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The Camera Ghost: Ghost Camera Pro
With the rise of the digital camera and especially cell phones with built-in cameras, it is no
surprise that the number of supposed ghosts captured in photo have also dramatically
increased. Now the waters might get even more muddier. It could make it more difficult to
determine what is a real "camera ghost" and what is not.
What Is a Real Ghost Picture?
We recently reported to viewers about the iPhone app known as Ghost Capture and how we
receive numerous fake ghost photos made by this cell phone camera app, monthly. It appears
to be a popular sport but easy to spot because it uses the same ghosts. (Just imagine how
simple it is to identify the same ghost image showing up in different backgrounds. It doesn't
take a genius to spot these fakes.) But now, another cell phone program threatens to further
pollute the waters with additional fake camera ghosts. Ugh, more junk to sift through!
Ghost Camera Pro is an application that can be downloaded for $.99 and used to create
prank paranormal photography. It's billed as being the "most advanced ghost prank app"
available. Apparently, this camera ghost program allows for the ghost to be dragged,
pinched, pulled, modified to be see-through, etc -- you can even erase parts of the ghost so it
fits behind things in the ghost picture. Making it even more difficult to detect, Ghost Camera
Pro allows the user to select from the app's ghost selection or import ghosts for inclusion.
Even more startling is that if you adjust the settings of your ghost in advance, the camera
ghost will appear in real time when a photo is taken.
Fake ghosts with camera apps are not soon to go away. Other programs are also available
for download that are similar, such as Jusha, Spooky Photo Free, Best Camera, Haunted
Pics and zGhost. All claim to be able to produce believable ghosts with a cell phone camera.
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Left:
The five camera ghost
photos at left were
made with the cell
phone program,
Ghost Camera Pro.
We wanted to show
as much as possible
about the program to
help paranormal
investigators become
familiar with it.
The first picture
explains how to do it...
The fourth image is a
screen shot of the
program at work.
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What else can we do to spot fake camera ghosts?
1) Educate yourself as to the false ghosts circulating the
web and those created by these programs.
2) Look at the picture's exif data. (Learn more about
ghost pictures and exif data.) What does it tell you or not
tell you?
3) File names of photographs should be in the camera's
original numbering system, such as DSC0203. I often
request to see the original photo before it was re-saved
to the computer.
4) It could become necessary to eliminate altogether the
acceptance of any ghost photograph taken with a cell
phone camera. Lengthy file names of multiple number
and letter combinations separated by underscores are a
good indication that a photo is from a cell phone camera.
5) Get a second opinion. Perhaps another pair of
eyeballs might spot something you missed.
All we can do is our best to rule out the obvious. It's
inevitable that some cell phone camera ghosts will sneak
through even the best scrutiny.
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Camera Ghost Copyright 2010 Angels & Ghosts, LLC
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