[AnnaZ]

Quite frankly, that doesn't look like no baby.... it reminds me of the hairy terrorist they busted that people keep putting Rosie O'Donnell's head on... Help?

[Former War Criminal]

Is this a picture of the NE Patriots offensive line?

[Amendment10]

I disagree with Dr. O'Keeffe that the face in question is essentially subjective:

"There is no ghost in this picture, just the coincidental effect of pixelation and darkness and light which combine together." --Dr. O'Keffe

I'm satisfied that there is an image of a face at about knee heigth between the girls. I noticed that you can see details of the drapery near the floor behind the girls except for the area of the face. The question is, how did that face get there?

For me, given what people can do with software like Photoshop, I don't spend too much time with such pictures.

[BfloGuy]

The only thing I notice is that the Brits would be well-advised to stop criticizing us for being too fat.

[CurlyBill]

Ghost Ping!! Thanks for Grizzled Bear for the heads up on this one!!

[CurlyBill]

Ghost Ping!! Thanks for Grizzled Bear for the heads up on this one!!

[ElkGroveDan]

The “child” has a mustache.

[Barnacle]

A ghost is hardily the creepiest thing about that picture.

[Dasaji]

This photo was taken in the summer of 2004. The girl on the left is my friend Victoria (not sure who is on the right.) If you look over Victoria's shoulder, there is a hand making a mocking "V" over her....Her next door neighbor was killed in a car accident 2 months prior to photo and was always joking around. Photo taken with a digital camera...background is basically a 20 foot drop behind the deck. We think she was "picked" because she would have immediately sent it to me & I'm into all this ooky-spooky stuff. Victoria DOES NOT believe in ghosts.

Victoria sent the photo to the Montel Williams Show to have Sylvia Browne look at it...Victoria was asked to be a guest, but they had these awful arrangements she had to abide by and just couldn't (she's a tax accountant, they scheduled her for the end of march and she had to take a train and possibly stay for over a week due to Sylvia's schedule...Vic finally said 'screw it')

[CaptRon]

Looks like the top half of a skull right above the kid too.

Not saying I buy this stuff.

[Lijahsbubbe]

ping

[B-Chan]

Digital cameras are much more sensitive in the infrared than are film cameras. It's said that ghosts can absorb heat, producing "cold spots" in a haunted place; perhaps this one used that fact to somehow produce an image on the camera's CCD chip.

I do believe in ghosts, but not in ghosts of the Halloween type. Ghosts are disembodied spirits, and as such are non-physical, existing outside of space and time. Ghosts are Scriptural as well: Our Lord spoke of ghosts (“a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have”, Luke 24:39) and of course there is the well-known Witch of Endor incident (1 Samuel 28) during which King Saul hires a medium to conjure the ghost of the prophet Samuel. (It all ends badly for Saul, of course. Scripture warns us against attempting to conjure spiritual beings for our own purposes.)

I have no idea if the image in this picture is that of a real ghost, and it doesn't matter. The worst a ghost can do is frighten; a disembodied spirit cannot interact physically with the living in any way. If there is any lesson to be learned from ghost stories, it is that life does not end at physical death; we have an eternal afterlife awaiting us all, and we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling now, today, while we are on this earth.

For those interested, the Order of the Legion of Saint Michael (may he defend us in battle!) has an interesting web page dealing with the subject of ghosts from a Catholic perspective.

[BigCinBigD]

I don’t understand why people have such a hard time simply saying it’s a ghost. The child appears drawn to the young people and aware.

[Lancey Howard]

The little girl has a mustache!

[mainerforglobalwarming]

If the ghost isn’t an undecided voter who cares?

[Larry Lucido]

Jon Lovitz??

[the OlLine Rebel]

“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.

[Vet_6780]

I'm not surprised.

I see debt people too.

[giotto]

I have used several Photoshop filters on the photo, and my opinion is that the face is an artifact that resulted from the camera being moved as the picture was taken. The bluejean fabric of the two girls bunches at the knees, forming shapes that resemble eye sockets. The cheeks are just the curtains, and the hair, which seems to be in front of the girls, is probably formed by the motion of the camera. The only thing that is hard to explain is the pinkish color of the face. That could have been added by someone doctoring the photo.

That having been said, I don't rule out the possibility of a ghostly image. Someone mentioned the aborted child idea. The girl on the right seems like a very sad person...Who knows. We speculate about a complete stranger and her possible deeds. Such are the hazards of posting photos online.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Ron Jeremy?