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Pictures => Upload any Paranormal pictures here => Topic started by: Ghost1 on Mar 30 2009 - 08:11AM
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I found this one today, and it looks like a pretty good one. It was taken in May 2008, and has been analyzed since then and just now released to the public. See what you think?
(March 27) - The figure peers down silently from an upper floor of the ruins of a Scottish castle, wearing what looks like an outfit from the Middle Ages. Could this be a long-dead Scottish earl, or just a random, modern-day visitor?
The eerie image is captured in a photograph taken by tourist Christopher Aitchison in May 2008 at Tantallon Castle, which sits on a rocky outcrop along the Scottish coast, east of Edinburgh. The "person" appears to be wearing an old-style greenish ruff around the neck.
Aitchison insists he did not tamper with the image and cannot explain it. "I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture, only noticing the anomaly when I got home," Aitchison said. "Staff have verified that there were no sinister dummies in period costume or historical reenactments going on that day at the castle. I did not notice any nice old ladies wearing ruffs walking around the stairs!"
Wiseman solicited such photos from around the world and collated them for the conference. He said the majority of images showed mysterious-looking orbs, mists, figures and faces.
Experts on the paranormal are scratching their heads over this image, showing an odd figure apparently wearing period clothes and peering from a window in a Scottish castle. The shot was taken by a tourist in May of last year and made public Friday by scholar Richard Wiseman, who received it when he invited people from around the world to send him their photos of ghosts.
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Read more here: http://news.aol.com/article/scottish-ghost/402383?icid=main (http://news.aol.com/article/scottish-ghost/402383?icid=main)
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Incredible Ghost1! In Technicolor too! Most Amazing! Thanks for finding this.
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Wow, that is pretty amazing. :Y:
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sweet......that is a great picture. Awesome find ghost =D>
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http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-evidence-backs-up-tantallon-castle.html (http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-evidence-backs-up-tantallon-castle.html)
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Sadly I couldn't find a bigger picture, I'll continue to look and edit this if I find one.
New evidence which appears to back up claims that a ghost is stalking a Lothians castle has been uncovered.
Speculation over the presence of a ghost at Tantallon Castle in East Lothian was sparked by a picture released last week as part of an online experiment into the photographic evidence of the paranormal.
The startling image, taken in May last year, appeared to show a figure in period costume. The photographer claimed that they were unaware of anyone present at the time the image was taken, and that there were no actors at the castle in period costume.
Now another image which could show the same ghost has been presented to psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman, who has been running the study.
The image, which also appears to show a strange figure, was taken more than 30 years ago by Grace Lamb, 65, a retired office worker who stays at Crewe Toll, during a family trip to the castle.
It was a picture of her late husband Hugh, and their two children Paul and Kelly, but in the background, staring out of one of the windows, appears to be some kind of apparition. Mrs Lamb said they had always been curious about the mysterious figure, but they never thought of having it examined, until they read about Prof Wiseman's study. "We saw the other photo in all the papers, and it was my daughter who remembered the one we had taken," said Mrs Lamb.
"We went to Tantallon a few times when the children were younger. As soon as we got it home we all spotted this weird image in the background, and it has been quite a talking point for us."
Professor Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, admitted it was another interesting image.
"It was fascinating to be sent this, as even though it is a higher part of the castle it is very similar to the original," he said.
"Since I launched the study I am getting a picture of a ghost every ten minutes, and I have to say 90 per cent of them are nonsense, but a few are very interesting."
Professor Wiseman has been carefully investigating the original image, with experts admitting it did not appear that the image had been digitally altered in any way.
It is possible that the face is a visitor to the castle and it was also suggested the image could have been caused by light reflection off the stone walls of the castle.
Alex Pryce, chairman of the Edinburgh Skeptics group, had a very straightforward explanation for the figure in Mrs Lamb's photo. "It is a woman in a pink jacket coming down some stairs with a shopping bag," he said.
Historic Scotland, which runs Tantallon Castle, said there was no history of ghosts at the castle but said the image was "intriguing".
Professor Wiseman will discuss The Science of Ghosts at the University of Edinburgh's Anatomy Lecture Theatre on Saturday.
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Yeah .....that's the ticket. A woman with a shopping bag just strollin down some stairs in castle tower. That's what that is. hehe
OH yeah....thanks for finding this part of the ongoing story SedateYourHate. This is truly interesting.
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wow..thats pretty amazing ... :Y:
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Wow Ghost that is a really good picture. Thanks for finding it and posting to the site. bo
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oh wow again!..these photos are just unbelievable- with the period clothing, a NON-transparent aparition.. I have to look this location up for practical interest :). Bye
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I just forgot to just add regarding the crisp photography of these figures, the facial features of the closer shot photo (from more below) are just amazing!
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It is an amazing photo ....if it is real. It looks a little too solid and substantial to me.
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I will have to look for the website, but I am pretty sure I read that this one has been debunked as a mannequin that is often mistaken for a ghost