Ghosts? Or the play of light on water?

[rdf]

I came across this story/picture many years ago, and it always stuck with me. I was watching a documentary a long time ago late at night, and saw this story. It gave me a little creepy feeling when I first saw it. What do you think?

I wish they had some pictures of the two men from before the trip to compare with the two in the water.

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In 1924, James Courtney and Michael Meehan, crew members of the S.S. Watertown, were killed by gas fumes. The sailors were buried at sea off the Mexican coast. For several days thereafter, the ghostly faces of the sailors were clearly seen by other members of the crew in the water following the ship, which caused an uproar. When the faces again appeared in the water, the ship's captain, Keith Tracy, took six photos, then locked the camera and film in the ship's safe. When the film was processed by a commercial developer in New York, five of the exposures showed nothing but sea foam. But the sixth showed the ghostly faces of the dead seamen. The negative was checked by the Burns Detective Agency and revealed no tampering.

[rdf]

Another photo of a "ghost." It sure as hell looks like a little girl. If it's not a scam, it's believable.

The Ghost in the Burning Building
On November 19, 1995, Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England burned to the ground. Many spectators gathered to watch the old building, built in 1905, as it was being consumed by the flames. Tony O'Rahilly, a local resident, was one of those onlookers and took photos of the spectacle with a 200mm telephoto lens from across the street. One of those photos shows what looks like a small, partially transparent girl standing in the doorway. Nether O'Rahilly nor any of the other onlookers or firefighters recalled seeing the girl there.
O'Rahilly submitted the photo to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena which, in turn, presented it for analysis to Dr. Vernon Harrison, a photographic expert and former president of the Royal Photographic Society. Harrison carefully examined both the print and the original negative, and concluded that it was genuine. "The negative is a straightforward piece of black-and-white work and shows no sign of having been tampered with," Harrison said.
But who is the little girl? Wem, a quiet market town in northern Shropshire, had been ravaged by fire in the past. In 1677, historical records note, a fire destroyed many of the town's old timber houses. A young girl named Jane Churm, the legends say, accidentally set fire to a thatched roof with a candle. Many believed her ghost haunted the area and had been seen on a few other occasions.
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[Buck503]

"Who ya gonna call..."

[rdf]

Yeah, I'm thinking of starting my own Ghost Busting Agency. Seems to be lots of money in it ;)
But if folks believe in god without any tangible evidence, they should by all rights believe in ghosts :mega:

And who knows? Maybe out of all the ghost pictures out there, who knows if one or two or many might be real?

I want to find out, but I'm thinking we don't get to know the answer until we're dead and gone, if even then.

Remember, Houdini said he'd come back and appear to somebody if there was any way possible. I haven't heard that he ever came back as a spirit, but his nephew is diggin him up to see if he was murdered in that last act that took his life :mega::D:thinking:

[lynnifer]

I love stories like these. When David and I were out in Nova Scotia in 2001, we went to the Titanic cemetary. I took a photo of a little chipmunk on the stump of a tree ... when we had it processed there was an orange halo of 'something' there ... pretty freaky. I'll have to search around for the photo.