Ghost Photo

[xadrez]

Someobody expressed an interest a while back in seeing this photo. Although I myself am a huge skeptic, this is kind of cool. My father took this picture the day he married my mother, in the City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the upstairs of the building, and the judge allowed my father to walk up and take the picture. The judge unlocked the door for my father, and he took the picture in the room alone, and left.

When he developed the roll (he did it all by hand back in the day, in a darkroom), this woman showed up at the bottom. My father was alone in the room. He has no explanation and she is on the negative. It is not a double exposure. LIke I said, Im a skeptic, but this is plain weird and I think its kind of cool.

If anyone thinks this is a joke post or whatever, I am willing to show the picture in person. Of course, youd have to meet me in NYC or something. But I would be willing to do that if anyone thinks Im BS'ing.

This is a photo of a photo, so the quality is a little bad, btw, too lazy to find a scanner.

the ball of light is the flash from my camera...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/adsantos13/IMG_1742.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/adsantos13/IMG_1750.jpg

[siccjay]

Amazing. Thanks for posting it.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

It looks incredibly much like a statue.

[xadrez]

the woman's head? there is a huge statue in the background...

[siccjay]

For people interested in this type of stuff. Here is a link.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html

There is a photo that shows what looks like a light bulb lit up in it. There hasn't been electricty in the building in a dickyear.

I've been to this place many many times and only once did I think I saw something. There are tons of stories about it though. A buddy that used to work there has some pretty crazy ones and he's not the type to BS.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Yes, the woman's head looks like is it made from the word I don't remember in English, but this you get around your foot when it is broken.

[Notorious G.O.B.]

plaster?

[ThaSaltCracka]

regardless whether or not thats a ghost, cool pic.

[jokerthief]

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Yes, the woman's head looks like is it made from the word I don't remember in English, but this you get around your foot when it is broken.

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Cast?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

One statue from City Hall, similar style:

http://www.dsv.su.se/~maria/NLDB/g/konst.jpg

[xadrez]

Arfinn, are you from Sweden?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

No, Norway.

[xadrez]

Oh...I thought when you wrote "city hall" that the photo was from the same place...

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Yes, it is from the same place.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

It might even be made by the same artist, but this I don't know.

[xadrez]

Really? Have you been in the room the picture was taken in?

There's a cool story that does the rounds among probability buffs. I'm probably butchering it, but it goes something like this:

A woman takes a roll of film of pictures of her kids to the store to be developed. That night the store is hit by a bomb (it was during the Second World War). In the same bombing raid her son is killed. Months later she takes a photo of her daughter and when the film is developed her son appears next to her daughter.

The pattern of events is that when the camera store was being rebuilt someone noticed all the films and assumed they were new films and eventually they ended up back on resale. The original woman ended up buying her old film back. Its all incredibly improbable, but the moral of the story is that there are so many possible events that incredibly improbable events are probable.

Its not relevant to this but I thought it was a cool story. Oh yeah, cool photo by the way /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Arnfinn Madsen]

No, but I have studied history. The statue I put is in City Hall and is resembling this guy:

Eric the saint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_IX_of_Sweden)

Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result: http://www.smitethee.com/albums/statues/statue_1.jpg

"Ghost" is clearly visible statue.

[xadrez]

Interesting...btw Arfinn, I wasnt questioning your claims or anything, just was wondering if you could confir if there are similar statues in the room.

[tonypaladino]

Sell it on eBay as a haunted photo. Anyone Remember the ghost in a jar? (http://www.the-ghost-in-a-jar.com/archived/ghost-in-a-jar/index.html)

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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Interesting...btw Arfinn, I wasnt questioning your claims or anything, just was wondering if you could confir if there are similar statues in the room.

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I don't know, just found the style very similar.

[mostsmooth]

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Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result: http://www.smitethee.com/albums/statues/statue_1.jpg

"Ghost" is clearly visible statue.

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i guess the op can take that photo off his wall now

[xadrez]

Nah, I still like it...Interesting though my father doesnt remember other statues in the room. It was quite dark in there though.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

When I worked as a guide in a medieval church containing a lot of statues, the security guard and I used to close the doors, turn off the lights and put on Enya-music. It gave a ghostlike atmosphere.

[jokerthief]

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Sell it on eBay as a haunted photo. Anyone Remember the ghost in a jar? (http://www.the-ghost-in-a-jar.com/archived/ghost-in-a-jar/index.html)

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Is this for real?! This must of been some sort of marketing ploy.

[Clarkmeister]

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Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result: http://www.smitethee.com/albums/statues/statue_1.jpg

"Ghost" is clearly visible statue.

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This is maybe, just maybe, the greatest post in the history of 2+2. Aweseome thread, awesome post. ni han.