Clods Believe Mysterious Image Appears In Photograph

[shemp]

People Believe It's Friend's Spirit (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13424369/detail.html)

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- An Ohio couple said they are baffled by a strange image captured in a photograph.

"We noticed something on the picture and couldn't explain it," said Beverly Johnson, who snapped the picture last month during a fundraiser for Paul Clifford, a Middletown man who was dying of cancer.

Although friends had hoped Clifford would make it to the April 29 fundraiser, he was too sick to attend.

But Johnson and her husband, Ron, said their friend was there in spirit -- and they believe they may have photographic proof.

Ho hum, it's the usual photographic error, but of course it's really an angel or a dove, depending on how you look at it.

Well, Jesus has time to send spirits to appear in photos, but try getting him to do anything to actually help you? Forget it. The poor guy died anyway.

Clifford died May 17 after a long battle with liver cancer, but the Johnsons said his spirit still intrigues people.

[c4ts]

Apparently ghosts hide in bottled water.

[calebprime]

The dearly departed was a paramecium?

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

People Believe It's Friend's Spirit (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13424369/detail.html)



Ho hum, it's the usual photographic error, but of course it's really an angel or a dove, depending on how you look at it.

Well, Jesus has time to send spirits to appear in photos, but try getting him to do anything to actually help you? Forget it. The poor guy died anyway.
Could you elaborate on what criteria in the photograph you used to determine it's a photographic error?

[Beleth]

The Johnsons claim a strong faith, but even so, they checked the negative of the photograph and said nothing had been spilled on it, and the mysterious image does not appear in any of the other pictures on the roll.
Negative? This photo was taken on film? That'd be a first for me. In my experience, artifacts like this show up only on digital photos.

I wonder if the swoosh shows up on the negative, and if not, whether running it through the developing machine again produces the same swoosh on a photo.

[thomps1d]

Fark had this article up today, and the general consensus in their forums was that the anomaly was most likely caused by moisture getting on to the photographic paper before it was fed into the machine to be developed.

It sounds like a reasonable explanation to me, but my experience with cameras roughly equals "point camera, clicky-clicky, laugh at silly photo".

[Locknar]

I looked at the picture, and would have to agree with what Thomps1d said wrt the Fark article. When I worked with film, and did my own developing (from negatives to photos), I'd get "swooshes" like this if I tried to rush things.

The photo in the story is to poor of a quality to make an real definitive analysis..but from what I can tell, moisture on the paper seems like a winner to me.

[steve s]

It could even be an example of dragging the flash. Basically, a fairly long exposure results in the blurring of anything that's moving, but then the flash fires and freezes the scene resulting in a mostly-sharp image.

Steve S.

[Locknar]

Steven - Yes, but I dont' think so in this case; I found a better image of the photo here (http://images.ibsys.com/2007/0601/13424392.jpg).

I'm not thinking the gal eating held still; though the guy at the trash can looks like he is thinking about jumping in :)

If you look near the guys shoulder, slightly above the water bottle, you'll see the "swoosh" leaves a shadow. There are a few other shadows in the "swoosh"....but this is the easiest to find.

The shadow seems to suggest there was something on the paper during developing, since they said the negative had no such imperfection.

[freudianlip]

People Believe It's Friend's Spirit (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13424369/detail.html)



Ho hum, it's the usual photographic error, but of course it's really an angel or a dove, depending on how you look at it.

Well, Jesus has time to send spirits to appear in photos, but try getting him to do anything to actually help you? Forget it. The poor guy died anyway.

Actually its those automated invisible pants I invented......the invisibility is wearing off a tad....why can't I do anything right!

[jezzedout]

:woowoo

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Check out the poll about the photo:

http://cf.thedenverchannel.com/den/sh/con_surveycontest_display/sur_results_nt.cfm

[UnrepentantSinner]

Fark had this article up today, and the general consensus in their forums was that the anomaly was most likely caused by moisture getting on to the photographic paper before it was fed into the machine to be developed.

I looked at the picture, and would have to agree with what Thomps1d said wrt the Fark article. When I worked with film, and did my own developing (from negatives to photos), I'd get "swooshes" like this if I tried to rush things.

The photo in the story is to poor of a quality to make an real definitive analysis..but from what I can tell, moisture on the paper seems like a winner to me.

My first thought was it looked like something happened to the negative during developing, but if they claim there's nothing on the negative then it had to be something wrong with the paper or something that occured while developing the print. The reason why it's such a slam dunk case for me is if you look at where it crosses the guys face its pink, as if his facial color didn't fix properly in that area, and just when it gets to where his eyebrow is, it turns brown.

I'd also point out that if you flip the photo 180 degrees from the angle that creates the dove, it looks like a disembodied pair of jeans walking.