Ghostly Image - WTC Tribute in Lights from 2006

12 years 3 months ago #194608 by Joiemagic
I took this photo in 2006 of the WTC Tribute in Lights from Tribute Park in Rockaway. I can not explain the ghostly figure to my left in this photo. The photo is untouched.

There was no one else in the park at the time I took this photo, there were two other photos taken before and after this photo that have nothing else in the them. This was taken with my Kodak DX6400 camera.

I have always believed this is a woman who died that day in the WTC. Whenever I show this photo to others, I am able to clearly describe the woman and what she is wearing, how she is sitting...


Joie Fadde
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12 years 3 months ago #194651 by Paige120
Very nice! :thumbsup:


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12 years 3 months ago #194742 by chasrich
It looks as though she is a reflection... I'm sure you would have noticed if there was a glass window the camera was shooting through.

When you say you can describe the woman in detail - are you saying that you saw the woman at the time or is this from the image you see in the photo?

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12 years 3 months ago #194926 by Joiemagic
I mean I can desribe her in detail from the photo....

It is a woman sitting down with her arms crossed in front of her across her legs. She is wearing black pants, a black top and has a light blue or light gray sweater. She has shoulder length brunette hair and she is looking towards her right.

Yeah, no reflection because there is no glass to reflect off of... Like I said,I have two additional photos taken immediately before and after this one and there is nothing in them...

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12 years 3 months ago #194986 by chasrich
I'm looking at the trail left by a plane (possible UFO??:woohoo: ) in the upper sky. This makes it seem like the image was a time exposure of some duration... A person entering the frame and passing through would leave little traces of their passing but if they paused for say several seconds you might see the ghost of their presence. This would also explain the slight blur of your image even though you were very still. What does the exif data suggest? Could a person have passed by without you noticing at the time?

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12 years 3 months ago #195034 by Shanna-Marie
Could be a number of explanations.....as you and Rich have already discussed...... You had a visitor alright, but not in the way you're thinking.....ie....reflection, someone passing by...... She wanted you to see her.... Without saying a whole lot more, otherwise you will all think I'm nuts, trust your first instinct Joie, there is so much at work in this world of ours that we do not understand......

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12 years 3 months ago #195049 by Joiemagic

chasrich wrote: I'm looking at the trail left by a plane (possible UFO??:woohoo: ) in the upper sky. This makes it seem like the image was a time exposure of some duration... A person entering the frame and passing through would leave little traces of their passing but if they paused for say several seconds you might see the ghost of their presence. This would also explain the slight blur of your image even though you were very still. What does the exif data suggest? Could a person have passed by without you noticing at the time?


Yes, it was a long exposure, and the blur may have been due to the slight breeze that was present. As I said earlier though... there was no one in the park with me at the time I was taking these photos... so, I would have to say.... NO, no one passed or entered the frame... plus when I look at the image... the woman I see is actually clearer and sharper than I am... at least to me...

Joie Fadde
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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #195054 by icepics
I see something that could be interpreted as a figure, but I don't see anything in detail like what you're describing.The whitish area looks to me to extend all the way to the left edge of the photo, although without any particular shape. Rich mentioned the line across the top, I see some streaking and a line thru the whitish figural part of the image too, depends on how I angle the monitor how noticeable it is.

I'm assuming this is you in the photo and the camera is set up behind you? I notice there seems to be a light source in front low to the ground - the tall grass and rocks are lit and it seems to be brighter toward the center of the photo. Since it was a long exposure perhaps some little critter passed in front of the light down in the grass, maybe that caused an uneven amount of light - although I don't know if a sensor would show it in this way.

It looks somewhat like a reflection off the lens. If it was film with something similar I'd think it could be uneven developing, with a sensor, I don't know.

With my background in education I know the human brain likes order and tries to complete things. A simple example would be if you read a word that's misspelled, with a letter missing, you may not see it because your brain fills in the blanks. Then you could reread it and see what is actually written. The brain likes to make sense of things, maybe your mind has had time to interpret it with an imaginative explanation.

Sharon
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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #195101 by Joiemagic
Here is one of the other photos taken along with my ghost image for comparrison. It was taken withn minutes of the other... Yes, there is a light source low to the ground. They are ground lights spread throughout the park.,

I can tell you that I was not the first person to notice the figure. When I had my original printout of the photos and I was showing some friends, they were asking me who that was in the photo. I was telling them there was no one there in the park when I was taking these shots. It really shows up clear in the print. Then I was looking at the series of shots on the computer and that is the only one like it. All the others are like the one below.


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12 years 3 months ago #195363 by icepics
I notice in the second one that the focus or sharpness seems different; the back of the shirt w/the flag stripes and eagle is not as sharp as the first - and the stars kind of look double, almost like there was a double image but not completely. I would think that was caused by some movement of the camera during the exposure.

There doesn't seem to be a definite reason for the effect in the image, so maybe that makes it the kind of thing that could be pretty open to interpretation.

Sharon
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12 years 3 months ago #195365 by Stealthy Ninja
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12 years 3 months ago #195366 by Stealthy Ninja
I suspect it was an alien.
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12 years 3 months ago #195381 by chasrich

Stealthy Ninja wrote: I suspect it was an alien.


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