Ghost Photos: The Paranormal Caught on Film

This is the largest book in the series. There are three other books that are basically reprints of parts of this big one.

The books are not done by a wild-eyed believer. If anything, the author goes the other way in attempting to present as many arguments against some photos as possible. He makes not claim that any particular photo is shows a real ghost without any doubt.

He also establishes a list of alternative explanations for what photos could actually be. He has a number of questions to ask about any photo.

1. Is the photo a deliberate fraud?
2. Was there a flaw in the film or in the developing?
3. Did the photographer uses other people or props to make the photo seem to show something that wasn't really there?
4. Did the photographer forget that other people might have been there when he took the photo?
5. Was the photo really due to some odd lighting condition?
6. Was the lens possibly contaminated somehow by dust or something else?
7. Does the photo show something that is natural but not fully understood physically?

o, before one thinks that they have a real ghost photo, they need to come up with answers to the above questions. It's basically up to the photographer to prove beyond doubt that there are no alternative explanations for what is seen on the photo before it could be considered as showing an actual ghost.

Of course, at the same time, there are many people, most scientists included, who, no matter how careful the photographer was will deny that the photo shows something real. Such people carry skepticism a step to far.

Herein is the problem with trying to prove anything paranormal is real. Science accepts only that which can be measured, tested and examined in the laboratory or something similar. Paranormal phenomena are, by their very nature, things that cannot be tested in a lab. They are things that do not appear all the time at a certain time every since day. Some can be photographed and some can be examined with the use of a EM field tester.

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