Decode the mysterious ghost photos

Although there are many fake phantom photos that have been removed, some of the coincidences related to photos and other phenomena are extremely strange, making us wonder if something super is really real. take place here.

Decipher the mystery in ghost photos

There are many scams and experts exposing them today, thanks to the Internet and technologies that allow editing photo and video collages. But those who specialize in exposures have existed for more than a century, when interest in calling souls and ghost photos culminated.

'Ghost photos', from the 1896 book 'Photographic Amusements' by Walter E. Woodbury.(Public Domain) Backdrop: Antique film footage (Photo: Shutterstock)

Walter E. Woodbury is one such person. He discovered the cause behind a phenomenon that gave birth to many tricks, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. Think of how surprised a photographer would be if he took a photo like the one below.

A 'ghost photo', from the book 'Photographic Amusements,' in 1896 by Walter E. Woodbury.(Public domain)

In 1896, in the book ' Photographic Amusements ', Woodbury explained that sometimes photographers did not notice an image on a negative glass (different from today's negatives) from the previous shot. Glass is a high-cost material at the time, so negative photos made of glass will be washed for reuse. But sometimes a piece of the previous image will remain on the negative glass, creating a special effect when overlapping on another object. Some photographers have recognized this and used it to convince the photographers at the time of shooting their deceased relatives around them.

Woodbury recounts a joke: 'An elderly gentleman came to attend a soulful celebration, and after some mysterious movements, he was told that his mother's soul was there. 'It really is!' the gentleman answered, in a somewhat surprised voice. 'What did she say?' 'She said she would see you soon,' the colleague replied. 'He is aging quickly and will soon be with her.' 'Approximate', the old gentleman answered; 'I will go to your house to have tea tonight.'

The picture is superimposed

In his book 'Synchronicity ', the famous psychologist Carl Jung reminisced about a rather strange coincidence. A woman in Strasbourg, Germany, took a photo of her young son and brought it to a photo shop. Unfortunately, World War I broke out, and the woman had to evacuate the city without taking back the photo from the store. Years later, she took a picture of her daughter and took it to a wash in a photo shop in Frankfurt . The result was a double-picture photograph, but to her surprise, this was the picture she had taken of her son years ago, before being photographed over the current picture of her daughter in Frankfurt.

The picture is mentioned in Carl Jung's story - not yet confirmed by The Epoch Times.(Photo: Public Domain)

That picture went from Strasbourg to Frankfurt, was mistakenly unused, and fell into the hands of the right woman.

Another extremely strange photo coincidence

The random incident below was shared by a Reddit user last year:

'I asked [my friends] . to show me some photos from their wedding. It was during the pre-digital photo period and they told me that they took a few photos of their wedding, but unfortunately they spent all their money on the wedding and the party so no longer enough . money to get the photos from the photography store. I am Romanian, and at that time the country was under Ceausescu's tyrannical rule so money was a big problem. So they did not take a photo of their wedding, they felt sad because of this but did not have money . to get them from the shop. "

'A few years have passed, the time has changed, the city has been built, many projects of demolition and construction are underway. One day I walked along a large area that was leveled. There are gravel, rubbish, and large holes on the site on the site, some buildings will be built on an old slum. After that, I saw something below a 3-4 meter deep pit on the ground, a small spot, like a piece of colored paper torn, but unable to see clearly from a distance. "

'In contrast to all my normal reactions, I walked down that muddy hole and picked it up. It is part of a torn photo of my friend's wedding. Only they, in their wedding suits, are laughing at the camera. "

'I gave them that color photo, and it was their only wedding photo document. . I can't ask myself: what is the probability? I will not go down that hole without proper reason '.