Quote:Moore, Okla. – The father of a 9-year-old boy killed by a tornado, discovered a very peculiar image in a photograph that was taken just a couple months after his son’s death. That’s according to a report from Fox4KC.com via The Daily Mail.

Scott McCabe is the father of Nicolas McCabe, who was one of seven students killed after a tornado struck their third grade classroom at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Oklahoma, back in May of this year. The Daily Mail reports that McCabe claims to have seen an image of his deceased son standing behind his niece in a cell phone picture that was taken on the fourth of July, just a couple months after the tornado hit.

In the picture the boy’s cousin, Madison, is waving a sparkler.

http://wtkr.com/2013/11/25/father-claims...port-says/

Was this family at Newtown too?

Chill bumps... YEEK!

Clearly a reasonable conclusion.

In many 'ghost' photos, people try to find human-like images in inaminate objects because our mind is trained to do so (Apophenia). That's one explanation, although here it really does look like an image of a human boy's face.

The next explanation is that the camera shook as he was taking it or she was moving creating a blur, and the "image" is really the girl's head a millisecond before. Such as the blur seen above her left arm which was probably moving downward. Thing is, the image looks absolutely nothing like the pale girl with wider eyes. And if it's a blur, it'd be more a blur. This photo looks like a still of one face and a still of another.

The next explanation would be double exposure, something's up with the film, and so on. But it's a cell phone photo, and even though I'm not a techie when it comes to photography, I assume none of that stuff applies.

Got to admit this is better and more convincing than your usual cruddy, hazy ones that are easily explainable or a fake. But I've got to pull out the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" quote here. Would be great if this was a quick peek into some unexplainable realm, but we just can't make that leap.

You can see how her left arm has moved over the exposure time, if you move her head back the same way then it lies on top of 'his' head.

Zombie niece.

(11-25-2013 04:38 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  In many 'ghost' photos, people try to find human-like images in inaminate objects because our mind is trained to do so (Apophenia). That's one explanation, although here it really does look like an image of a human boy's face.

The next explanation is that the camera shook as he was taking it or she was moving creating a blur, and the "image" is really the girl's head a millisecond before. Such as the blur seen above her left arm which was probably moving downward. Thing is, the image looks absolutely nothing like the pale girl with wider eyes. And if it's a blur, it'd be more a blur. This photo looks like a still of one face and a still of another.

The next explanation would be double exposure, something's up with the film, and so on. But it's a cell phone photo, and even though I'm not a techie when it comes to photography, I assume none of that stuff applies.

Got to admit this is better and more convincing than your usual cruddy, hazy ones that are easily explainable or a fake. But I've got to pull out the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" quote here. Would be great if this was a quick peek into some unexplainable realm, but we just can't make that leap.

+1

Bereaved father seeing what he wants to see.

Yep, Occam's razor here: Likely a long exposure and the "ghost" is simply the girl's image a second prior.

But I can't blame the father for taking the quantum leap here. The "ghost" facial features look so different from the girl's - not to mention the shirt necklines - and similar to the deceased son.

Likely an earthly explanation, but interesting nonetheless.

(11-26-2013 07:41 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Bereaved father seeing what he wants to see.

I really want to believe, but I'm guessing you are right. As the father of a little boy, that sent chills down my spine.

(11-25-2013 04:08 PM)Jerry Falwell Wrote:  Was this family at Newtown too?

Nope, they were too busy shooting Roman Candles at black helicopters...

We need to know what the son looks like before we can start with the spookems theories, and even then I won't believe them. This is simply a camera trick, possibly intentional but probably not.

(11-26-2013 08:46 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  We need to know what the son looks like before we can start with the spookems theories

No one knows if this is fake or not. It could be very real.