jerome wrote:

amok wrote:

I don't have Photoshop on this computer, so I just had to blow up/lighten up the original using my basic photo function, but even at that I also "see" another figure. Off to his right I see a guy either eating or barfing up a snake (or an enormous sausage), either of which possibilities is much spookier than a Hobbit-sized old geezer. I'm not sure if the quality will allow it to be seen, but I see it. Ha!

I see it as well! There you go, phantom snakes and ghostly hobbits!

j x

Punk Girl holding up a fish.

Pareidolia.

felltoearth wrote:Having just read that physicists can further verify the theory of relativity by the "wobble" of a photon knocked about by a distant black hole, surely if ghosts could be picked up by photography science would have an explanation by now?

Or put that another way - if ghosts could be seen on film as easily as the many thousands of ghost photos claim to show, then proper scientists would have photographed them in genuine controlled scientific experiments a million times over the past century.

Afaik there are no credible scientific reports of any ghosts existing anywhere at all (and if there were it would have been headline news all over the world).

Ghosts and the supernatural may make for intrigue and mystery, but if anyone is interested in “mysterious goings on” then it would be far more useful if they studied some real mysteries like the numerous areas of research science ... you can find plenty of mysterious problems there which need solving ... here's some suggestions from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_un ... in_physics.

I've been looking at the pictures from the original post for a few minutes now and no matter how I look at it I can't see a man with a beard or a lady or anything resembling the shape of a human at all. Well, actually thats not true. It DOES actually look like a penis... There is some kind of a latice structure that looks like it goes from the railing in front of the penis looking figure into the darkness above the arch directly above the "figure". Whatever the lighter colored figure is, it behind one of the bars of the latice like structure which is obscuring it. I don't know what it actually is so I'll say you got a candid shot of Ron Jeremy...

I seriously can't see anything that looks like the shape of a 3 foot tall humanoid figure...

EIDT: On second though, it kind of looks like a cartoon seal. I'll go with that...

lol! Yes, I like that idea!

This is the perfect example of matrixing. We are all looking at the picture trying to find some pattern that looks like it makes sense out of the chaos of a dark part of a picture that has been zoomed way to far. I went back and looked at it again this morning and sure enough, I finally saw your tiny bearded man but it is still a whole lot easier to see a cartoon seal. The only thing missing would be a ball balanced on its nose. Based on the size of the image relative to the rest of the auditorium and the fact that we are all seeing something different I believe that what you actually have is a perfect photograph of a photographic artifact caused by blowing the image up to big and your brain trying to hard to see something that isn't there. I have believed for a long time now that if you want to find something bad enough you eventually will find it whether its there or not. I think this is one of those cases... We all want to see the little bearded man so there he is. I still think its a cartoon seal though...

Yep, this is Pareidolia in action methinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia It amused me greatly though

j x