High Strangeness
There are few adaptations of Stephen King's horror novels better than The Shining. It's a well-known fact that King was inspired to write it while staying at the stately Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. As a result, the hotel has become a center for paranormal investigations and ghost sightings. The latest occurred last month when a family that had taken a spirit tour while visiting the Stanley noticed what appears to be two apparitions in one photograph.
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.
"I really like this photo. Assuming that it's not doctored, it ranks up there as one of the best photos of possible paranormal evidence I've seen. If it is faked, I've got to hand it to them for their level of detail and creativity because there's usually enough easy signs to suggest hoaxing."
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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.
"I really like this photo. Assuming that it's not doctored, it ranks up there as one of the best photos of possible paranormal evidence I've seen. If it is faked, I've got to hand it to them for their level of detail and creativity because there's usually enough easy signs to suggest hoaxing."
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The Mauslings told media:
"We were just instructed to take a bunch of photos so that's basically all I did. I was kind of lagging behind the group and putting myself in different positions," Mausling told InsideEdition.com. "I was standing on top of the stairs when I took the picture. I just took a picture of a wall a couple times and under the staircase. We looked at the photos later and sure enough, we caught something. "It's not the first time a spooky image has been taken in the hotel:
That "something" was what appeared to be a little girl in a white robe walking up the stairs of the hotel, but no one from the tour remembers seeing a child.
"At first I thought maybe a little girl ran by," said Jessica Mausling. "I was in shock. How could all of us miss her, especially a little girl in a white gown?"
Jessica said she contacted the hotel and the tour guide said she did not recall seeing the little girl either.
"By no means did anyone see a little girl in what looks like her pajamas and her slippers walking up the stairs right in front of us," Jay Mausling said. "Even if you look at the picture, you notice [that] no one is looking there. You just don't excuse something like that. My initial reaction was, 'No way!'"
Mausling said he's shown the picture to friends and co-workers and some have suggested he changed the photo in some way.
"People are like, 'You photoshopped this' and I am like, 'I don't even know how to use my cell phone,'" Mausling said. "I couldn't believe it and everyone I show finds it hard to believe."
Reader Comments
sbc I agree. None of my photos look like the one in this article, even when I mess with the electronics to lengthen exposure or change light sensitivity. Perhaps the photographer in this case is very knowledgeable and can bring out the seemingly supernatural in a photograph at will, but this makes the photo all that more suspect.
Have a look at that mirror on the wall which reflects the people standing in the room. Something does not look right in the way the reflection is projected.
Similarly, look at the 'ghost girl' coming up the stairs; her shoe looks 'real' which is strange because most apparitions lack feet altogether.
Have a look at that mirror on the wall which reflects the people standing in the room. Something does not look right in the way the reflection is projected.
Similarly, look at the 'ghost girl' coming up the stairs; her shoe looks 'real' which is strange because most apparitions lack feet altogether.
The mirror reflection is off, it is reflecting a person that is not there. Looks to be a younger girl in the mirror, but no young girl seen sitting by bench in front of windows. Am I nutz?
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.