This photo features what appears to be a ghost face over a young ladies shoulder. Though a simple reflection may be in play I am pretty sure it isn’t photoshopped.
The historic House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts – the birthplace of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne – A woman took this photo. The ghostly image of a small boy in the shrubbery, peering over the wooden fence.
The case of the SS Watertown is a classic example of what many believe to be an authentic ghost photograph. The story, as recounted by the eminent and long-time director of the American Psychical Institute, Dr. Hereward Carrington, and as detailed in the house magazine of the shipping company, told of the tanker, SS Watertown making its way through the Pacific Ocean in December 1924. Seaman James Courtney and Michael Meehan were assigned to clean out a cargo tank. While doing this task they were overcome by gas fumes and died before help could reach them. Following the tradition of the sea, their bodies were committed to the ocean on December 4th. The following day, just before dusk, the entire ship was in uproar when the heads of the two dead seamen were clearly seen on board ship and, later, in the sea. Thereafter the ghost faces were frequently seen. A snapshot was taken and the camera, with film intact and untouched inside, was handed to Captain Keith Tracy for safekeeping. On reaching port in New Orleans the Captain handed the camera over to officials of the Cities Services Company and they sent it directly to their New York office, where the film was developed and printed by a commercial photographer, and there were the heads of Courtney and Meehan, exactly as they had been seen on board ship!
This was just another ordinary picture of a computer work-station in a suburban home and nothing was noticed out of the ordinary until the film was developed. Clearly floating on the computer screen, which was turned off at the time, is a disembodied head which is definitely not someone in the background or the picture-taker herself. The photographer believes it to be the ghost of her deceased husband but he appears much younger than when he left this earth.
Pauline Brannigan took this photograph at the Blackpool waxworks UK 9th August. It clearly shows a face behind my husband. The strange thing is that the photo was taken at the coronation street exhibit (long running UK soap) it shows the face of who Pauline Brannigan thinks may be Ena Sharples who died in the 1980’s and was one of the original main characters. Since researching her Pauline Brannigan found that she died in Blackpool and was buried there.
Pauline Brannigan has since sent the photo to the waxworks they are very interested in it and say that there would be nothing that could cause this face, i.e…. Reflection etc…
