- Since its invention in 1826, for hundreds of years,
photography has been used as a way
to capture a moment in time.
A memory of a past event, a family or another special
moment, but some pictures taken have captured more
than they intended.
The following images I'm about to show you were all
taken by regular people who captured some extraordinary
things, things that are hard to explain, things,
that perhaps should not exist.
And in case you're wondering, the vast majority
of these photos were taken decades before the invention
of Photoshop, or for that matter,
before the first computer.
The rest were phenomena that were observed and
validated by hundreds or even thousands of others.
But it's up to you to determine what you make of them,
so without further ado,
here are 10 mysterious photos that should not exist.
Number one are the Phoenix Lights.
On March 13, 1997, two distinct events
occurred over Phoenix, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico
that were seen by thousands.
Two separate light formations formed in the sky,
one a triangle that was created by three separate
lights, which slowly passed over the state,
and the other a line of stationary lights.
Now normally, lights in the night sky are not
a cause for alarm, except that stars disappeared
and then reappeared behind the dark mass
in the sky.
Because of the outcry from the public,
the US Air Force was actually forced to respond
and explain that these events were simply flares
and training exercises.
But perhaps most interestingly, the governor of Arizona
at the time Fife Symington mocked the idea of the
lights being of alien origin, except that several
years later, he admitted that he saw the lights,
and said that he believes that they are otherworldly.
Number two is the Ghost Baby.
In Queensland, Australia, in 1945,
a mother named Miss Andrews went to visit
the grave of her late daughter and decided to take
a photograph of the gravestone.
Upon developing the image, she noticed the
ghostly image of a young child staring right back
at the camera.
Now, Miss Andrews didn't recognize the child as her
own daughter because her daughter died at the age
of 17, much older than the apparent age of the infant.
However, perhaps what is most chilling about this
is that a paranormal researcher went to that very
grave to find a possible explanation for the picture
and found a nearby grave dedicated to two infant children.
To this day, there is still no explanation as to the
apparent apparition in the image.
Number three is the Spectre of Newby Church.
In 1963, Reverent K.F. Lord took numerous pictures
inside of a church in North Yorkshire.
Upon examination, one photograph appeared
to have an artifact.
Now, photography at the time was not perfect,
so many pictures often had artifacts.
However, this artifact appeared to resemble a human.
The image appears to show a hooded person standing
right in front of the altar.
While many experts have tried to determine whether or
not this is double exposure, most speculation has
concluded that it resembles a 16th century monk
with a white shroud over his face,
possibly to mask leprosy or another disfigurement.
And even more strangely is that in relation to the nearest
furniture, the figure would measure nearly 2.7 meters
tall, clearly not something of this world.
Number four is the Hampton Court Ghost.
For nearly 200 years, a ghost has been rumored
to have haunted the corridors of the
Hampton Court Palace in London.
However, over that time, nobody has been able to
capture and picture the alleged form, until now.
In 2003, emergency doors in the Hampton Court Palace
were mysteriously opened three days in a row.
On the first and third day, cameras captured
what appeared to be the doors opening by themselves.
However, on the second day, they captured something
entirely different; a ghostly figure believed
to be Dame Sybil Penn.
She was a servant at Hampton Court to four Tudor
monarchs and the nurse of Prince Edward and Elizabeth I
until she died of smallpox in 1562.
Hampton Court, home of Henry VIII and many other royalty,
has long been famed for its ghosts, but this was
the first time that an image of one has been captured
in hundreds of years.
Number five is the Hook Island Sea Monster.
In 1964 in Australia, French photographer Robert Serrec
was spending time with his family,
boating off of the coast of Stonehaven Bay.
Suddenly, Serrec's wife noticed a large tadpole-like
creature under the water.
This is the picture of the 24-meter-long creature,
which, according to him,
appeared to have a wound on its back.
Almost as if knowing that the creature was having
its picture taken, it swam away with blazing speed,
never to be seen again.
Number six is the Naga Lights.
This picture is of Thailand's Mekong River.
The phenomena shown are known as the mysterious
Naga Lights, basketball-sized balls of fire
that shoot from the surface of water hundreds
of meters into the sky and then vanish.
Their occurrence is of no debate as they have been
photographed and witnessed by tens of thousands
of people over the years.
However, what is mysterious about them is why
they occur, which currently has no scientific explanation.
Now, some theories suggest phosphine gas or free-floating
plasma orbs similar to those in plasma physics
or some other naturally-occurring event,
but to this day, still, nobody has an explanation for them.
Number seven is Freddy Jackson's Ghost.
This picture is from 1919 of the crew of the
HMS Daedalus during World War I
at their training facility.
It was a somber day as just two days prior,
a member of their team, air mechanic Freddy Jackson,
had died accidentally by an airplane propeller
and his funeral was earlier the same day
that this photo was taken.
But once it was developed, however,
something very odd was immediately noticed.
There was an extra face among the men, a face
that the men recognized, the face of
air mechanic Freddy Jackson.
Remember that this photo was from almost 100 years
ago, and most versions online are cropped and altered
in some way, but what you are looking at right now
is the original, unaltered scan
of the original photo.
As you can see, there's Freddy in the back row,
smiling, as if unaware that his own death
had taken place just two days prior.
Number eight is the McMinnville UFO.
This photo is often considered among
the most famous UFO photos ever taken.
Known as the McMinnville UFO photograph,
it was taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon
in the United States in 1950.
That same year, Life Magazine along with several
newspapers reprinted the photo,
which many ufologists consider to be genuine.
The photograph shows what looks to be a tilted
underside of a UFO flying through the sky.
Now, skeptics suggest that it could be a possible
speck on the lens, as cameras back in those days
weren't quite as HD as they are now.
But to this day, nobody knows for sure
what this image means, or what it's of.
Number nine is the SS Watertown Ghosts.
In 1924, two men working aboard the SS Watertown
oil tanker, Jame McCourtney and Micheal Meehan
were both accidentally killed by a gas leak
during travel at sea.
Soon after, the men were given a respectful burial
at sea, but the other crew members began
noticing something mysterious as they were
conducting their duties.
In the days to follow, crew members swore that
they saw the faces of the two men in the waves.
In response to this, the captain took a series of
five photos, four showing nothing unusual,
until the fifth, which showed this.
What appears to be the faces of James Courtney
and Michael Meehan.
To this day, neither the crew, the captain nor
anyone else aboard have any idea or explanation
for what the apparitions appear to be.
And Number 10 is the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.
In 1936, a professional photographer
working for Country Life Magazine took pictures
within the Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England.
In one such picture, he managed to capture this
ghostly image of a woman on the stairs.
What's eerie is that just a year earlier, in 1935,
reports from guests staying in that hall claimed
to have seen a ghostly figure floating through
the corridors with her eyes gouged out,
wearing a brown dress.
Immediately, those who worked there realized
that this picture matched the description given.
It's believed that the apparent apparition is of
Lady Dorothy Walpole, the sister of
Robert Walpole, generally regarded as the first
prime minister of Great Britain.
Before her death, she was trapped there,
locked away in the hall as punishment for
adultery until she died painfully
by herself from smallpox.
Once again, another photograph with no explanation
from anyone involved.
So, those were 10 mysterious photographs that
likely should not exist, but I want to know from you
in the comments.
Do these photos have a reasonable explanation,
or should they simply not exist?
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