Mysterious Pictures Taken

[PiSquare]

With today's technology, digital manipulation is used freely for videos and photographs and we accept it as part of everyday life. But when mysterious/odd/interesting pictures surface that were (seemingly) taken before the dawn of the technological revolution, we think twice before brushing it off the table as 'just another marketing strategy'. See the world's ten most mysterious pictures taken ever. Some less believable than others.

[Mars1]

Some of those photographs are freaky, especially the one with all the squadron and the dead mechanic appearing in the picture.  The one with the little girl and the man pictured behind her.  The man looks like a sailor.  I love weird things that happen in old photographs.

[PiSquare]

I agree, Mars1, especially when it is pictures that were taken before the digital manipulation age. True, some of these old pictures might still have been manipulated using new technology, but why would people do that if it is easier to produce more spectacular effects on newer photographs? 

[Turtle]

I agree, Mars1, especially when it is pictures that were taken before the digital manipulation age. True, some of these old pictures might still have been manipulated using new technology, but why would people do that if it is easier to produce more spectacular effects on newer photographs?

Photographs have been faked since photographs have been taked. To whit:

 

Cottingley Fairies >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_fairies

The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

[arissa]

I think some people just like the idea of taking the old (photo) and mixing it with the new (ways to alter it). It provides some of a shock value for people, others might do it as a hoax in order to land a job showing off their skills. It would not be the first time something like that has been done.

[RainMan]

Wasn't the Charlie Chaplin movie set photo debunked? if you could actually see the cell phone that would be amazing. To say that it's a cell phone based solely on the way she's holing her arm though is a bit of stretch in my opinion.

[PiSquare]

Wasn't the Charlie Chaplin movie set photo debunked? if you could actually see the cell phone that would be amazing. To say that it's a cell phone based solely on the way she's holing her arm though is a bit of stretch in my opinion.

I agree. She was wearing the same type of clothing and shoes than the others around her. Her hair was set in the same style; nothing to discern her as a 'time-traveler'. Some people who analyzed the photo said she was combing the hair on the right side of her head, therefore the appearance of talking on a mobile phone.