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Title: GHOST IMAGE in DELAWARE?
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CRY BABY BRIDGE near SMYRNA, DELAWARE
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Published: Aug 19, 2011
Author: HOUNDDAWG
Post Date: 2011-08-19 02:17:26 by HOUNDDAWG
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Comments: 14
This pic was snapped by my 25 year old puppy with his digital camera. In the past he's returned with inexplicable orbs from this dark bridge. (You've seen one you've seen 'em all) There are no street lights on this rural road so he avails of either moonlight and/or camera flash. The bridge is about 30 yards long and 18 feet wide and the object in the background is a street sign. There are no other signs or objects in the foreground or middle of the bridge. The bridge has dark colored guard rails. 
This bridge was a fave destination because of the noises and orbs, but this pic gave us all a genuine case of the willies and "Snakeyboy" and his squeeze, "Batgirl" haven't been back to the place since.
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#1. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
Was the pic cropped or is it the whole thing? I take it a flash used in this shot?
not cropped and with a flash.
It might be the reflection of the sign in the lense itself. The same effect as in movies where they pan across the sun and many circles appear all lined up with the sun. If so it should be able to be duplicated. Use the same camera and try taking more pics of another street sign at night at the same distance where the sign is slightly off the center of the pic. Of course make sure the flash is on.
Correction. I just spoke with my son and NO FLASH was used (The EXIF data verified that no flash was used-he has no reason to tamper with that data nor did he expect me or anyone else to even ask to see it) and he quote "tried everything to duplicate the shot" including more than one trip back to the bridge with different moon and starlight conditions and he was unable to approach duplication. (is my face red!) He wants me to add that he did enhance the photo with the auto tone button in Adobe Lightroom for optimal viewing and contrast. (he was "going through the pix and auto-toning for the Hell of it"-he didn't expect to see any images when that one popped up) Based on this info I'd have to say that the pic really gives me the willies! And, I just learned that he had the pic for at least a year on his computer before he perused his late night photo efforts and discovered it. Here's an overlay of the "ghost image" with a night time bridge pic w/ flash, taken from as close to the original spot as possible:
Well, the way the sign is illuminated suggests that there *had* to be some light source near or behind the camera. Maybe a headlight?
No. Moon, stars or a supernatural source.
Only street signs themselves are coated with the reflective paint, but not the post it's mounted on. It's interesting that the original photo shows both the post and the sign itself equally bright. And what's that triangular object right next to the post?
#12. To: Pinguinite (#10)
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Exactly. It appears to be coated with the traffic paint and glass beads used on the highway lines to make them *reflective, and in DE the small roadside advisory signs are not reflective at all, particularly on rural roads. Regarding the triangular shaped object next to the sign, I wish I knew what it was and "Snakeyboy" doesn't know, either. _______________________ *In my youth I painted those lines from a specially equipped truck known as a "long liner", so named because we could paint forever without refilling the paint or glass beads-I painted the lines on the FLA turnpike once and lived to tell about it-sitting in a chair on the back with a steering wheel to move the paint gun left or right as needed. I once drove the electronic sign truck behind the long liner which advised coked-up fast moving motorists to change lanes to avoid crashing into the slow moving paint caravan-and I almost got creamed more than once by cars that changed lanes at the last second. One of the "bosses" was promoted not for his management or people skills, but because he had his face nearly ripped off by a tractor trailer mirror while sitting in the paint chair. At the end of the day we'd wash to the elbows (traffic paint is hard to remove) with Trichloroethylene (TCE) before it was classified as a probable carcinogen and its use greatly restricted. It was also a known ground water contaminant including the water in the town of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town from the book and John Travolta film "A Civil Action" When I recall all of the nasties I inhaled and had soaking through my skin it's a miracle I don't resemble The Pachyderm Dude, Joseph Merrick.
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#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)
#3. To: HOUNDDAWG (#2)
#5. To: Pinguinite (#3)
#7. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
I just spoke with my son and NO FLASH was used
#8. To: Pinguinite (#7)
Maybe a headlight?
#10. To: HOUNDDAWG (#8)
Replies to Comment # 10. Only street signs themselves are coated with the reflective paint, but not the post it's mounted on. It's interesting that the original photo shows both the post and the sign itself equally bright. And what's that triangular object right next to the post?
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