Here's the ghost pictures
John Greenall
arthurian legend know would we?.
So just look here for something different, and spooky.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/caerconan/local_history_ghosts.html
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A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts
belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a
myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
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"John Greenall" <John.G...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Off topic this, but we all like unexplained things or we wouldn't like
> arthurian legend know would we?.
>
> So just look here for something different, and spooky.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/caerconan/local_history_ghosts.html
One of the things that the human brain is hard-wired to do is to search
for and identify patterns in the sensory simuli around us. In fact, one
of the major components of human cognition is the constant desire of the
brain to organize incoming information into relevant patterns and to
attempt to make predictions based on those patterns.
This hard-wiring is strong enough that our brains tend to overdo the
process and will cheerfully organize random and chaotic patterns into
identifiable and familiar patterns. A good example of this is the
concept of stellar constellations. The relative positioning of the stars
relative to an Earth-based observer is utterly without existential
meaning, and yet human cultures have repeatedly interpreted those random
distributions as forming recognizable and meaningful patterns. Another
example of this over-interpretation process at work is used in ink-blot
analysis, where the brain naturally attempts to read meaning into random
color patterns.
A particularly relevant pattern that our brains are hard-wired to search
for and identify are human faces -- studies with the physiological
reactions of newborn infants show that recognition of, and response to,
even fairly stylized human facial features are something we do
automatically, rather than being learned.
Given this, the tendency of human brains to notice and attempt to give
meaning to random visual arrangements that coincidentally resemble human
facial features is hardly surprising and does not require anything
resembling a supernatural explanation. Given a sufficiently complex
pattern of light, shadow, and small color-blocks, a human observer will
naturally tend to focus in on whatever part of the random pattern most
resembles human features.
Or, in more concise terms, a cloud that resembles a poodle is not a
poodle or even the ghost of a poodle.
Heather Jones
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John Greenall
the same as you, that it is random noise and the brain is wanting to
interpret it as a fuman figure, namely faces.
I think this is evident in the pictures as the shadow of a body is there,
but look closer and it is the lines in the grass that are making the shape,
a little bit like those painted adverts on the ground of the football or
baseball pitch that are done in such a way that looking above there is no
real picture, but looking at it from the stands at an angle it shows a
complete and recognisable picture.
But then it doesn't explain it 100%, but I think it is one in a million
chance of taking a photograph just at the right place and at the right time
of those conditions to capture on film what can be said to be a phenomenon
of the brain, or a ghost, take your pick. still a lucky thing to get it on
film, and why im'e leaving it where it is.
You can spend your life taking pictures but verry rarely does any of them
contain these sort's of things, however you want to explain it, it's just
"one of those things.".
Really what your saying is, "I don't see anything it's just my brain telling
me I do", but on the other hand, you can clearly see it can't you.
On the other hand, it could be the christmas spirit, or the celtic
vegitation spirit of the green knight story, yeah, captured on film at last.
Wonder if they saw these things and is where those old stories came from?.
But you know where it was taken, on the cliffs of conanby!, they was where
druids used to prey to there gods, or more precicley, was where the druids
beleived the spirits where, now thats spooky still isn't it. mmm, denaby
ings localy was where druids used to practice there beliefs, and a perfect
place for it, traced to alclud, they belived the spirits where in allcud or
the hills or hill, exacly where these pictures where taken.
I can imagine you trying to explain it to them you know, imagine going back
in time to a druid cerimony and trying to explain in scientific terms what
everything is, now that would be something to see. Id'e love to take my
camera.
What I think is, poeple interpret things there own way, some say "it's a
ghost", others with '"it's an alien", and some with "it's the physics of the
scenery and that random noise effect" all that scientific thing, but at the
end of it to me it seems that everyone will interpret these things there own
way, and all of them are saying the same thing if you take notice. something
they can't quet explain is made sence of by explaining it there own way,
whatever that is, or however inteligent there explanation may seem, it's
still the same thing, your just explaining it away the best way you can.
And a happy new year.
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J Greenall.
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My Website http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/caerconan/index.html
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts
belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a
myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Gilbert Ryle (1900-76) British philosopher
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) British writer.
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