First and foremost, today marks the 5-year anniversary of this Blogspot!
Since Halloween is a week away, I just felt like sharing some supposedly-haunting pictures that were taken in Thailand around the time of last December’s Asian tsunami disaster. My sister was e-mailed these pics, and she in turn showed them to me...and while they’re pretty spooky
(at least, err, three of them), a few of these pics can be described as textbook Photoshopped images. Whether or not
all of them are remains to be seen. I’ll leave it up to you to decide for yourself.
With the exception of adding auto contrast and re-sizing the pics for clarity, I did NOT in any other manner alter these images. And my apologies to those who feel like I'm trivializing that catastrophe with these photos. If any or all of these pics are fake, blame those who got the sick idea of using that disaster to come up with these hoaxes.
This monk is praying over the body of a tsunami victim, and that wavy beam of light in front of him is supposedly that of the spirit leaving the room. Either
Industrial Light & Magic had a hand in this photo
(I'm not being serious), or some supernatural brouhaha is indeed taking place in this photo. I remember seeing these wavy beams of light in the two
Ghostbusters films, haha. Sorry- Anyways...
Faces in the fire... Is this a case of people seeing what they want to see? What an opportune time that the flames would form faces right when this person was taking a picture. Actually, the one all the way to the right looks pretty, um, authentic. I'll admit that.
Mist forming on the camera lens? Notice that there aren’t any water drops obstructing the view of the wrapped bodies on the ground. Could these orbs be spirits who are leaving from this tragic scene? My sister thinks so, but I’m obviously skeptical. Err, who wouldn't be?
More of those misty bubbly things... Being that this photo is taken near water, I think this one can be logically explained. These people
sure are superstitious about those orbs...or clever in that they're testing to see just how far people are willing to believe that something out of the ordinary is occurring in these pics.
Wow- that spirit even has the blank, comic book superhero eyes going... If
this one’s a hoax, nice cut and paste job! And in case you're wondering, you have to reduce the opacity level through Photoshop so the guy in the middle will become transparent in the image. But that’s
only if this pic is a hoax.
EDIT: Upon closer inspection, it seems like someone copied the head of the guy to the left, moved it to the middle of the photo, and then made it transparent to make it look like a ghost.
That, and the eyes were altered to give them that blank look. Oh, and Photoshop's film grain option was used to make the image look more convincing.
BOOOO!
This paranormal event is taking place on the famous bridge over the River Kwai. My sister should know... She went to Thailand for a film shoot 2 years ago and visited this historic site. More spirits in the form of those wavy light beams. In case you’re wondering, River Kwai was the site of an Allied attempt to blow up the bridge in World War II, despite the fact British soldiers were building it for their Japanese captors. Haven’t you seen the 1957 movie with Sir Alec Guinness in it? I didn’t.
This is a Photoshopped pic assuming someone e-mailed this image to this dude’s cell phone. If not, then how convenient that the ghost is smiling for the camera too! Verizon LG should follow Samsung’s lead... They’d
both be making
billions if they could build camera phones that can photograph dead people! Anyways, this photo actually appeared in a Thai newspaper.
All you need to do with this pic is conduct a nice cut-and-paste job, reduce the opacity level like in the fourth image above, and blur the “ghost” so he’ll appear the way he does in this image. Other than that, this pic is SCARY!!! ‘Cause those guys
sure are posing pretty damn close to each other...
Hey fanboys, GET A ROOM!
Back in the day... The infamous 9/11 hoax pic. Overlooking the fact the lighting on the plane doesn't mix with the actual lighting in the photo, notice how well it was cut and pasted into this picture. Don't know 'bout the Pot Baby, though. Whoever added him is a disgrace to Photoshop pranksters everywhere. Haha.
One more for the road... The Coronado Hotel, which is one of the
most well-known haunted sites here in this country. I took this picture when a few of my friends and I hung out in San Diego on Saturday.
(Click here to read about ghosts and their place in Buddhism and Thai culture.)(Click here to see some of the most famous photos ever taken during ghost sightings.)
