Inspired by recent discussion about the appearance of apparently supernatural phenomena in photographs, I uploaded some old pictures of mine for your continued interest.
These particular pictures I had for 8 or so years. I had thought them lost but recently re-indexed every picture in my possession using , a process that took over a day(!). I make no claims as to their authenticity or anything else; however, I might say that as far as I know, they predate the era of easy fakes using Photoshop, and if they are fake, they are very good ones.
As always, every picture is a link, click for a full-sized version.
Japanese Ghost Pictures
Starting off, at first glance this is not a particularly compelling case for the existence of ghosts. The “noise” in this photograph could be easily explained by faulty film, double exposure, or mishandling during development.
However, it certainly does look strange, especially considering where they appear to be standing.
In this picture, a man holds his daughter up for a photograph, and in the developed picture we can see what appears to be a face in the mirror behind him.
A trick of the light? A side-effect of the human mind’s tendency to find “faces” in everything? It certainly looks like a face, and it appears three times.
Magnification of the above.
A woman poses in front of a scenic waterfall. Below her, in a seemingly impossible position, we see a fuzzy image of what appears to be a western man’s head.
Magnification of the above.
I don’t really know what to make of this one. I don’t see anything conclusively reflected in the windows indicated. They do seem to reflect something different to the windows above, but the angle is also slightly different. It is a ghostly effect, but to my critical eye there are just too many variables.
Now this one is strange. The hands that appear in the television screen are extremely clear and obvious. That would usually make me suspicious. But look at the magnification.
Besides the fact that, if this is a fake, it is an extremely good one, focus on the little fingers on each hand. They seem to be distorted and twisted.
Again, if this is fake, it is an extremely good fake, and the effect is quite unsettling. I have no explanation for this picture.
A group of schoolgirls pose for a memorial picture. In the final developed image, one of the girl’s legs is missing.
Perhaps it was staged, perhaps she really only has one leg. It would have been difficult to edit.
An action picture of an amusement park rollercoaster in motion -the moving carriage is visible in the foreground, complete with motion blur. In the background, what is almost certainly a person is walking on the track, high in the air.
The only possible explanation I can think of for this picture is that the track the man is walking on is not actually a track for the rollercoaster but, instead, some sort of access walkway. But it certainly does not look like a walkway, and it certainly looks like a man is there to me.
Magnification of the above.
A group of schoolgirls pose in front of a wooden building. In the tree next to them, we can see what appears to be the distorted face of an old woman.
Magnification of the above.
Perhaps the easiest photograph here to fake, but also quite compelling. Make of it what you will.
August 29th, 2005 at 12:00 am
no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i regret having seen those pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nightmare!nightmare!!!
August 29th, 2005 at 2:04 am
I’m sorry!!
But don’t you think it is interesting?
October 17th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Really interesting, and I think the Japanese Ghost Movies are the best in the world.
December 24th, 2005 at 7:22 am
WOW!
i think 3,7 and 8 are the truest
December 24th, 2005 at 7:23 am
NIGHTMARES!!! NIGHTMARES!!! NIGHTMARES!!!
try
http://www.trueghoststories.com
January 20th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
The ghost of old women always makes me having a goosebumps….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh Noooo….it happens again…………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
cool pics, Dude! do you have more?
May 5th, 2007 at 6:48 am
the one with old woman was good. Is that for real?
May 31st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
thats some bullshit
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:39 am
wow! i’m actually studyind on spirits and apparitions and ghosts and these pictures REALLY helped! thanks!!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Entirely unconvincing…after looking at your photo’s I followed a hunch and spent time flicking through some tabloid magazines with workmates managing to find at least 20 ‘apparitions’ with the aid of a positive frame of mind and some light imagination. We all found it amusing and not a little startling as we realised our own predisposition to wanting to find something. Kind of sad in a wider philosophical sense for us all. Still, enjoyed your site and appreciated the stimulated and lengthy conversation it provoked…don’t stop doing what you do…you never know what may come and we continue to experience our ‘wanting’.
July 11th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
perhatikan baiok2 dan detail,, so scarryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
July 19th, 2007 at 6:39 am
cool i want to see more
July 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am
These pictures were cool. they all reminded me of the movie Th Grudge wich scared me really badly!! MOMMMY!!!!!!!!!!jk, but yeah, they were cool =)
September 30th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
not at all interesting……but i am sorry for that one leg missing girl.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:23 am
i think your photos were great.im going to a ghost hunting weekend this friday 19th oct,hope i see something ican post you. best wishes josie
October 27th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Those were pretty cool pictures. It reminded me of the Japanese movie called Shutter (in English) not sure what it is called in Japan. Awsome movie very scary and some of the pictures used in the movie were donated by real people.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:36 am
awesome.so creepy,i love it
December 10th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Real or fake they’re really cool.
What gets me is the people that respond like they “know” for a fact that the photo’s are fake. Takes a big ego and a small intellect to come to that conclusion, seeing how any rational person would have no explination for them.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:36 am
That’s all??? Upload more pics, I wanna see more!… Do you have demon’s pics??
January 5th, 2008 at 5:04 am
ONE WOMAN MAGNIFICATION ABOVE? HIS WOMAN MAGNIFICATION THAT?
January 29th, 2008 at 3:04 am
think how many photos in the world are taken everyday, the chances of similarities of certain shadows etc to things we can recognise is pretty good, think how the mind can make something out of the smallest similarity when prompted, like watching clouds, like the face on mars etc
March 6th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
wow that was creppy does anyone out know of better sites with scarier ghost pics email me
March 25th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
ghost scare me soooooo much indeed i will have very scary nightmares ahhhhhhhhhh i can see them now!!!! they say ”boo” scary
April 11th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I think I solved te case of te missing leg:
If you look closely you realise that the ‘present leg’ is a leg shown from the side and I presume the girl stands facing to the side, but turning her face & torso to the photographer.
I think we percive one leg as missing since all the other girls are facing the photographer and you can see both of their legs.
Many traditional japanese ghosts come with a face like the one of an old person, so that one is pretty scary
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
WOAH!! freaky!! japan seems to be plagued with ghosts!
June 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Wow that was cool and freaky i hope you have more cool pics. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Dunno are they true or fake, but they give me cold chills!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Totally fake…. all of them! Ghosts don’t exist!!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I would have thought a “man of faith” would have no problem believing in things that don’t exist. A bit inconsistent, aren’t we?
Anyway, I make no claim as to their reliability – I was interested to see them, so reproduced them here thinking others might as well. Caveat emptor.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:35 am
dude.thatc tree ghost looks funny cause she is wearing make up and stuff
November 25th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
i need more pictures..ghost in japan look similar to ghost in indonesia..
April 15th, 2009 at 11:16 am
cool.. , do you have more Jap Ghost pic?
September 17th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I believe they are real. Real pictures come with a feeling. Japanese ghost are always so much more vivid and identifiable then American ghost and I feel that is because of the strong connection of spiritual belief when they where alive.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 am
oh ma god it was scary bt can’t stop from looking all of it..
now i m going to have nightmare for this
who will protect me,,,, ahhhhh
December 10th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Wow… 35 comments! That’s quite impressive!
Two topics that’ll definitely garner the most comments and viewership are:
1.Supernatural pictures
2.Opinionated issues
Good luck!
I didn’t know ghosts have nationalities!
December 12th, 2009 at 3:02 am
i cant beleive those things but very interesting stories
December 20th, 2009 at 8:17 am
u guys r wimps these arnt scary at all