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I need some debunking help here, please!

I appreciate swskeptic posting the pic and questioning it. I learned something new...I had no idea there was an iphone app for adding ghosts to photos. I bet this will come up again.

Props to all for the detective work.
 
swskeptic said:
Not sure if I'm going to go with the fish pond in the backyard, move his car, the clingfilm and the toilet paper or to quote Big Les, "It's ball-kicking time!"

For now though I'm going to play it cool and pretend I don't know anything haha
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I suggest you turn the tables on him. Tell him you have been experiencing paranormal activity at your place and invite him over for a seance or ouija board session. Of course you will have rigged your place beforehand. If you want some suggestions on how to create some spooky effects, please send me PM.
 
Here are some more screenshots of the culprit:

From the ad:
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In a photo:
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swskeptic said:
For now though I'm going to play it cool and pretend I don't know anything haha
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Get that same program with those same ghost images to choose from, and start sneaking them into other images where he'll see them. Don't point them out yourself. Just wait for him to start noticing them.
 
Speaking of ghosts pictures, this one has been the subject of some controversy on a local UFO (and related fantastic stuff) forum.

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Has anyone seen this ghost on an IPhone application?
 
Patricio Elicer said:
Has anyone seen this ghost on an IPhone application?
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I'm going to assume your serious and say this. I haven't personally seen that in any of the iphone applications I've looked at that have been posted here, but given my example, that looks an awful lot like my picture.
 
swskeptic said:
I'm going to assume your serious and say this. I haven't personally seen that in any of the iphone applications I've looked at that have been posted here, but given my example, that looks an awful lot like my picture.
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Sorry if my wording was rather misleading. Yes, I'm serious on this, I'd like to debunk this picture as straightforward as yours was.
 
orphia nay said:
Could you explain further how you think the hands could be causing it?
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I used the wrong tense. I thought it was something to do with the hands before I was told to look under the window to the right of the subject of the photo.

orphia nay said:
At first I thought the "dress" pattern was an artifact of swskeptic's top.
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That's the most logical thing I thought of but, again, only after you mentioned it. That's the difficulty with this game. I only perceive the expected outcome after being told what it might be or is supposed to be.

If someone asked me if it was a ghost then I'd probably agree with that too. By definition, isn't a ghost a representation of something entirely unsupportable by any evidence? I always wonder why ghosts look so lame in these representations instead of being awesome like they were in Poltergeist and every CGI movie made since then.

I am also still pretty sure that the OP's hands are possessed. :boxedin:
 
swskeptic said:
I left the .00001% for a reason haha. I'm officially going to kick him in the nuts.
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Not so fast, swsk.

What if ghosts are able to emulate iPhone applications? What if they designed them?

I remember reading somewhere that James Randi postulated that the easiest people to fool were journalists and academics and that the hardest people to fool were children. I would add to that that the closer you are to the target the easier it is to convince them of something that isn't really true. That might be actually essential to our species' survival. We have to constantly validate our own perceptions through the conveyed senses of those closest to us.

I still think there's something funky with your hands, though. Better get that checked. ;)
 
My first thought was that it was a double image of the Interceptor vest pattern.

My second, and current, thought is Holy crap! Fake or not, that's one freaky looking kid!
 
stilicho said:
I used the wrong tense. I thought it was something to do with the hands before I was told to look under the window to the right of the subject of the photo.



That's the most logical thing I thought of but, again, only after you mentioned it. That's the difficulty with this game. I only perceive the expected outcome after being told what it might be or is supposed to be.

If someone asked me if it was a ghost then I'd probably agree with that too. By definition, isn't a ghost a representation of something entirely unsupportable by any evidence? I always wonder why ghosts look so lame in these representations instead of being awesome like they were in Poltergeist and every CGI movie made since then.

I am also still pretty sure that the OP's hands are possessed. :boxedin:
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:newlol

Some of the other apps have scarier ghost images to choose from.

I had another look, but couldn't find one the same as the one in Patricio's pic, though.
 
Of course, as has been mentioned previously about the previous picture, Photoshop or other photo editing software can do this sort of effect quite easily, so, using Occam's Razor, I would posit that this was done using Photoshop or other photo editing software.
 
Smells Like Mean Spirit

If you want to get back at your friend give him a upper decker. The classic upper decker involves doing #2 in the toilet's water closet. A cleaner easier way is to wrap a hunk of fish in bandage gauze with a 2 oz. lead fishing weight and drop it in the water closet away from the flapper valve. The gauze will keep the fish meat together and the lead weight will keep it from being sucked into the drain valve. As the fish rots it will foul the toilet water before it makes it to the bowl. Each flush will release a feted smell and dirty water into the bowl instead of fresh water eventually the water closet will start to smell so bad they'll figure it out (or sooner if they're smart). (The water closet is the fresh water reserve tank behind most toilets). Tape a copy of your hoax photo under the water closet lid. Use a ziplock bag to transport the fish bomb so you can put it in your pocket without getting smelly. Wait for at least a few weeks to exact your revenge so he won't see it coming.
 
GanipGnop said:
If you want to get back at your friend give him a upper decker. The classic upper decker involves doing #2 in the toilet's water closet. A cleaner easier way is to wrap a hunk of fish in bandage gauze with a 2 oz. lead fishing weight and drop it in the water closet away from the flapper valve. The gauze will keep the fish meat together and the lead weight will keep it from being sucked into the drain valve. As the fish rots it will foul the toilet water before it makes it to the bowl. Each flush will release a feted smell and dirty water into the bowl instead of fresh water eventually the water closet will start to smell so bad they'll figure it out (or sooner if they're smart). (The water closet is the fresh water reserve tank behind most toilets). Tape a copy of your hoax photo under the water closet lid. Use a ziplock bag to transport the fish bomb so you can put it in your pocket without getting smelly. Wait for at least a few weeks to exact your revenge so he won't see it coming.
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That is just *pure evil*

I love it :)
 
I got told of something even worse. We work in an open plan office. Some parts of the partitions can come apart. Someone put prawn shells in one of the partitions. It smelt but there was no way for the victim to find where they were hidden.

But this is not something I can recommend. Just let the person know that he cannot be trusted in any way shape or form.
 
swskeptic said:
I left the .00001% for a reason haha. I'm officially going to kick him in the nuts. Thanks jimerson for the find! It's exactly what's in the photo.

I love your guy's sense of humor. Not sure if I'm going to go with the fish pond in the backyard, move his car, the clingfilm and the toilet paper or to quote Big Les, "It's ball-kicking time!"

For now though I'm going to play it cool and pretend I don't know anything haha

Anyways, thanks so much guys. I appreciate that you didn't just outright dismiss it and actually put forth the effort to debunk it, no matter how obvious it was that it was fake. Thanks :)
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maybe your friend doubted your skeptcism, and did it as a test to see if you would believe such a thing. You fell for it. You were ready to believe in your friend´s word over the more probable fact that it was just a prank.

that may happen to everybody, but it teaches you a lesson. Now, dont fall for it again!!!

its 99.9999% chance that its a FRAUD until proven wrong, not the contrary! EVER!
 
btw, I saw it right away it was image editing. This ghost really doesnt know ANYTHING about perspective. If it was really standing there, the angle should be different. She should have her feet on the ground and we should be able to see a bit the top of her head.


not that ghosts should obey the laws of physics and stay attached at proper angle to the ground... which on the other hand makes me wonder how do they remain attached to the planet, since they are not really attracted by gravity, since they are not made of matter. A bunch of balloney more fitting to the layman´s world, where Earth is actually an "immobile place", not a planet rotating at the same time its orbiting the sun travelling at a few km a second, and the sun orbiting the Galaxy center at an even greater speed, while the Milky Way moves towards the local group center of attraction, and the local group towards the Great Attractor, while at the same time the universe is expanding.
 
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I think suggestions of how to extract horrible revenge (if taken seriously) risk escalating a very minor prank into a friendship-threatening war.

It's not like Austin's friends sought out some means to publicly humiliate him - they just found some silly iPhone app and thought it would be funny to try out the joke on a friend. Nor did Austin actually fall for it and think it was a ghost.

A good-humoured response would be more constructive. I'd get a photo of those friends and cut and paste some dinosaurs or space aliens onto the background (the cruder and more obviously fake the better).
 
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