10 Foto Hantu Paling Populer
While
trying to decide which ghost photos are the “best” is largely an
exercise in subjectivity, it’s difficult to know which ones are the best
with any degree of objectivity. These are the photos I consider the
most authentic “captures” of ghosts ever caught on film, but I leave it
to you to decide for yourself how real they may be. Of course, I realize
that almost any photo can be hoaxed, but many of these were taken many
years or even decades before digital cameras and the advent of Photoshop
and other photo manipulation software came on the scene, making them
somewhat more difficult to fake than it would be today.
10. The Queensland Photo, 1946
Taken
in 1946 in Queensland, Australia by a mother who was taking a picture
of her teenage daughter’s grave. Nobody was in sight at the time, but
when the picture was processed the image of a child appeared, apparently
sitting on the grave. The mother does not recognize the child, thereby
reducing (though not entirely eliminating) the possibility that it’s a
double exposure.
9. The S.S. Watertown Faces, 1924
This
famous photo taken in 1924 apparently shows the faces of two recently
deceased crewmen appearing in the waves alongside the merchant ship S.S. Watertown.
Normally I’m not a big fan of faces appearing in grainy photos due to
the brain’s tendency to make order out of chaos (known as “matrixing”)
but this case is different in that the faces were seen by numerous
members of the crew for several days beforehand and were positively
identified as those of two crewmen who suffocated while cleaning out an
oil tank a few days earlier. The Burns Detective Agency analyzed the
negative for fakery and found none.
8. The Wem Fire Apparition, 1995
This
famous photo of a young girl looking out from a raging fire was taken
during a 1995 structure fire at Wem town hall in Shropshire, England.
Shot from across the street by a local photographer, nothing unusual was
seen at the time but once the negative was developed he noticed what
appeared to be a young girl standing in the doorway of the burning
building. Firemen found the photo so disturbing that they sifted through
the ashes afterwards searching for the remains of a body but found
nothing, leaving everyone wondering who the girl may have been. Not
surprisingly, there is a bit of local folklore which claims that a young
girl named Jane Churm accidentally burned the town hall to the ground
in 1677 when she dropped a candle, and her ghost has been reputed to
haunt Wem town hall ever since. Once a firebug, always a firebug I
guess.
7. Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, 1991
One
of those “too-good-to-be-true” photos, this one actually has a pretty
good pedigree because it was shot by a professional paranormal
investigator (and notice it was also taken in broad daylight, as opposed
to most cemetery investigations which are almost always shot at night).
The picture was taken at the Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery in Illinois by
the Ghost Research Society on August 10, 1991. Photographer Mari Huff
was using high-speed monochromatic film in the area where their
equipment had detected several electromagnetic anomalies, and captured
this image of a woman in period costume—complete in a burial shroud of
the era—sitting on a gravestone. Note that parts of her lower legs
appear to be transparent. Looks staged, I know, but then what’s a real
ghost supposed to look like?
6. The Corroboree Rock Spirit, 1959
Taken
by Reverend R.S. Blance at Corroboree Rock near Alice Springs,
Australia in 1959, this famous photo has been around for many years and
defies explanation to this day. It wouldn’t be difficult to fake this
photo with modern photo manipulation software (i.e. Photoshop) but it
would have been nearly impossible to do in 1959.
5. HMS Daedalus Photo, 1919
Another
classic and one of the better captures, this photograph from 1919,
taken by retired RAF officer Sir Victor Goddard, shows his squadron from
the Royal Navy vessel HMS Daedalus. Notice the transparent
face peering around the man in the upper left corner of the photo.
Several men from this squadron identified the face as belonging to
mechanic Freddy Jackson, who had been killed two days earlier when he
accidentally walked into a spinning propeller blade. His funeral had
taken place earlier that day. Apparently, Freddy didn’t want to miss all
the fun.
4. Toys-R-Us, 1978
This
shot has one of the best pedigrees among spirit photos because it was
shot under carefully controlled circumstances with numerous witnesses
present, making fakery especially difficult. Taken in 1978 at a
Sunnyvale, California Toys-R-Us store known for an inordinate amount of
paranormal activity, the picture was shot by the crew from the TV
program That’s Incredible! The infra-red film image of the
young man leaning against the wall was NOT seen by any of the people
present at the time, nor does he appear in the high speed footage shot
from the same vantage point at the same time. There’s a story that in
1869 a young man died at the location where the store now stands from a
accidentally self-inflicted axe wound, which might explain his unusual
clothing.
3. The Lord Combermere Photo, 1891
This
well known photo—and perhaps one of the oldest examples of a bonifide
spirit photo—was taken in the Combermere Abbey Library in 1891 by Sybell
Corbet. The exposure length was approximately one hour, and the figure
of a man appears to be sitting in the armchair located in the foreground
(it’s difficult to make out, but a head and arm can just be made out
sitting in the chair). At the time this photograph was being taken, Lord
Combermere (a top British cavalry commander) was being buried four
miles away and the house was said to have been locked and empty at the
time. Additionally, those who knew Lord Combermere claim the figure
looks exactly like the man, so we have to wonder if the old gentleman
wasn’t simply just visiting his old “haunt” one last time.
2. The Chinnery Photo, 1959
When
visiting her mother’s grave in 1959, Mrs. Mabel Chinnery decided to
finish off the roll of film by taking a picture of her husband seated in
the car. When the roll was developed, a female figure appeared, sitting
in the back seat. Mrs. Chinnery and several family members insist that
the female figure is that of her mother, who appears to have taken her
customary place in the back seat and is patiently waiting to be driven
home. A photographic expert examined the print and declared it to be
neither a reflection nor a double exposure. Notice that “mom” appears to
be a pretty solid ghost, with no hint of transparency or light from the
rear windows shining through her. Even her glasses appear to reflect
light!
1. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, 1936
Perhaps
the most famous of all ghost photos, this highly controversial shot was
taken in1936 by photographers sent by the London magazine Country Living
to take some interior shots of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. What’s
also interesting about this shot is that in contrast to most photos in
which the figure is not seen until after the film is developed, the
spectral figure of a woman descending the stairway was seen seconds
before the gshutter was snapped. The negatives on this photo have been
scrutinized by literally hundreds of experts (and no small number of
skeptics) who can find no evidence of it being either a hoax or a double
exposure. Still considered by many to be the best “capture” ever taken.
J.
(Jeff) Allan Danelek, a resident of Lakewood, Colorado, has been a
Fortean writer on a number of paranormal subjects since 2002. To see
more spirit photos or to read articles on a range of curious subjects,
visit Jeff’s website at www.ourcuriousworld.com
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