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This months mystery Photo
This photo has us
stumped! If you can share a credible theory as to it's identity, it would be appreciated. yours may even get posted.

 
   
 

 

 
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August 2001 Mystery Photo
Ghostly boy or double exposure?

Submitted by: Carolyn
chaesman@swbell.net

Carolyn writes, "This photo was taken when my nephew came to visit after work about 2 am . My brother is the man in the picture and is standing up. The child in the picture wakes us up every night between the hours of 2 am and 4 am unless we burn a candle for him. My sister also saw him standing in my living room three nights ago when she turned to talk to my fiancée. Remember this is taken with a new Polaroid mini camera and i have no children in my home around 5 or 6 years old as my sister said that is what the age of the child she saw looked to be."

Jim's comments: At first glance this picture looks like a double exposure but the above explanation caused me to have a closer look. The odd thing that I noticed is the boy has unusual eyes (one brown & one blue) and he casts a shadow on the wall and the man behind him. This is not consistent with double exposed pictures. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

 


Ghost boy image within the picture


Clear view of eyes & shadow

 

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If you want to share your well thought out opinion, drop us a line.
Aug01@ghoststudy.com

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Your comments are posted below:

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What a fake!!!Those people know there is a child around the house who was going to sneak and take a picture.He pushed the button to soon as most kids do.He was sneaking behind a fish tank and got his reflection as well as the fish and the two (yes 2) ladies above the man's shoulder on the left of the picture.You can see one actually coaxing him to  sneak and take the picture.  cbriggs@chartertn.net
   
  It is very obviously double exposure. If you look closely at the boy's eyes, one sees that one is, in fact, red, albeit a very dark red. It appears as if the boy got red eye in one of his eyes in the picture, and that his other is naturally blue. When the picture was double exposed over the other picture, the colors faded out, leaving his one eye an eerie red color and the other a faded out blue. Second, the child's shadow would appear in the back of the original picture, and when the pictures combined, it also transposed. It doesn't make sense to have a shadow if the child was a ghost, and it also holds that even if the child was to cast a "ghostly shadow", it would not be orientated in the direction that is it. The light source of the camera flash would not promote a shadow at that angle. It makes the idea that another, different light source would have to be involved. Since we do not have the original background of the first picture, we cannot determine the orientation of the light source on the child. The double exposure idea also explains why the background of the picture is as fuzzy as it is. PS- If you look at the facial features of the child and the adult in the photo, they look close enough to warrant being related. This also makes a case for a double exposure of two pictures on a single roll of film.  trhodes@gwu.edu  
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  If u look at the left of the picture around the middle, it looks a lady wearing glasses. It's very faint, but it's there. The picture seems real enough for us.  Queenwitch72904@aol.com    
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It looks like there is another person behind the guy's right shoulder, left of the photo. It looks like a woman, maybe his mother¿ i think this pic is 100% real  abeen1@chello.nl
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The photo has been taken through a fish tank with a moderate flash. The fish tends to give it away a little, as does the distortion of the man's head, the faded coloring of the room and the washed out shadow. Oh yes, and the kid's hands holding the camera don't aid the ghost theory that much.  Simon.Brewer@tesco.net
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.At first I thought it was a double exposure....sure there are no kids around the house?  Baracoodah@aol.com
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  If the family really wants to know why the boy is there, and what he wants from them they need to bring a medium in to try to contact the young spirit. I sagest they do some meditating to open there minds to there spirit guides so that they my get the answers from them. This may be a child who is alive and is experiencing Astroprojection. All people have this psychic abilities when young, but most of us block it out by the time we are old enough to understand what is happening to us. The child in the picture may be doing astroprojection in his sleep without knowing what he is doing. He may think he is just dreaming. The boy may also be a spirit trying to be playful with the family. He may want some attention and recognition that he is around, and wants the family to know he is staying there too. Good luck to the family. Heather  hkuharchek@pfsweb.com  
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  Hi my husband and I are founders of Southern New England Ghost Hunters Society of CT and we recently moved to Florida and are now Southwest Florida Ghost Hunters Society, located in Fort Myers. Anyway, this picture is fantastic. My first thought was, oh that obviously double exposure or developers error. One of the first things I looked for was the shadows. In the close up especially, the man has his own shadow which is evident behind his right shoulder. However, the boy, not only has 2 different colored eyes, but is reacting as most kids that age when having their picture taken, want to be right up in front! He casts a rather large shadow for the angle of the photo, and nothing else in the picture is wrong, I would think if it was double-exposed there would be other things in the picture out of place. You can see through him to the man but not consistently! absolutely fantastic!   flghosts@hotmail.com    
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I think the pic is real. I have d/l it, and reversed the colors, and there it definitely shows that there is a shadow on the right side of the man, his whole shoulder is darker than it should be (shadow). Not only that but I think the hand you see, is the hand of the boy, the boy tried to reach out for the camera or something. And how could it be that the transparency level is different at the top compared to the bottom of the photo. If you ask me... this is totally real! Michael  van.buuren@quicknet.nl
   
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  I think the theory about the picture being taken looking through a fish tank is good, but wouldn't the kids reflection of his face be blocked by the camera? thedood@bellsouth.net    
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  Interesting picture, part of his face seems to be bruised? The side that has a blue eye. Cool.  JakSuzdwyer@aol.com  
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  After reviewing this photo, I believe that it is not a double exposure and that the spirit of this child wants and needs to be acknowledged. Was any info given on the history of the house?  ranch1977@aol.com  
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  The August Mystery Photo is a fake or an accidental double exposer. 1.) The photo of the boy is taken with a flash. You can tell by his brightly lit face and the large shadow behind him. 2.) The shadow is NOT projected on the wall with the man in it because a.) it's a separate picture and can't be. b.) there is no deformation when it goes to wall to ceiling. it may look like it but look again..it's just the curvature of the shadow fooling your eye. 3.) The two colored eyes are easily explainable. They're really one color but since the picture is a double exposure the boy is slightly transparent. Thus his eye that is over the skin tone of the man is gonna be a reddish color (due to the skin tone of the man showing through the relatively bluish black original color of his eye area). Therefore the eye that is above his shoulder appears generally bluish-black b/c of the area behind that eye. Look at the eybrows..they do the same thing..as well as the hair. Zach zwp1@Ra.MsState.Edu  
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  I puzzled over something I thought I saw in the photograph and then saw that someone else (Thundershorts) noticed the same thing. There appears to be a fish on the right hand side of the photograph. It just hovers there above, what appears to be a fairly real looking hand. This leads me to believe that the photograph of the man was taken through a fish tank by the kid (who we see reflected in the glass of the fish tank). Just my opinion-- but if there is any other explanation for the flying fish in the living room, then I'd like to hear it! :o) As for the shadows on the wall-- You'll note that the mans left shoulder (on the right side of the photo) casts a very dark shadow, and the one we assume is the child's is on the ceiling and wall-- yet curiously it is not on the man or you'd see it on his shirt, again, at his left shoulder.) So, perhaps the shadows are a not what they appear to be. I think the photo is interesting, but easily reproduced. lars.nordstrom@snet.net  
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Notice the hand in the lower right corner? Someone is HOLDING up a mirror, has a bright light shining on the little kid to catch the reflection, and is taking a picture of the mirror and its contents! If you do not believe me, then try to re-create this for yourself. Get a large mirror, a Polaroid camera, a bright light, and someone to hold the mirror without doing a very good job of hiding their hand. It is NOT uncommon for a person (young or old) to have two different color eyes. I have a friend who has a green eye and a blue eye. The kid in this photo does NOT have multi-colored eyes. The discoloration is caused by the flash and the retina reflecting the light back to the mirror in an odd manner. It is all angles and easily achieved.  dsp@brennick.com
   
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Yes, the eyes do tell all.  I agree with ArchmageErana that the "redeye" points to this being a double exposure or processing anomaly.  A detailed story of the premises might help support the ghost theory...  fjeff24@qwest.net
 
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  A lot of attention is being brought to the eye color when really his eyes are just clear.   Note that his 'brown pupil' is the same color as his hair, and the left side of his face.  And his blue pupil is the same color as the wall behind him, and the man's shirt.  I'm going to have to go with the transparency idea.   ~Chris  herothewarrior@home.com  
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  That photo is excellent! I believe it's the real thing. I took a photo class and developed my own pictures. This would be impossible to do and you would need expensive tools to attempt something like this. And it wouldn't look good. hamsterashley1@hotmail.com   
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  Yet another interesting ghostly photo! I agree with Jim on this one, especially about the shadow on the wall. Making an observation of my own, i notice that the boy is quite solid at the bottom of the photo, and becomes more transparent as you look up the picture! flamingskullz@hotmail.com  
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  What a fantastic photo! It does not look exactly like a double exposure would to me and I have had many of these. This does look like two photos converged on top of the other but it is more like the dead being posted over top of the living. A true psychic photograph. I loved it. I haven't seen something like this in a long time and it really left no doubt in my own mind that this was a very important photo. The poor little boy---his eyes tell it all. Thank you for sharing this with all of us out here!  Becky  BGumm@aol.com  
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  I'd say it's a fake - that hand in the lower right of the photo may be holding up a transparency of a child whose photo was taken against a white wall. The child's shadow would look different because of this. Also, the angle of the child's shadow doesn't match that of the man's, nor does the child's shadow appear to conform to the shape of the room (although I may be wrong about this.) I DL'ed the photo & enlarged it, and the 'apparition' of the child does not cover that hand. Plus, if that hand's not holding up a transparency, what's it doing there? It looks like it's holding up something.  Daniel  honors@wichita.edu  
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  I'll say what I always say -- I'm no expert, so I don't have the authority to say whether or not it's real, but it looks a little suspicious to me. If you look at "real" ghost photos, you'll notice that 9 times out of 10, a ghost's image is very blurry and distorted. This is quite clearly a little boy,
complete with details right down to his eye color. Being a photographer, I'm of the opinion that this is probably a double exposure of some kind. Someone mentioned that the center of this boy's eyes are  red. This is actually a very common occurrence in photographs, especially when the subject is looking directly into a camera. If this is indeed a faked photo, I commend you on the realism to it. If it's in fact, real, I would advise learning more about your house history, and anything you can about the boy. How did he die? What (if anything) can you do to help him? Faith 
ArchmageErana@aol.com
 
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This picture is amazing.  I tend to agree about it being a ghost.  The eyes are the scary part.  If you look closely you will see the  eyes also have a red center.  The shadow also seems to cover the man behind him. And the shoulder of the man is also casting a shadow.  Is that a fish in the right hand corner?  Maybe he is looking at another spirit in the fish tank.  I would keep a candle lit for him.  It must make him feel safe.  Sure is a hammy little fellow.  = )  You just want to pinch his cheek. Thundershorts_44201@yahoo.com
 

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