Posted on 05/20/2008 10:19:35 PM PDT by Main Street
A ghostly apparition of a young girl is being blamed for a series of crashes on a stretch of country road.
Paranormal researchers are investigating the sightings of a girl in Victorian dress on a road in the West Midlands, which locals say is an accident blackspot.
The late-night visions are occurring along Oldnall Road in the Halesowen area and are believed to have been responsible for a number of crashes and near-misses in the area in recent years.
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David Taylor, chairman of the Parasearch group, said he had received reports that the apparition had been the cause of several accidents along the road between Wollescote and Cradley.
"Although the people who have reported the sightings didn't actually crash they were close to it because they had to swerve around the apparition and up onto the pavement,” he said.
"The area around there is an accident black spot and there have been some serious incidents so maybe they had seen the same thing.
"There could be a logical explanation for this, it could be an optical illusion of some sorts.
"For 22 years we have been running a group who investigate claims of the paranormal. Most of the time there is a logical explanation - but so far I haven't found one for this case.
"The image had been described as a small girl between the ages of three and five years old and wearing Victorian clothes.
"We are trying to find out any stories locals might have of the area which might explain what or who this could be."
Local resident Jimmy Lahn, 54, said: "We've had quite a few accidents on that road, I wouldn't be surprised if this ghostly figure has something to do with it.”
Resident say most of the crashes have been minor, but there have been a couple of serious incidents over the years.
Do the accidents all happen shortly after the pub up the road closes?
Cameras are pretty cheap these days.
/mark
She's an FLDS escapee from Texas!
Reduce the speed limit to 15mph (or the metric equivalent) in that stretch, and post signs in both directions. Whether there is a ghost is irrelevant; folks who slow down will stop instead of running up onto the pavement.
Pee wee was really stressed out about that. Turned him into a pervert when his contract expired it seems.
FMCDH(BITS)
Get a life, the poor little spook is 3 to 5 years old.
The image had been described as a small girl between the ages of three and five years old and wearing Victorian clothes.
The image had been described as a small girl between the ages of three and five years old and wearing Victorian clothes.
Get a life, the poor little spook is somewhere between 3 to 5 years old.
2nd sentence starts “Paranormal researchers...” should read Con artists..
The worst accident I ever seen .... bla ha ha ha ha
The worst accident I ever seen .... bla ha ha ha ha
The UK still resists Euro-metrification of distance - so 15mph it will be!
silly
Simple double exposure
These days I think that half the sightings of ghosts are actually views of historic re-enactors who are either on their way home from reenactments and are unintentionally scaring people, or are intentionally having fun at the expense of others.
Look for unprincipled real estate developers in rubber masks!
LOL...what were they doing....driving in the woods???
But I am smiling now...
My first thought was of Resurrection Mary.
We have a pic like that one. When I was a child there was an old 2 story house out here in the middle of nowhere. Was supposed to have been used as a stop on some old stagecoach line or something. A Colonel from the Civil War had owned it if I remember correctly.
Anyway, the family was loaded up and we went to see the house since they were getting ready to tear it down. We all ran around there for hrs. My mom had brought a polaroid camera with her, black and white and was snapping pics left and right. We got home and was going through the pics and at one of the upstairs bedroom windows you can clearly see a man in a uniform peering out from behind a curtain that was pulled back. The house was totally empty.
My Mom still has the pictures.
the Ghost of Algore past trying to get people to reduce their carbon footprints?
Can you get it scanned and uploaded?
The photo apparently has been scrutinized and said real. (some site like ghosts of the UK or something have the above photo as well.)
I am an insomniac and that is why I am often on FR at 4:00 am. I see these monster quest tupe shows on the Sci-fi channel and discovery. They NEVER find anything.
That doesn't mean that monsters and ghosts do not exist, just that nobody has proven that the do. I am agnostic until I see proof.
Perhaps the funniest vignette in all the James Herriot books is from All Things Bright And Beautiful where Tristan perpetrates the Rayne ghost scare. Those who have read it will know what I'm talking about...those who haven't read it would find it hilarious.
I had never given much thought to the matter one way or the other while growing up. Certainly my Christian theology had led me to some abstract conception of demons, angels, souls and the realm of the intangible, but one night, while a college student in a small town in Pennsylvania, I witnessed something that removed any speculation whatsoever on my behalf. The small town just happened to be Gettysburg...
In the 20 or so years since then, it's become readily evident to me that the terms, "paranormal," "supernatural," etc. are riddled with human vainglory, as they presuppose that all that is normal and natural is fully within the grasp of human comprehension. We assume too easily that things we cannot explain must be impossible, and this is a notion truly at odds with the precept that true wisdom begins with the acknowledgement of one's ignorance.
Only people who believe in the spiritual see ghosts. I have never and will never see a ghost.
Precisely what I mean about human vanity...up until the last century we had very little conception of the broad and expansive nature of the electromagnetic spectrum, and based much of our science strictly on what occurred in the visible (by humans) range, completely ignorant of things going on in the UV and IR ranges. Now we have tools and techniques that allow us to see what had previously been entirely invisible. To believe that in 500 years time, the human perception of the universe (or universes) around us will be largely unchanged from what it is today is foolish.
I'm not arguing for or against the existence of ghosts; I'm merely pointing out that the absolute nature of your statement confirms my assertion, that for the most part, as humans, we think we have a pretty good bead on how everything works until ensuing generations laugh at how foolish and primative our *science* was.
Soliton wrote:
“I am an insomniac and that is why I am often on FR at 4:00 am. I see these monster quest tupe shows on the Sci-fi channel and discovery. They NEVER find anything.
That doesn’t mean that monsters and ghosts do not exist, just that nobody has proven that the do. I am agnostic until I see proof. “
I’ve thought that little bit about cctv (close circuit TV) catching that guard is something at
http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/stories/thepalaceghost.html
and that photo is at the same site per:
http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/ghostphotos.html (here, they say that photo above is real).
Ghosts talk is just for fun really. I don’t know if FR has ever run a real “tell your ghost story thread” and I have read it with some frequency for 6 years more or less. No reason to believe in ghosts and push the limits, after all, we already know werewolves really do exist (sarcasm).
Here is the webpage that is the “premier ghost website” http://www.castleofspirits.com/ supposedly: I will say, some stories they publish there, like there best, are scary but I don’t know if it could have come out of a book or what!
Good to see you guys talking about this: they use to have a ghost ping all the time. Wild stories and Gettysburg.
I do believe in the Supernatural in the sense of G-d: to the extent that is natural to me...
Be back later.
You make good points, Joe.
Discovery, Learning, one of those had that house on a documentary and it had loud knocks at night. But they were saying it could well have been an electromagnetic field. Yet, the initial report of the house was knocking under the bed or knocks that might have been interpreted as foot steps.
I think the biggest difference is, 200 years ago the scientists tried to understand what appeared to them impossible. Today, they largely ridicule it.
It's a lot easier to do this with a B&W print than a color shot.
The photo is authentic: http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/halloween/realorfakeghostphotos.html
Color me skeptical. I’ve done enough photography, both in a lab and photoshop to know how images can be manipulated. In post #41, I indicated how this type of photo could be faked in a B&W lab, and I actually did a very similar fake. If I can find it, I’ll post it later. The thing is, I could do this with no outside assistance, and a B&W lab that costs less than $500 to set up.
Experts have already said the Wem Town Hall photo is real.
http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/halloween/realorfakeghostphotos.html
“Further examination of the negative proved the ghost picture to be authentic and not tampered with.”
http://ghostpicture.blogspot.com/2006/07/burning-building-girl-ghost-picture.html
But this ghost is not menacing or predatory it seems.
Richard Kimball wrote:
Color me skeptical. I’ve done enough photography, both in a lab and photoshop to know how images can be manipulated. In post #41, I indicated how this type of photo could be faked in a B&W lab, and I actually did a very similar fake. If I can find it, I’ll post it later. The thing is, I could do this with no outside assistance, and a B&W lab that costs less than $500 to set up.
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