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| Topic Started: 8 Dec 2008, 01:37 AM (92 Views) | |
| oOwayneOo | 8 Dec 2008, 01:37 AM Post #1 |
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Hello  I live in a small lovely county of Shropshire only a few miles aways from this town hall where the sighting of a ghost has been seen by a few people, The Ghost Of A Little Girl, ive not seen anyhing as i dont go that ways when traveling but always am interested by local and world wide ghost sightings. The photo ive added of the ghost in question i cant explain and im not sure if it is real or not, no one has come up with the answers yet. Wayne  This photograph at bottom of this piece was taken by local resident Tony O'Rahilly on 19 November, 1995, as Wem Town Hall, Shropshire, England, burned to the ground. When O'Rahilly took the photo, neither he, nor other onlookers, saw the little girl in the doorway. The picture was taken with a 200mm lens from across the road because O'Rahilly and other onlookers were prevented by police and fire personnel from approaching the burning structure. After the image was developed, O'Rahilly submitted it to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena. They, in turn, sent the picture and the negative to photographic expert Dr. Vernon Harrison, former president of the Royal Photographic Society. Dr. Harrison analyzed the print and negative and reported that he was satisfied that the picture is genuine. "The negative is a straight forward piece of black-&-white work and shows no sign of having been tampered with," said Harrison. A fire ravaged the town hall once before, in 1677. The historical record indicates that the 1677 fire was caused by a young girl, Jane Churm, who was careless with a candle. In later years, Churm's ghost was reputed to haunt the town hall. Skeptics, including Dr. Harrison, have claimed the child is nothing more than the convenient arrangement of smoke, flame, light, and shadow at the moment of exposure. But what are the odds of smoke, flame, light, and shadow randomly forming the shape of a girl in the doorway of a building allegedly haunted by a girl, at the very moment a photographer took this picture? The odds must be at least ten billion to one-- as high as the odds of having captured a real ghost on film.
Edited by oOwayneOo, 8 Dec 2008, 01:45 AM.
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| High Priestess | 8 Dec 2008, 01:49 PM Post #2 |
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Interesting picture. But some skeptics are quite laughable in their interpretations. Especially with modern, digital cameras that produce accurate photographs. So long as the pictures aren't edited of course using Photoshop or other such programmes (but they can be uploaded straight from the memory card). It's like orbs caught on film being termed as particles of dust. When have you ever seen a particle of dust change direction and shoot off leaving a light trail? Dust moves randomly and is too light to move with such force as often orbs do. You wouldn't see a feather travel in a straight line with any gusto would you? I'm not saying the photo hasn't been tampered with - it clearly depicts a young girl but I'd hardly credit it to smoke and shadows etc!!! |
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| oOwayneOo | 8 Dec 2008, 02:11 PM Post #3 |
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I see your point, i wasnt sure either about the lack of smoke. If there was a massive blaze which there was you would think there would of been smoke, but if you look closely at top of door you can see what seems to be like mist or is that smoke, im not 100 % sure and no one was who seen the picture, not even the so called experts. Theres always going to be pictures like this that bring up more questions than answers. |
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| High Priestess | 8 Dec 2008, 02:40 PM Post #4 |
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There is often mist surrounding ghostly figures. It's possibly part of the energy they use around them to manifest. We have a tendency to look for human shaped figures and faces in such ghostly images. You only have to look at old tree trunks, clouds and so on to occasionally make out a face so a lot of it is just coincidence but alas, that picture is very unambiguous I say and if it's a genuine, untampered with shot then I'd put money on it being the ghost of a female child, most definitely. We can't all see things like this with the naked eye but the camera always captures the image, forcing us to question our own sanity "There was nothing there when I took the photograph...." meaning there could well have been but it just wasn't visible to the naked eye 
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| oOwayneOo | 8 Dec 2008, 07:31 PM Post #5 |
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Your so right, The people who took this photo were all facing the open door of this blaze from across the street and not one of them with the naked eye saw the figure of this child, just the camra that captured it. Its a good one though, one of the best ive seen in ghost sightings, if that was the blaze then NOWAY could a real child stand that close to the fire in the doorways. |
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