only guess at what's behind the photographer...

Therefore, we can neither rule out what is in the photograph nor can we safely confirm that the object in question is a ghost and is NOT a reflection in the glass. More information about the surroundings are necessary because, when windows are involved in picture taking, there will ALWAYS be a reflection of some sort-- especially if a flash is involved. In order to rule out the possibility of the object in question being a reflection we'd need more information.

... I'd suggest daytime photos, so no flash is necessary. Also, re-take the sink photo during the day.