"My brother and I were directly descended from Chaucer. (There’s no non-dick way to say that, is there?)"

October 1, 2010 1:09 PM

"Three years ago, on my first trip to England, I visited the Tower of London with my friends Tony and Emily. When I got home and uploaded my pictures, I found this strange blur of light on this photo taken outside the room that housed all the torture implements at the Tower... I told Antonia about my weird photo from 2007, and how I wanted to take another picture in the same place when we went, just for fun... [Back at the tower, I] took another shot of Esme on the walkway. And when I looked at it on my camera after, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Now don’t laugh at me, but do you see a sort of smudge to the center and right? Like a smudge made of light?... It made my heart stop for a second. I’m clearly starting to see spooky stuff in places where there is nothing spooky to see."
posted by ocherdraco (21 comments total)

but seriously, tell me you don’t see something weird back there between the candles and the bed curtain.

No, I don't see a friggin thing. WTF, are you nuts?
posted by Xurando at 1:18 PM on October 1, 2010

Uncanny!
posted by Artw at 1:18 PM on October 1, 2010

but do you see a sort of smudge to the center and right?

Next to the ghost, you mean?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2010 [5 favorites]

I have images turned off in my browser by default and upon reading the post and viewing the only hyper linked image I was like, "What's all this woo woo bullshit?"

Then I turned the images on and I lol'd.
posted by charred husk at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2010 [3 favorites]

The Force is weak in this one.
posted by mojohand at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2010 [2 favorites]

I know that things like this are ridiculously cheap shots, and that they shouldn't be anywhere near as funny as I think they are, but...damn. Each time I see something like this, I just start cracking up and can't stop.

Ooooooh, spooooooky!

(For example, I can't stop watching this Youtube video...)
posted by Katemonkey at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2010

That was a good chuckle.

See also: Ghost caught on tape.
posted by specialagentwebb at 1:19 PM on October 1, 2010

The odd effects in photos 5,9,10,12,13 and 17 could be caused by floating dust being illuminated by the camera flash, though I agree it is somewhat spooky looking.
posted by Artw at 1:21 PM on October 1, 2010

Exceedingly scary! It reminds me of Slimby.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:22 PM on October 1, 2010

Ooold joke.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:24 PM on October 1, 2010

On funny alone, it's not quite there.

With funny and cute combined, this is an excellent FPP.
posted by gurple at 1:33 PM on October 1, 2010

It's like the exact opposite of those shock Web pranks where something nasty and noisy leaps out at you after you have been instructed to pay close attention.

What are those sites called again? Oh yes. 4Chan.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:42 PM on October 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

Sheesh, people -- it's just dust in the air and flying insects, paredolia and all that. Just 'cause it looks like somebody in cowboy boots wearing a bedsheet doesn't mean that it's actually what's there.
posted by AzraelBrown at 1:45 PM on October 1, 2010 [7 favorites]

When you see this, you will shit bricks!
posted by Mcable at 1:56 PM on October 1, 2010

That made me laugh more than I wanted to.
posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 1:56 PM on October 1, 2010

What are those sites called again?

Chat Roulette.
posted by Artw at 2:02 PM on October 1, 2010

Seriously it took me almost until the end of that to get the joke.

Friday
posted by Lutoslawski at 2:13 PM on October 1, 2010

I also took this shot, and it wasn’t until I saw it in the larger size that I saw that woman in the blue jacket in the background. It made my heart stop for a second. I’m clearly starting to see spooky stuff in places where there is nothing spooky to see.

I must admit, I chuckled at this one.
posted by djgh at 2:37 PM on October 1, 2010

Now you know my day-to-day life is like.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 4:59 PM on October 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

I actually saw a face in the tarp, second to left beam, next to the staple third from the bottom.

AGHGH
posted by bam at 6:28 PM on October 1, 2010

^second from the left
posted by bam at 6:28 PM on October 1, 2010