Tunn11
Justified & Ancient
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What do you think?
Something the other day made me recall a story told to my mother by a work colleague. This must have been forty or more years ago. I’ve not heard it anywhere else but it has all the trappings of a FOAF story. It goes like this:
A couple lost their only daughter in a tragic accident. After her funeral they decided to have a holiday – West Country I think, and took a camera with them. On their return they had the photos developed. In each photo they could see the image of their daughter. Not as a person or ephemeral image but in the landscape as her profile in a cloud, her face in the leaves of a tree or the sun on a rock, etc. This was too much for them and they destroyed camera, negatives and photos.
An undated story about unidentified people with no evidence sounds like a FOAF. Has anyone else heard it? If it isn’t then the obvious explanation is pareidolia together with their grief. I also found the alleged destruction of the photos a bit odd. I would have thought most people in those circumstances would find them comforting.
I put this in ghosts but if it is a FOAF perhaps it could be moved?
Something the other day made me recall a story told to my mother by a work colleague. This must have been forty or more years ago. I’ve not heard it anywhere else but it has all the trappings of a FOAF story. It goes like this:
A couple lost their only daughter in a tragic accident. After her funeral they decided to have a holiday – West Country I think, and took a camera with them. On their return they had the photos developed. In each photo they could see the image of their daughter. Not as a person or ephemeral image but in the landscape as her profile in a cloud, her face in the leaves of a tree or the sun on a rock, etc. This was too much for them and they destroyed camera, negatives and photos.
An undated story about unidentified people with no evidence sounds like a FOAF. Has anyone else heard it? If it isn’t then the obvious explanation is pareidolia together with their grief. I also found the alleged destruction of the photos a bit odd. I would have thought most people in those circumstances would find them comforting.
I put this in ghosts but if it is a FOAF perhaps it could be moved?