SPOOKY SNAPS
Phantoms on film, from the woods of New York to the streets of Hyderabad
PHOTOBOMBED BY A GHOST?
Haley Ogletree, 13, from Tifton, Georgia, and her brother Kolton went fishing with their grandparents on 25 February for Kolton’s 12th birthday. After Kolton caught the biggest fish he had ever reeled in, Haley took this selfie. It shows Haley sitting in the truck, with Kolton in the truck bed behind… but also a shadowy image of a smiling man in a cap and collared shirt, standing right in front of Kolton. The two children and their grandparents hadn’t seen anybody out at the back ponds in Paradise, near Tifton, where they were fishing. Kolton said that he was fixing the tacklebox and nobody else was there when the photograph was taken. mirror.co.uk, 1 Mar; Walb.com (GA), 2 Mar 2017.
CHUDAIL FILMED (MAYBE)
Faakhir Mehmood, a famous Pakistani singer, posting a picture of a
chudail ( churail) or female spirit from Bhangarh on Facebook, with the caption “Can someone verify? The supposed picture of CHURAIL captured by many people in the middle of the night in Hyderabad.” The post brought Indian and Pakistani netizens together in fear and laughter. India.com, 11 May 2017.
THE GIRL IN THE WOODS
This eerie picture was taken in woods near Cambridge in Washington County, New York, in March. Is it a young girl lost in the woods, or something supernatural? The woods had just been purchased, and the new owners had set up a camera to make sure people were not tramping through the area. Then they saw the girl in the picture and tried to identify her in order to inform her family. After a few weeks no one had come forward, and the suspicion grew that the figure was spectral, with the photo going viral on Facebook and mediums offering help to Cambridge Police. The mystery may now have been solved by local businessman Chic Watson, who claims he was walking in the area with his granddaughter at the time. 10 News ABC, 1 May; New York Times, 5 May 2017.