I wasn’t here on Friday, but if I had been, this story from the London Evening Standard, about a photo snapped by Matthew Summers of Teesside, on his Sony Ericsson K510i camera phone (yes, I identified his phone, from his pic). But not just any photo, no. This one clearly shows an incursion from the spectral realm.
That’s right, a ghost…
The photo shows a gang of lasses, who look about 12, one of whom is holding what appears to be a wine bottle, but that’s by the by. Peeking out from between the knees of two of the girls is the unmistakeable face of a bit of grit in the lens… sorry, a ghost.
So, what do we think, is it a ghostly visitor from beyond the grave? Is it evidence of life after death? Is it a trick of the light? Or is it some teenagers having a laugh at our expense, using a camera phone and PhotoShop?
I mean, come on. I could knock up a ghost image as convincing as that. I know it’s not like me to play the sceptical naysayer, but really...
Now, I’m not against the idea of the paranormal (and I’ve actually seen a UFO, so nyer), but I don’t think we’re seeing it here. I know mobile phones have good cameras nowadays, but I doubt they can open a window into the other world.
Especially not round that group of kids. If a ghost did appear to them, we face the horror that will be Caspar, The Chavvy Ghost…
Real or fake? Ghost or grit? Leave us a comment and have your say!
February 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Great post and great blog.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
A ghost – or spirit or apparition – is the energy, soul or personality of a person who has died and has somehow gotten stuck between this plane of existence and the next. Most researchers believe that these spirits do not know they are dead. Very often they have died under traumatic, unusual or highly emotional circumstances. Ghosts can be perceived by the living in a number of ways: through sight (apparitions), sound (voices), smell (frangrances and odors), touch – and sometimes they can just be sensed.