His Excellence, Mr. Harold.

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I just wanted to make sure you saw this!

I am satisfied with your explaination, and was even coming to the conclusion that a slight amount of humidity could have amplified the light or caused the blurr, because I see on this pic even, a slight blurr between the Vibernum and Arbor Vitae, next to that shoot of green (ash seedling) behind the Dames Rocket.

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/Dames_3.jpg


If you can't see it, I understand. It is very small, and could be the remains of the humidity.

See, when I am out shooting, I am moving around a lot. If humidity had begun to form and cause the light to refract strangly, then I could have easily lessend it's amount by shaking the camera (in movement)thus resulting in less blurr for this picture, than the ones before it.

Anyway, I am still not giving up. My house is extreamly haunted. Things fly out of the cabinets and I even have been bruised up in my sleep..(weird bruises, that have strange patterns....even teeth marks on my hip.) My husband and I have both heard knocking in the ceiling, and voices. Rooms suddenly get very cold, or hot, and we have both seen streaks of light through or kitchen.... Now that I'd love to catch on film. :)

Anyway, thank you. I really am glad I know now what that looks like on film. I am new to photography and by no means to I want to 'fall' for anything that is scientifically explainable. In other words, I am a serious, and skeptical ghost hunter and am wanting the truth, not a thrill.

Is there anything else that may occur, in taking photos, that is explainable, like this?

Have you ever seen pictures of 'ORBS'? Are those fake? I could see a drop of water making that happen, easily. That is the kind of thing I am talking about.
 
I've got some ghost pictures that would curl your toes, trouble is they don't load on the board for some reason.
 
Its not a blur, its the eye subconciously continuing the
darker lines of conifer over the horizontal of the fence.

Cactiphile
 
Hazey, You have to show me....I want you to email them to me, if you can... at Lavenderandroses@hotmail.com. They may not load here because 'they' don't want them too. ;) J/K. Maybe Harold would know. If you send them to me, maybe I can get them to load up from my website.


Cactiphile, BTW, I love your name, but Have you seen the other pictures?

Believe me, It's a blur...

here you go...

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/Dames_Rocket_2.jpg

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/Tarragon.jpg
 
ok. Three easy explanations.

Sun haze
or
Condensation on your lens
or
if it was a 'film' camera the film got damp
before developing.

Also I quote >>
..(weird bruises, that have strange patterns....even teeth marks on my hip.) My husband a<<

The second sentence explains the first. My wife often wakes
up with teeth marks in her...

If your using a film camera the coolest thing u can get
for spooky photos is a double exposure, eg one piccy overlaying another. But its hard to do with modern cameras.

Cactiphile
 
Digital camera.
Harold and I already have concluded it was moisture and light..

These were taken digitally.

Sorry, I don't do FAKES... Not cool.

And My husband doesn't bite. He nibbles! :)

They didn't look like human teeth marks anyway. Kind of slashes with four points, like there'd be punctures, but there where none.
And besides, most of the bruises have usually been on my inner forarm and it appears like someone stabbed me with a pencil over and over, like 40 times....But there is never any pain with them though.

I have done all of the nessecessary 'testing'. Like punching the shit out of my arm, till I cried, and then circling the area, and waiting days to find nothing.
I have even verbally acknowledged every little bump and bang that could produce a bruise, and usually nothing turns up, when I bash myself.
I don't bruise easily. Actually you have to beat the shit out of me to get any.
So you'd think I'd know where they were coming from!

Anyway, I am off for the evening. And hope the rest of you enjoy yours! :)

Hazey! Those piccies.... NOW! ;)
 
G.R. the second one in your second post is definitely from the light. You're getting a flare there. The others, well, I don't know. Could be flaring, or could be a bit of fog even.
 
G.R. said:
Is there anything else that may occur, in taking photos, that is explainable, like this?

Have you ever seen pictures of 'ORBS'? Are those fake? I could see a drop of water making that happen, easily. That is the kind of thing I am talking about.

I've seen several pictures that claim to be of 'orbs.' Some like the haze in your pictures are tricks of the light, some are obvious attempts fakery, and a few are pictures of things I can't explain from the pictures.

Light can do funny things with film and camera lenses. You have to look for clues like the presence and direction of shadows to determine what the images actually show.

Taking pictures through a window will often show "ghostly" reflections where something behind the photographer reflects in the window. Sometimes it's obvious that is what happened, and sometimes it's not.

Another source of "ghostly images" can be wisps of fog or smoke that are only visible when the light is "just right." Without the shadows in your pictures, that could have been a possible explanation for the blurring.

Optical illusions like Cactiphile's explanation above can usually be spotted by magnifying that portion of the picture.

In examining pictures for evidence of the supernatural or unexplainable, it's best to consider all of the possibilities. It is very easy to "see what you want to see" without a healthy dose of scepticism.

Digital pictures, especially in JPeg format, present additional problems with identifying anomalies. Jpeg format is what is called a "lossy" format. When opened JPeGs only present a close appriximation of what was saved. Other digital formats are easily manipulated to add and remove elements and with alittle skill and practice, such manipulation is almost impossible to detect.

The pictures at the site AFM posted, may or may not be legitimate but the fact they are now in digital format makes any determination nearly impossible. For the most part, I suspect they show what they purport to show -- in the sense they are accurate reproductions of the original photos. That doesn't necessarily mean that they show ghosts nor does it mean they DON"T show ghosts -- it only means the originals show something that can't be easily explained.

I do wish you luck in your search for ghosts. There are many phenomena that look like ghosts, act like ghosts, and sound like ghosts. If they were ducks, I'd say they were ducks. Ghosts though, I don't know what they're really supposed to look, act and sound like so I don't know what causes the phenomena -- I only know they match the legends and folklore.
 
Never met this guy before, he stops into my shop and before long he's telling me about this haunted house he visited recently, a place a few miles from here, and this is no joke. He hands over a stack of photos he took when he was there, and these look mysteriously like the photos you'd see on websites about this very subject. There seems to be "light flares" and "abberrations" that seem so common to ghost photos.

As I'm looking through them, he can't stop talking, talking about the voices he heard, and the stories that have been told about the guys that were murdered in this house.

He keeps talking, and he's so certain about these ghosts existing, he wouldn't go into the basement of this house.

As I scan these photos he tells me about a videotape he recorded while he was there, and by the time I finished scanning, he had gone home and brought it back to me to take home and view.

I watched this video tape, and it was about as bad as the Blair Witch Project, but it wasn't a put-on.

Weird, weird, weird.

I tried to post these photos from my personal yahoo site, but they wouldn't load. Oh well.
 
My shop might be haunted. The original owner was killed there by an ex-employee looking for money. The guy was closing down the place one night and right before he closed up the drawer the guy came in and shot him. He somewhere between the lobby and our first garage bay. Funny stuff happens in that area. The computer will wink out on occasion even though we have a UPS. I have slipped there more times then any other place in the shop, even though that place stays very dry and oil rarely is spilt there. The water in the bathroom will sometimes randomly turn itself on. The bay door there breaks more often then any of the other ones and it is used the least. I can't think of anything else that has happend around there. I know some of the other guys have noticed stuff too, but as far as i know no one has ever seen anything. A few times when I have been closing the shop down at night I kind of get a goosebumb type feeling. I just feel kind of weird and stuff all alone there sometimes.
 
Thank you for the advice Harold. I will only take photos for 'ghost' hunting on a regular camera, and I will keep all of your tips in mind. :)

Hazey.....I have to get to my mail still and get them up on my site, but the reason you can't post them here is because Yahoo's Geocities won't let you Hotlink.

I will get those up promptly, but I am in the middle of a family emergancy so, who knows when.

Cactaphile, LOVE THE PICTURE! Beautiful!


I just read Azwed and Lavey's posts! Geeze guys. I am nervous now! Is Bastet okay? Where the heck is she? Get her ass in here!!!!!! STAT!!!!!!




[Edited by G.R. on 05-26-2001 at 10:44 PM]
 
Well, Here are PurpleHaze's Pictures, and I must say a few words here.

The streaks of light, are a tracer like version of what I see in my kitchen. I don't get a long extension (or streak) with the naked eye. I just see a sort of solid area that is between the size of a baseball down to a golf ball, move rapidly across the room. They are bigger than this, but similar is hue.

As for the goldenish bloches, I am not sure about them.

I have seen a lot of pics like the one here with the white webbing all over. I have no clue what they are.

The pic in the bedroom is interesting. I know what I see in the box, but, unless asked, won't make implications about what it looks like, to lead others about what is percieved there.


All I can say, not being an expert, is this place just looks like it'd be creepy.


To load these on to my site I had to set them into Paint and save as .jpegs or else Homestead won't load them. I swear, on the light side of The Force and on Yoda's soul, that I did only that. Hazey can account for the accuracy of their original content. Besides I am an amature and it'd take me two months to fuck with them. :)

I disclaim myself of any liability for emotional trauma or arising nervous disorders inflicted upon you by veiwing the content of these bizzarre pictures.

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/PurpleHazesG1.jpg

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/PurpleHazesG2.jpg


http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/PurpleHazesG3.jpg

http://grspicturesandstuff.homestead.com/files/PurpleHazesG4.jpg
 
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