Ghost Photo

[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.

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 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result:

"Ghost" is clearly visible statue.

[mostsmooth]

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Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result:

"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.

[Clarkmeister]

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Mystery solved: google image search city hall stockholm statue.

Result:

"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.