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Did you know there are ways to photoshop meteors, stars, explosions, ufos, buildings, backgrounds, people, animals, etc.? Therefore all photos of such must be photoshopped right? Nope...doesn't follow at all. Just because something CAN be faked says nothing about whether it was or not. You need actual evidence for that. But you haven't provided it beyond some subjective ideas about what a proper ghost SHOULD look like in a photo. We have no idea about that. But from the abundance of photos like these it appears they can merge with other objects in the photo. Makes sense if they are immaterial beings, eh?

 

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How many times?

YOU are claiming ghosts so YOU need to provide evidence to support those claims.

Extraordinary evidence.

A photo just isn't good enough.

 

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We know they are ghosts from the background stories. The old man behind the old lady IS her dead husband. The little boy between the pant legs of the girls was already scaring the little girl. And the boy on the farm had been SEEN by the farmer himself. So on and so on. Solid confirmations of ghosts. But these just barely scratch the surface. Stand by for more, including many from before the age of photoshop.

 

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"Mrs. Mabel Chinnery was visiting the grave of her mother one day in 1959. She had brought along her camera to take photographs of the grave site. After snapping a few shots of her mother's gravestone, she took an impromptu photo of her husband, who was waiting alone in the car. At least the Chinnerys' thought he was alone.
When the film was developed, the couple was more than surprised to see a figure wearing glasses sitting in the back seat of the car. Mrs. Chinnery immediately recognized the image of her mother – the woman whose grave they had visited on that day. A photographic expert who examined the print determined that the image of the woman was neither a reflection nor a double exposure. "I stake my reputation on the fact that the picture is genuine," he testified."

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"Sunnyvale's Toys R Us houses more than playthings. Built in 1970 over an 1800s apple orchard once owned by John Murphy, the store is said to be haunted. The Toys R Us ghost - Johnny Johnson - haunts aisle 15C, other back aisles and the women's restroom.Johnson was a wood-chopper at John Murphy's farm where he fell in love with the farmer's daughter. His axe missed the wood one day, cut his leg, and he bled to death. He now roams the back aisles of Toys R Us seeking his love Elizabeth Yuba Murphy Tafee. Women report feeling their hair brushed when no one is behind them, faucets turn on and off in the women's restroom and boxes fly off the shelves unaided. Rag dolls and toy trucks leap off shelves. Balls bounce down the aisles. Children's books fall out of racks. Baby swings move on their own. The folks at Toys R Us say that they've tried to explain it logically but can't. Psychic Sylvia Brown conducted a seance here, bringing with her a a photographer and others to record any appearances. An infrared photograph taken during the seance shows a man leaning on a wall with his hands jammed in his pockets, an image which did not appear on a photograph taken simultaneously with high-speed film."

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"In 1996, Ike Clanton thought it would be a pretty cool idea to deck himself out in cowboy attire and have his friend snap a picture of him while he stood in Boothill Graveyard in the famous Tombstone, Arizona. Upon examining the picture Clanton noticed a man in the background of the photo that was not there when the photograph was taken. Clanton was intrigued by this and set out to recreate the photo with a friend standing in the background and discovered it was impossible to recreate the picture without having the legs visible."

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"This photo was taken on November 16, 1968 when Robert A. F
erguson, author of Psychic Telemetry: New Key to Health, Wealth, and Perfect Living, was giving a speech at a Spiritualist convention in Los Angeles, California. Faintly appearing next to Ferguson is a figure that he later identified as his brother, Walter, who died in 1944 during World War II. At first glance, this might seem to be a double exposure or some kind of darkroom trickery, but this photo is a Polaroid (one of several taken of Ferguson at the time), making any kind of hoaxing quite unlikely."

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The ghost of Lady Dorothy Townshend:

“Captain Provand took one photograph while I flashed the light. He was focusing for another exposure; I was standing by his side just behind the camera with the flashlight pistol in my hand, looking directly up the staircase. All at once I detected an ethereal veiled form coming slowly down the stairs. Rather excitedly, I called out sharply: ‘Quick, quick, there’s something.’ I pressed the trigger of the flashlight pistol. After the flash and on closing the shutter, Captain Provand removed the focusing cloth from his head and turning to me said: ‘What’s all the excitement about?'”

He saw her again a week later and described her as wearing a brown satin dress, her skin glowing with a pale luminescence. It also seemed to him that her eyes had been gouged out."

- See more at: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphys...t-photobombs-ever-taken/#sthash.VU6oFxI8.dpuf

 

Solid confirmation of ghosts?

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C'mon MR people, normal people are not taken in these continued delusions by yourself.
Solid proof of confirmation bias on your part most certainly.
And the many logical reasons why it is nothing more than myth at post 6

 

Was she in her Sunday best?

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Or what they buried her in?

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What is the latest in ghost fashions these days?

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Instead of wasting everyone's time (including your own) dredging up pictures of "ghosts", why not take some time to learn how science works? Learn WHY photos and eyewitness testimony is unreliable and why science doesn't believe in ghosts instead of just screaming "Conspiracy! Cowards!" and so on.

So far all you've been doing is plugging your ears and stamping your feet when the mean old scientists don't take your crap at face value.

 

Except that as I showed you already more people believe in ghosts than not. Remember that? So your argument ad populum won't work here.

 

You're losing it dude. Go get yourself a beer, walk around outside, breathe deeply, and repeat to yourself slowly, "There's no such things as ghost. There's no such things as ghosts".

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Only if you all can handle it. I mean, I really wouldn't want anyone here to have a nervous breakdown over some little old ghost photos. So what happens if there's ghosts?

 

Maybe you should try that. You might learn something.

 

There is no difference in the sky surrounding the man. And the image is a ghost. How do expect a ghost to appear? As clear and resolved as a real person? No..ghosts typically appear pale/white, sometimes transparent, and usually fuzzy along their outlines. If that's a photo otoh, it is certainly not one worth keeping.

Here's the full story behind that photo with comparisons with the dead husband:

"This photo was received from Denise Russell. "The lady in the color photo is my granny," she says. "She lived on her own until age 94, when her mind started to weaken and had to be moved to an assisted living home for her own safety. At the end of the first week, there was a picnic for the residents and their families. My mother and sister attended. My sister took two pictures that day, and this is one of them. It was taken on Sunday, 8/17/97, and we think the man behind her is my grandpa who passed away on Sunday, 8/14/84.

We did not notice the man in the picture until Christmas Day, 2000 (granny had since passed away), while browsing through some loose family photos at my parents' house. My sister thought it was such a nice picture of granny that she even made a copy for mom, but still, nobody noticed the man behind her for over three years! When I arrived at my parents' house that Christmas day, my sister handed me the picture and said, "Who do you think this man behind granny looks like?" It took a few seconds for it to sink in. I was absolutely speechless. The black and white photos show that it really looks like him."

 

At this point, I suggest we treat Magical Realist exactly the same as we did Victor Esperenza, since they are about on the same level - they have come here convinced they are onto something new and incredible and no amount of actual fact nor evidence nor explanation will dissuade him from this folly.

Thus, I propose we leave him alone to his fantasy

 

New? Hardly. These photos are well known all over the internet and are some the best confirmed pics ever taken. I wouldn't just post anything thing here afterall. I have my standards too. I post the best of the best here, not fakes or questionable photos that can be easily handwaved away. Something Bell presumed she could do.

 

So , in essence, you simply have a problem with anyone in a position of authority, as well as anyone who points out the flaws in your reasoning

BTW - Found an interesting ghost picture... I swear it's real!

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I even saw a party of ghosts... i took a picture for you!

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I don't believe that for one minute.

http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/10-reasons-why-ghosts-dont-exist.html



10 Reasons Why Ghosts Don’t Exist.

Only the gullible and those that have mandates to substantiate the after-life believe in ghosts and the paranormal.

Ghosts are simply wishful thinking and a convenient excuse for explaining ‘what goes bump in the night.’

Proving ghosts are a man-made psychosis is in-fact very simple.

1.) Ghosts come in one form – that just happens to be human - which is conveniently what we bipedal-chimps want to see, and not say a dead cow hovering at the end of ones bed. Have you ever heard of the legend of oceans being haunted by ghostly plankton?

2.) Ghosts just happen to be nocturnal, preferring night-time to ‘do their thing’. So when you die you suddenly become adverse to daylight – right?

3.) Like the popular bug-eyed Aliens, modern ghosts are all stereotypical, with the same looks and characteristics. The standard ghost or spectre in China is that of a Chinaman. The standard ghost in an Inuit community resembles the locals and not a six foot six black-man.

4.) Purportedly ghosts have the ‘magical’ capabilities to travel through walls, levitate etc. Powers they didn’t have when they were alive. They move objects all the time – but never get behind the wheels of a car and drive, type a letter on a computer or light-up a Bensons and Hedges. When it comes to interacting with humans all ghosts want to do is scare the shit out of the living in the dead of night or flash their tits at us in photos. Aimless activity, no-one has been able to detect with any surety.

5.) Ghosts are allergic to large crowds. ‘The Ghost of Super Bowl’ or ‘The Ghost of F.A Cup’ – I don’t think so.

6.) Ghosts love hotels and pubs. When you die you head immediately to ‘your local’ for a pint. How else could you explain the disproportionately high number of pubs that are haunted? And it’s always old pubs that act as magnets to the living dead, rather than a Five Star Hilton.

7.) If you can walk through walls why don’t you simply drop through the floor as well?

8.) Why aren’t all ghosts totally naked?

9.) Seeing that potentially we living-humans share the planet with 60 billion spirits, comprising all of humanities dead – where do these hordes of living-dead spend their time? I mean where do they live? Caves? The bottom of the ocean? The stratosphere? Six to a house?

10.) Last but not least – there is not a shred of evidence

 

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