Rather,there is no mistaking what they look like; real people, who are actaully ghosts, very very clear and active. (Although I doubt the whole thing completely.) THAT is the only kind of ghost sighting anyone should even consider to investigate; visible, witnessed, accurate, and recorded sightings, with no “moodiness” or “eirryness” . This English bunch of ghosts are not eirry at all. Not at all!! They are supposed to be more like unwelcome relatives, who make plentyof real noise,and show up clearly. (If you want to even believe in that kind of ghost, at all.) Any other type of “haunting”, yes, I would not even consider.

Traditionally, real “ghosts” are often seen as real people, very solid, clear, standing in front of you, making real noises, very real noises,and making a profound prescense in the house they are “haunting”. People in the house, think they are real, solid people, until they find out they’re ghosts, tradtionally,and this is how they appear.

Those are the very old,tradtional instances of “ghosts” haunting a house,and those you can read ancient or more contemporary sightings of. (I’m not saying they’re real,or that they’re not, but they are a heck of a lot more than sighing wind, or creaking doors, or shining glasses.) Read up on old instances of ghost sightings, those are the instances that people usually take seriously; not all this other stuff, that’s so phony.

Now, I’m not saying they’;re real ghosts, just that this is the tradtional, better viewpoint of witnessed(well witnessed) “ghost” sightings, and if you want to take ANY ‘ghosts’ seriously, then, look into those old fashioned sightings, where the ghost looks just as solid as a real person. (ok, ok, I am just providing information, I am not saying theyre real or not.) That is up to you. But, they don’;t appear as clunking, wind singing, or unseeable imagery. Those “ghost-hunters” are full of crap.

All these movies that have “noises” “creepiness” and atmospheric “ghostliness” are not even like tradtional ghost sightings, from old houses in tradtional writings!!Phooey!!And, we were not there,so we can ‘t say they were real ghosts!!! Too hard to prove what it was, that looked like a real person, hanginging out in someone’s house, refusing to leave the place. (maybe someone’s motherinlaw.) Real, good evidence of real “ghosts” is just too hard to establish. Yep. Even Houdini, who went to psychic perveyors,and tried to talk to his dead mother, for years, found out all the psychics were fake. All of them. He WANTED to believe they were real, and yet, in investigation, he found out they were all phony. sigh. So much for that.

Camera-flash light reflected off shiny objects (glass desk, picture frame glass, window, etc.) sometimes shows up on walls and appears ghostly to the uncritical eye. I’ve seen a few of these pictures show up on ghost picture websites.

Does anyone else have any funny camera-goofs to share?

I also love your pun on ghostly spectacles. It’s a classic. Keep ‘em coming, please.

I have also noticed ghostly spectacle events. Even with the anti-glare coatings. They’re not perfect, and glasses are more prone to getting things like grease from fingerprints, moisture from sweat, etc.

Last night, while sitting on the couch doing more work at home (whoever told me homework ended once you left school LIED!!!) on my less than trusty laptop, I happen to catch a movement out of the corner of my eye. Hmmm…aw, probably just the ceiling fan and shadows again. That gets me all the time with these silly glasses.

Only problem was, this movement proceeded to crawl from the corner of my eye to my forearm–once my arm hairs confirmed the presence of the intruder, I gave it another look-see. Heheheh…just an inchworm, now trying to do its best impression of a branch to avoid my notice.

See, some of these actually turn out to be real. Oddly enough, they also tend to turn out to be rather mundane.

‘harmonal concordance’

I bow to the BA, master of all puns!

You know what Percival Lowell was seeing when he drew the “canals” on mars? The reflections of the veins in his own eye. That was before antireflection coatings were applied to astronomical optics.

But many many times, I have seen things from the corner of my eye… But hey, it was never anything special. Always logical.

Optics in general can be kinda counterintuitive, but when you’re not even THINKING about optics, your mind can play crazy tricks on you.

Does anybody remember the cheesy TV ads from the 80s for the rear-view sunglasses? It featured “unpaid testimonials” from pedestrians on the boardwalk in Venice Beach or somewhere, and folks were checking out the hotpants on passers-by with their trick shades. “I’ve got to have a pair of these!”