Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Why Are Ghosts So Camera Shy?

I love tales of the supernatural.

Especially when there's photographic "evidence" of ghosts or monsters.

Isn't it funny though that the evidence is always blurry, or the spectre is seen from a distance?

Aren't there any vain ghosts?

So I loved this story:
A property manager got a fright when a ghostly figure turned up in a photo she had taken.
Brigid Curran used her cellphone to take some pictures of a rural Helensville property she oversees, and it was not until she returned to her office that Brigid saw what appeared to be the figure of a woman standing in the background by the fence.
"I thought, hang on. There was no one standing there when I took the photo," she says.

Brigid sent the photo to the tenant, Janet Stansfield, who replied saying she was unfazed.

"Oh that’s just my Maori lady, she likes my garden," she told Brigid.
The evidence is this photo:


Underwhelmed?

What, you were expecting something more shocking? Maybe a pair of glowing eyes peering from a white sheet? Or a ghastly gruesome face to make your blood chill?

The person/thing is blurry and indistinct. It certainly has the shape of a person's upper body. So is it:
  1. a live person who just happened to be peering over the fence at the time?
  2. some kind of joke/stunt by someone desperate for attention?
  3. something else on the fence that just happens to resemble a person?
  4. a spectre from the pits of hell come to suck our souls away?
Being something of a sceptic, my money's on 1 or 2.

Feel free to speculate. Aliens? Nazis?
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5 comments:

  1. You know, to me it looks like Wonder Woman, what with the headgear and all.

    But honestly, it's probably just some jpeg artefact from a crappy phone camera.

    Favourite quote: "Oh that’s just my Maori lady, she likes my garden."

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  2. It is quite obvious, through my vigorous analysis, that its the next door neighbour - a dairy farmer - planning out how many cows he could fit into the vege garden as is.

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  3. Helensville is John Key's electorate.

    Maybe his wife Bronagh was taking s stroll through the electorate and decided to peek over the fence.

    Or maybe... could Key be married to a ghost??

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  4. Jeeze Scott. I bet you think this definitive proof of the existence of the Loch Newss Monster is just a boat or something, too?

    There are none so blind, etc...

    L

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  5. Lew, it's so obviously an image of Jesus that I can't believe people fell for the whole Nessie thing.

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