Belton Ghost?

D Barnes - Friday, 5 November 2004

Belton ghost?

Here is a picture taken in Belton on 31/10/2004. The picture is of my daughter aged 7, just before taking her to the junior ghost walk at Epworth. On returning and looking at the photos I found the strange misty shapes which seem to be coming out of the mask, also the ghostly pumpkin shape on the right of the pic.

I have also sent a second photo (Not shown here - ed) as it was taken 12 seconds later and nothing apart from maybe an orb at her feet which seems to be on the first photo top left above a square sign. My wife witnessed the photograph been taken and it was a warm night no condensation or fog/ smoking in the air.

I am searching for any explanation.

Yours faithfully, D Barnes

P.S original photo available for study taken on Kodak digital 3.1mp camera ... picture not tampered with.

Ed: It is certainly a strange image on the picture. To see it more clearly, turn up the brightness and contrast on your screen. Gary and Sadie of the Spirit Searches have provided a possible explanation ...

Re: Belton Ghost?

Gary and Sadie, Spirit Searchers - Saturday, 6 November 2004

Enhanced 1

The orb at the child's feet in the second photo is just a development error (Sadie spotted that straight away with her being a photographer). The orb seen above-left of the child in the first photo is also development error so we can discount the orbs on both photos as no spirit activity.

I have just embossed the first image (Enhanced 1) so that anything solid stands out. You can clearly see a head at the top of the photo (I have circled it for you to see). You can also see another face directly above the child's head (I have also circled this). This is not a trick I've done on my computer. If you open up the original photo in Microsoft Photo Editor which all PCs have as standard and go to Effects - Emboss, you will see for yourself.

Obviously these faces could just be coincidence, you cannot rule out the fact that in the dark you cannot see much so when the flash of the camera lights up the area you could see smoke which you couldn't see with the naked eye.

Enhanced 2

On closer inspection Sadie (fellow co-founder of Spirit Searchers) spotted a wolf's face in the photo (circled in Enhanced Photo 2).

There could well be spirit activity in the photos but without us being there ourselves and us not knowing for sure that there was no smoke we cannot definitely say that it is spirit. I hope this helps.

Kind Regards - Gary Spate and Sadie Ingoldby
Spirit Searchers

Ed: The mystery deepens. Darren - who took the original picture above - has added the following ...

Re (2): Belton Ghost?

D Barnes - Saturday, 6 November 2004

Thank you so much for your findings. The emboss is spectacular. I did look at it in negative format and zoom but didn't think of emboss ...

The photos were sent direct from the camera - not scanned. Does this rule out the developing error? I can resend them at full pixels if you like for closer inspection as I can guarantee they are genuine.

Also you mentioned the orbs as development error. Do you mean error on the cameras fault, not developing the image correctly or development as in when printed, as the original photo has the orbs ( 3 can be spotted on the spooky pic, only one on the second photo) and again it's not a scanned image. All can be seen on the camera view finder.

Also can anyone spot the pumpkin shape under my daughters left arm?? I mean that's hardly a spirit I know, but I can't think what could cause it? It's not even same shape as the plastic pumpkin in her hand.

My wife also seems to spot what she believes and describes as a scan of an unborn baby above my daughters head!!

Many, many thanks - Darren Barnes