Red Activity: How to be a Ghost hunter!

[Torrie]

We have all seen Ghost busters. A group of brave (or not) people that go out and using high tech devises hunt and capture ghost. While I doubt that you will end up shooting a ghost with a laser and fighting it like a 50 lb fish into a small box like container to later be put into a giant containment vat, ghost hunting can still be fun and entertaining. Below you will find some basics of how to be a ghost hunter and later on we will discuss some pictures and stories where ghosts have been claimed to have been filmed. Will you be able to tell a fake?

 

How to be a ghost hunter:

 

Rules:

1) Never go alone. You never know what can happen and you may need a friend to bail you out.

2) Make sure that you check out the place where you are going before you hunt. You don’t want to get lost with those ghosts!

3) Wear the right clothes. No drinking.

4) No trespassing!

5) If you are asked to leave, do it.

6) Have fun!

 

Equipment:

1) Digital camera

2) Notebook and pens

3) Tape recorder

4) Flashlight

There are many other items that you can purchase but these are the basics that you will need. If you decide that you want to continue with your hunting then you can look into an EMF detector, DVD player, etc.

 

Investigate:

1) Go to your local library and find out what houses, cemeteries, restaurants, etc.

2) Ask. Talk with people in your area and see what they say. Sometimes people that have lived in your area all their lives will have some interesting tales.

3) Look for drastic happenings. Everyone knows that Gettysburg is a well known haunt. Drastic things happened there and the people that participated in it are still around. Look for something similar, if not as big in your area.

 

[Torrie]

So now we have our first picture:

 

The rail road ghost.

 

 

A strange legend surrounds a railroad crossing just south of San Antonio, Texas. The intersection of roadway and railroad track, so the story goes, was the site of a tragic accident in which several school-aged children were killed - but their ghosts linger at the spot and will push idled cars across the tracks, even though the path is uphill.

 

 

So what do you think? Real or fake?

[Mystica]

im very sceptical about these stories, so im gonna say false :look

[Guest dragonsworn1991]

I would say fake, that photo is a little to clear.

[cosmicpanda]

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031201c.htm

 

Closeups of the picture.

 

Here's the quote that got me:

 

THE FIGURE SEEMS TO HAVE

SOME SUBSTANCE, SEEMINGLY

REFLECTING THE LIGHT FROM ABOVE.

 

What light from above? It's night time. The only light comes from the flash of the camera, which is at ground level! The light clearly isn't being reflected off the sign - there probably isn't enough light for that, and even if there was I don't think the light on the figure is at the right angle.

 

So Fake, I say.

[Mystica]

that bright cross in the middle of the pic on top seems to be lighted too, maybe they were referring to that? Though it seems rather weird that it should be lighted such. There's no reason to believe that should ghosts exist that they need light of any kind, really. Or that they would show up on pictures, for that matter.

 

 

 

[cosmicpanda]

I took the bright cross to be a shiny train-crossing sign illuminated by the camera flash.

[Mystica]

i see, but wouldn't the camera flash illuminate a wider area then? The flash on the cross seems to be located on the cross alone, and a lot brighter than what a camera flash light would cast. Almost as if the cross itself were a light source

[Torrie]

I agree with everyone that it looks fake.

 

Here is another:

 

 

I do not have a background story on this one. But I am guessing that is an old picture and because of the blurriness on the man it looks ghost-like.

[Mystica]

hm, looks more like the camera moved to me. Or, the man moved and the camera didn't have the sophistication to capture moving objects fast enough, resulting in that blurry vision.

[Torrie]

Last picture everyone!

 

 

The above image, is a picture taken shortly after a fatale car crash. Some believe the ghost to be that of the driver, still lingering after death. Others think it's a angel come to collect the soul back to heaven.

[Vanion]

Better one for you here...

 

 

Authorities have warned people to stay away from the Decebal Hotel -- because construction was taking place on the 150-year-old building. What they didn't warn people about was the ghost. The spirit of a tall woman in a long white frock has long been reported at the spa. The hotel in Romania is rumored to hide ancient Roman treasure, and the ghost, it is said, appears to protect it from treasure hunters.

 

Only anecdotal evidence for this ghost existed until 2008 when 33-year-old Victoria Iovan snapped this photograph, which indeed seems to show the ghostly image of a tall figure in long white garb.

[Mystica]

I dunno guys, I still remain very sceptical about any photographs taken of ghosts. With todays (including 2008) means of photo manipulation, those images could very well be worked on. A semi-decent sig maker could make create those ghosts in any picture these days.

 

It still seems odd to me that ghosts would appear on camera.

 

 

Torrie's example could be as simple as a smudge on the camera lense, coincidentally taking on the vague form of a humanoid. The strap of the camera, being clamp from a moist air, touching the lense just so by accident, could very well create such a form. The illumination of it caused by the flash light, blocked by the residu left on the camera by the strap, the light captured and enhanced in that one spot, following the form of the smudge.

 

 

No, I'm afraid pictures are not enough to make me certain. I am, however, open to the possibility of ghosts, but I am not willing to accept that they would be captured so easily by cameras. 

[cosmicpanda]

i see, but wouldn't the camera flash illuminate a wider area then? The flash on the cross seems to be located on the cross alone, and a lot brighter than what a camera flash light would cast. Almost as if the cross itself were a light source

 

Well, of course, the flash does illuminate quite a large area considering that it's outside and it's night-time. I think the sign's so bright because it's shiny, and camera flashes are quite bright and powerful for what they are. Sheesh, we're arguing in circles.

 

I don't think that it's odd that a ghost would show up in a photo, if it can also be seen in real life. If it cannot, then of course there's no reason that it would show up in a photo either.