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*That* ghost photograph
One of the most memorable images from my childhood was seeingthis piece of spook photography. It was taken by the Rev. K.F.Lord who was taking the photo of the altar at Newby Church, Yorkshire, England in 1963. He claimed to see nothing unusual at the time of the photograph being taken.
So what was it then? How was it done? It's always seemed a little stagey to me, but why does it still seem to hold up to scrutiny?
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REVEREND K. F. LORDS NEWBY CHURCH PHOTOGRAPH
I received the following e-mail regarding this photo :
Karl Denchly
Photograph was taken by the Rev. K.F.Lord who was taking the photo of the altar at Newby Church, Yorkshire, England in 1963.
He claimed to see nothing unusual at the time of the photograph being taken
Admittedly this photo looks rather fake at first glance. But since it seems to have undergone some serious scrutiny I guess it's up to you to decide if you believe it is real or not.
One of the most memorable images from my childhood was seeing
So what was it then? How was it done? It's always seemed a little stagey to me, but why does it still seem to hold up to scrutiny?
Embedded link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020809080300/http://www.castleofspirits.com/hoodmonk.html
For archival purposes, here are the MIA webpage's contents ...
REVEREND K. F. LORDS NEWBY CHURCH PHOTOGRAPH
I received the following e-mail regarding this photo :
Faithfully"With regard to the (black and white)monk in the church photo which you claim is a double exposure, in the early 80's I was connected to a team that examined this (and many other) supposedly supernatural photographs for the BBC, and the one thing we decided it wasn't was a double exposure. We used, at the time, the latest in computer enhancement technology and no trickery was detected. We examined about fifteen other famous photographs (including Indre Shira's photo of the Brown Lady in Raynham Hall) and all of them were explicable in decidedly prosaic terms. Furthermore, the photograph is of the complete altar, not just the half with the 'monk' in it. I feel you are doing a diservice to the photograph by presenting it in this truncated form"
Karl Denchly
Photograph was taken by the Rev. K.F.Lord who was taking the photo of the altar at Newby Church, Yorkshire, England in 1963.
He claimed to see nothing unusual at the time of the photograph being taken
Admittedly this photo looks rather fake at first glance. But since it seems to have undergone some serious scrutiny I guess it's up to you to decide if you believe it is real or not.
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