GHOST PHOTOS
Girls’ nights in and out yield a spectre at the feast and an incorporeal penis
GHOSTLY PHALLUS
Among New Orleans’s many supernatural attractions is the supposedly haunted John Lafitte’s Blacksmith Bar, lit only by candlelight and named after a local 18th century pirate. While attending a hen party at the venue, ghost hunting podcasters Corinne Vien and Sabrina Deana-Roga took a number of photos in the hope of capturing supernatural presences. On examining the pictures later, they found that they had not captured any phantom figures, but, speaking on their podcast, Vien said: “We did not catch a photo of anyone’s face, but we did capture a penis.” While, as far as we can tell, a photo of an incorporeal penis is unique in the annals of ghost hunting, the Urban Dictionary defines “ghost penis” as “a clumpy fold in your pants that looks like an erected penis” and it is the name of a known medical condition where people who have had their penis amputated can still feel it. D.Star, 16 Aug 2021.
PARTY SPECTRE
Rebecca Glassborrow from Coventry took a photo of seven of her friends while partying in a neighbour’s flat, only to find an eighth figure in the photo. As well as the seven women who posed for the photo, it also contains a gaunt, long-haired face looming over them at the back. Glassborow said they all glanced over their shoulders wondering what the figure could have been after the photo was taken but could see nothing that could have been mistaken for the face. She admits to being left “creeped out” by the “scary” photo, and as she lives in the flat directly above the one where the picture was taken has had sleepless nights thinking about the image. She said she feared that the block of flats, which is a converted factory, is haunted after she heard from a neighbour that a man died in the bath in the flat where the photo was taken. “We have heard some noises occasionally and we just put it down to ‘we live in a block of flats, it must just be the neighbours’, but we’re not really sure,” she said. D.Mirror, 25 May; coventrytelegraph.net, 26 May 2021.