Ghostly children photographed at cemetery

Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:43 pm » by **Abyssdnb**

DOES this photograph show the figures of two children, born nearly a century apart, walking in their own paranormal playground?

The family who took this picture while on a Picton ghost tour swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery - so what are these figures?

The family who took this picture while on a ghost tour in Picton, NSW, swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery.

Which begs the question: who, or what, is out there?

Local legend has it that the two children are David Shaw and Blanche Moon, who died 60 years apart.

Blanche was crushed to death in 1886 when a pile of sleepers that she and a number of children were playing on slipped.

David was the son of a minister who died in 1946 from polio.

The woman behind the lens of this mysterious photo, Renee English, said she was "a sceptic" before undertaking the ghost tour on January 9.

"When we were standing at the bank looking into the Cemetery I was just snapping away and making jokes about the whole thing and asking when the ghosts were going to come out," the Port Macquarie resident said.

"I know that when I took that photo there was no-one else in the cemetery. The only people we saw were a family of four about 10 minutes later but those kids were clinging to their parents the whole time.

"When we uploaded our photos and saw the children all the hairs on my arm stood up and I just went cold all over.

"That night I couldn't sleep at all and I'm never watching a scary movie again.

"I wasn't a believer in ghosts, but now I'm intrigued."

Local historian Liz Vincent conducted ghost tours in Picton, claimed to be Australia's most haunted town, until her death last year. Since then, her husband John and daughter Jenny Davies have taken up the mantle.

"Picton's just so haunted," Ms Davies said. "We find people always love to see their photos afterwards because most of these things aren't visible to the naked eye."

One of the tour's most popular figures is Emily, a lady who was hit and killed by a train in 1916 while taking a shortcut through the Redbank Range Tunnel, also known as the Mushroom Tunnel, to visit her brother.

Emily Bollard resided near the railway line and was a single woman aged in her 50s. Before taking her shortcut, she didn't check the timetable and was hit in the tunnel by a train coming from Thirlmere. She died instantly.

"She likes to move among the participants and loves to touch their hair and body, particularly their arms and legs," Ms Davies said.

"Those on the tour often say that they've also felt a cold wind blowing through the tunnel." :ghost:

ALSO, IM GOING TO SEND YOU GUYZ THE LINK COS THERES 2 SHORT VIDEOS TO WATCH ON THE PAGE...GO CHECK 'EM OUT
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26613670-953,00.html
:flop:

Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:59 pm » by **Dank1**

funny how the ghost appear to be clearer than the foreground , are you sure this isnt
photo shopped :headscratch:

Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:04 pm » by **Nickelson**

dank1 wrote:funny how the ghost appear to be clearer than the foreground , are you sure this isnt
photo shopped

And the ghosts are in black and white, didn't knew ghosts live in a black and white environment.

:bullshit:

Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:33 pm » by **Princessleia**

My question is, why are they taking a picture in a cemetery? Isn't that a tad odd? What do I know? lol

Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:59 pm » by **Vertigo**

what?! what if those kids are real?! both look the same what if there just copied in photoshop? you can make your own ghost or orb pic yourself with your digicam... here are the effects explained: http://www.geister-und-gespenster.de/wi ... rafien.htm
-----> sorry its not in english, try to translate it by google...

Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:09 pm » by **Hesop**

Out of the, now THOUSANDS, of pics I have taken here at night, I have only gotten 2 unexplained ones. The most obvious one,
here, again.

I think this is more how they may appear.

Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:14 am » by **Naranja**

hesop wrote:Out of the, now THOUSANDS, of pics I have taken here at night, I have only gotten 2 unexplained ones. The most obvious one,
here, again.

I think this is more how they may appear.

Late night puffin ey?

The child on the right side of the cemetery pic looks like hes got a completely flat front, like a bad cut in photoshop.

Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:18 am » by **jetxvii**

looks like all the characteristics of a photoshop to me.

Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:39 am » by **Hesop**

This is genuine. I have the original with exif data. I posted it here before. Screw anyone that thinks I would put a hoax here.

Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:55 am » by **Hesop**

For the record, I wasn't smoking. I took that precaution.
The wind was blowing 10mph or so. My sister took up the hobby of trying to get "ecto" pics in Cali. I was following her advice. This was shortly after we bought this property here in NM, before we built our house. Heard a lot of "out of place sounds" at night. A little girl, sometimes horses that sounded like they were pulling wagons, etc. This was taken on one of those nights. I'm a 53yr old semi-retired. No time or enjoyment from making fakes. I first posted this one, about a year and a half ago. That had the link to the original with exif data.