Posted on 09/05/2014 11:01:29 PM PDT by chessplayer
In June, Sheila Sillery-Walsh, a British tourist visiting the historic island-prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco, claimed that she captured an image of a ghost in a picture she snapped on her iPhone. In the frame of what was otherwise supposed to be a picture of an empty prison cell was a blurry black and white image of a woman. The story, which was printed in the British tabloid the Daily Mail, featured on the Bay Area's local KRON4 TV station and mocked by SFist, isn't the first time the Daily Mail has claimed that strange images have come up on smart devices.
Normally, a paranormal story wouldn’t catch my attention, but a few months before the story came out, a Spanish friend of mine named Laura showed me a weird image she found on her phone while I was traveling in Madrid. The photo, taken on her iPhone while on a trip to Ethiopia, shows a boy looking down at leaves he is holding in his hands. Seemingly superimposed onto the boy is another image of the boy, hands in a different position and eyes looking straight at the camera.
Laura was convinced she captured an image of a ghost.
Then a few weeks later I discovered an image of a man in the background of a photo I took with my own iPhone. The picture was taken in my apartment and the man, whom I can’t identify, was not actually in the apartment at the time.
Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts, leading some scholars to conclude that we are witnessing a revival of paranormal beliefs in Western society.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
How very condescending and adult of you! We children hang our heads in embarrassment. You wise old owl.
su·per·nat·u·ral
adjective
1. (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
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As to my experience, will send to you via FReemail when I get a chance to type it out...there’s a backstory and an epilogue without which the story is not complete and it may take a little bit more time than I have this busy afternoon.
Wow. Thank you for sharing that very interesting read. Bless you.
thus the change, has been a deeper faith and dependence on Jesus.
Bump.
I don't disbelieve that there could be a human spirit that is separate from the body, part of something larger. "Don't criticize what you can't understand" and all that. Mathematically, we're 3-dimensional beings so anything it the 4th or greater dimension is beyond our full understanding.
If possible, you might want to check the history of that house and see if someone lived there who might have wanted to hang around. <^..^>
What a great story! Hooee, I’d have booked, too.
Well ... if it ever gets to the point the noises get worse and your wife is worried, get your Bible and call on Jesus. That’s what I’d do, knowing what I know now. It never occurred to us college girls! We’d all gone our separate ways before a year or two in any case.
Amen.
You are most welcome.
Yes, the word "supernatural" is intended to mean "beyond" nature, the same way that "unparalleled" is intended to mean "unique in space." Just the same, the brain perceives words in their order beyond the user's intent. The word "unparalleled" evokes the image of parallels, in spite of its intended opposite. Likewise in spite of its intent, the word "super-natural" accurately IMO captures these mysterious venues we puny humans can only barely grasp. Personally, I think it's a good thing we cannot grasp them and I am very leery of pursuing control or knowledge of "supernatural" stuff. I'm just grateful for it when it helps me out! {^) I am looking forward to your FReepmail.
PL - The only other details I know about it is that it was from a camera phone and what’s in the picture is typical of what she saw in the condo on a regular basis. She took the picture during the apparition, so what’s pictured is what she was looking at. The faint figures on the left do look like mirror images, but I don’t know if it was the lighting, the camera or perhaps taken through a window or sliding glass door.
It was not a house, but a very old stone schoolhouse that is preserved. It is said the ghost is the first teacher there, but that is just a story to connect the common experiences. I can imagine the wind shaking the door so it sounds like it was opening, but being stone, the entire building does not shake, so the stairs don’t creak unless somone is walking up or down. I spent many evenings there and you could tell which stair was creaking because it had a specific sound. And you could tell when someone reached the landing half-way up. I just have no explanation, but it was really an interesting thing to experience. Not scary at all, but I would call it fascinating. It would be like seeing rain fall upward. There is no past experience in your life that you can use to understand it.
I’ve talked to soldiers and civilian survivors from WWII to Afghanistan and many of them who were at a battle have related stories of bad mojo experienced at a place where there was recent death. Kind of like something was left behind after a battle and was still there trying to touch the living. They all suggest it was more of an intense feeling of a spiritual nature and not an actual physical presence other than the body parts and blood that still remained there. Is that just a person reacting to what they see and smell, or is it the souls of those who have not yet accepted that they lost their life?
If you find the truth condescending you should fix it. It’s a simple reality, two of the primary pursuits mankind has had throughout the millennia in every culture are sticking out from the crowd and finding “proof” they’ve survive death. Notice also my pronouns were “we” and “us”, I wasn’t separating myself from these trends.
Yes dear. Whatever you say the “truth” is. It’s fine.
Ahh, no attempt at logic, just run for the insults. Sad really. But not unexpected. Some people just can’t handle reality. You should carefully avoid the magazine section next time you’re at the grocery store, otherwise you might see dozens of pieces of proof that I’m right. Trying to live forever and trying to be special are major industries in this country.
I'm not someone that claims to be a psychic or goes around looking for or sensing these things. I was just there out of historical curiosity. This was 15 years ago, and it never happened to me before anyplace else, nor has anything like it happened to me since.
You are so very desperate to "understand" that the rest of us are just indulging in childish self-comfort.
You are one of them. :^)
Where on earth you get the idea of the topic of discussion here has anything to do with attempting to "live forever and be special" ... is ... mystifying.
Your "reality" is on the wrong channel.
Who says I found anything? Who says I’m superior? You’re making up a lot of content here, inserting a lot of insults and disparaging comments I never made. I simply pointed out some well documented, well understood human societal trends. You’re the one that decided that’s me declaring myself superior to people. You should ask yourself why it bothers you so much. I have yet to say anything that disparages or inflates me anybody and yet you’re pretty upset. If somebody in this conversation is indulging in childish-self comfort it ain’t me.
It’s very simple. If there are ghost then some part of us survives death, which means WE could survive death. And not everybody sees ghosts, so anybody that’s got a good ghost story gets to be the center of attention for a while. It’s ain’t that tough to understand, unless you decide to take it personally. Why do you take these concepts as personal insults?
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