NationStates Jolt Archive


"Soldier Ghost" caught on camera

Nocturnal Dutchmen
13-02-2008, 13:03
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7029051.stm

What does everyone think about this? I think it could be faked, of course, or any other scientific explanation for "paranormal" activity.
Katganistan
13-02-2008, 14:19
Old news?

It would be interesting if there were some scientists to examine the area and see if there is anything odd about it. What I find interesting is that it manifested apparently in full daylight -- one associates that kind of activity in all the stories as happening at night.

It might well be a faked shot. In fact, unless anyone could provide strong proof of an alternative, that would be my bet.
Rambhutan
13-02-2008, 14:20
It looks like a puff of smoke caught in a shaft of sunlight to me.
Laerod
13-02-2008, 14:21
The picture looks like someone snuffed a candle and took a picture of the smoke.
Hamilay
13-02-2008, 14:50
It looks either like smoke or an incredibly unconvincing photoshop job. Maybe both.
Londim
13-02-2008, 15:15
http://www.seenon.com/blog/video/soulja-boy-soulja-girl/soulja-boy-crank-that-video.jpg

Soulja Boy caught on camera!

Sorry couldn't help it. The picture itself doesn't look convincing.
Call to power
13-02-2008, 16:57
I wonder how much the Italian government owe that soldier in back pay :D
Trotskylvania
13-02-2008, 17:25
The pic is tiny, so it's hard for the reader to tell what the figure is, let alone analyze it's authenticity.
Laerod
13-02-2008, 17:43
The pic is tiny, so it's hard for the reader to tell what the figure is, let alone analyze it's authenticity.
There's a video of it, though not much bigger.
Mad hatters in jeans
13-02-2008, 17:55
I wonder how much the Italian government owe that soldier in back pay :D

:p
A hell of alot of salt.
In fact a whole salt mine, probably. I wonder where his mates have gone?
Anti-Social Darwinism
13-02-2008, 18:00
It could be so many things not ghostlilke. It could be a flaw in the film. It could be sun filtering through dust. It could be smoke. If it is a ghost, it's most likely the ghost of a long dead imagination.
Conserative Morality
14-02-2008, 00:21
It's a bunch of crap. Ghosts are not real.
Marrakech II
14-02-2008, 00:25
Looks like a fake to me. I thought ghosts were suppose to be dark shadows mostly?
[NS:]Knotthole Glade
14-02-2008, 00:26
I like this guy. He goes to the news with a film claiming to have caught a ghost, and he says "I still don't believe in them."
Trotskylvania
14-02-2008, 00:35
There's a video of it, though not much bigger.

Watched the vid. Now I want to cock punch the jerk that sensationalized it on BBC.
New Stalinberg
14-02-2008, 02:57
Let's let James Randi examine it.
Infinite Revolution
14-02-2008, 02:59
looks more elizabethan to me.
New new nebraska
14-02-2008, 03:17
Can you say Photoshop kids?
Soyut
14-02-2008, 03:24
real or not, it doesn't even look like a human
South Lizasauria
14-02-2008, 04:06
real or not, it doesn't even look like a human

It is a ghost of an honorable fallen protoss warrior! En Taro Adun! :p
Chunkylover_55
14-02-2008, 04:44
If it really is a ghost, how would people have not been able to see it with there naked eye? I fail to see how taking a picture would magically make a ghost appear on camera. My guess is it was shopped in.