This from the person that sent it in:
This was an opportunity chanced upon while more or less idly viewing the ever changing pattern of feluccas on the Nile: a favoured Aswan pastime. It was unusual and I had my wife’s camera with me so I took a photograph. Unsure what had been recorded I checked the image. This is it. I decided to repeat and possibly improve the shot but by the time the camera had been raised to implement the intention the chance had gone. Photograph taken from Elephantine Island looking downstream in the channel which separates it from Kitchener’s Island at 14.39 local time on 23/2/2009, aperture f5.6, exposure 1/400s, focal length(35mm equivalent) 282mm, brilliant sunshine, moderate heat haze.
What do you think? Comment and vote now!
Ghostly photographs from Hauntings 
March 13, 2009 at 10:50 pm |
I say this chap has implemented his intention to have a laugh! Pointless photograph; pointless fake.
June 25, 2010 at 11:36 am |
funny
March 14, 2009 at 1:22 am |
I say double exposure. Possibly unintentional but then again they would have remembered taking the picture of the boat previously on the same roll of film.
March 14, 2009 at 2:55 am |
I say Photoshop!
March 14, 2009 at 3:10 am |
Surely in order for a ghost to exist there has to have been a living organism. I can never get my head around images of ghosts which are of boats or cars or trains. Here in Edinburgh there is supposedly a ghost carriage from days gone by which rockets down the Royal Mile.
Where is the sails “soul” or the rudders consciousness? How can a boat be a ghost?
March 14, 2009 at 4:39 am |
double exposure
March 14, 2009 at 6:15 am |
double exposure
March 14, 2009 at 7:39 am |
Unintentional double exposure.
March 27, 2009 at 5:20 pm |
All those in favour of Double Exposure, please say ‘Aye’. It’ll be a lot quicker!
March 14, 2009 at 8:09 am |
It could be a fake, or it could be a coincidental alignment of various waves and ripples. On a gusty day I often see peculiar shapes on our local lake.
March 14, 2009 at 7:59 pm |
“it could be a coincidental alignment of various waves and ripples”
ROFLL!!!
March 14, 2009 at 8:32 am |
Intentional fake.
The photographer was taking a photo of empty sea ? and the ghost ship just happens to be perfectly placed ?
March 14, 2009 at 10:08 am |
If a physical object actually produces a perception of a ghostly event in an observer, (the familiar ghostly stagecoaches etc) it must presumably be something in the nature of a vision or a hallucination. It seems somewhat unlikely that such subjective experiences could be captured by a camera………..
March 14, 2009 at 1:13 pm |
I’m going with a double exposure on this one.
March 14, 2009 at 1:39 pm |
It’s not double exposure. If it were there would be waves of the boat while it was there.. I go with Photoshop..
March 14, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
This is not a website for ghost sightings, it’s a website for funny and unusual tricks of the light. All this would never constitute anything like a serious investigation to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts.
Could the investigators attempt something more scientific please?
March 14, 2009 at 3:34 pm |
Badly faked. Photoshop
March 14, 2009 at 4:49 pm |
Double exposure or fake.
March 14, 2009 at 4:55 pm |
The comment: “Unsure what had been recorded I checked the image.”seems to suggest presumption. So, I’d guess pre-arranged, or manipulated!
March 14, 2009 at 5:31 pm |
It’s a feluccing bad fake!
March 15, 2009 at 1:16 pm |
It’s either a double exposure or deliberate fake, and I’d tend toward deliberate fake.
March 15, 2009 at 4:05 pm |
It could be a reflection on a glass of a boat at the back.
March 15, 2009 at 9:35 pm |
This could have been taken behind a glass object since there seems to be a reflection of a street in the background near the top of the photo and this could have been a reflection of a model behind you.
March 16, 2009 at 7:13 pm |
There appears to be 3 images, a boat at rest with no sails, a boat in motion Sails full and the rocks. unless there were a noticeable and convenient fault with the camera (images are nicely aligned it, is a deliberate fake.
March 20, 2009 at 1:43 pm |
We are cheat by our eyes
March 20, 2009 at 2:43 pm |
hahahaha
March 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm |
No schip was so near to this rocks
March 20, 2009 at 10:21 pm |
you should be ashamed… make a better hotoshop work next time!
March 20, 2009 at 10:21 pm |
you should be ashamed… make a better photoshop work next time!
March 20, 2009 at 10:42 pm |
Its fake…. Its Obivious!!!
But…..There is Jacks Sparrow and Black Pearl….
March 21, 2009 at 7:04 pm |
ridiculous !
March 23, 2009 at 7:45 pm |
Obvious double exposure…unless it’s a digital camera!!!!!! OoOOOOHHhhh! Spooky!
March 23, 2009 at 8:51 pm |
my boat.. my boat… return it to me, you thieves!!!
March 23, 2009 at 9:35 pm |
double exposure or photoshop, it´s possible make this…so easy
March 27, 2009 at 2:14 pm |
It look’s like a drowning dinosaur, with it’s head and one wing out of the water. Looks good!
March 27, 2009 at 8:44 pm |
double exposure
March 27, 2009 at 11:52 pm |
Come on, that’s got to be a fake!
If it’s not, then it’s the best ghost picture out, but….. I don’t buy it. Submitter… I think you are stringing us along!
March 28, 2009 at 2:41 am |
A fake a child could make. Either double exposure or photoshop blending. Laughable!
March 28, 2009 at 4:15 pm |
This, like many of the more convincing photos seem to have figures in them that are relevant to the environment they are in, for example the beach ghost in Welly’s and hood, the person washing their feet in the stream. Is it possible tht in some way we don’t understand yet – light is able to produce mirages – perhaps the beach figure was standing on the beach at a different spot on that very day and the light was bent by some natural process, perhaps a property of photons at the quantum level (I don’t really understand quantum physics – so apologies if this sounds ridiculous!) – resulting in the capture of an image, is it possible that light could also preserve images from the past in some way? After all when we see a star we are lookng at the star as it was in the past, could a similar phenomenon account for sightings of ghosts and of ghost images?
March 28, 2009 at 6:22 pm |
Get a life!!!
March 28, 2009 at 10:30 pm |
Keep an open mind! We still have a long way to go before we can say we understand our physical universe!
March 28, 2009 at 10:33 pm |
I’ve had another look at this photo using ‘photo editor’ and I can’t see any evidence of cut and paste, but I can think of ways around that in this case. The extreme choppiness of the water intrigues me, as does the hint of pink at the stern of the boat and again a little bit in the sail.
I suspect a picture merge.
March 28, 2009 at 10:38 pm |
I notice the rocks look intact and clear, and the water between them is smooth – though that might well be expected if it’s sheltered there, but i do wonder if they could have been ‘cut’ around.
March 30, 2009 at 1:43 pm |
Looks like a photo taken through glass. Reflection.
March 31, 2009 at 11:13 am |
Fake, clearly.
This raises an issue though. If non-human remains should not “come back”, how come all ghosts are not naked?
March 31, 2009 at 3:34 pm |
Photoshop!!! I would say that it might have been double exposure but it is so blatantly and intentionally faked. Its mind-bogglingly bad…
April 7, 2009 at 3:38 pm |
Ghost ship
This is an example of an increasingly common illusion observed in the vicinity of two sheets of high quality, coated, plate glass arranged at about a right angle. It occurs in some modern shop fronts be they in a mall or a shopping street e.g.Princes Street in Edinburgh. The usual physical laws of reflection and refraction apply but the illusion is rarely noticed because of the high intensity of background visual ‘noise’.
Ghost ship is unusual in that the ‘noise’ is minimal. This is attributable to spotlessly clean plate glass, a nondescript dominant background of choppy water, the sun being behind the observer, inter alia.
The only contact the image had with Adobe is that Photoshop Album 2.0 was used to file and catalogue the images.
Contextually the image fits the local Aswan story of “Kitchener’s Felucca”.
October 26, 2009 at 3:58 am |
Photoshop.. looks like someone rendered a ship and then used the dodge tool over where the ship would sit on the water and deleted the actual ship image so the water stays lightened up but the ship is not actually there..