Poll: Newby ghost photo - ever proved a fake?

Do you think the Newby Ghost photo is real or fake?

  • Real

  • Fake

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MookJong said:
They may not be physically real in the material sense but they have been reported in all cultures since recorded history. So even if it's just a psychological condition they are real in that sense.
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Or it's just a bunch of:

A. Attention seekers
B. Liers
C. People abusing substances

As there is no such things as ghosts there is no need to "debunk" any of the numberous pictures.
It just goes something along the lines of:

Here is a picture. As you can see it shows a ghost..... FAKE.
 
Third Opinion said:
This picture could be easily faked today.

What makes it interesting is it was released in the 60's and no tampering was ever found.

Of course it doesn't make it a ghost in the picture but still interesting. It wasn't taken by your typical Ghost hunter but by a priest who maintained he never saw anything whilst taking the picture and the figure only appeared after being developed.
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Actually, it would be even easier to do in the 1960s than it would be now. Today you would have to do spend 30seconds in Photoshop, back then you just didn't wind on the film.
 
It's not a ghost

what it could be is a time traveller from the future. It's not a bed sheet he's wearing but an invisibility cloak. The old camera was able to detect it.
 
I often say in these threads that ghosts do exist as a term for things that we cannot yet explain, after all, plenty of ghostly things happen to perfectly normal people, but that is certainly not to say that spirits of dead people are sometimes (or ever) the cause. It's my view that, as our technological advances continue, so we might uncover new, rational explanations.
 
I remember as a kid I got some book vouchers for winning some maths prize at school... went into town and got myself a copy of 'the encyclopedia of the unexplained' - it had that picture from the OP, some stuff on ball lightning, men in black, aliens, spontaneous human combustion, UFOs etc..etc.. Thing is I was 12/13 years old and was just getting into this new TV series the X Files - didn't have the internet at home at the time and was just curious about what had been written about this stuff so thought I'd buy a book, can remember even then flicking through the book thinking this is just utter BS and regretting using my vouchers for the purchase.

I just don't understand why fully grown adults believe in this stuff... especially with all the resources we have today at a click of a button for people to access information.
 
Edrof said:
I often say in these threads that ghosts do exist as a term for things that we cannot yet explain, after all, plenty of ghostly things happen to perfectly normal people, but that is certainly not to say that spirits of dead people are sometimes (or ever) the cause. It's my view that, as our technological advances continue, so we might uncover new, rational explanations.
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and find that most of it is either psychological or simply people mistaking something out of the corner of their eye combined with a prior belief in 'ghosts' etc..
 
stoofa said:
Or it's just a bunch of:

A. Attention seekers
B. Liers
C. People abusing substances

As there is no such things as ghosts there is no need to "debunk" any of the numberous pictures.
It just goes something along the lines of:

Here is a picture. As you can see it shows a ghost..... FAKE.
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I think you totally missed my point tbh...
 
dowie said:
and find that most of it is either psychological or simply people mistaking something out of the corner of their eye combined with a prior belief in 'ghosts' etc..
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Our enigmatic little brains are certainly to blame for a large percentage of what is labelled by some as paranormal activity. Other explanations are perfectly natural, such as infrasound (at certain frequencies, sound undetectable to the human ear yet capable of moving objects and generate feelings of fear within subjects) and the effects upon humans of electro-magnetic fields.
 
Edrof said:
Our enigmatic little brains are certainly to blame for a large percentage of what is labelled by some as paranormal activity. Other explanations are perfectly natural, such as infrasound (at certain frequencies, sound undetectable to the human ear yet capable of moving objects and generate feelings of fear within subjects) and the effects upon humans of electro-magnetic fields.
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I'm more interested in the one's that are not natural. Have you excluded them? Say for example noises or sounds that are produced from within the atoms of objects themselves at some reported sightings? These have been recorded scientifically as far back as sixteen months ago, which is when I became aware of them. There was some chap doing research at a haunting when there was a loud banging or knocking emanating from a table or some other object, as if someone was loudly hitting it . After a number of tests the noise was found to be emanating from within the atoms of the table itself and not along the outside (structure) surface of the object: An oscilloscope showed that the actual sound wave started differently to that of any other sound that could be naturally produced in the building. Freaky.
 
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ethan said:
I'm more interested in the one's that are not natural. Have you excluded them? Say for example noises or sounds that are produced from within the atoms of objects themselves at some reported sightings? These have been recorded scientifically as far back as sixteen months ago, which is when I became aware of them.
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What does this mean? If it is the atoms producing the noises, then of course it is natural as atoms are also natural. :confused:
 
MikeTheNative said:
What does this mean? If it is the atoms producing the noises, then of course it is natural as atoms are also natural. :confused:
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One, there was no physical outside force acting upon the object to produce the noise it was making as far as I can remember. It was not natural. You try knocking on a table in such a way that the noise can be shown to coming from within it and not from the surface you have just hit . I can't find the link and it would take too long to try and find it, but it was concluded from the likes of this that there are indications that the acoustic properties of the two classes of sounds in genuine hauntings are different and that this technique can be used to differentiate between normal and paranormal rapping sounds. I think the Enfield case was used for this research. Something to do with discernable measurable differences in the properties of the actual sound wave.
 
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D.P. said:
Actually, it would be even easier to do in the 1960s than it would be now. Today you would have to do spend 30seconds in Photoshop, back then you just didn't wind on the film.
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As said before double exposer and cross picture contamination was ruled out.

It probably is some kind of fake and I don't believe in ghosts. However the picture must have been expertly done.

It is a strange one as why would a priest get involved in high quality fake ghost pictures?

I am sure it would not have gone down well if the truth had been found out.
 
MookJong said:
They may not be physically real in the material sense but they have been reported in all cultures since recorded history. So even if it's just a psychological condition they are real in that sense.
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A Psychological condition is indeed real. The product fabricated by one is not.
 
Third Opinion said:
As said before double exposer and cross picture contamination was ruled out.

It probably is some kind of fake and I don't believe in ghosts. However the picture must have been expertly done.

It is a strange one as why would a priest get involved in high quality fake ghost pictures?

I am sure it would not have gone down well if the truth had been found out.
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BS, it is an obvious fake and has been proven to be
 
Third Opinion said:
As said before double exposer and cross picture contamination was ruled out.

It probably is some kind of fake and I don't believe in ghosts. However the picture must have been expertly done.

It is a strange one as why would a priest get involved in high quality fake ghost pictures?

I am sure it would not have gone down well if the truth had been found out.
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My arse they've been ruled out. ND filter, 10+ second exposure. Open shutter, walk in front in crappy costume, stand still for a few seconds, then walk away. Possibly have a flash go off a few times when you aren't standing infront and once when you are. Bingo - ghost image.
 
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