Do you think this photo proves that ghosts exist?
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Do you have a link to the Fox News story?
Considering that the source is Rupert Murdoch’s notorious tabloid, The Sun, no.
It only exists when people want it to.
Haha, not coming from Fox News it doesn’t!
Does the photo provide enough evidence to support ghosts as a fact? NO.
I didn’t have to look at the photo to know that ghosts exist. I just watched Ghostbusters.
Looks like a picture of a person to me, not of a ghost.
(Looks like The Sun to me, not Fox News. I find this image in The Sun more haunting.)
Absolutely no offense to you personally chuckmiller, but I’m also reminded of the bumper sticker which reads, “I see dumb people…”
I don’t think that proves there are ghost.
Sorry. The Fox link let me the Sun News where the story originated. Here is the Fox News link.
oh, the fox news source makes it more credible
Doesn’t serve as any real proof. And I DO believe in ghosts. But this hardly could be considered proof that there was one standing at that window as this photo was taken.
Sure! And the documentary a few years ago, I think it was called Jurassic Park, proved that dinosaurs really exist too!
I mean, nobody could ever alter a photo, right?
OK, so I actually looked at the photo. It’s not from Fox News, the origins are from The Sun, which is a tabloid. Minus 10 points to credibility off the bat, combined with the -30 points of credibility when talking about ghosts.
I look at the photo…. I could do that in 5 seconds in Photoshop. Minus another bunch of points, oh let’s say 50.
I could go on, but I won’t. It’s not a ghost photo, it’s a trick of some kind, because ghosts do not exist, whereas tabloids who want to sell you an issue of their magazine most certainly do exist.
In this day and age, pictures are pretty crappy evidence for ghosts since so many people can use photoshop, or alter in some other way.
I believe in ghosts. But I don’t believe in Fox News. LOL. So I’d have to say no.
@fireside now that picture I like
I instantly question anything FoxNews says.
THIS is what you call “air of intelligence?”
There’s not enough detail to say that that is really fifteenth-century dress. An apparently ruffled collar? long hair? How hard would it be to carry a couple of small articles of costumery in a handbag and slip them on when your partner is positioned beneath the window? A few advance trial runs in various windows would make it easy to decide what’s the best spot inside and out for a few moments of collaborative subterfuge. Anyone with a ilttle knowledge of theatre could come up with what it takes to create a good illusion from a distance, no Photoshopping needed.
It could even have been an innocent enough photo of the partner, maybe wearing a scarf, staged from outside as a simple tourist shot, no hoax intended, and the possibilities seen only later.
The key to this one is the photographer’s claim that he wasn’t aware of anyone’s being there; that is, the whole “mystery” hinges on this assertion and not on anything seen in a castle or in a picture. I wonder what else is on that roll of film or digital memory chip.
Some experts are easily baffled.
Lol what new source did it come from?
Ok i thought so…
I know when I’m researching, I always go to The Sun as my first source of well documented facts! ;~P
i do think ghosts exist, but i don’t think any of those pictures prove that they exist. anything can be easily photoshopped, especially photos with ‘orbs’ in them. unless i took the photo myself, it proves nothing to me.
I have no reason to believe ghosts don’t exist any more than I have reason to believe that they do. Does this picture solidify a reason on either side for me? No. But i’m still open to the possibilities. I mean I know a place in NC that has a whole collection of pictures called “faerie lights” that I also have no reason to believe or not believe. The captions on the link did say that experts concluded that it wasn’t photoshopped, but again the SUN isn’t incredible. shrugs the photo doesn’t prove or disprove it to me though.
Why would “fox news” be goin on about a ghost in Scotland .
Oh and its the sun newspaper that article is from.
We want more proof please
It’s a fucking ploy to get people to go see that castle.
Ghosts have no reason to be clothed. Clothes don’t have a spirit. If they did, clothes would haunt people. When was the last time you heard of someone getting haunted by a pair of long johns?
No, but it does prove the existence of Photoshop.
No. And I didn’t even have to look at the link…
Did anyone look at the other competition for the Ghost photo contest? I can see why that one was the winner, what with the costuming and all.
The Sun. The height of credibility.
Also; there’s no way to 100% conclusively prove that a photo hasn’t been manipulated. God, I hate this newspaper.
@richardhenry come on The Sun is a world leader in investigative journalism. Surely that blurry image is all you need to convince you that aliens exist (or whatever the hell they were trying to prove),
It’s just more sensationalism to sell papers.
I can create a photo of a ghost in about two hours with my crappy CorelDraw 10 program that is five times more realistic than that one. I’ve made several fake ghost photographs that have fooled many people. People see what they want to see, and seeing/believing in ghosts is no exception. Photos aren’t proof of anything, and photographic proof of ghosts is about as believable as finding a pop can in a Post Permian sedimentary layer being proof that Creationism is true.
Looks like one of the Splitting Image puppets.
Um…I think it proves that photoshop exists!
Incoming sceptic rant. Take cover.
Well, that’s truly baffling. A photo of a castle window showing… something… that looks a bit like a face.
Honestly, this “ghost sighting” doesn’t even look much like a person. Sure, that ligth spot looks a bit like a face – an awkward face at that – but then again, our minds have a tendency to see faces everywhere. With that said, this could be anything.
And that brings me to something more important: this is something unidentified. That does not justify jumping to the conclusion that it could be a real-life specimen of the age-old superstitions about dead people “coming back”.
None of the various wild speculations that the concept of the ghost relies on have ever been proven to even be plausible. The existence of ghosts does not deserve the benefit of doubt.
That means the explanation that says this photo depicts a ghost is just as likely as any other randomly speculated explanation one can dream up – and significantly less likely then so many explanations that do not rely on forces that have somehow managed to remain completely unknown to generation upon generation of scientific investigation. It’s on par with an infinite amount of possible explanations in terms of faeries, gnomes, sentient talking plants from the future or flying spaghetti monsters, and inferior to a smaller amount of explanations in terms of deliberate tricksters or a simple play of the light.
@Fyrius Why bring up the flying spaghetti monster? His Noodliness’s name should not be dropped lightly!
How could I be so blasphemous. I’ll immediately undertake a pilgrimage of repentance to my local Italian restaurant.
@fireside, that’s not a ghost in your picture, it’s a fairy! duh.
I don’t think a photo can prove anything. it is just an image. those were some good ones.
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