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36 Creepy Photos That Even Complete Skeptics Can’t Explain

By:: Brian C. Miller; Cracked Writers

November 28, 2023

36 Creepy Photos That Even Complete Skeptics Can’t Explain

Are ghosts real? Probably not, but probably. We don't want a haunting. The last time that happened around here Scripps took over. The plethora of ghost-hunting shows on cable primarily make use of improperly employed or malfunctioning equipment for the sake of leaning into spooky storytelling. And when kids use a Ouija board, someone is either moving the planchette intentionally, or the group is merely succumbing to the ideomotor effect.

But while we may understand these things intellectually, photos and videos like the ones below can still manage to get under our skin anyway. Is that ghostly figure moving in the background just an artifact from a previous recording? That UFO sighting just a wayward balloon?

Almost certainly. But then again, what if they’re not?

36 Baltimore Ghost Girl

Is this the ghost of a little girl? The photo was taken this month by a couple on a Baltimore ghost tour. The tour owner said she suspected it might be photoshopped, until she was told that the couple showed the picture to their guide RIGHT AFTER TAKING IT. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

35 Skeletor

The Hampton Court Palace 'Skeletor' In 2003, security staff noticed a strange skeletal figure opening and closing the palace doors on the CCTV. The video is strangely compelling. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

34 Brother Ghost

This 1968 picture apparently shows Robert Ferguson's brother (who had died in WWII) next to him. Double exposure? Well, as this is a Polaroid, that's almost impossible. And a (rare) double-exposure Polaroid would have less contrast. Also, notice the differences in lighting and in the two men's ears. They don't look like the same person. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

33 Guardian Angel

A picture taken by Sharon Boo, a firefighter in New York, shows what she claims to be a guardian angel at the scene of a car wreck. The driver, Rose Benvenuto, didn't suffer any major injuries despite the damage to her car. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

32 Los Angeles UFO

This is an unretouched LA Times photo of a supposed UFO over Los Angeles. The thing blocks searchlight beams, so it isn't smoke or a cloud. And its weird oval shape means it isn't a plane or a balloon, either. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics

31 The Intruder

Grieving mum Jennifer Hodge, who lost her son in 2016, received a notification on her phone alerting her of an intruder as she was watching TV. Her security camera captured an image of the 'intruder', which she claimed to look a lot like her deceased son. Addio AR LAB CRACKED.COM Save — Source: 21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics

30 No Face, No Arms

This picture, taken in Hungary in 1942, has a girl in the background without arms or a face. There are no obvious signs of 1942-era retouching, and the physical photo has the size and outer trim style that were popular at the time, making it very likely to be from that era. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics

29 The Brown Lady

CRACKED.COM THE BROWN LADY OF RAYNHAM HALL In 1936 while taking photos of Raynham Hall for Country Life Magazine, Captain Hubart C. Provand and his assistant noticed a vapoury form gradually assuming the appearance of a woman coming down the stairs towards them and snapped what's widely regarded today as one of the most famous ghost pictures ever taken. — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

28 Tantallon Castle

In 2008 this weird face was found in a picture taken at Tantallon Castle in Scotland. What's weirder is that a family found a similar face looking out the uppermost window in a picture taken 32 years previously. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

27 Garden Gnomes??

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26 Ghostly Soldier

CRACKED.COM This photo, taken in 1919, shows an extra ghostly face behind one of the airmen. The members of this squadron recognized him as Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been killed a few days earlier and whose funeral took place on the day the photograph was shot. — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

25 Pub Ghost

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24 Dashboard Cam Ghost

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23 CCTV Hug

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22 Phantom Passenger

There's a phantom backseat passenger in this 1959 photograph. The photo first started getting analyzed decades ago, so it's unlikely that it had been tampered with, since only professionals could accomplish that before PCs showed up. It's not double exposure, either, because that would duplicate the whole photo, not just one part. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics

21 Strange Figure

What's the bizarre figure in the middle of this photo? N 21c Looks strange, but this could be a long exposure photo, and that might be a blurry person in motion. But if that were the case, then the kid in the green shirt (on the far right) would be way, way blurrier. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Paranormal Photos That Even Unnerve Skeptics

20 Costa Rica UFO

GRACKED.COM This anomaly appeared in a I I single frame of Costa Rican mapping data in 1971. A two-part report in The Journal of Scientific Exploration ruled out a double exposure or a reflection. The report concluded: While it may not be inexplicable, it is at least unidentified. I EI-H LEGEN ...... MILK 248 — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

19 Figure On The Rocks

In the background of this hiker's photo, a tall, thin figure with apparently no face can be seen standing on a slope too steep for a human and in an inaccessible spot. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

18 The White Lady

CRACKED.COM THE WHITE LADY OF WORSTEAD CHURCH In 1975, Diane Berthelot's husband took a photo of her sitting in a pew at St. Mary's Church in Worstead, UK. When they developed the picture, they noticed a mysterious ghostly figure. Diane, now in her 80's, claims the White Lady healed her and has kept her healthy through the years. — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

17 New Mexico Ghost

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16 Moving Wheelchair

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15 Real UFO Footage

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14 Nanny Cam Ghost

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13 Ghost Children

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12 A Strange Mist

A mist-like apparition appears in a photograph taken by a BBC journalist. Chris Sandys captured this image at the Jenner Museum, Berkeley, which is famous for being haunted. After he reviewed the image, he went to the same spot where the figure stood and found nothing that may have resembled the apparition. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

11 The Greencastle Photographs

The Greencastle Photographs Two ghost hunters nabbed these images while exploring a derelict mansion in Greencastle, Indiana. The lower left image is digitally enhanced, and reveals this CRACKED COM — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

10 Something Behind Him

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9 "Diamond Shaped Object"

CRACKED.COM On the night of December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum were driving home when they noticed a diamond-shaped object hovering in the sky. When they returned home, they all experienced vomiting, diarrhea, and a burning sensation on their skin. Over the next few days, blisters formed on Betty's skin, and large clumps of hair started falling out of her head. A radiologist examined the group and determined that they suffered from secondary damage to ionizing radiation. — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

8 Blockbuster Ghost

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7 Haunted Ventriloquist

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6 Pantry Ghost

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5 Jerusalem Floating Orb

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4 Among the Tombstones

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3 Cabinet Doors Opening On Their Own

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2 Another Dog?

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1 The Virgin Mary?

One of the most famous Marian apparitions happened in Cairo, Egypt in 1968 above the church of the Virgin Mary. At first people reported to the police that there was a woman attempting suicide. Then a crowd gathered in front of the church. What they saw was captured in this picture, which according to the many viewers was a clear apparition of Saint Mary. The apparitions became more frequent CRACKED.COM until they stopped in 1971. — Source: 15 Paranormal Images Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy

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