Ghost Photos – Real or Hoaxed?
1. Ghost of Boothill Cemetery. This man wanted to have a photo of himself dressed up in period clothing to commemorate an anniversary at the OK Corral. I’m guessing this must be in Arizona. He explained that the reason the photo is centered as it is, is because they wanted to catch the beautiful mountains in the background to the right, which we can’t see very well due to the mist over them, or maybe the photo quality. Anyway, as you can see, someone else seems to have been caught on film.
I think this may be real because I have seen photos like this from Civil War era sites around the country. I’ve heard photo/video experts who have looked into the authenticity of these other photos and they turned out to be legitimate, not tampered with, not fake. So this may be one of those oddball cases where a spirit is caught on film accidentally. Why? Who knows!
2. Ghosts of the SS Watertown. Back in the day, this ship was enroute from New York to the Panama Canal. Two men were working in the cargo tank that subsequently exploded due to a gas leak. In the days following, crew members swore they saw the faces of the two men in the waves. So the Captain took a series of 5 photos, 4 showing nothing unusual, one showing this image, as if there were two faces in it.
I think they’re seeing faces that they want to see in the photo, based on natural wave/wind/water action. I don’t think it’s paranormal.
3. Meanwhile, at the O’Hare Mansion in Greencastle, IN, a pink lady is supposedly seen in the windows from time to time. The fourth frame has been “digitally enhanced” to highlight a skull in the center of the pane.
Hoax. She looks a little too solid to me, even though I’m sure she was also “digitally enhanced”.
- 4. A woman visiting the Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in 1991 caught this image on her black and white film (taken with an infrared camera). She swore no one else was around.
5. The Godfather’s Pizza in Ogden UT did some renovations a few years back. They subsequently started to experience spirit activity. Some saw figures of a man, a woman, and two children. Their jukebox started playing by itself (unplugged), and tiles were seen hovering off the floor about ten inches. Also there was a mysterious whistle from the kitchen.
Well, if we know nothing else from having watched Ghost Hunters all these years, we know that renovations typically set off spirit activity. But this photo doesn’t impress me that much, it just looks like a heck of a glare or flash from the camera’s light.
Also, after seeing that episode of Fact or Faked where they were investigating a similar type of photo that showed a ghostly figure against a mirror – and in a stroke of brilliance they realized it was a shadow cast from an old cast iron coffee grinder. It shocked me, and I’m sure everyone else. So now, looking at this photo, I feel there is probably a more earthly, mundane explanation. Not to say they didn’t have spirit activity, I just think this photo could be more thoroughly investigated.
6. This next photo shows what is supposed to be a farm boy caught on film by a wedding photographer as he was preparing the shots for the bride and groom. The owner of the farm told the photographer he had seen the image of that boy in a white gown roaming his farm, from time to time.
This reminds me a famous photo from the Myrtle’s Plantation (see photo 27). That photo had been investigated and even discussed on an episode of Ghost Hunters. I think that one is real, and this is similar enough for me to think this COULD be a legitimate ghost photo. But again, I always wish a photo/video expert could look into these things.
7. This photo shows the husband of the woman in the photo standing behind her. Only problem is, he’d been dead ten years already.
I think he looks pretty solid, if out of focus. I suspect the family got the dates wrong or confused, and he could have been alive at the time the photo was taken.
8. This next photo was snapped by a furniture collector. Note the disembodied hand.
Hoax! This looks very much like those old hoaxed “spiritualist” photos taken around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
9. Back in the Boothill Cemetery. A strange shot of a man and what must be a fake headstone. Behind him to the left they say there is another figure that is a ghost because it doesn’t cast a shadow.
I don’t see a shadow for the man in the forefront either, or maybe it’s blended with the shadow of the foliage in front of him. And that other figure is obscured by shrubs, so how can we see any detail, much less a shadow? I think it’s either a hoax or misunderstanding.
10. This photo shows a 180 year old cabin as photographed by some kids visiting the site. They claim they caught this ghostly apparition on their film.
Note how highly reflective all the window glass is throughout the cabin. I think that’s just another weird reflection from something.
11. The woman in this photo visited the Fleet Air Arm Center in Yelverton, Somerset, England. She was the only one in the helicopter when this photo was taken. She said she felt “strangely cold” while inside the copter. It was a warm day in 1987. She believes a spirit was sitting next to her.
I just see a lot of sun glare. I don’t doubt she was chilled, but that could be for a lot of reasons. That said, there are tons of reports of sightings of soldiers around military bases and such around the world. I guess it’s possible that some spirit was there, but it still just looks like sun glare to me.
12. This photo supposedly shows author Robert A. Ferguson on Nov. 16, 1968. He wrote a book called, “Psychic Telemetry: New Key to Health, Wealth, and Perfect Living.” At the time of the photo, he was speaking at a convention to a group of Spiritualists. Mr. Ferguson believed the photo showed his late brother who had died in WWII.
Either a double exposure, or a fake. These spiritualists’ photos have been debunked over and over again on paranormal shows over the last ten or more years. Mr. Ferguson was SELLING the idea of the psychic telemetry and all things spiritual – what a great way to boost sales by showing his own ghostly encounter. I don’t believe it.
13. Is this a ghost at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts? People claim a small boy can be seen behind the shrubbery, peeking over the top.
I’ve been there, it’s a great place! There are also TONS of tourists crawling all over it. I think this is just a kid in a badly focused photo who looks a little spooky because of the poor quality of the photo.
14. Class photo, year unknown. They claim the child to the left of the photo looking creepy and out of line with everyone else is a ghost.
I think this is just a messed up photo. The “ghostly” child has its own space, as though a living child were standing there – probably because they are. It looks like the child just turned away and caught a shadow so she looks creepy.
Another possibility is that this could have been photoshopped. Someone could have put a spookier face over the face of a regular child in the photo. Either way, I don’t think this is one to get excited about.
15. This ghostly figure was supposedly snapped in 1959 in Australia. It kind of looks like the figure of a woman.
This one is intriguing, although I have to wonder why was someone taking a photo of that not so gorgeous or interesting spot? That alone is a clue it may been taken in preparation for altering back in the dark room.
I don’t know enough about photos to say for sure, so it would take a photo/video expert to weigh in on this one, and they’d probably need the film to be able to tell for sure.
16. A couple visited Worstead Church in Norfolk, UK back in 1975. The husband took a photo of his wife as she was praying. The figure behind her was not there in real life.
Another tough call. The photo is so out of focus, it’s hard to see anything clearly. And I think the “shoes” on the spirit’s feet look pretty solid. So this could go either way.
17. This photo shows two men working on the remains of an abandoned hospital. The photo, from 1918, also shows what could be a spirit in the upper left corner.
I think this one could be real. What we’ve learned from Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures is that some crazy spirit activity DOES seem to occur at abandoned medical facilities. So this may be a ghost still hanging around whatever facility that once was.
18. Angel near a car crash. This is a very old photo that’s been around on the internet for almost as long as there’s been an internet.
I believe in angel activity in the lives of humans. I’ve also read how this photo was debunked as some kind of camera glare or something like that. If there is a normal explanation for it, fine. But I do believe angels are active in our lives more than we can ever know.
19. In 1947 a woman went to visit the grave of her 17 year old daughter. She caught this baby on the grave in a photo. She investigated and found out that her daughter was buried next to the grave of two infant girls.
I think this is a hoax. Baby is too solid, too much detail in its face, clothes, etc. This could have easily been manipulated back in the dark room.
20. This photo was taken at the remains of a building damaged in the Civil War era. He looks like a Civil War soldier. As I said before, a LOT of unexplained images have been caught on film around Civil War areas. I think this could be a ghost, but it’s odd how he’s ascending the stairs, isn’t it? I mean, that’s one heck of a leap up.
21. This photo was taken in January of 1985 at a meeting in St Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry, England. The assembled company had their heads bowed in prayer. The oddity is the tall, hooded man in the top left of the photo. The one who doesn’t seem to have a shirt on.
No one remembered seeing a man dressed (or undressed) like that during the whole event. So who or what was it? Hard to say because that photo is also out of focus and very grainy. Who knows?
22. Photo of a man as he lay dying, with his spirit supposedly exiting his body.
Without a doubt – camera malfunction.
23. People claim to see ghostly figures in this photo of an electric chair. This chair, from Tennessee, was made from wood that had been part of the state’s old gallows. The photographer later found what he thought were ghostly images in the chair.
I think this is a case of matrixing, where our eyes, programmed and accustomed to finding human faces from infancy onward, makes something out of nothing. We all do it with clouds, don’t we? I could go into my old dining room set and find faces or whatnot in the stains and scratches there, and I can assure you, that furniture is NOT haunted.
So I don’t think this is anything to get excited about either.
24. I like this one. It just looks so creepy, I wish it was real. It was taken at a 16th century palace that had belonged to King George VIII. Supposedly they all heard an alarm in the early afternoon that meant some fire doors had been opened. Guards investigated but the doors were closed. The photo was found on the security footage. They say it happened three days in a row, but they don’t say if it was caught on the security cameras three days in the row.
If this was happening near you, and it happened twice in a row, wouldn’t you try to be there in case it happened a third time? To see it for yourself?
I’d like to see more of the security camera footage too.
25. In Quezon City, Philippines, there is a myth that says a woman in white with long black hair stands in the middle of Balete Drive. The legend says if there is one empty seat in the back of a car, she’ll get in, so the young people always make sure to have a full back seat.
I say, headlight glare.
26. This photo was snapped in London’s St Botolph’s Church in 1982. It shows the choir loft with a supposedly ghostly figure present. One man went so far as to say he recognized the figure from a previous funeral (the deceased).
For me, there is too much glare in the photo from all the open, arching windows, and it’s kind of out of focus. I don’t seen an image there, just some bad camera work.
27. Finally, the classic photo of Chloe, the slave girl from Myrtle’s Plantation. Many have investigated this photo and this plantation. I think this one is real.
What Do You Think?
So that’s my take on these “ghostly” photos! As I said, I’m no expert. So what do you think?
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