Christopher Ogden posed by a tree in the town of Ninety Six, South Carolina, and his dad took a picture of him (below). When the two of them saw the full-size image, they noticed something strange. A mysterious figure seemed to be standing beside Christopher, even though he was standing alone when the shot was taken. The photo made its way to a local paper,
The Index-Journal, to whom Christopher gave this statement:
“As a civil engineer, I’m well educated, and I’ve looked at it, and my dad has looked at it, and in my own opinion, it does seem to me like there’s something strange there..
“I’m Caucasian, and wearing a striped shirt and a pair of jeans and sunglasses, and immediately next to me it appears there is an African-American person -- I can’t tell if it’s a man or a woman standing next to me -- wearing some kind of white garb. I can tell you for a fact that there was no one standing next to me when that picture was taken.”
There are three theories about what this might be: 1) a double exposure; 2) sunlight on a tree; or 3) a ghost.
I'm going with theory two.
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Occam's Razor, people!
I chalk people's willingness to go with the most fantastic answer, in part, to their gross unfamiliarity with how the natural world works... Poor observation skills, as it were, perhaps agrivated by urban living.
My favorite example was a ghost hunting documentary in which a group went into the windowless, brick wine cellar of a house that hadn't been occupied for 50-some years. They were all in amazement at the swirling ghost activity around them which definitely couldn't be fog because they didn't feel any wetness (though it did look an awful lot like particles on the night vision camera). Then one of them noted that this wasn't going on the FIRST time they entered the room.
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the first time they entered this room they kicked up a ton of dust that had begun swirling around in the air they themselves were disturbing, but there ya' go...
Or then there's the lake monsters who undulate something like a wave and are travelling at high speed but apparently stay undulating in one place for minutes on end...
I think people just need to get outside more. When we keep trying to explain perfectly ordinary natural phenomena as the supernatural because of our ignorance of nature, we're right back to where we were living in caves.
Wearing a bondage mask.
I saw that ghost-hunting show, too and yeah, those people sure made a big friggin' deal about dust and moisture in the air.
Like I said, Occam's Razor, people! Start with the simplest, more logical explanation before you assume "supernatural" cause(s).
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Light on the tree, people can be pretty ridiculous sometimes