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‘Horse & Groom’ Pub Ghost Photo

Submitted by on February 6, 2011 – 8:09 AM13 Comments | 1,578 views

The above image supposedly shows a ghost that haunts the “Horse & Groom” pub in England. After he initially sensed that there was something odd in the pub, Bowers returned to the pub and managed to snap the picture of what he thinks could be the ghost that is haunting the pub.

Full source: braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk

Spooky images have been captured on camera.

Alarm engineer Ron Bowers took these pictures at the Horse and Groom pub in Rayne Road, Braintree.

The 52-year-old says his mediumship is with the camera, and he became interested in the 1782 pub after “sensing something” on a visit several years ago.

He recently returned to look into this paranormal experience after an invitation by landlord Kevin Prince.

Last year medium Patricia Putt visited the pub and picked up on the spirits of children, soldiers, servants and even a brown dog.

The image looks like an action-figure that was held too close to that camera, causing the blurred image of a human silhouette. Could this be a ghost that was captured during an investigation, or some trick photography?

Well a little Google search on “Ron Bowers” reveals a bit more information to help us decide.

Ron Bowers comes up listed as a “Psychic Photographer” over at the NightWatchmanChronicles web site. Bowers’ evidence that is posted on the website seems to be similar in nature. Almost all photos displayed resemble the blurred human shape we see above, or they show some anomaly that looks superimposed.

Below is an image from the NightWatchmanChronicles web site, in which supposedly shows the image of the ghost of a little girl.

Spirit photography was a big business during the late 19th century. Psychics would claim to be able to photograph a loved one who has recently died for a price. Many of the photos, were crude attempts at capitalizing on a person’s sorrow.

It all becomes a bit clearer now as I see that there are several books for sale on the website.

  • VC

    I am not sure it’s an action figure. It looks like a naked man who is not very well groomed.

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  • http://torchkc.site90.net/ torchkc

    Both images are easy to replicate, allowing the likely possibility that they’re manipulated images.

  • http://torchkc.site90.net/ torchkc

    Just to give you an idea of how easy it is to fake a “ghost”, I spent 3 minutes on this: http://tinyurl.com/4cekngf

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  • bigpunkdrummer

    Ghosts with pubic hair. I’ve seen it all now.

  • http://scarytruestory.blogspot.com/ ScaryTrue

    Looks like Photoshop of the Paranormal to me. In fact, it almost looks like it could be some photoshop job gone horrible wrong and the ghost of the original image is now forever damned to haunt the photos of the living.

  • Ghost Enthusiast

    @Javier: Thanks for the ghost post! :)

    @VC: OMG! I thought the exact same thing! That’s too funny! =)

  • chargerguy

    I have actually investigated this type of photography and was able to reproduce it by holding a cut out of a person from a photograph or even a magazine up close while taking the picture if you move the cutout it becomes blurry and creates the same effect should be a auto focus camera though try it yourself

  • Sean

    Bug on the lense. Or perhaps a ghost bug?! Aaahhhhh!!!!!

  • R

    @chargerguy

    There was a case like that over here, a while ago. The case of “Robbert van den Broeke”..
    This guy faked all his photo’s by holding cut-out figures in front of the cam. He got cought because somebody recognized the (vague) picture from an old book.. It is hilarious!

  • Chris Sargeant

    Sorry to flog an already very dead horse, but if you move the apparition backwards so that it is standing next to the foremost trolly leg (preserving perspective and assuming a normally proportioned human figure), well… It’s either a really short ghost, or the service trolleys at that pub are humongous!

    http://www.u-net.com.au/trolley-ghost.jpg

    -Chris.

  • http://torchkc.site90.net/ torchkc

    @ Chris – Who says there AREN’T short ghosts? Can’t the vertically challenged haunt places too? :)

  • http://www.suffolkparanormalresearch.co.uk lee patston

    i know ron very well and he does not fake his photos and i have been beside him when he has taken a photo and a spirit has appeared in it and i will back ron all the way