Is this ghoulish face of a ghost in the city's Bombay Palace restaurant in Upper Northgate Street?
Posted on 04/30/2014 3:59:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Owner of Bombay Palace in Upper Northgate Street unnerved by snapshot
This ghoulish face peering out of the darkness from the gents in a city centre Indian restaurant is enough to give anybody the willies.
Aaron Ali, co-owner of the family-run Bombay Palace restaurant in Upper Northgate Street, Chester, was sitting in the dark at the front of the eating house about 3am one morning, just before last Christmas, when he heard the sound of a door banging.
Everybody else had gone home, except for the waiter who had retired to his upstairs living quarters, and Mr Ali decided to film the scene on his mobile because he was slightly unnerved by the noise.
However, his mobile was set on stills camera mode and he took a snap shot which looked innocuous at first. However, on zooming in he spotted the creepy looking face in the background, positioned where the gents toilet mirror is located.
Mr Ali explained: “I thought it must be the light hitting the mirror in the gents toilet because when we clean up we use a mop to hold the door open. I thought it was some sort of reflection.
“When you first look at the photo you think there’s nothing there but when you zoom in you can see what looks like a face.”
Mr Ali said customers, a handyman who does work at the restaurant, the chef and his brother Zafor, with whom he runs the business, had always thought there was “something” towards the back of the building.
In addition, an empty coffin had been found in the cellar of the restaurant in the 1980s with no explanation as to what it was doing there.
Mr Ali, from Newton, denied altering the image, saying: “I don’t know anything about computers.”
He had been reluctant to share the photo because he does not want to unsettle his young children who often visit the restaurant. “I don’t want to scare them,” he said.
Is this ghoulish face of a ghost in the city's Bombay Palace restaurant in Upper Northgate Street?
If the curry is hot enough you can see almost anything!
I always heard that you had to be careful because some food could come back at you!
Must be a slow news day, I don’t see it. Is it the two eyes on top of the pic with a white dot in the middle or is it the two eyes with the rectangle between them at the bottom of the page. I guess I’m seeing two ghostly figures.
Looks computer animated, too perfect being cut in half like that, and looks strange, like it was digitally made.
Top right grey blob. Zoom to 400.
There are no ghosts.
Truly creepy.
Elvis. Of course.
I DO believe in spooks, I DO believe in spooks, I DO, I DO, I DO believe in spooks!
The ghost of Danzig/Misfits?
It looks like some girl’s rear.
It’s Beetlejuice.
-— Top right grey blob. Zoom to 400. -—
Yikes!
“I am the ghost of the chicken vindaloo. You said I was ‘mild’, even though I was laced with Bhut Jolokia peppers. So I am condemned to wander that customer’s intestines in torment, until I can burn my way out.”
There are two restaurants in Connecticut that is haunted - the Simsbury Chart House and East Windsor’s J. Pasco’s. Personally I been in J. Pasco’s and my silverware moved.
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