Vicar Ghost?

wwinter86 · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject: Vicar Ghost?

This Is a photo I took at All Saints Church in Isleworth, London.
In the distance there appears to be a faint image of a bald man holding onto the railings with both hands. A bygone vicar perhaps?
Also there is an orb in the bottom left.

Any thoughts?

P.S. The original is better quality.

carlos2010 · Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Posts: 288

Think its just how the light falls.

My dad used to be a keen photographer, and he owned a church in Manchester. ANY photo he took, and any photo any one else took, in that place shows hundreds and hundreds of orbs.

D B Sweeney · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:40 am Post subject:

Hi Wwinter, thanks for posting that pic Smile

I've exported the shot into Photoshop and adjusted the exposure and Curves in the area where you say the figure is. I see nothing to suggest that this is anything other than pareidolia caused by the patterns of light and dark of the background foliage.
The orb to the bottom left of the shot is either a minute spec of moisture on or very very close to the camera lens or it's internal to the camera - possibly a microscopic piece of dust/pollen on the image sensor.

DB

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

It is definitely a faint image of a ghost Laughing

bitterbuck1 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:37 am Post subject:

As usual, I don't see it....the vicar ghost that is. Sad

flossy · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:39 am Post subject:

if you zoom in on this picy as i did, you can see its the trees,and what looks like an arm is actually the railing Wink

from a distance it does look like a figure though

bitterbuck1 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks Flossy, I'll do just that. Very Happy

wwinter86 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject: A Comparison

Here is another shot I took a couple of minutes before.
You can see a little farther to left than the figure in the other image above is the living vicar (or his wife) taking out some rubbish.
This may help give you a better idea of how it looks when the possible figure is not there and when a living person is standing back there.
This image may need to be brightened (Photoshop’s auto current etc).

flossy · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:00 am Post subject:

i cant zoom in on this picy so its hard to say?

D B Sweeney · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:39 am Post subject:

Zooming in and playing with the Curves in Photoshop reveals nothing resembling a human form, only background patterns formed by the foliage.

DB

D B Sweeney · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:21 am Post subject:

Doing various adjustments in Photoshop does not reveal a figure IMO. See attached pic with Curves adjusted to show background.

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thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

I can see the figure in the second picture, but it's a stretch to say that's a ghost IMO.

DB the pic didn't attach.

wwinter86 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:27 am Post subject:

There is definitely a figure in the second picture, but no I’m not saying that one is a ghost. That one is the living vicar or his wife.
I have just included the second pic as a comparison, so you can see one without the possible ghost that is in the first one.

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

I am not talking about the vicar's wife. I am confused - in the first picture where the arrow is beside the railings I can see barely nothing, but in the second picture, if the arrow was in the same place as the first it looks like a figure standing there to me.

(I assume the overweight woman walking with her back to the camera is the vicars wife?)

flossy · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:18 am Post subject:

i cant see anything in the second picy but i dont think there is ment to be anything there?
he put the 2nd one up for comparisment Wink

if thats not right winter then i sugest you mark out what were ment to be seeing in the 2nd picy