Ghost captured on camera in Norwich?

[PPI Brian]

A photo shoot at Cinema City in Norwich, England, has turned up an interesting image of "a hunched shape wearing what could, with a little imagination, be described as Tudor-style dress." The cinema and its contingent businesses occupy historic buildings dating to the 14th century.

http://www.advertiser24.co.uk/content/advertiser24/news/story.aspx?brand=NOROnline&category=News&tBrand=NOROnline&tCategory=News&itemid=NOED29%20Jul%202009%2009%3A20%3A35%3A377

Thoughts? Opinions?

[PPI Tim]

Perhaps it is the image of the elevator operator. It is a story of many decades ago.
A man notices walking across his lawn a man carrying a coffin on his back. When the man carrying the coffin notices the other man watching him, he vanishes into thin air. Months later, the man who saw the man carrying the coffin is in a high rise building waiting for the elevator to come to his floor. When the elevator arrives the doors open up and the man recognizes the elevator operator as the same who was carryiing the coffin across his lawn. He steps back from the doors to see the elevator that he was going to get on fail and plummet 30 floors. No one in the elevator survived.

[PPI Brian]

I loved that story when I was a kid.

[PPI Tracy]

I think the photo was a double exposure or one of the staff was walking into the kitchen and he snapped a photo of the individual while moving.  It probably came out like that due to the settings on the camera.

Damn.  I'm a genius huh?   

[PPI Karl]

Perhaps it is the image of the elevator operator. It is a story of many decades ago.
A man notices walking across his lawn a man carrying a coffin on his back. When the man carrying the coffin notices the other man watching him, he vanishes into thin air. Months later, the man who saw the man carrying the coffin is in a high rise building waiting for the elevator to come to his floor. When the elevator arrives the doors open up and the man recognizes the elevator operator as the same who was carrying the coffin across his lawn. He steps back from the doors to see the elevator that he was going to get on fail and plummet 30 floors. No one in the elevator survived.

Ooooo!  A harbinger tale!  I love these.

So, Norwich?  Nah.  It's got to be the Canterville Ghost 'cause of that elegant flourish and the pretty curtsy.

Yeah, I agree with Tracy:  double-exposure, and a blurry one at that.  I'm always suspicious when these ghostly figures show up posing dead-center in the shot (no pun intended). 

[PPI Jason]

I agree with the double exposure theory.

I was also thinking, as I was reading the article, that it would be nice if there was some type of organization that could act as a sort of clearing house for these kinds of photos. Someone to examine the photo, including the meta data, and put their stamp of approval on the photo as to whether it's been tampered with or not.

Every time one of these photos pops up it's accompanied by a very biased statement from the photographer that "the photo has not been tampered with at all." There are ways to determine if it has been tampered with and the fact that no article ever mentions that an unbiased person confirmed the photo was not tampered with always sticks out to me.

It's just like when I submit a photo as evidence in a criminal hearing. It's up to me to prove the photo is valid and up to the defense to question it. I don't ever get to just say, "I promise I didn't tamper with it."

[PPI Tracy]

I agree with the double exposure theory.

I was also thinking, as I was reading the article, that it would be nice if there was some type of organization that could act as a sort of clearing house for these kinds of photos. Someone to examine the photo, including the meta data, and put their stamp of approval on the photo as to whether it's been tampered with or not.

Every time one of these photos pops up it's accompanied by a very biased statement from the photographer that "the photo has not been tampered with at all." There are ways to determine if it has been tampered with and the fact that no article ever mentions that an unbiased person confirmed the photo was not tampered with always sticks out to me.

It's just like when I submit a photo as evidence in a criminal hearing. It's up to me to prove the photo is valid and up to the defense to question it. I don't ever get to just say, "I promise I didn't tamper with it."

Jason?  You're hired!