OMG, that is Fortean right there!! I have looked at that book so many times over the years, some of those photos are so strange. But was there ever an actual answer as to what Mrs. Chinnery caught in her photo? I remember seeing her mother's photo in one article, and this ghost photo did resemble the mother.
Some will argue its just shadows and some will argue its a ghost. It would be nice to have a clearer copy as the ones we see are copies of copies and lose so much definition and information.
Well she's definitely got her scarf on!
I think she is definitely there, the sunlight is shining off her glasses, you can see her nose, mouth, her face shape, her scarf and coat, there is someone there, and the husband is sitting in front of her. Just my opinion, but too clear to be shadows. An awesome photo!
He is also the most generous person you'll ever meet, not to mention an Adonis.
That's my all time favourite ghost pic. Then someone pointed out that the dead mother's white neck scarf seems to overlap the edge of the driver's window frame which is a bit suspect.
And I've read that one of the investigators of this photo claimed that the inside of the window frames on this model car had a 'velvet' lining, which would give a 'blurry' or 'hazy' edging effect to whatever is photographed behind it. It's not the clearest of photos, and it's from 1959 so probably an old type camera, which doesn't help the clarity.
Just my opinion that strange things happen from time to time, and this photo is one of those times.
It's definitely eerie is h*ll. It also seems unlikely to me that the couple would stoop to faking a picture with her deceased mother as the subject matter.
I think that’s one that had an interesting headless person that always had me puzzled. I think I know we’re it is I’ll have to look it out.
That photo is in the first book, "Ghosts Caught On Film" by Melvyn Willin 2007. The headless ghost photo appears on Page 108, great photos in that book!
I’ve looked at I’ve got 2 and 3 sitting on the shelf but 1 seems to have gone for a wander somewhere. Typical. I’m sure I’ve put it on the forum before. That’s probably the reason I took it down.
I did share it back in 2015.
And no one ever figured out what this strange photo was?
I think someone just hung their jacket on the back of a chair.
It could be that but I don’t see any chairs next to it and the jacket looks puffed out like it’s being worn.
It looks to me that the sleeve at left is draped over something (probably a chair back) and hanging straight down, by the visible folds. The photo is quite dark, so if there are unoccupied chair backs between no-head bloke and the lady, they wouldn't necessarily be visible in the photo.
That's what I wondered, looking at the photo now.
There are so many other great photos in that book, though. Wish I had a scanner, I'll try looking for them online when I have a moment.
You Must be married! LOL!Or pulled off by a piece of string. If it is a ghost it is undoubtably male driven to insanity by the need most women have to festoon everything with cushions.
I actually suspect that the picture was taken before the old lady died. Maybe the last photo of her taken. The daughter could well have 'thought' there was one last picture left on the film and taken a picture of her husband in the car (which would, you have to admit, be a very odd subject for a photograph) but that photograph was never actually taken because the film was already used up and just not registering as 'finished' until they wound the film on. And, bearing in mind how long it used to take to get photographs developed back in the day, she'd forgotten about the original picture and could only remember taking the picture after her mother died. Natural grief and the forgetfulness of stress did the rest of the work.
Isn’t that just her hand leaning on her knee?
Peaches said she was holding little Astala with her left hand, holding her phone / camera with her right hand to take the photo, and then this extra hand appeared in the shot. And apparently a woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby lived in that house, and had committed suicide. Peaches overdosed a few months later herself.
