4: Ghosts
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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How to Photograph a Ghost
I saw this amazing one on Twitter, which was there's a reflection of himself off a wall of fog. So you can understand why people would associate sort of scary figures with fogs and mores. What the thing to do with all those sorts of photographs is always show it to somebody who doesn't know the context of it being a ghost photograph. They're great illusions, those things. We were very good at seeing faces in the ambiguous things. I mean, we're social animals. We like to see faces or some smoke or something like that. We'll see a demonic face in it. But, you know, I think it's very human.
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