Ghost Boy Watches School Demolition

[PPI Brian]

An exceptional image snapped with a cell phone camera at a school demolition site in East Yorkshire, England, shows a young boy watching the events. With images. Is this a ghost or a hoax?

Here's a link to the article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253073/Does-spooky-image-ghost-boy-watching-builders-demolish-old-school.html

[Damian]

My gut reaction when I saw this was that it looks TOTALLY staged.  It's a little too perfect.

[PPI Karl]

They make some mighty fine pottery in this town, but has everyone in Hull, East Yorkshire gone insane?  This is bad enough to be on the British mockumentary science show, Look Around You.  This isn't just a hoax, it's a really poorly created hoax!  For starters:  c'me on, a sepia tone image of a boy superimposed on a color image?  Secondly, he's wearing white running shoes, for god's sake (just a wee bit anachronistic for the alleged period attire he's supposed to be wearing).  Thirdly, I believe the proportions are out of whack, unless this kid suffered from gigantism.  And finally:  Wake up, Hullsters!  He ain't lookin' at the school being demolished.  He's lookin' at someone holding up a cell phone; the perfect pose that's in frame make it's automatically suspect, too!   

I guess as an example of how to manufacture a group hallucination, this case is pretty interesting.  The evidence is "discovered" after the fact, on a cell phone picture uploaded on someone's computer, and suddenly everyone works backward from it to insinuate themselves into the back-story (i.e., to get caught up in the drama of it) and to convince us that they witnessed a ghost just because they ended up seeing a photo anomaly.  I blame paranormal reality television for this, because it makes people think they're capturing evidence just by watching people talk about feeling as though they're in the presence of paranormal activity.  (Talk about a paranormal k-hole.)

Favorite quote:  "I couldn't believe what I had seen. I didn't believe in ghosts, but since I got this picture I am not so sure."  ::|

[Gary]

Favorite quote:  "I couldn't believe what I had seen. I didn't believe in ghosts, but since I got this picture I am not so sure."  ::|

This is a very popular quote I've seen quite a bit, usually by people who have taken a crappy photo they think is paranormal!

[PPI Karl]

Favorite quote:  "I couldn't believe what I had seen. I didn't believe in ghosts, but since I got this picture I am not so sure."  ::|

This is a very popular quote I've seen quite a bit, usually by people who have taken a crappy photo they think is paranormal!

For once, I'd like to read someone quoted as saying, "I've never believed in ghosts, but now I'm still not persuaded to change my position."  I suppose that isn't really news, is it.  ::|  And, sadly, it also never seems to be newsworthy when people find the evidence to prove stories like these have been falsified.  It comes out in blogs and boards, but never in the news with the same zest.  I guess truth is old news.  Oh, world, how you disappoint me.  (Verily.)  Sometimes I wish I were a wee ghost watching wistfully as fistfuls of civilization, bulldozed before me, crumble like hope.  Oh, wait . . . I have Life After People for that.

Okay, lad, stand very still and say "Worcestershire":

[ljiljanac]

Karl, I'm with you on this.  Fake fake fake fake fake.  Did I already say I believe it's soooooooo totally fake?  I'll say it once more, just in case....  F-A-K-E.    Fake.     

[PPI Debra]

I will add to the chorus: FAKE!

[PPI Tracy]

OMG!  What mag actually printed that kaka?!  That is SO FAKE that it is friggin laughable!

[PPI Tim]

That there is bloody bull crap if you ask me.
Fail.

[J.Nilsson]

I can't imagine haunting any of my old schools ... Even though some school memories still haunt me....

[PPI Karl]

I can't imagine haunting any of my old schools ... Even though some school memories still haunt me....

Amen to that.

[Gary]

I can't imagine haunting any of my old schools ... Even though some school memories still haunt me....

No joke!  I pretty much hated school.  That would be last place I'd haunt.

[Damian]

There's a couple of teachers that I would love to come back and pester!   

[PPI Debra]

My high school experiences have always haunted me!

I brought my (then) teenage daughter to my old high school, 1x in 2002. (She was born  & raised in  CA.)
She said" Um....Mom...um... it's in a cornfield!"

nuff said.

[PPI Tracy]

My high school experiences have always haunted me!

I brought my (then) teenage daughter to my old high school, 1x in 2002. (She was born  & raised in  CA.)
She said" Um....Mom...um... it's in a cornfield!"

nuff said.

OMG, Debra!      :o