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December 29, 2003Hampton Court Ghost in Enhanced Video
You probably heard the story by now. A ghostly figure appearing on a security camera. This website has a video enhancement of it. "When enhanced and stabilized the video looks far less like a ghost and more like an attendant of some kind (wearing a period costume). The press and media took the most ghost like image of the low resolution sequence and circulated the low resolution and shaky images from video without any processing to balance contrast and used this to claim it was a ghost, but when you look at the sequence once enhanced and stabilized it looks less convincing. Would a 17th century spirit know how to operate a Fire exit door? I'm sure most modern people have difficulty closing them but the "ghost" seemed quite able to get it to work, closing one side then the other. The motion of the legs, arms and hands appear totally solid and are consistent with that of known human articulation." Not to sound cynical here (but see blog title) but did anybody really think that this was a ghost? Anybody? |
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