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I need some debunking help here, please!

Could you make the iPhone ghost app pic look like a proper photo? Add an appropriate background and then show it to your friend saying "Look! It's my great great Aunt Aggy. She was murdered in 1874. Her body was never found...."
 
What it looks like to me is one of those “upright vacuum cleaner covers.” You know the ones with the rabbit head and long dress that hides the vacuum. My mom has one that has the same pattern on the dress… What’s in the other room?
 
chimera said:
here are some more screenshots of the culprit:

From the ad:
[qimg]http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/keelyandlou_bucket/ghostcapture2.png[/qimg]

in a photo:
[qimg]http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae14/keelyandlou_bucket/ghostcapture.png[/qimg]
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To get my own back, I would pretend that I had fallen for it and organise a fake sceance, (inviting your friend of course) faking conviction that you wish to talk to said "ghost" - set up knocks, falling objects etc.. and spell the word "sucker" on the Ouija board.
 
swskeptic said:
Okay, fellow JREFers, help me out here. My friend Ryan took this photo of me a couple months ago:

[qimg]http://imgur.com/G1VYk.jpg[/qimg]

Now, forget the fact that I look like an idiot and look on the right hand side under the window. Am I the only person that sees something?
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I see a sort of white-on-white grid pattern not unlike the pattern on the front of your vest (if the colors were reversed), and even more like the grid pattern of the basket(?) on the floor behind you. I can construe various ways in which a pattern present in one part of a picture might have produced a faint artifact in another part of the picture, but couldn't assign any certainty to any particular explanation without knowing a lot more details about light sources, camera angle, etc.

It's also possible that a previous image on the CCD wasn't completely erased before the new picture was taken. Cell phone cameras are not, after all, designed to the same level of spec as a pro-grade Leica.
 
I really don't want this to sound like an A-holey comment. But i honestly cannot figure out any other way to phrase what i have to say. Apologies to the OP if this comes off as offensive.

But why is it, ( and i am talking specifically of ghost pictures here) that people have such a hard time admitting the possibility of trickery? Being a loud mouth, and a skeptic, i tend to get shown a lot of ghost pictures. And each and every one of them the first thing i notice is that it would be as easy as pie to do the picture with photography tricks. And each time i get the same response, " there is no way, i am 99.99999 per cent sure that **insert person here** didn't do that".

And that would be 100 per cent appropriate , if what you mean is that you have had full access to the picture from the moment it was taken, to the moment you showed it to me. ( and even then it is a bold statement if one does not know much about photography) But what is usually meant is the same thing that was meant here, that the person showing me the pic ( who i may add is almost never the person who took it) dosn't think that the other person would do this. Maybe it is semantics, but when discussing something like this , "wouldn't" means little to nothing, the only piece of information that would mean anything is " can't " ( as in, there was no physical way that it could have happened.).
 
Dr H said:
I see a sort of white-on-white grid pattern not unlike the pattern on the front of your vest (if the colors were reversed), and even more like the grid pattern of the basket(?) on the floor behind you. I can construe various ways in which a pattern present in one part of a picture might have produced a faint artifact in another part of the picture, but couldn't assign any certainty to any particular explanation without knowing a lot more details about light sources, camera angle, etc.

It's also possible that a previous image on the CCD wasn't completely erased before the new picture was taken. Cell phone cameras are not, after all, designed to the same level of spec as a pro-grade Leica.
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The photo has already been debunked. See post #44. :)
 
Hey everyone! I wanted to write this and tell you all thanks for helping me out with this. It's really cool that your all up to the challenge. This time it was simple, next time, maybe he'll invest in a more convincing iPhone app haha, I don't know.

Anyways, thank you for taking time out of your day to help me debunk it. Next time I see him I will promptly kick him in the nuts... while I film it... in HD... then post it on Youtube. That will be your reward, sound like a deal? haha.

Anyways, if want that image for posterity (I recall someone mentioning they were going to use this thread as an example) i'll leave it, otherwise, it's going to disappear.
 
swskeptic said:
Hey everyone! I wanted to write this and tell you all thanks for helping me out with this. It's really cool that your all up to the challenge. This time it was simple, next time, maybe he'll invest in a more convincing iPhone app haha, I don't know.

Anyways, thank you for taking time out of your day to help me debunk it. Next time I see him I will promptly kick him in the nuts... while I film it... in HD... then post it on Youtube. That will be your reward, sound like a deal? haha.

Anyways, if want that image for posterity (I recall someone mentioning they were going to use this thread as an example) i'll leave it, otherwise, it's going to disappear.
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Can you leave the pic, please? I also bookmarked this thread as a fine example of debunking, and this thread appears on page 3 of a google search for "ghost picture debunked" (without quotation marks). I'm sure it will be useful in the future.

Thanks for starting what's turned out to be such a great thread.
 
I think that's Western Australia (WA), not Washington (also WA). It's still hilarious.

Ward
 
I don't want to start a conspiracy theory here but I think swskeptic is just pulling our legs and messing with our heads. he is the one responsible for the picture in the first place. he just wanted us to get confused so he can easily manipulate us. I saw on David Icke's Website.

Who you gonna trust?
 
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