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Strange... but true...

by Ed B
(Hamilton, Ohio)

A Shadow Figure

My sister, brother in-law and I were sitting in the dining room of their apartment while my sister was checking out her new camera. She took pic #1 (nothing on first pic), and then just about 30 seconds later she took the second pic. I have no idea what I'm looking at, but my brother in-law says it's just shadows. I say no way it's just shadows.

There has been no paranormal activity in their apartment before or after the pic was taken. This is the first place I've posted the pics. They were taken about a year and a half ago in Trenton, Ohio. If you have any idea what it might be, I would love to hear about it. Thanks for taking the time to look and for your consideration on what it may be.

Ed

Below is Pic #1

Notice how much darker the pic is as well. I'm not sure of the meaning behind it, but it does stand out. This was the first pic taken (seconds before pic #2). We took more, but nothing was there. We no longer have those pics.

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Nov 17, 2009
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These photos as a pair
by: Amberjack

Having previously commented on these two photos myself, the analytical and thoughtful comment by Anonymous is indeed just the sort of thinking that is so helpful with such material. Ed Brown's own reaction to that comment adds still more useful information about the circumstances in which the photos were taken. What makes this pair of photos so intriguing is exactly that: they are a 'pair'. Apparently purely fortuitously, they show a 'during' and an 'after' shot, which in my experience of looking at such material is incredibly rare. In fact, I've only come across it once before, and that as well was fortuitous. And, as here, the 'during' shot which showed the shadow 'event' (for want of a better word!) was never satisfactorally explained. Personally, I still find Ed's first photo one of the most intriguing on Brenda's whole site, and unless a really convincing explanation can be supplied by someone, I still consider it to be one of the best 'captures' of such an event that I have come across anywhere.

Nov 17, 2009
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Best review so far!!
by: Ed Brown

That's a great review!! Let me first rebuttal a couple of things. The pics were, without question, not taken while the camera rested on the table. My sister was sitting at the table and in both photos, she simply raised the camera to her eye and took the shot. She wasn't taking a picture of anything in particular. My brother in-law and I were in the dining room the whole time... We didn't wonder over from the sofa. The legs you see in the bottom left hand corner are from my nephew, He was sitting there while both pics were taken (he was the only one in the living room watching t.v.). He simply readjusted his legs and they couldn't be seen in the second pic. I'm glad to see a "skeptic" (for lack of a better word) who at least puts some thought into an analysis. Thanks for your comment.

Nov 16, 2009
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But Wait- there's more!
by: Anonymous

I know the pics were taken a long time ago, but I just found this site. I noticed that aside from the fuzzy dark image which is centered nicely in the photo, there is also another figure-like shadow to the right of the TV. There is a curious angular shadow below this figure, which makes it look like a shadow from an accidentally superimposed image. (If I assume this is a film camera, where such things like accidental and partial double exposures can occur randomly.) I was curious what she was trying to capture in the frame, as it seems she was focusing on the door frame during a bright sunny day... then it "clicked"-

I also noticed that someone's legs/feet are covered with a blanket on the far left by the coffee table in the first pic, but missing in the second. If the shutter/aperture speeds automatically adjust in this camera, (as in many new and digital cameras) it would have been reset to very small aperture (and therefore slow shutter speed of up to several seconds)to compensate for the brightness of the daylight coming into the lens. She may not have realized that the picture had not finished being taken before this person (you or your brother in law) got up off the couch and walked in front of the camera, adjusting the blanket/robe as they walked and paused just to the right of the frame. This could have left an underexposed (dark) picture with blurry (moving) and figure images, and explain the missing person from the previous pic moments before. With an accidental long exposure like this, its difficult to get clear images without a tripod or steady base, but a table works fine, especially if the camera stays on the table. Your sister moved the camera slightly between pics, but the proximity of the chair back makes it clear that it was resting on the table both times.

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Nov 16, 2009
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Submitted by: Anonymous

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I know the pics were taken a long time ago, but I just found this site. I noticed that aside from the fuzzy dark image which is centered nicely in the photo, there is also another figure-like shadow to the right of the TV. There is a curious angular shadow below this figure, which makes it look like a shadow from an accidentally superimposed image. (If I assume this is a film camera, where such things like accidental and partial double exposures can occur randomly.) I was curious what she was trying to capture in the frame, as it seems she was focusing on the door frame during a bright sunny day... then it "clicked"- I also noticed that someone's legs/feet are covered with a blanket on the far left by the coffee table in the first pic, but missing in the second. If the shutter/aperture speeds automatically adjust in this camera, (as in many new and digital cameras) it would have been reset to very small aperture (and therefore slow shutter speed of up to several seconds)to compensate for the brightness of the daylight coming into the lens. She may not have realized that the picture had not finished being taken before this person (you or your brother in law) got up off the couch and walked in front of the camera, adjusting the blanket/robe as they walked and paused just to the right of the frame. This could have left an underexposed (dark) picture with blurry (moving) and figure images, and explain the missing person from the previous pic moments before. With an accidental long exposure like this, its difficult to get clear images without a tripod or steady base, but a table works fine, especially if the camera stays on the table. Your sister moved the camera slightly between pics, but the proximity of the chair back makes it clear that it was resting on the table both times.

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Nov 01, 2009
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sorry
by: sapphire_lion

Brenda I do not mean to step on your toes but why try to have an explanation for everything. Some things are just paranormaly explained and sometims it's best to just say, "look this may be a ghost but don't worry it doesn't mean harm to you or anybody else." I really am not trying to be mean I just want everyone to know the truth. And the truth is not always explainable.

Oct 26, 2009
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It's a fly on the lens
by: Anonymous

It's a fly on the lens

Oct 13, 2009
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spazz.
by: lisa darkhawk

I simply think mac should stop spazzing. this is an interesting photo. thing about the paranormal is sometimes, alot of it can't be proven, or disproven. some of us have had experiences, we don't need scientific perfect concrete proof. The science is just emerging into the mainstream. soon we will have our undeniable proof, but even if a non vaporous full bodied apparition stood and stared into the eyes of a skeptic, they would dismiss it as light play, or something else. everything can be debunked if you go far enough into skeptic territory.

Oct 07, 2009
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same pic
by: Anonymous

i believe that its the same pic, the second photo looks identical to the first just darkened. however in the 1st pic you can notice a very faint silouette, possibly light???

Sep 14, 2009
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cat
by: Anonymous

if you look closely at the back slideing glass door it is open i bet the neighbors cat came in and was jumping up on the bed hitting the channel changer wich changed the channel to hallmark channel cause thats the background color for the walker texas ranger intro and at that very instant the picture in question was snapped

Sep 12, 2009
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what it looks like a demon
by: moonlight

well it looks some demon i saw in a movie and then i sences things and i see it looks like a demon in the pic. if u watch the movie the village then it looks like the monster demon from that movie and it looks scary.

Sep 04, 2009
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Perhaps
by: Derek

The picture looks like a double from another shot. Not sure exactly how to say it. But another photo on the camera was that of a woman whose hair was flailed out, perhaps a shot of her dancing and it impossed onto this shot. It looks to me like the black "wings" is that of someone's hair while swaying her head swinging her hair out.

Yes this could be ghost but you have to toss out all possibilities and eliminate them first. Just my two cents none the less still a wild looking photo

Aug 01, 2009
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Hi Ed
by: Brenda - Webmaster

Hi Everybody

I'm getting caught up after being backlogged for a couple of weeks. I haven't caught up with all of Mac's comments, so don't know the extent of his contributions yet.

However, all rudeness will be edited or deleted.

I am telling you all this because, while everyone has the right to their own opinion here, this is a place for respect. I don't tolerate flames and idiocy found on other sites. Sorry, but I personally despise that stuff.

I hope this messages helps to restore some tranquility to this page.

By the way, I own this site and don't believe all the submissions are true. I always offer my own debunking advice - there have only been a couple I couldn't figure out. There are many other submissions that don't even get accepted.

So it's okay to be critical. I just ask everyone to do it with respect.

Brenda
Webmaster

Jul 26, 2009
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This is what i'll try to do.
by: Ed Brown

First, I would like to thank Amberjack for his/her comments and support. I truly have no idea what this is... but, I know it was there.

Second, I really should apologize to Mac! I guess the good thing about this web site is that we have a place to express our opinion, good or bad! Actually, Thanks Mac for your opinion. I just felt that my he was questioning my honesty and morals. But, lets be honest... I dont think everything i see on here is real either. So, thanks to everyone who comments on this site.

Third, and the reason I'm making this post. I'm going to research and try to find a third party to look my photo over and give their opionion of what it is. I promise to post whatever they say... good or bad!! I really love listening to everyones comments, and i probably shouldnt get upset when someone thinks its fake... But, i cant help it. I was in the room and I saw nothing at all!! I was one of the first people to see the picture on the camera... It has not been altered in any way (i feel like a broken record)!!!

Jul 25, 2009
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Ed's sincerity
by: Amberjack

The comments of 'Mac' on this thread and elsewhere on this site are so pompously dismissive that I suspect that, either he is a stitch-up troll, or that he is so desperately afraid of the unknown that the only way that he can cope with his fear is by dishing out an overdose of negative scepticism.

I wonder how long his "short time in the photo industry" actually was? About twenty minutes? My own professional experience is considerably longer by a few decades, and my two previous comments (Jan 11 and Dec 29) endorse both the authenticity of the photo here and Ed's sincerity. My opinion is unchanged.

Jul 24, 2009
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You must not have been very good at your old job!!!
by: Ed Brown

Mac,

I dont know you or what you USED to do! But, i can say you probably were not very good at it. This photo has NOT been altered in any way!!!

Thanks to everyone else for their opinion.

Jul 21, 2009
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Look Close
by: Mac

Take a very close look at these photos and compare them. Look at the wing apendage and you will really notice that this is a doctored photo. Look at the shape lines of the object in relation to its background. This photo appears to obviously set up in relation to the backgound. The wing and body are positioned just right to give it the perfect contrast for the perfect kind of ghost shot for maximum effect. Notice how the wing area appears to have been given extra exposure for more effect with the blinds. Nice PhotoShop technique **removed**.

Also notice the amount of daylight in each of the photos and ambient room lighting. This was a staged photo.

I worked for a very short time in the photo industry **edited**. I worked much longer in the intelligence community **edited**.

In fact nothing I have seen on this site looks at all real to me.

Jun 20, 2009
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Surf's up
by: Anonymous

i think it looks like Cody Maverick from the peguin movie surfs up.

Jun 11, 2009
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Could be....
by: Anonymous

An angel, but whatever it is appears to be floating in mid-air and the thing sticking out appears to be a sleeve of some sort with tendrals or wispy somethings or other.

Would make me think twice.

Jun 08, 2009
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Paranormal terms
by: Amberjack

I'd like to respond to Garden's comment. I tend to think that we are inclined to interpret these things through our personally-held beliefs. So we call them djinns, or demons, or fallen angels. But these things belong to an order of reality that we are not even close to understanding. I kind of think that even to have a hope of reaching that understanding we need to let go of such preconceptions and try to see them as they simply are (which is difficult enough!), and give them terms which are straight paranormal in context. Not to say that I don't find Garden's comments fascinating, because they offer some interesting details. And as in my first comment on this photo at the end of last year, I still think that this shot of Ed's is one of the best of its kind that I've seen anywhere, and I am convinced of Ed's sincerity.

Jun 07, 2009
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I think I know what this is
by: Garden

This looks like a jinn or Djinn. Its a being made of a smokeless fire. You hear about them in the Koran (the muslim bible if you will). Its where the Genie comes from. They can shape shift and people that I know who see them describe them as a dark shadow with a human form HOWEVER their rtue form is leathery spindly looking (if this makes sense). It is said the Djinns refused to bow down to man kind and that a VERY powerful jinn is actually what Christians call the devil. They seem to be prevalent, some djinns can be very powerful, old and evil. Think what we call "demonic". BUT they can also be kind and harmless toward humans.
Interestingly enough jinns that hang out at and or by cemetaries are called "ghouls". They (djinns) live long but do eventually die.

Jun 01, 2009
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This Is Amazing!
by: Anonymous

I've been looking at these two pictues for about half an hour, I even put the one with the shadow into a photo editing program (PhotoImpression 4)to lighten it up. Some people have commented that the chair on the right hand side isn't in the darker picture, but it is, it's just in too much shadow to be able to be seen. When I made the picture lighter, it showed up.

This truly baffles me! For a lot of pictures, it's easy to say that it could be this or that (and I'm a bit of a sceptic, I always second guess), but this picture is truly different. I don't know much about faking photos (I don't even own Photoshop) but I'm guessing it would take a lot of effort to pull this off. When I brightened up the image, I could actually see the edge of the window as well as the wall through the figure!

What had me really interested was the wing, or what looks like a wing. A previous comment mentioned angels, and I would like to think this would be something like that, instead of something demonic. At any rate, sorry for the super long comment, but this really facinated me!

Apr 18, 2009
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whoa.
by: Anonymous

it looks like somethng with a wing.
i dnt knw. a demon maybe?

Feb 24, 2009
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vipers
by: kittykat

it look like bigfoot

Feb 14, 2009
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Lol! Giant Anime Child!
by: Violet

Lol! I'm an anime lover (for those of you who don't know, anime is Japanese cartoons) and I swear this looks like a giant anime child! Lol! I find nothing scary about it! It also looks like it was just passing by and doesn't even belong there. Anyway, I totaly love this pic! It so looks like an anime child from my P.O.V!

Jan 30, 2009
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Wow
by: gaurdian angel

LOVE this pic!!! This is my favorite pic. It looks like a angel write were the door is!! If that ever happened to me I would think that would be totally awsome.

Jan 18, 2009
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Angel?
by: Anonymous

It looks more like an angel.

Jan 11, 2009
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It was in the room!
by: Amberjack

Just thought I'd add something to what I said previously which I hope might be helpful. Having looked at this closely in Photoshop (lightness, contrast, color grading, etc.), the chair is there in the dark shot, but the slight difference in angle just means that it's not in front the TV. There is a very telling factor in the red color of the darkened TV screen. If this was just a Photoshop trick, then the screen would be darker, but would not change color. The fact that the color change is there means that the TV screen could only have been darkened by something that was actually in the room passing in front of it. So I'm still convinced of Ed's sincerity and the authenticity of this photo.

Jan 10, 2009
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Please Don't Do That
by: Brenda - Webmaster

Hi Kailey

You're very sweet, but every word you type is capitalized. Don't do that anymore. It's hard to read, sweetpea.

Love,

Brenda
Webmaster

Jan 10, 2009
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Hi
by: Kailey

Yeah For The Idiots Who Said There Isnt A Chair In The Pic Of The Shadow Your Wrong The Flash Probly Didnt Get It But Its There You Just Have To Open Your Eyes!!! Anyways The Werid Thing About This Pic Is Just Today My Step-Fater Was Telling Me The Time He Saw A Ghost And That Looks Like A Shadow Of What He Described...Scary.

Jan 08, 2009
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really?
by: alice

if u sed that both pics are taken seconds away.. but why is that the 2nd pic have a chair in it?
the first pic doesnt show any shadows of the chair. and i do really think that its altered.

Jan 02, 2009
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Winged Being
by: Leo

I would agreee... Could this pic be altered? of course. It's possible. But what if Ed here submitted this pic genuily. Eliminating a photoshop explanation than this is deftinatly fasinating. I would agree that this picture has not been altered in any way from the details that have been mentionedm (light in front of the TV) also.... its not just a cut and dry pic of the dark being like he just posted it, the being also fills the room with darkness that extends throughout.. That would be an accurate depiction. The wing touch is very nice, and not something one would just add in usually if they were to alter a pic... My opinion, Defnatly real, and very interesting. Thanks for the photo ED. Very cool, and that is good to know that these types of beings will appear and disapear, makes perfect sense. Alot we can't see behind what our mortal eyes allow..

Dec 30, 2008
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This is a real good pic
by: Anonymous

I would think it could have been a woman with long hairand a long dress with a blured face

Dec 29, 2008
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Shadow Being
by: Amberjack

Ed, I've been investigating this specific phenomenon for some time. Having a 'control' shot for a comparison is a great help, and what is caught in the dark shot is, I am convinced, a shadow being. This phenomenon seems to show up inside houses and other buildings which might not necessarily have any other haunt activity. These things seem suddenly to appear and then move on, and look like very dense black shadows, sometimes with a distinguishable human form, and they can move like lightning (yes, I do speak from personal experience!). I find it a particularly compelling detail that the light from the TV is clearly dimmed by this thing moving in front of it. There's a fascinating detail as well in that there appears to be a wing form seen against the glass door, complete with feathers! Five stars.

Dec 13, 2008
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No Way!!!
by: Ed Brown

Their has been NO alteration to this photo. It is nice to see different opions and suggestion on what it may be. But, I swear, Not me or anyone else have touched this photo what so ever. I was there when the photo was taken and i was the second person to see it (two seconds later). I truly dont mean to sound defensive and i feel everyone is entitled to there own opionon, however, This picture has not been altered in ANY way!!

Dec 13, 2008
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Stumped
by: Anonymous

so interesting!!! however, it appears like this picture has been altered... an image inserted in a layer of photoshop, tweaked with a smudge tool, and then opacity decrease, perhaps? i dont mean to be rude, and i am probably wrong... it just looks like a photoshop image i recently saw.

Dec 09, 2008
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Your picture
by: Anonymous

Your picture might have some kind of dark figure.

Dec 07, 2008
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I agree
by: Ed Brown

I couldn't agree more... But, the first pic shows nothing. The figure in the second pic (if you look close) even blocks part of the light from the T.V! Something was there, we couldn't and didn't see it, but it was there. We also didn't notice the difference in the amount of light either. I can't wait to see what people think it is!! Good or Bad, i'm excited to get reactions.

Dec 07, 2008
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2 pics
by: garylee

one shows no shadow in front of the camera..one does...and yes, it looks a bit odd,..but,..without knowing EXACTLY what happened at that precise moment,..it is too difficult to say. I am not willing to jump up and run out of the room because of 1 bad picture...
sorry.

Dec 07, 2008
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Hi Ed!
by: Brenda - Webmaster

Welcome and thank you for your picture. It is certainly intriguing. I'm a bit stumped on this one. The only thing I come up with as a plausible explanation would be some kind of time exposure issue with your camera. But I'm clueless on this one. What do you guys think?

Brenda
Webmaster

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