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."
OK...now that’s creepy!
Wierd that I can’t see the picture until I hit reply. Must just be me.
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It looks like he head of a horned animal, maybe a goat.
Very interesting web page, thanks for posting.
oops typo he=the
oh - one of those kinda diets. Wow, clever.
If the ghost isn’t an undecided voter who cares?
“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.”
Also known simply as “matrixing”.
Although I’m trying to understand what might be matrixed here. The face seems an aberration even from the long horizontal lines at the same height behind the girls (probably a border moulding or some sort).
I’m also surprised an idiot from “Most Haunted” would actually poo-pooh this right away. They seem to be very gullible and believe everything.
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I see debt people too.
How in the heck did THAT happen? That is really bizarre. Never seen a photo come out like that!
This could easily be light messed up by the camera/lens.
Note in fact how the red area actually is “in front of” her head’s side. It’s not all behind her. In fact, if you look closely, you’ll see a sort of non-descript light-red blob around her left temple in front of the hair.
This is probably some blotch from light reflection on her. Possibly the flames.
LOL
Oh my god! LOL LOL
I have no clue how that photo happened. It’s from my phone. I can assure you that neither myself nor either of my daughters are ghosts. Nor is the tree.
However, I’m looking and those pjs make me look like a moose. I need to turn the heat up in the house and take off some layers. sheesh.
If I stuck that up on ebay and denied that it was me, do you think I could make big bucks saying that my house is haunted???
I have a cousin who took a family photo at her dad’s grave. About 20 members of the family are in the picture and when it was developed it had all kids of light surrounding the photo. It was amazing!
You could say it was MAJORLY haunted! LOL
You should put it on the TAPS/Ghost Hunters forum where they ask for “non-ghost” photos. Photos that you know are not ghosts, but look eerie, whether by accident or on purpose. It’s supposed to help educate people about what to look for.
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