Famous Fake Ghost Photos
It's good to look at good fakes in order to learn how to recognise them. Today with 'Ghost" apps it can be easy to be fooled. Optical illusions can aslo play a part in it looking like something is there that isnt. Hopefully you will learn to recognise the fakes and illusions
This one may have been a fake. On extreme zoom, professionals say the face seems to have a different grain than the rest. Also there was a local postcard with a young girl’s face which was very similar that may have been used in transferring to this picture. I'm not 100% sure the face is the same. What do you think?
In 1917, two little girls captured the public imagination with the claim that they found fairies in their garden. Usually people wouldn’t believe such a claim from two little girls, but they had pictures to prove it. Even famous skeptic Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of Sherlock Holmes, was fascinated by the photos. He wrote about them in his persoal magazine, claiming that they were definitely real—except they weren’t. The girls admitted (70 years later) that they used cardboard cut-outs.
What do you think... Fake or Real?
This photo has been on the internet for quite a while. It supposedly shows the ghost of a little girl peeking out from between the legs of the two ladies in the middle (the ones with the hand cuffs) that apparently has made the little girl on the lower, far right corner cry. this bad photoshop job continues to make the rounds on the internet and continues to be touted by those in the know as the real McCoy. The only thing really scary about the picture are these ladies.
Is this a photo shopped image or a real ghost?
Here the photographer took a picture of a Civil War era wagon and then waited for someone in period costume to walk by, at which point he shot a second photo. Then it was simply a matter of cutting the figure out of the one photo, turning the transparency up, and splicing it into the wagon alone picture. The biggest giveaway is the consistency of transparency of the figure; real real ghosts tend to be either very solid in appearance or more solid at some points than at other points