John Mausling, his wife Jessica Martinez-Mausling and their children visited the Stanley Hotel, a popular tourist spot near the Rocky Mountain National Park, in September. None remember seeing anything unusual on their spirit tour, a popular guided trip through the hotel highlighting its haunted history, but it wasn't hard to spot something strange in one of the photographs of their guide on a staircase. Taken from above, the shot shows what appears to be a ghostly apparition of a girl near the guide and a second glowing apparition next to her.
Being of sound mind and body, the Mauslings immediately contacted not the Stanley Hotel, not the police, not the Ghostbusters (neither the females nor the males) but the Huffington Post, which reported their account and published the photograph. They commented that no one in their family nor the tour group remembers seeing a young girl, which is what most people who see the photo think the larger shape is.
That includes Ben Hansen, the host of "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files," who told Huffington Post that he didn't see anything abnormal, so it could definitely be paranormal.
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Now do a low light level exposure for your third exposure. This burns in all of the fine details of the room such as the wallpaper and carpeting. The people by the light sources come out clean as well, but the individuals farthest from the light sources would be less clear. any motion would show as a motion blur. The real people show motion blur, the static details are crisp, and you have you get the half exposure "ghosts". digitally combine that with a near identical frame of other people and you have said photo.
with digital editing suites it is easy to align points in a picture and layer them together. you would not even need to have been using a tripod at the same point for all three exposures. just have taken three exposures from the same vantage point at pre-selected f stops and shutter speeds.
This picture could be easily reproduced digitally if you are adept with a camera. All you need to do is know how to break down exposure times, and use a slow speed of film if not using digital cameras so you do not overexpose the ghosts on your film and give them to great of solid detail.