Описание на сайта: Photographic manipulation is not something new. In fact, it’s as old as photography itself. While some famous photos have been revealed to be hoaxes, a number of them remain unexplained. Let’s have a look at some of them. In 1891, Sybell Corbet snapped a photograph of the Combermere Abbey library. Well, snapped might be an inaccurate term because back then exposures regularly lasted for an hour or so. At the time, the Combermere Abbey was the home of Sir Stapleton Cotton, Lord of Combermere. However, while this particular photo was being taken, Lord Combermere’s funeral was taking place some four miles away. He had recently been struck by a horse-drawn carriage and died as a result. A ghostly figure can be seen sitting in the chair on the left and is believed to be the ghost of the departed Lord Combermere. Some argue that a servant of the abbey might have sat in the chair, altering the photo but all members of the household believe that’s not the case since everybody was attending the funeral. The Decebal Hotel in Romania is home to another ghost story. It is located in the city of Baile Herculane, a settlement that has existed since Roman times. Legend has it that the hotel was built over ancient ruins and that beneath its foundations a huge treasure lies buried. Before the hotel was built, treasure hunters had attempted excavations but were stopped in their tracks by a ghostly figure. Some said the ghost was a woman in a white toga, while others believed it to be the specter of an ancien Dacian priest. Whatever the case, the legend faded into obscurity until 2008, when the ghost made a comeback in a photo taken by a woman called Victoria Iovan. Every ghost story is centered around a defunct man or woman that retains his or her attachment to an object. In this case, a helicopter. In 1987 a Mrs. Sayer and her friends were visiting Fleet Air Arm Station in Yelverton, England. She had her friends take a picture of her sitting in a retired helicopter seat and she insisted that nobody else was sitting next to her. Nobody alive, if we’re to believe the ghostly figure that shows up in the developed picture. She told an investigator that although it was a warm day, the seat felt unusually cold. The helicopter in the picture had seen action during the Falklands War but there’s no information regarding the death of any pilot in this particular aircraft. In December 1924, the S.S. Watertown oil tanker was on a voyage from New York to the Panama Canal. Two of its crew members, James Courtney and Michael Meehan were cleaning one of the cargo tanks when they were killed by gas fumes. They were buried at sea, as was custom at the time. But they weren’t quite ready to give up on their ship. It is said that their ghosts continued to follow the Watertown for the better part of a year, their ghostly faces showing up in the surf. The ship’s captain, Keith Tracy reported the event to his employers and they suggested capturing the ghastly heads on camera the next time they showed up. The picture has since been revealed to be fake, but it still makes up for a good story.
