Babinda Boulders’ ghost? Where?
Melbourne visitor Emily Carydias claims this photo shows a 'ghost face' at the Babinda Boulders
Can someone help me out here and tell me where this “ghost face” is supposed to be?
These type of images are annoyingly abundant all over the web. The type where the person who took the picture will find a random pattern and recognize it as a face (pareidolia).
Full source: Cairns.com.au
A MELBOURNE tourist believes she has caught photographic evidence of a ghost haunting Babinda Boulders.
Emily Carydias was on a tour that included Babinda Boulders on Thursday and was aware of the legend of the Aboriginal woman who is said to haunt the water.Knowing that, she deliberately took a photograph of the water with her simple “point-and-shoot” camera and was stunned when she looked through the shots that night.
“I was just flicking through them last night and I couldn’t believe it … I thought I was going crazy … she looks pretty grumpy,” Ms Carydias told The Weekend Post yesterday.
The last person to drown at the spot was Tasmanian naval seaman James Bennett, the 17th person to die at the tourist attraction south of Cairns since 1959.
The legend of Babinda Boulders surrounds a beautiful young girl named Oolana, who was chosen to marry a respected tribal elder named Waroonoo.
After they married, a wandering tribe entered their valley, including Dyga, a young, handsome man.
Legend has it that he and Oolana fell in love at first sight and, ultimately, ran away together.The two tribes searched for the pair and it was at the Babinda Boulders that they were spotted.
Dyga was seized and forced away, while members of Oolana’s tribe had hold of her before she broke away and threw herself into the water.Some people say Oolana’s spirit lures young male swimmers to their death.
Of the 17 drownings at the site since 1959, 16 have been male.
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Javeir,
On the left side you will see it. toward the middle. See that “V” space between the two white areas (snow?)and follow the “V” out to the right a little. It looks like a black face with eye shape and mouth shape. frankly it’s just a natural part of the water/rocks/reflections.
jbondo,
Nothing. I still don’t see it.
Why is it that people assume that a “ghost” would be laying down in the water…poking its face out for a picture?
-Javier
I see it but I agree with Javier. It irritates me when people when people get pictures of random things and make ghosts out of them.
Do you see what look like a long wispy piece of grass? At the very end it curves. Look to the left of that curve. The curve actually frames the face.
Wow, it’s looks like Spider-Man’s arch nemisis, Venom.
jbondo,
LOL.
Looks like Merman from He-man:
-Javier
My goodness. Pareidolia knows no bounds.
Laughable is the only thing I have to say about this picture…
Javier, it does sort of look like Merman from He-Man! Too funny!
I saw the “face” right away, but I’m sure it has to do with the water and silt and rocks on the pound bed that make this a great Pareidolia. My favorite are the fire pareidolia. Some friends of mine years ago had snapped a picture while we were camped out of the fire pit we had burning and one day he noticed some faces in the image as we looked over the pictures, We all thought he was stoned but, I was able to clearly ID at least 30 human faces, and some not so human faces as well! It was realy creepy and we all got kinda freaked out. Adult as well as children, I mean truly clearly visable clothes, eye glasses, it was of of the most amaseing photos ive ever seen. Ive been hooked ever since. Now I find faces in almost everthing from the floor tile to the popcorn ceiling texutre in my own house. Our minds are very powerful and it will take the data we see and make it something it can understand. Humans see faces and create connections with them.
Good hunted to all
BOO!!!