Just in case anyone interested - it's a pretty short ghost if real! http://jerome23.wordpress.com/2011/02/1 ... e-theatre/

However I will say the person who took the photo is a friend, and to my mind totally sincere. Nothing odd was seen at time of photo. Do feel free to comment with good explanations, here or on my blog

j x

Pareidolia

chairman bill wrote:Pareidolia

Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

chairman bill wrote:Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

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I saw Bart Simpson wearing shades in the clouds....?

Although I have had a few beers!

chairman bill wrote:Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

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Satan smoking a fag? That what I see!

j x

jerome wrote:

chairman bill wrote:Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

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Satan smoking a fag? That what I see!

j x

No no no! That was Bill pointing at Bart!

jerome wrote:

chairman bill wrote:Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

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Satan smoking a fag? That what I see!

j x

If that's Satan smoking a fag, he seems to be quite a well endowed lad doesn't he?

BlackBart wrote:

jerome wrote:

chairman bill wrote:Given that it was a ghost hunt, a certain amount of expectation & confirmation bias might creep in too. Here's a crop from a photo taken locally on the hills. Guesses as to the figure's identity?

Figure.jpg

Satan smoking a fag? That what I see!

j x

If that's Satan smoking a fag, he seems to be quite a well endowed lad doesn't he?

edit - I still insist that it is Bill pointing at Bart!

What makes me think pareidolia on the one on my blog is that when I first saw it I saw a man with a long grey beard in evening dress. Then when I saw the "shark fin" as an arm I saw it as a much larger woman in a black hat.

What makes me doubt pareidolia is the amusing story of the Wem Ghost - a photo of a figure of a girl in the doorway of the burning town hall taken in the 1990's, that was very well debunked as pareidolia by ASSAP who showed how it was a spontaneous image that arose from a falling beam, and demonstrated clearly how it was just pareidolia. Except it WASN'T - it was in fact a deliberate fake, as was exposed when the original image from a postcard was located earlier this year. So now I am wary of claims of pareidolia. Given there were I think 30 plus people in the building, i think this could be a real person - the only problem being the gallery was locked off at the time.

BlackBart wrote:

If that's Satan smoking a fag, he seems to be quite a well endowed lad doesn't he?

Would you expect less of Old Nick? He is well known to have an immense todger and icy cold ejaculate, I have read the witch trials confessions!

j x

jerome wrote:... i think this could be a real person - the only problem being the gallery was locked off at the time.

And the fact that he is apparently very, very short

Dick, pareidolia dick, John Holmes ghost dick

chairman bill wrote:

jerome wrote:... i think this could be a real person - the only problem being the gallery was locked off at the time.

And the fact that he is apparently very, very short

Unless a women in a bobble hat not the old guy with the beard I first saw. then just a woman kneeling behind rail, not as small! Bet it turns out to be a pile of props now when we go have a look

j x

DoctorE wrote:Dick, pareidolia dick, John Holmes ghost dick

Don't tell SD that you're making a dick of yourself here...he might start another thread...

jerome wrote:

chairman bill wrote:

jerome wrote:... i think this could be a real person - the only problem being the gallery was locked off at the time.

And the fact that he is apparently very, very short

Unless a women in a bobble hat not the old guy with the beard I first saw. then just a woman kneeling behind rail, not as small! Bet it turns out to be a pile of props now when we go have a look

j x

It's the janitor, and he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids.

What's old Nick doing with his right hand ?

twistor59 wrote:What's old Nick doing with his right hand ?

It's a regular ghostbusters reunion tonight!

campermon wrote:

twistor59 wrote:What's old Nick doing with his right hand ?

It's a regular ghostbusters reunion tonight!

Oh yah !!
BTw, isn't there a debate to conclude ?

We have just been discussing that! x