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    February 21

    Holy Ectoplasmic Snapshot Batman

     
    “Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
    ~ARTHUR C. CLARKE, 2001: A Space Odyssey
     
    “It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
    ~SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Life of Samuel Johnson
     
    “Feet, don’t fail me now.”
    ~Anyone who has seen a ghost
     
     
     
    A little while back, DD was cleaning her room when she ran across something she had forgotten about, something she wanted to forget about.
    A couple of years previous she and a friend had gone to the local Wal-Mart to get some pictures developed. Still having several photos left in the camera, she decided to just fire off a couple of shots just to use up the roll; Just a couple of pictures of the picturesque setting of the worlds largest discount retailer.
     
    Then she got the pictures back.
     
    Everything was good until she reached the final photo in the pack. What she saw startled her and her friend (who ended up with duplicates). They took it to several friends who were, or knew professional photographers, to have it analyzed. No one could figure out how it was done, but they all said that it did not appear to be a camera malfunction. DD and her friend stated that it was a fine sunny day (As it always is inside a Wal-Mart) and that there were no obstructions, be it light or glass or person.
    The picture really creeped her out and so she decided not to get rid of it, but to just hide it away under a metallic ‘nic-nak’ box.
     
    She promptly forgot the whole thing.
     
    Until she decided in a rare moment to clean her room.
     
    I fear she will now never clean her room again.
     
    You be the judge:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    * The mark near the left corner of the picture is a rust stain from the metalic 'nic-nak' box
     
     © 2007
    9:12 AM | Blog it

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    No namewrote:
    12 Dec.
    melisawrote:
    it's like a creepy balloon replica of jay leno's face.  :)
    25 Feb.
    Kerry Mabeewrote:
    Creepy!!!!!!
    23 Feb.
    Jwrote:
    Sorry my communication skillz were warped because I was writing at work... LMAO  Hopefully you got what I meant.  Sooooooooo confusing, but it makes sense in my head.... for what THAT'S worth anyhow.  ROTFLMAO  I never read the title from the first place because the pic freeked the hell outta me, then when I went back, noticed the title, and thought you had it from the beginning I thought it was weird.  But now I understand because for that brief blonde moment, I thought that I had just missed it... but I didn't.  So then I started typing because I thought maybe I was being rude... but I wasn't... I was just being thick.  Then I understood and decided to try to write again, but now I am just babbling in here like an idiot, laughing my guts out from such ridiculous and retarded confusion.  Maybe I need to eat something?  Maybe I will never enter a Walmart again without looking over my shoulder... maybe you think me mad?  It's all correct in some way, shape or form.
     
    But I get it now... truly.... I do.
                                                                 no really
     
                                                                                                         I get it now.
     
    ok ok I'll shuddup.
     
                                              heeeee!!
     
    21 Feb.
    Markwrote:
    Mitchell, The scanned image here is not as good as the actual photo where you can make out better the upraised arm (left side of picture) as if saying hello.  Trust me dude, this is one happy ghost.
    21 Feb.
    Markwrote:
    Captain Kalli, I mean that u inspired the title change from what it was to what it is now by the first 3 words of your comments! :)
    21 Feb.
    W. Mitchellwrote:
    That actually looks like a grimace to me.  Like the ghost of a shopper being chased by that silly swash-buckling smiley face.  Maybe prices aren't the only thing being slashed at Wally Mart.
    21 Feb.
    Jwrote:
    LMAO believe it or not, I actually didn't even notice your title to the blog until after I posted my comment.... it's TRUE!!!  ooOoOoOOoOoOO spoooookieeeeeeeeee.  Then I laughed my butt off about it afterwards.

    hehe
    21 Feb.
    Jwrote:
    Holy crapadoodle batman!!!!!!  That's CREEPY!!  And she wasn't taking the shot with a glass window between her and the lights??  eep.

    And "it's" prolly happy because it lives in Wally's.  There's plenty to do there for sure.  LOL  Lots of people and toys to play with everyday.

    Old acquaintance of mine works in a large dept. store late nights and told me of incidences where things have flown off of shelves etc. and a door that mysteriously unlocks/locks along with glimpses of "someone" on the loading dock that shouldn't be there.  Go figure.  I guess there's worse places to haunt.

    I guess next time I go to a big box store and get a cold feeling about the lime green, marabou-lined polyester tank top on the rack, I should pay more attention?
    21 Feb.
    Etanwrote:
    Wooow... ghost, definately a ghost. At least it is a happy one. I'd submit it to a site like 'the shadowlands' who do analysis on ghosty pics. There are a few sites that I've seen.
     
    ps. cool banner!
    21 Feb.

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