Nowadays, a photo can be edited to contain anything.
A picture from a Bigfoot sighting or a UFO sighting or a Loch Ness Monster sighting has
no credibility, because thanks to digital technologies, it could’ve just been doctored
in Photoshop or in an iPhone app.
But back in the day, when there were no such technologies or apps or photo editing software,
if something weird showed up in a photograph, then something weird was likely going on.
And there’s a lot of weird stuff out there.
These are the top 10 mysterious photos that cannot be explained.
The ghost of this soldier
The squadron that appears in this photo is a favorite of people who enjoy conspiracy
theories and ghost stories.
One of the soldiers in the squadron, the one who sticks out the most, is named Freddy Jackson
and he is important because he was killed in a freak accident involving an airplane
propeller when he was working as a mechanic.
A couple of days later, the whole squadron got together for this big group photo – and
Freddy Jackson is in it.
That’s him, right there.
The photo was properly developed sometime later, and so it was quite haunting to see
him there.
Everybody else in the squadron openly confirmed that this was definitely Freddy Jackson and
no one else, and not only that – this particular photograph was taken on the day of Jackson’s
funeral.
That’s eerie, right?
It is almost as if his ghost rose out during the funeral and then joined the rest of his
squadron, taking his rightful place in the photograph where he would have been if he
hadn’t been killed in an accident a couple of days earlier.
That’s crazy – it’s like it was his fate to be immortalized in that group photo
with the crew, and whoever is in charge of the afterlife allowed it.
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The Babushka Lady
When President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head while his motorcade drove through
Dallas on November 22, 1963, everybody who was there to see their great leader suddenly
panicked and took cover.
But this woman, who has been identified by the FBI only as “the Babushka Lady,” because
she has never been properly identified, was super close to the spot where the President
was shot.
She can be seen in all existing films of the incident to be holding up a camera, and while
everyone else is freaking out and diving for cover, she keeps standing there with her camera,
as if she knew that Kennedy was going to be killed.
And then she can be seen walking away.
No one has positively identified her yet.
A woman named Beverly Oliver once claimed to be the Babushka Lady, but the Super 8 camera
that she claimed to use wasn’t invented until 1969 – and her story of two men claiming
to be FBI agents taking the footage and then her never hearing from them again is either
a gold mine for conspiracy theorists or too vague to be credible.
Either way, it’s a great little JFK conspiracy to think about.
This modern man in 1941
This photograph, which was taken at the grand reopening of the South Forks Bridge up in
Canada, appears to feature some kind of time traveler.
It doesn’t look any different from any other picture from the early 20th century unless
you look a little closer and see the man who is wearing a cardigan over a t-shirt with
a modern day logo on it among a sea of old-timey hats and jackets and bolo ties.
This guy sticks out like a sore thumb – and he seems to be holding a camera from the modern
day.
Cameras back then were huge.
The one that this photo was actually taken on would have been one of those big, old cameras
that have to stand on tripods while the guy gets under a sheet to take the picture.
Okay, they might not have been that old.
But they certainly didn’t have the kind of camera that you can just sling over your
shoulder and snap some digital photos on.
His weird glasses also point to him being some kind of character out of a science fiction
story.
He looks like Doc Brown crossed with a modern day hipster and amateur photographer.
How do you explain that?
The ghost in this church
One of the creepiest things that can happen in photography is that something will appear
in the photo when it is developed that wasn’t there when you took it.
It only tended to happen decades ago, when cameras were shooting on film.
You don’t tend to get many creepy looking ghostly figures showing up in digital images.
Or if they do, then they look too clean to be scary – the image quality is crisp and
high definition, and what with Photoshop and everything, it’s hard to believe that it’s
true at all.
Plus, there’s something about grainy old film that’s just scarier – everything
looks darker and rougher and vaguer like it might not really be there, but of course,
it is, etched into the film.
This photo was taken in 1975 when a British couple named Diane and Peter Berthelot went
to the Worstead Church in Norfolk, England.
Peter took a photograph of his wife Diane while she was sitting in the church and praying,
and when the photo was developed, there appeared to be a ghost sitting behind Diane.
So, they went back to the church and showed the local vicar, who said that it was “the
White Lady,” the ghost of a healer who is now thought to be haunting the church.
The Grim Reaper who showed up at this friendly get-together
This is one of those horrifying, grainy, old photos that have some kind of freakish apparition
appearing in them.
In this one, these friends are just hanging out, innocently enough, and then the Grim
Reaper appears to have shown up.
The idea of Death as a character is one that doesn’t get talked about a lot (unless he
is hanging out with Peter Griffin, of course), because it is not associated with any religion
and it obviously doesn’t gel with the more scientific or atheistic approach to life – plus,
it applies a real figure and personality to an abstract concept.
But since it is such an abstract concept, and the image of that character captures the
terror of it so perfectly, it can be interesting to think about the concept of the Grim Reaper.
And based on this photograph, it’s hard to deny that you do see a dark figure in a
black cloak armed with a scythe when you pass on from this world into the next.
The question that this photograph raises, obviously, is whether or not it’s just a
strange occurrence or if it is actually a premonition of one of those guys’ deaths.
It would be interesting to find out when they all died, as well as if some of them were
still alive.
The spaceman behind this little girl
One day a few decades ago, a man named Jim Templeton was enjoying a day out with his
daughter and they stopped by this marshy area where he decided to take a picture of her
to capture the memory of the day.
While they were there, neither of them noticed anything odd that was going on in the area
of land where they were and no one else was around when they took the photo, and yet,
for some reason, in the background of the picture, it looks as though there is a spaceman
standing directly behind her.
The picture became so popular and got circulated around so much that Kodak ended up getting
involved in the debate and confirmed that the film had not been tampered with in any
way.
So, what the hell is going on in this picture?
Did the taking of the photograph temporarily open up a portal to an alternate reality where
spacemen are just floating around everywhere?
And when the flash of the camera went off, we managed to capture a very brief glimpse
of that world?
It’s so eerie.
Why was that spaceman there, lingering over some random marsh in the first place?
Who knows.
This dangling corpse
Back when the best quality of a photograph that you could hope for looked something like
this, a family named the Coopers moved into their new house in Texas and decided to commemorate
their first night in their new home by getting the whole family together to take a picture.
So, they all gathered and posed together for a photograph, and it appears that right as
the picture was being taken, a corpse came flying down from the ceiling.
The body appears to be charred, too, as if it had been burnt.
So, maybe somebody was burnt alive and then stowed away in the ceiling, and the person
who did it sold their house and fled, and then when the new people moved in, right as
they were taking a picture of themselves in their new home, the body fell down from the
ceiling to frighten them.
It’s just so weird and implausible.
It’s like something from a really sinister haunted house ride, except it was real.
No one who has investigated this photo has been able to come up with an explanation for
it that makes any sense, or is at least plausible, and everyone has their own idea about what
happened.
This unaccounted Candy Man victim
In case you’re not familiar with “the Candy Man,” he was a serial killer in the
early 1970s who was discovered to have abducted, tortured, and killed 28 little boys before
he was brought down.
His name was Dean Corll and he lured little boys in by promising them a party or a lift
somewhere.
These boys, not knowing any better, would go with him and end up dead after some agonizing
torture.
He buried the kids in boat sheds and beaches and forests.
He was a really, really, really bad dude.
Anyway, in 2012, decades after the Candy Man’s crimes had been found out about and he had
been brought to justice by the authorities, this photograph was found to belong to one
of his accomplices.
It shows a boy who has been handcuffed somewhere dark and he, understandably, looks really
scared.
But as horrifying as this image alone is, it becomes all the more horrifying when you
hear that this boy was not one of the Candy Man’s 28 confirmed victims.
This was another boy.
And if there was another boy whose disappearance and God knows what else was unbeknownst to
the police, then how many more victims didn’t they know about?
It’s truly quite haunting.
This pyramid on the Moon
There are dozens of photographs that have been taken by satellites and space missions
of far-off planets and moons that don’t make a lick of sense.
The Mars Rover has captured dozens of unusual images from the surface of Mars.
This image was taken during the Apollo 17 mission and released afterward.
At first, it didn’t appear to contain anything interesting, and so it was filed under “blank”
in the NASA archives.
But upon closer inspection, and after the image had been enhanced and it became a whole
lot clearer what exactly it was an image of, it appeared to be some kind of pyramid structure.
Either it was built by aliens living and breeding on the Moon, who have maybe died out since
those pyramids were built, or they just appeared there, which is even creepier.
Even after it was ascertained that this was definitely not a “blank” image and NASA
had some explaining to do, we got no such explanation.
No one at NASA has offered an explanation about this image or the pyramid in it.
Are there colonies on the Moon that have built pyramids?
Have pyramids been put there in some other way by some higher power?
What is going on here?!
This big, terrifying undersea snake creature
This photo looks like it could easily have been doctored in Photoshop or some other photo
editing software, but it couldn’t have been, because it was taken in 1964 by a French photographer
named Robert Serrec.
He was working just off the coast of Queensland in Australia when he noticed this huge, terrifying,
black underwater monster that seems to resemble a snake or a giant eel.
After a quick panic, he grabbed his camera and snapped a picture of it, so that people
would believe him when he returned to land and told the story of the giant snake that
he had seen just under the surface of the water.
It looks like it’s sitting on the seabed, minding its own business.
What in the world is this thing?
Some people have suggested that it’s just a tarp, plain and simple, but how could it
be a tarp?
Tarps don’t sink.
And if it was just a tarp, why would it be in such a perfect snaking formation?
No one has been able to properly explain what this thing is in the more than fifty years
that this photo has been around, haunting the hell out of anyone who sees it.
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