Hiking with ghosts
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Hiking with ghosts
So I was downloading an SD card and found this photo. I do a lot of night hiking (or snowshoeing). Apparently I accidentally took this photo? So was I hiking with ghosts or what?
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
I mean the blue looks like the sky and you can get some odd stuff if you had a slow shutter speed. But I had something turn up in a photo one time too. So idk.
Maybe check the EXIF data and get the date and time etc?
Maybe check the EXIF data and get the date and time etc?
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
Does one of your hiking partners have a blue jacket?
I take wacky pics often with digital cameras. At least we’re not wasting film!
I take wacky pics often with digital cameras. At least we’re not wasting film!
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
It's my son with a blue backpack. What I can't figure out though is that the black thing looks like a shadow and there was no one behind me. My camera is clipped to the front of my backpack strap below my shoulder.
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
Ghosts don't cast shadows.
Although maybe they absorb the light, and that's what you're seeing!
Although maybe they absorb the light, and that's what you're seeing!
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Could be the third man, but I thought this phenomenon generally only occurs during type-3 fun.
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Looks like a slender man sighting to me! haha
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
Is it possible that your light source was illuminating some of the snow behind you as well as the snow in front of you, thereby making you the source of the shadow? The shadow may not have been as pronounced to the human eye, so it wasn't something you took note of and remembered.
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
Sasquatch, for sure.
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Re: Hiking with ghosts
There's some kind of optical illusion that can occur in mists
I saw it chronicled on that mtn that goethe put the witches ceremony in faust. Hartz mtn?
I will put it up. May or may not be it.
I saw it chronicled on that mtn that goethe put the witches ceremony in faust. Hartz mtn?
I will put it up. May or may not be it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken_spectre
this is pretty sick - I wish I could see something like this!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 5-2011.jpg
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