Ghostly: A ghoulish child stares back as a little girl cries in Matthew Summers' photo Posted on 01/24/2008 5:05:05 PM PST by BGHater
At first glance, it seems to be an ordinary snap of a group of young people.
But look more carefully and there appears to be an extraordinary, ghostly presence among them.
Peeping out between the knees of two of the girls is the face of a child.
Ghostly: A ghoulish child stares back as a little girl cries in Matthew Summers' photo
The eerie image - clear enough to show a pair of eyes, a nose, a mouth and hair - was captured by 17-year-old Matthew Summers on his mobile phone as he and his friends were preparing to go out.
"I zoomed in to my sister's mate's little sister who was crying and I saw a face,"
Matthew said. "You can see all the facial expressions and everything.
Mysterious: The floating face can can clearly be seen at knee height between two girls
"Usually when you see pictures like that it's a blur but this one is really weird.
"I was really shocked because I don't believe in that stuff."
Matthew took the picture in his sister's friend's front room in Billingham, Teesside.
"I've sent it to my girlfriend and she thinks it's a bit weird," he added.
Haunted: Matthew Summers took the mysterious photo on his camera phone
His photo joins a long line of apparently paranormal snaps. The most memorable in recent times was a cloaked figure photographed standing in a doorway at Hampton Court Palace in 2003.
However, Ciaran O'Keeffe, a parapsychologist on Living TV's Most Haunted show, has a more down-to-earth explanation for the "child" in Matthew's photograph.
Dr O'Keeffe said: "As human beings we're very good at finding a pattern in randomness and related to that we're good at finding faces in randomness. The term for this is pareidolia.
"First it was ink blots, then things like clouds in the sky and now mobile phone pictures.
"There is no ghost in this picture, just the coincidental effect of pixelation and darkness and light which combine together."
At first I put it down to wrinkles in the curtain, but upon closer examination the face appears to be in front of the girl’s leg. See the hair is in front of the leg rather than behind if it were the curtain. The left part of the face is also in front of the other girl’s leg. It’s like the whatever really is poking it’s head out from between the legs. And it appears to have color rather than gray shadows from the white curtain.
The child’s face is the same as the guy holding the phone.
I got one of these at Christmas time. I looked like I was blending into the tree.
Two pic fused.
Says the faceless poster.
Kinda looks like Huckabee in the zoom photo.
It does look like a kids face though.
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It’s the Daily Mail. It’s England
It’s Ron Paul !
i just had to see it for myself. lol.
I’d be A pissed off ghost too if I had to live in a house WITHOUT any hotties. They’re ALL Free Willies!
Was this taken at a Weight Watchers meeting?
My curiousity got the better of me too.
Pardon me while I change into some clean undies.
Forget it buddy, I ain’t clicking on that link! Even with the sound off, it’s still creepy as Hell.
It is not just happening to Americans.
I bet this is some sort of camera malfunction. Just that in this case a face is pretty clear. Even the pupils of the eyes match looking to the side. Amazing.
Yes and the smallest one looks drunk! I wonder if they are all rather mortified that that this less than flattering picture is now worldwide.
LOL
One of you owes me a new heart and a clean pair of boxers.
The kid on the right is crying because there’s no more Haagen-Daaz in the freezer. Or the store. Or the town.
ROFL!
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