ALAN CHEALE from Brighton sent the photo below to the Guernsey Press.
‘I stayed in Guernsey two years ago. My son and I visited the Underground Hospital and took photographs,’ he wrote.
‘One was very strange. A close look and there seems to be two people together. There was nobody around in that area at the time it was taken.
The camera used was a digital Olympus C2.’
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Photo taken in the German Underground Hospital, Guernsey. Click the picture to see a large version then tell us what you think it might be showing.
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Article posted on 19th January, 2010 - 2.16pm
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I think it’s the result of a slow shutter speed shot due to poor light. No ghosts around.
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Yes JJ – the picture certainly looks like one of those “wish I’d switched the flash on” attempts!
Alternatively, perhaps it’s an attempt by Guernsey Tourism to attract more visitors?
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Another thought: pehaps it’s our Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister trying their hand at transparency?
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The photo was taken at a slow speed without a flash and the camera was moved during the exposure.
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I think it is the result of ‘hand shake’ – having no flash and moving the camera during exposure so that the one figure appears twice, giving the impression there are two people. if you look at the lines on the floor, the same track appears twice too. also, the figure looks like a woman to me.
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I’m going for the ghost theory – much more interesting – and those tunnels are VERY scary. It’s one person and his reflection in the damp walls. If there ARE such things as ghosts the underground hospital would definitely be the place to find them!
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I agree Joy. Why should it NOT be a ghost? I have heard so many reports from utterly calm and reliable people about ghosts having been seen in those tunnels.
I have also seen other very persuasive photographs.
I wonder what the owners/managers of the tunnels think? Does anybody know their take on the ghosts?
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Joy & Carol
What’s the special mushroom brew like this year?
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Joy and Carol – the owners have also had various paranormal activities in the tunnels reported to them. I had my own experience there this summer, which I caught on dictaphone.
So Carol, have you heard stories first hand from witnesses who have seen stuff in the tunnels? And you’ve seen other photos from the tunnels or from other bunkers? What did the photos show?
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Paul – you old sceptic, you!
Gilly – would love to hear what it was you recorded in the tunnels.
Likewise, let’s hear these stories which were reported to the owners of the tunnels. And surely that lady who takes the money at the entrance must have had some strange experiences of her own in the quiet times?
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there are no ghosts – just fallible human beings with imperfect senses. no proof of any ghost anytime anywhwere. get over it and do real stuff.
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Joy
Apparently in the early 50’s a couple of youths broke into the Underground Hospital looking for German stuff to steal.
Someone called the Police and they were chased around the tunnels until they were eventually caught by the ghoulies.
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Joy and Carol,
Well, Here’s what happened this summer in the tunnels. I was there alone, and feeling very spooked and as if I was being watched. I had my dictaphone in my handbag and pressed the record button for 10 seconds. Twice. I heard nothing at the time but played it back on my computer that evening and heard a whispered voice saying ‘heeeelllp uuuuuus’. I will happily email you the recording, but not sure how to get your email address. As this forum is moderated by the GEP, perhaps they can email me your email addresses, with your permission? Happy for them to give you mine. I’ll tell you about the 2nd recording too then.
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Shame really that such scepticism can still exist! Shame too that even the German Occupation all those years ago has still taught us, and the world, so little!
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Is it skepticism BDBD, or just that many of us don’t automatically swallow the story just because a “ghostly” explanation is more exciting than a camera malfunction or a slow shutter speed?
Incidentally, as a slight aside, as a Christian I do believe in “spiritual” things. I find it rather ironic though how people are happy to pour scorn on the existence of God and the resurrection of Jesus yet will happily swallow ghost stories, UFO sightings by random individuals and ridiculous superstitions like walking under ladders and counting magpies! Oh, and before you respond…I appreciate my first point could equally be thrown at me, that God is a more exciting option that plain old boring reason….still you can’t win ‘em all eh?
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Paul,
This is a good point. After all, to be a Christian, one must believe in heaven, in the continuation of the soul, in heavenly beings, in spirits (or whatever you want to call them), so I wonder if one can be a Christian and not believe in ghosts? Would that be a contradiction? My own feeling is that so many people from different cultures all over the world (not to mention from Guernsey) have seen what they would call ‘ghosts’ that I am quite prepared to believe that *something* like that exists; it’s just that not everyone can see them, feel them, sense them, smell them … and some can.
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Gilly – for Christians, the Bible teaching is clear that spirits (angels & demons) exist however the dead cannot contact the living [Ecclesiastes 9:5-6]. For that reason I don’t believe in ghosts – as in the souls of dead people wandering around the underground hospital – although I do believe in spirits.
In the Bible there are also numerous warnings not to attempt necromancy or other occult practices, as people can be deceived into thinking they are in contact with dead relatives/friends when they are in fact in contact with something far more sinister….
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p l p you would know would you
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good grief! proof please – without which this debate is but mumbo jumbo. we are alone, bar the million million neurons in your brain – be intellectually and emotionally honest folks.
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Perhaps it’s spirits (rather than ghosts) wandering around the underground hospital, then? Isn’t there a ‘torn curtain’ theory? Something about being able to see events that happened in the past when conditions are right?
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Quite right, Phil, but do bear in mind that there’s a world of difference between ouija boards, seances and mediums on the one hand, and people accidentally / unintentionally seeing ghosts on the other. That’s not ‘meddling’ at all.
Anyway, read that Ecclesiastes ref again. I think you’ve taken it a bit out of context. But that’s not the point of this newsgroup posting. The point is to hear people’s stories about occupation ghosts and not to debate either the bible or your or my beliefs or disbeliefs in ghosts! So, Joy and Carol: can we hear your stories?
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coco – I’m not claiming any “secret knowledge” I’m just quoting what is taught in the Bible in response to Gilly’s comment about Christians and their beliefs.
What you choose to do with that is up to you :-)
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Paul Le P. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
People who are deceived into thinking they are in contact with dead relatives are indeed in contact with something far more sinister; these so called “Mediums” and their fellow con artists who pray on the gullible, weak and feeble minded.
Mind you, I’m of the much same opinion about clairvoyants, astrologers and the church, but don’t mind me, I’m just an old cynic.
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I think this is one for Yvette Fielding and the Most Haunted team. she’s always up for a laugh, I wouldn’t go down there without the lights on :-)
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No problem Bogart, and I agree one should be very wary of charlatans who claim special powers and then ask for money….and I do like your unintentional(?) use of the word “pray” too! ;-)
@Andrew – neither would I mate, tripping up and breaking my neck is never high on my priority list!!
No worries Gilly – I just can’t resist a theology debate! :-)
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Slow shutter-speed, camera movement, REAL people walking away from camera and slowing or stopping at the end… It’s very basic stuff really. Most of us did that kind of thing once we’d worked out what the knobs on our cameras were for. I doubt this was an ‘accidental’ photo, unless the photographer was aiming the camera, with the shutter (accidentally) open, throughout the time it took for the people to walk that distance. I’d have kept the camera a little steadier myself.
Here’s one I did a few years ago:
http://3294.e-printphoto.co.uk/gsypress/index.cfm?z=z&y=y&p_id=6729821&c_id=17730&action=view
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Paul, yes, that was holy intended. I guessed that you would probably pick that one up.
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Sorry, Gilly – no stories to report unfortunately. I just like to keep an open mind about these things. Shouldn’t we all?
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Joy – what a shame! But Carol said she had lots of stories of ghosts in the tunnels. Carol: tell us! We’re dying to hear! Well, not dying. You know what I mean.
Paul: I like a theology debate too, but this isn’t the place for it! I want to hear other people’s occupation ghost stories! And those tunnels are scary enough in the day time – REALLY scary. NO WAY would I go at night!
Carol: we’re waiting with bated breath. Spill!
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LOL i took over 20 photoes last night with my iphone which alowed me to insert a ghost of any shape size also add orbs shadows et to many to mention and they are amazing you can blend and move them to your desire, i had fun showing them to ppl who believed they were real i could not keep a streight face, when i have a min i will post them in so all can see.LOL i can create the photo above very easy to do lol
if you have a iphone go to app then type in ghost and camera, have fun
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nice one coco :-)
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