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Especially the third page. Not sure if this has been posted before. Makes you look at least twice though…
It is railway(road) related…honest.
gravity, but still very cool!
The thing that is interesting is that people can come up with pretty neat stories to only “explain” the obvious.
Photoshop is so cool…
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Should send this to “The Atlantic Paranormal Society”
Wow!!! at first glance i said it was a flare off the reflection of the sign, but looking at that…Holy crap!! Im gonna post this for our other SPIS members to look at and see what is up with this. I agree with Jim, TAPS would LOVE this!!!
Speaking of which, our website is up and running. We don’t quite have all the features going yet but hey, at least its here.
http://www.sweetwaterghost.org/
seems to be a bit far fetched.
Sounds exactly like "The Mystery Spot " in central Florida. I watched my mother stop our big heavy DeSoto at the bottom of the hill, take it out of gear, and it rolled backwards up the hill.
Just an optical illusion caused by the lay of the land.
Magnetic hill in the Maritimes (Canada)- same thing, just an optical illusion.
There is lore and legend about “haunted” roads, railroads, bridges, and buildings ALL ACROSS the country.
Some of the more entertaining stories have to do with a mother and child where one or the other is killed and keeps coming back to find their long lost other. It’s all the product of over active imaginations, and maybe a passion for melodrama.
The ones that i think are funny are the ones that try to claim a feelable “presence” in just a certain place, at just the right time, etc etc. It’s like “yeah, paranoid delusions are like that” We’ve always been “afraid” of the dark because we know not what might linger just beyond.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, too. But, there’s just one small question…
What if it’s NOT Photoshop?
The only way anyone will know for sure that this is true or not is if they go to the crossing and see for themselves. Everything else in this story can be explained (and was explained), except the ghost image. Anyone know what railroad line crosses this grade crossing? It might be a good spot to videotape trains!
What about the hand prints? If this works all the time why not take a video of it?
Gee, that is spooky, 10 kids killed at the railroad crossing and they still haven’t put signals up?
Something tells me if 10 kids were killed here, there would be a record of it somewhere. The lack of any co-oberating history lends me to agree with it being another “Mystery Spot” type place with a local ghost story thrown in.
Why hasnt someone prepped a car with fingerprint dust, then videoed the rear while a car is being “pushed” to document the hand print formation to definitifly show this is not an Urban Legend, Oh wait…that would be logical…[;)]
I think this could be genuine. But then again I am new to this paranormal investigation stuff, but I honestly don’t think that about.com would post some news like this without researching it first. they are somewhat credible and I have almost always gotten correct stories from them. Still waiting on the SPIS concesus for a group opinion.
I was alaways told my grandparents had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, because buses werent invented, I dont buy the story. or maybe my grandparents lied, now thats spooky
I think the “ghost” is flare in the lens from the reflectorised sign.
You can get the same effect photographing loco headlights.
If the headlight is at the top front of the loco on the right side of the photo, a reflection appears in the lower left, exactly as is seen in the “ghost” photo.
The effect of “lightening” the photo has created artefacts that may not be meaningful.
Note the shape is similar to the uneven flare from the crossbuck sign.
Sorry, no mystery (unless you really want one!)
M636C