Haunted Images: The Origins of Iconic Ghost Photos. 5.2.24. Now I know....i don't do on-line gaming. Spencer Tracy made reference to one of those tawdry ghostly images in the film: The Last Hurrah. I have seen most of these when I was a nipper. I'm never convinced....
It's good to see someone into paranormal phenomena that's also skeptical of instances of it; a lot of the self-identified paranormal phenomena enthusiasts happen to also be crackpots who buy literally any story of supernatural phenomena at face value.
i don't believe a metaphysical phenomenom will display on a physical medium. Even if you are open to paranormal ideas the ghostbuster stuff with video, audio, photo, etc is just silly. There's no ghost giger counter like in ghost shows, you can't measure spirit, its an abstract.
@@Outrun_Andyit caught me off guard when it popped up from behind the church, I had the video playing on my other screen while I worked on some documents, I wasn't paying enough attention
I’ve seen the Cooper family photo before and I’ve always thought it odd that the photo has allowed room for the hanging figure on the left side. Why wouldn’t the photo be more cropped, focusing on the subjects of the photo, unless you were leaving room to add the strange figure or to fit them in? If the figure was not seen until the photo was developed, then why leave room on the left when taking it?
i cld see someone framing it that way for other reasons like to include the table set up or to frame the window or whatever it is in the background in the center. i kinda like the way it looks so i can imagine someone making that choice on purpose
They were using rule of thirds and including the table set in the photograph possibly. It would look a little goofy to have the table cropped halfway out and photographers back in the day usually framed photographs this way. I've had the same thought a bunch of times but I don't think it is quite as rock solid of an argument as I used to think it was.
the flappy head logo reminded me of the canadians from south park and it helped cut down the creep factor, which is great when you're a moron like me who likes to watch spooky videos after dark.
Fun fact: Dot's dad Colonel Robert Wapole aka Rob Snr. currently holds the world record for the most overdue library book with the book the Archbishop of Bremen being overdue by a total of 288 years.
That book you showed at the start of the video was in the school library of my primary school. Apparently nobody thought it might not be a good idea to give young children access to a book filled with ghosts, spontaneous combustion and other paranormal horrors. The Brown Lady and the Black Monk were my childhood paralysis demons.
That ghost picture is in every book of unsolved mystery. And talking about spontaneous combustion, there is also a picture of left over burning leg picture that is in every book of unsolved mystery.
Fun. I’ve heard that the cooper one happened by the family taking the photo and the person who was developing it saw it was off center and had the extra space on the side so was playing a prank on the family for whatever reason and double exposed another photo of a man on it and just put the man inside down so it looks like he’s falling.
@@necropolistc6357 Nothing feels like it used to anymore. No holidays are like they were in the past. That's just a side-effect of modern life being online and a lot of fun old things becoming extinct. 😕
You missed something about the Cooper family photo In the metabunk thread where the Robert C guy claims to be the boy in the photo. Years later Robert C posted a confession that he created the original falling body pic in a darkroom in the early 80s. He said he’d seen it had gotten online and made the account to play along.
I'd seen all of these from a ghost book I had as a young teenager and the shrouded monk always gave me chills. I even made my own halloween costume of it using a latex monster mask and handing a tattered sheet over the face. Great to see others who remember this image as it always stuck with me.
Yep, when I was a wee kid I got a little book about ghosts and the photo of the Brown Lady was featured on the cover so that was basically the first ghost photo I had ever seen in my life
18:32 is interesting. I remember seeing a show about ghostly photography and they actually tested that ghost monk photograph. They found a bunch of hoaxes, but that one is the one photo they couldn't disprove.
Shout out shrouded hand! You actually made me feel that “nostalgic fear” seeing some of these photos for the first time since being a young kid browsing those original ghost forums
It was a bit of a craze in 1985 for kids in the UK to have the Mysteries of the Unknown book. Featuring the iconic photos of ghosts. At 48 now, the artists drawing of the bell-hop / porter still scares the sh*t out of me.
I've created a ghost. Then I regretted it. Trying to photo a lightning strike, I captured a figure, two legs, two arms and a head. It was illuminated and very bright. Appeared to be standing right in the front yard. Posted it on Facebook. Turned out it was the flash reflection on a double pane window, making it look like two legs. Someone really believed it was real, then more people started, so I had to explain it out. Didn't delete it though. But my fb is long gone by now. The photo still exists on my pc however. Maybe I'll post it again sometime.
oh SH ... you had me at "pig." i read the Amityville book at way too young an age at my neighbor's house, where most of the kids were older. my visual imagination really absorbed the literary descriptions of high-tension scenes, especially the pig, and also the flies. I've never even wanted to see the movie, because I'm sure it would pale in comparison to the work of my mental DP. it gave a little warm fuzzy to learn that we have this in common. i also was fascinated by ghost photography etc. from a young age, and the book you are thumbing through near the beginning had all the same photos as the one i kept out way too long from the elementary school library. i think i was trying to develop some kind of critical eye, as i worshipped my much older half-brother, who became a professional photographer & photojournalist. i was thrilled to see the return of your older opening - that fantastic art with the suspended snip of "Psycho" screech is the best ASMR ever and always makes me feel at home ... in some weird way. and it makes me giggle when you make him narrate like that. i wouldn't want to see it all the time - that wd cheapen your style, which is always perfectly balanced on the cusp of creepy that could descend to insane horror at any moment; but for Halloween, it's a hoot. (does he have a name?) thanks for a great holiday ep & i hope you got all the horror-candy you could dream of.
Great video, but good grief. You had the same scare-obsessed childhood as me! IIRC the Amityville pig was called Jody, which, oddly, scared me even more. Freddie, Raynham, yep, loved them both. And of course, the majestic Newby church monk. Without looking them up, I bet you can immediately see in your mind's eye the Chinnery back-seat car ghost, the faces of two drowned sailors in the waves and the woman's hands, wearing a ring, on the bannister of the curved staircase at the Greenwich Museum. And, not a ghost but don't get me started on THAT photo of the Spontaneous Human Combustion walking frame and leg.
The drowned sailors , et al . My mom always had those Reader's Digest coffee table books , Mysteries of the Unknown , etc. that were loaded with enough woo and pseudoscience to make your head spin , lol , and I took it all at face value ! Doubtless , I believed it because it was in this nice book on my parent's coffee table , so it must be true ! But I always liked the old monster movies and scary stories and part of me wanted a dinosaur survival to live in that Loch . Live and learn , though , and thankfully my mental development didn't stop THERE ! ✌️
💀🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!! 👻🎃💀 7:08 That is one freaky photo, even if it's not a spirit or anything it give me a weird feeling. It reminds me of the first Fatal Frame game when you first walk onto the back outside walkway, a spirit does this exact thing. This just might be my all time favorite creepy photo.
I swear I remember reading that the guy who made the Cooper Family photo had come forward and admitted that it was a fake he'd made for an art class or something of that nature. I can't find where I read that to save my life, though.
Personally, I'm fond of "The Pink Lady" ghost photo. Its authenticity is well... like most ghost photos, but there's just something about this picture that just strikes into what my brain perceives as creepy.
Hi, I have the Haunted Britain book! But my version was published in 1975 rather than 1973, and the image printed there is the cropped one. Not sure if the first print would be different? You're more than welcome to have it if you'd like (it was only 2.50 in a charity shop haha). It says in the index that the photo came from the Harry Price library in University of London, so that might be a good place to start if you want to find the original uncropped version.
I noticed at 15:39 there's a ghostly hand behind the head of that man. And a plummy Anthony Hopkins-type voice speaking from seemingly out of nowhere. Quite spooky! (And thoroughly enjoyed your presentation!)
I'm late but I'm here! The Yorkshire Church ghost has to be my favorite ghost photo of all time because of both how terrifying and beautiful it is... The image of a spirit making one last attempt at forgiveness before moving on is just surreal..
I remember seeing the cooper family photo in a book called the paranormal encyclopedia i found in my primary school's library. That must have been around the year 2005 so the picture has to have been known earlier than 2009.
The first and last photos you introduced in your video were featured in "All About Ghosts" part of a children's book series called "The World of the Unknown." I was obsessed with that book as a child. So, seeing those two images as bookends to your video felt so nostalgic!
i remember my introduction to these photos was my grandpa showing me that airfield one. since then ive been fascinated by ghost photos. thanks for taking me back down memory lane!
They might not be real, but they have informed so much of our collective concept of horror and spookiness, and have undoubtedly inspired many, many people to write scary stories and movies
This is great stuff! I may have had the Finnish edition of one or more of these books as a kid. These stories and pictures struck a very nostalgic nerve, it was lovely revisiting them like this. Happy Halloween!
I'd absolutely love to see a video going over your book collection. I know it likely wouldn't do as well as your normal videos, but maybe it could be a quick video for a rainy day 😅 Thanks for your work!
Thank you for questioning Weber's admission. I've seen far too many people/vidoes/clickbait sites/etc saying The Amityville Horror is debunked because a lawyer, always the most trustworthy of individuals, said it was.
Oh my goodness! You mentioned the Haunted Britain book. My parents used have that book and read it multiple times. With that famous picture in it. I'm not sure if they still have it. They also had another book titled Magic and Superstition, that was an unusual book! They don't have that anymore. There is one page, like full page, picture of a goat, that has a sort of grin. It was very weird and disturbing. I never really liked looking at that picture. I think they were writing about Satan and that's why the goat picture was in there.
I see ur bitch ass still hiding in plain site like my kids in the background or family like every day but it's funny whoevers telling the story new about a holograph picture and said Turner.. & Page.. Warren Bros? Lion Gates.. what he left out was my families name mines James Fulton or George Floyd but those € is what's it's bout but I'm waiting for these mask to come off pages turning?? Pictures change like holograph's pretty much rape us alot pics in this video are mine or taken in Tulsa Oklahoma like Westminster apartment 78-8 but that fake ass holograph hub sun and moon it's bout to get ugly
Loved the vid. I grew up with a ghost book that had a cropped image of the Brown Lady in it. That one is burned in my mind, I was so freaked out by it. That last image is truly freaky, never seen that one before! Look very reminiscent of a certain Spooky Stories to Tell in the Dark illustration.
I could have sworn the cooper family photograph was of a body falling from the ceiling as the photo was taken, i remember seeing this in a paranormal book i had as a child.
I’ve been fascinated by the paranormal since I was a child, and remember in my secondary school library, there was a collection of books called Mysteries of the Unexplained, and it was a set of about 6 big, black books. My sister and I used to scare the hell out of ourselves by looking at The Enfield Poltergeist photos. To this day, mid 40s, I don’t go to sleep lying on my back. It started as a kid as I was scared of being tossed out of bed! 👻
The picture of The Brown Lady of Raynam Hall is what kicked off my fascination with ghosts. I was 7 years old...so, I get ya. This video was great , btw.
Hey, that book on Haunted Britain I read as a kid from our library over and over again, but it disappeared, and I never saw it again was only about 12 so the time of 1973 when it was written is right on and I could not remember who wrote it but as soon as i saw that picture I knew it was that book! SOOOO thank you thank you thank you!!!! You made my Halloween! Hope you had a great one too!
I've also always loved that last photo - it is incredibly creepy. However, one of the things that I always come back to is questioning why a departed spirit would look like they've cut two eye holes in a sheet and then just thrown a blanket over the top! Regarding the Cooper family photo, I can't remember where I read it but I recall reading somewhere that the ghostly body was actually an intruder (or was it a corpse?) that fell through the ceiling just as the photo was taken. However, that still doesn't explain the framing of the shot (unless it was cropped) or why no one is reacting.
I've seen the Raynham Hall photo multiple times in my life, it was even featured in one of my GCSE science textbooks back in the day for something or other, but I had absolutely no idea where the photo was taken. I spent 10 years of my life growing up in Norfolk, a mere 22 miles from Raynham Hall, and its not until now that I learned that the very place is where this famous ghost photo was taken. I've driven past it multiple times, and all this time I had no idea that one of the first ghost photos I ever came across, real or not, was photographed just 22 miles away from my childhood home. You learn something new every day huh 😊
That Cooper Family photo. I first saw that in a book called "The 1st Armada Book of True Ghost Stories", around 1974/75, so it has been around for quite some time.
I have a photo with a ghost. We did a cemetery tour in Jerome AZ. We were told to take many photos. After reviewing them we found a ghost man with a hat. We also recorded sound while we slept and caught something flipping the ice bucket handle.
Really great video. I had no idea so many of these had been explained. I've seen most of the images since I was young and it was a lot of fun to hear about their backgrounds.
no thanks the time spent animating that stupid thing is better spent making the video content better I only listen to these and it's clear that animating the head to his words is just a waste of time
Thanks for the cool video, sir. I love these videos where you take photos , legends, etc, and discuss the sources, evidence and credibility. I remember seeing a tv show where they tried to recreate the photo of the Brown Lady. If I recall, they came close, but the result was, of course, arguable either way.
@@noswim My wording wasn’t very clear. What I just meant I like the videos where he talks about the sources, documented comments from people involved, etc. Whether they are credible or not isn’t for me to say. It’s a far sight better than channels that throw paranormal and shock effect in your face. This is almost like sitting and having a mature conversation about crazy things. Better?
Haven’t watched the vid yet, might not. Terrified thanks to the thumbnail. That ‘monk’ photo was in the Usborne book of Ghosts when I was a wee lad (it’s been reissued in paperback - get it!) and absolutely terrified me. Still does to this day. Of all the supposed ghost photos anywhere ever - that one is possibly THE most sinister and evil looking. Off to change my pants now.
I read the Amityville book when I was too young to have read it and, yes, the pig with the red eyes kept me awake many a night thereafter. And then I saw the "ghost boy" photo which scared me all over again. It didn't scare me off creepy stuff, though...
Hi Shrouded Hand. The picture of the Amity Ville demon "boy" is actually a shot of Loraine Warren sitting on the steps with her head turned toward the camera. There's yet another picture of her doing the exact same thing among the Amityville pictures--that is sitting on the same steps but at a different time when the light is not so dramatic----Her features exactly match the "demon boy" including the snub nose. Jesse Glass.
As a child around 8/9 i had a collection of these books too my favourite was photographs of the unknown 1981 which was my mums but i still have it and love it!
I can't get over your red floating head, made me laugh. It even blinks! Too bad so many scary photos are easily debunked. Good ones just require dedication or chance. I love a spooky mystery photo/sighting!
Seems like there are a lot of those old pics with a bunch of people all lined up like a class photo that have a ghostly person at the back. And they are always said to look just like someone who's dead. I always thought it was just some person who moved out of frame or turned or whatever. They reason they always look "just like" someone is because its blurry, and, most of the people in the pictures always look a lot alike.
The duplicate picture frame in the Raynam Hall photo is the object against the wall about half way up rhe stairs to the left of frame as we look at it. It looks like part of the banister, which is maybe why you're missing it, but if you look at it, you can see the lines don't match up for it to be a banister. It could be another painting sitting on the landing and resting against the wall, but that seems unlikely.
I had always most liked the story that the Cooper family photo was actually an unfortunately-timed snapshot, taken as the floor above suddenly gave way and dropped a mysterious corpse onto the table. This always made the most sense to me because of the blur lines seen on the dark figure but not the family, but also because there are a lot of photos like this that aren't spooky at all, where the picture is taken just as the event has taken place, but before anyone else in the photo has even been able to register it or react. That's what I always found most disturbing about the Cooper family photo.
18:26 this was the photo I remember sticking with me as a kid in the early 90s .. that, the De Loys Ape and the Bélmez Face photos all freaked me out back then! 😅
i love learning about the origins of images, especially the creepier ones so this video was really interesting to me! no image has unnerved me as much as that amityville ghost photo,, gives me the shivers everytime i see it, even while knowing the whole thing is most likely a hoax…
Thank you so much Shrouded Hand! I’m same as you. Started reading and watching spooky stuff and before I knew it, I was hooked on horror and all things Dark! Happy Hallows Eve❤🎉
Shrouded Hand, it's a request that you give book suggestions also. I know this might not be your niche, but please do so, there are worms like us who want to go for books too and just a glimpse of your collection made me fascinated. It would be great if you share the names and reviews.
That last photo of the 'monk' used to scare me sensless as a child. Every so often I would pick up the book with it in again and get all spooked out. A thought occurred- perhaps some of these images are the people doing the developing having a little fun with their customers. I should imagine it would be easy for professionals to do this, then just send it out into the world!
I'm sure you know the one, but the ghost photo that scares me the most is an old one of what seems to be a cloaked or nightgown figure pulling themselves up a banister in a stairway. It's very old
I remember the photo of a couple having their picture taken beside trees and bushes and to the right and behind them is a clear shot of a woman running towards them with arms flailing screaming with black empty eye sockets
The Cooper family photo reminds me of the haunted house theme park attraction in Silent Hill 3 where a body drops from the ceiling as you go through it.
15:14 that amittyville air bud is a nice touch. i would have believed it to be real when the amittyville series of movies includes "Amityville In The Hood"
Not even death could stop Freddie from showing up for a pic with the boys, what a Legend
Freddie’s a Chad.
@@Macachee Imagine it. "Right, squadron. Hats on. Eyes front!" Freddie: "Not me. What are you going to do about it?"
Alpha male
One of the most authentic and believable "ghost pictures" I've seen
Haunted Images: The Origins of Iconic Ghost Photos. 5.2.24. Now I know....i don't do on-line gaming. Spencer Tracy made reference to one of those tawdry ghostly images in the film: The Last Hurrah. I have seen most of these when I was a nipper. I'm never convinced....
It's good to see someone into paranormal phenomena that's also skeptical of instances of it; a lot of the self-identified paranormal phenomena enthusiasts happen to also be crackpots who buy literally any story of supernatural phenomena at face value.
i don't believe a metaphysical phenomenom will display on a physical medium. Even if you are open to paranormal ideas the ghostbuster stuff with video, audio, photo, etc is just silly. There's no ghost giger counter like in ghost shows, you can't measure spirit, its an abstract.
I've never believed in brown Lady of Raynom hall.
I like how the red skull talks as if it were you.
You mean it isn't?! 😂
@@Outrun_Andyit caught me off guard when it popped up from behind the church, I had the video playing on my other screen while I worked on some documents, I wasn't paying enough attention
Best part of the video 😂 made me laugh
very funny 🤣🤣🤣I love it
Very Python. Immediately made me think of Spiny Norman.
I’ve seen the Cooper family photo before and I’ve always thought it odd that the photo has allowed room for the hanging figure on the left side. Why wouldn’t the photo be more cropped, focusing on the subjects of the photo, unless you were leaving room to add the strange figure or to fit them in? If the figure was not seen until the photo was developed, then why leave room on the left when taking it?
Thats why I think it's just a good photoshop someone did especially with it only appearing online in 2009
Was going to comment this. No one would naturally take a picture that way.
Of course someone added that in, we would have heard something about this before 2009
i cld see someone framing it that way for other reasons like to include the table set up or to frame the window or whatever it is in the background in the center. i kinda like the way it looks so i can imagine someone making that choice on purpose
They were using rule of thirds and including the table set in the photograph possibly. It would look a little goofy to have the table cropped halfway out and photographers back in the day usually framed photographs this way. I've had the same thought a bunch of times but I don't think it is quite as rock solid of an argument as I used to think it was.
I love your sense of humour. The talking Shrouded Hand logo and (take a drink) while keeping it completely on the narrow
the flappy head logo reminded me of the canadians from south park and it helped cut down the creep factor, which is great when you're a moron like me who likes to watch spooky videos after dark.
And the movie title Amityvile Air Bud💀😭
@@halatiny6537 oh yeah that cracked me
therapist: talking shrouded hand face isnt real, he cant hurt you
talking shrouded hand face:
me. i like talking shrouded hand face.
Gotta say I am loving the animated head, it’s creepy but also charming in a funny way.
I really appreciate the inclusion of Amityville: AIR BUD
A criminally underrated and oft-overlooked installment in both series.
Fun fact: Dot's dad Colonel Robert Wapole aka Rob Snr. currently holds the world record for the most overdue library book with the book the Archbishop of Bremen being overdue by a total of 288 years.
Amazing 🤩 (and I love that you called her "Dot" lol)
He beats me by 247 years 😁
That book you showed at the start of the video was in the school library of my primary school. Apparently nobody thought it might not be a good idea to give young children access to a book filled with ghosts, spontaneous combustion and other paranormal horrors. The Brown Lady and the Black Monk were my childhood paralysis demons.
Do you know what book it is? I would love to get it somewhere.
That ghost picture is in every book of unsolved mystery. And talking about spontaneous combustion, there is also a picture of left over burning leg picture that is in every book of unsolved mystery.
Those were the books we looked for when we were young.
same here! i would spend all my break and lunch times in school reading all the ghost/mystery books in the library i could get my hands on! :D
Nothing wrong with it.
Fun. I’ve heard that the cooper one happened by the family taking the photo and the person who was developing it saw it was off center and had the extra space on the side so was playing a prank on the family for whatever reason and double exposed another photo of a man on it and just put the man inside down so it looks like he’s falling.
Finally. something to make this halloween actually feel like Halloween. BLESS
Facts
Nonsense you spout
it didn't feel like Halloween this year 😞
@@necropolistc6357 Nothing feels like it used to anymore. No holidays are like they were in the past. That's just a side-effect of modern life being online and a lot of fun old things becoming extinct. 😕
You missed something about the Cooper family photo In the metabunk thread where the Robert C guy claims to be the boy in the photo. Years later Robert C posted a confession that he created the original falling body pic in a darkroom in the early 80s. He said he’d seen it had gotten online and made the account to play along.
The most plausible answer, yet here we are, comments on stories they've heard about what happened or trying to prove how it must be real.
No, _I_ am Spartacus, uh, I mean, Robert and I faked it a few months ago using Photoshop 5.5. Sorry for misleading everyone all these years.
@@I.____.....__...__ If Robert on metabunk didn’t provide color photos of the same kids I’d have assumed it was a photoshop tbh
It's kinda weird seeing the cooper family picture now as an adult cause yet again it still manages to strike the utter fear into me...
I'd seen all of these from a ghost book I had as a young teenager and the shrouded monk always gave me chills. I even made my own halloween costume of it using a latex monster mask and handing a tattered sheet over the face. Great to see others who remember this image as it always stuck with me.
Yep, when I was a wee kid I got a little book about ghosts and the photo of the Brown Lady was featured on the cover so that was basically the first ghost photo I had ever seen in my life
Wait till you realise it wasn't a photo of a ghost
I think I had that same book!
18:32 is interesting. I remember seeing a show about ghostly photography and they actually tested that ghost monk photograph. They found a bunch of hoaxes, but that one is the one photo they couldn't disprove.
That cloaked ghost figure still terrifies me after all these years. It's still one of the best ever.
Shout out shrouded hand! You actually made me feel that “nostalgic fear” seeing some of these photos for the first time since being a young kid browsing those original ghost forums
It was a bit of a craze in 1985 for kids in the UK to have the Mysteries of the Unknown book. Featuring the iconic photos of ghosts. At 48 now, the artists drawing of the bell-hop / porter still scares the sh*t out of me.
We had that similar book in the States that I was fascinated with.. I remember the story of the restless coffins
I think I still have this book somewhere
Same and I am 48 to !!!!!
Haha I'm from south Africa and had the same book growing up! Created a lot of nightmares for me and a fear of the dark. Yay!
i had that book in the US in the early 2000s lmfao
I saw the Amityville photo for the first time on a TV special late at night when I was a kid. It scared the shit out of me.
I've created a ghost. Then I regretted it. Trying to photo a lightning strike, I captured a figure, two legs, two arms and a head. It was illuminated and very bright. Appeared to be standing right in the front yard. Posted it on Facebook. Turned out it was the flash reflection on a double pane window, making it look like two legs. Someone really believed it was real, then more people started, so I had to explain it out. Didn't delete it though. But my fb is long gone by now. The photo still exists on my pc however. Maybe I'll post it again sometime.
grab some popcorn and then it’s a fun evening for you
I would like to see it
I'd love to see it, too
Me too! I'd love to see the image👍
Yes, I think we all would certainly like to see this photo!
oh SH ... you had me at "pig." i read the Amityville book at way too young an age at my neighbor's house, where most of the kids were older. my visual imagination really absorbed the literary descriptions of high-tension scenes, especially the pig, and also the flies. I've never even wanted to see the movie, because I'm sure it would pale in comparison to the work of my mental DP. it gave a little warm fuzzy to learn that we have this in common.
i also was fascinated by ghost photography etc. from a young age, and the book you are thumbing through near the beginning had all the same photos as the one i kept out way too long from the elementary school library. i think i was trying to develop some kind of critical eye, as i worshipped my much older half-brother, who became a professional photographer & photojournalist.
i was thrilled to see the return of your older opening - that fantastic art with the suspended snip of "Psycho" screech is the best ASMR ever and always makes me feel at home ... in some weird way.
and it makes me giggle when you make him narrate like that. i wouldn't want to see it all the time - that wd cheapen your style, which is always perfectly balanced on the cusp of creepy that could descend to insane horror at any moment; but for Halloween, it's a hoot. (does he have a name?)
thanks for a great holiday ep & i hope you got all the horror-candy you could dream of.
Great video, but good grief. You had the same scare-obsessed childhood as me! IIRC the Amityville pig was called Jody, which, oddly, scared me even more. Freddie, Raynham, yep, loved them both. And of course, the majestic Newby church monk.
Without looking them up, I bet you can immediately see in your mind's eye the Chinnery back-seat car ghost, the faces of two drowned sailors in the waves and the woman's hands, wearing a ring, on the bannister of the curved staircase at the Greenwich Museum.
And, not a ghost but don't get me started on THAT photo of the Spontaneous Human Combustion walking frame and leg.
The boy ghost on the Amityville staircase!!
I would read so many ghost books in grade school lol
That combustion pic gave me nightmares for years.
@@zenfrodo Same. I haven't seeen it for decades, but it's still utterly vivid in my mind.
The drowned sailors , et al .
My mom always had those Reader's Digest coffee table books , Mysteries of the Unknown , etc. that were loaded with enough woo and pseudoscience to make your head spin , lol , and I took it all at face value ! Doubtless , I believed it because it was in this nice book on my parent's coffee table , so it must be true ! But I always liked the old monster movies and scary stories and part of me wanted a dinosaur survival to live in that Loch . Live and learn , though , and thankfully my mental development didn't stop THERE ! ✌️
💀🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!! 👻🎃💀
7:08 That is one freaky photo, even if it's not a spirit or anything it give me a weird feeling. It reminds me of the first Fatal Frame game when you first walk onto the back outside walkway, a spirit does this exact thing. This just might be my all time favorite creepy photo.
Fatal frame. Damn that game was good.
I swear I remember reading that the guy who made the Cooper Family photo had come forward and admitted that it was a fake he'd made for an art class or something of that nature. I can't find where I read that to save my life, though.
Personally, I'm fond of "The Pink Lady" ghost photo. Its authenticity is well... like most ghost photos, but there's just something about this picture that just strikes into what my brain perceives as creepy.
Hi, I have the Haunted Britain book! But my version was published in 1975 rather than 1973, and the image printed there is the cropped one. Not sure if the first print would be different? You're more than welcome to have it if you'd like (it was only 2.50 in a charity shop haha).
It says in the index that the photo came from the Harry Price library in University of London, so that might be a good place to start if you want to find the original uncropped version.
I think the RAF mechanic @ 8:51 looks creepier than the enhanced close up of it. It looks like his eye is whited out and has a creepy smirk.
It was taken by the man who claimed to have travelled into a future time while in a plane
Yes i remember seeing the Brown Lady photo and been equally terrified and fascinated as a child
I noticed at 15:39 there's a ghostly hand behind the head of that man. And a plummy Anthony Hopkins-type voice speaking from seemingly out of nowhere. Quite spooky! (And thoroughly enjoyed your presentation!)
I'm late but I'm here!
The Yorkshire Church ghost has to be my favorite ghost photo of all time because of both how terrifying and beautiful it is...
The image of a spirit making one last attempt at forgiveness before moving on is just surreal..
I remember seeing the cooper family photo in a book called the paranormal encyclopedia i found in my primary school's library. That must have been around the year 2005 so the picture has to have been known earlier than 2009.
The first and last photos you introduced in your video were featured in "All About Ghosts" part of a children's book series called "The World of the Unknown." I was obsessed with that book as a child. So, seeing those two images as bookends to your video felt so nostalgic!
i remember my introduction to these photos was my grandpa showing me that airfield one. since then ive been fascinated by ghost photos. thanks for taking me back down memory lane!
They might not be real, but they have informed so much of our collective concept of horror and spookiness, and have undoubtedly inspired many, many people to write scary stories and movies
This is great stuff! I may have had the Finnish edition of one or more of these books as a kid. These stories and pictures struck a very nostalgic nerve, it was lovely revisiting them like this.
Happy Halloween!
I'd absolutely love to see a video going over your book collection. I know it likely wouldn't do as well as your normal videos, but maybe it could be a quick video for a rainy day 😅 Thanks for your work!
Thank you for questioning Weber's admission. I've seen far too many people/vidoes/clickbait sites/etc saying The Amityville Horror is debunked because a lawyer, always the most trustworthy of individuals, said it was.
Thanks for letting us know about the gaming channel. I had no idea. Sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'd enjoy!
Oh my goodness! You mentioned the Haunted Britain book. My parents used have that book and read it multiple times. With that famous picture in it. I'm not sure if they still have it. They also had another book titled Magic and Superstition, that was an unusual book! They don't have that anymore. There is one page, like full page, picture of a goat, that has a sort of grin. It was very weird and disturbing. I never really liked looking at that picture. I think they were writing about Satan and that's why the goat picture was in there.
I see ur bitch ass still hiding in plain site like my kids in the background or family like every day but it's funny whoevers telling the story new about a holograph picture and said Turner.. & Page.. Warren Bros? Lion Gates.. what he left out was my families name mines James Fulton or George Floyd but those € is what's it's bout but I'm waiting for these mask to come off pages turning?? Pictures change like holograph's pretty much rape us alot pics in this video are mine or taken in Tulsa Oklahoma like Westminster apartment 78-8 but that fake ass holograph hub sun and moon it's bout to get ugly
Loved the vid. I grew up with a ghost book that had a cropped image of the Brown Lady in it. That one is burned in my mind, I was so freaked out by it. That last image is truly freaky, never seen that one before! Look very reminiscent of a certain Spooky Stories to Tell in the Dark illustration.
What a perfect way to end Halloween on, with spookiness and nostalgia! Thank you Shrouded Hand for covering these classics!
I love the little talking skull! 🤣
@@iwaspinnygigfirstthats shrouded hands LOGO i love it also,...im pretty sure this is the 1st time hes done this
Nothing to do with Halloween
I could have sworn the cooper family photograph was of a body falling from the ceiling as the photo was taken, i remember seeing this in a paranormal book i had as a child.
I’ve been fascinated by the paranormal since I was a child, and remember in my secondary school library, there was a collection of books called Mysteries of the Unexplained, and it was a set of about 6 big, black books. My sister and I used to scare the hell out of ourselves by looking at The Enfield Poltergeist photos. To this day, mid 40s, I don’t go to sleep lying on my back. It started as a kid as I was scared of being tossed out of bed! 👻
The picture of The Brown Lady of Raynam Hall is what kicked off my fascination with ghosts. I was 7 years old...so, I get ya.
This video was great , btw.
Hey, that book on Haunted Britain I read as a kid from our library over and over again, but it disappeared, and I never saw it again was only about 12 so the time of 1973 when it was written is right on and I could not remember who wrote it but as soon as i saw that picture I knew it was that book! SOOOO thank you thank you thank you!!!! You made my Halloween! Hope you had a great one too!
I've also always loved that last photo - it is incredibly creepy. However, one of the things that I always come back to is questioning why a departed spirit would look like they've cut two eye holes in a sheet and then just thrown a blanket over the top! Regarding the Cooper family photo, I can't remember where I read it but I recall reading somewhere that the ghostly body was actually an intruder (or was it a corpse?) that fell through the ceiling just as the photo was taken. However, that still doesn't explain the framing of the shot (unless it was cropped) or why no one is reacting.
ooh I love this! I hope you make this a series, I remember seeing a lot of similar pictures as a kid so I feel like I've come full circle 😂
I've seen the Raynham Hall photo multiple times in my life, it was even featured in one of my GCSE science textbooks back in the day for something or other, but I had absolutely no idea where the photo was taken. I spent 10 years of my life growing up in Norfolk, a mere 22 miles from Raynham Hall, and its not until now that I learned that the very place is where this famous ghost photo was taken. I've driven past it multiple times, and all this time I had no idea that one of the first ghost photos I ever came across, real or not, was photographed just 22 miles away from my childhood home. You learn something new every day huh 😊
That Cooper Family photo. I first saw that in a book called "The 1st Armada Book of True Ghost Stories", around 1974/75, so it has been around for quite some time.
The Brown Lady is my all-time favorite ghost pic. 🖤
I have a photo with a ghost. We did a cemetery tour in Jerome AZ. We were told to take many photos. After reviewing them we found a ghost man with a hat. We also recorded sound while we slept and caught something flipping the ice bucket handle.
I've always wondered why ghosts have items of clothing
Really great video. I had no idea so many of these had been explained. I've seen most of the images since I was young and it was a lot of fun to hear about their backgrounds.
2 things:
1: Please, Please PLEASE!! Keep the talking Shrouded Hand logo! It is PERFECT!
2: Please do a sequel to this!
Happy Halloween, Brother!!
no thanks the time spent animating that stupid thing is better spent making the video content better
I only listen to these and it's clear that animating the head to his words is just a waste of time
Yeah I agree no thanks animation was cringe and so was the topic of conversation.
Yeah I wasn't a fan of it, too distracting.
Thanks for the cool video, sir. I love these videos where you take photos , legends, etc, and discuss the sources, evidence and credibility.
I remember seeing a tv show where they tried to recreate the photo of the Brown Lady. If I recall, they came close, but the result was, of course, arguable either way.
There isn't any creditability to any of this, it's all bad photos, feelings and chatter. Creditability would involve science.
@@noswim My wording wasn’t very clear. What I just meant I like the videos where he talks about the sources, documented comments from people involved, etc. Whether they are credible or not isn’t for me to say. It’s a far sight better than channels that throw paranormal and shock effect in your face. This is almost like sitting and having a mature conversation about crazy things.
Better?
I'm loving the animated Shrouded Hand logo! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Haven’t watched the vid yet, might not. Terrified thanks to the thumbnail. That ‘monk’ photo was in the Usborne book of Ghosts when I was a wee lad (it’s been reissued in paperback - get it!) and absolutely terrified me. Still does to this day. Of all the supposed ghost photos anywhere ever - that one is possibly THE most sinister and evil looking. Off to change my pants now.
I read the Amityville book when I was too young to have read it and, yes, the pig with the red eyes kept me awake many a night thereafter. And then I saw the "ghost boy" photo which scared me all over again. It didn't scare me off creepy stuff, though...
That macabre collection of books you have should be celebrated and shared!
I look forward to Shrouded Hand’s Spooky Reading Rainbow.
Hi Shrouded Hand. The picture of the Amity Ville demon "boy" is actually a shot of Loraine Warren sitting on the steps with her head turned toward the camera. There's yet another picture of her doing the exact same thing among the Amityville pictures--that is sitting on the same steps but at a different time when the light is not so dramatic----Her features exactly match the "demon boy" including the snub nose. Jesse Glass.
Seeing your little shrouded hand face talking just made my night 😂
As a child around 8/9 i had a collection of these books too my favourite was photographs of the unknown 1981 which was my mums but i still have it and love it!
I was beginning to get concerned that Shrouded Hand wouldnt post on the holiday made specifically for him.
Well, don't jump to conclusions like that.
@@WingsOfAgeOfConsent You're right, Wings.
1:04
I've a feeling Dan Aykroyd will show me this picture while trying to sell me vodka
I can't get over your red floating head, made me laugh. It even blinks! Too bad so many scary photos are easily debunked. Good ones just require dedication or chance. I love a spooky mystery photo/sighting!
I knew Shrouded wouldn't let us down
I really enjoyed this video as it sheds new light on those old photos.
Thank you for an actual appropriate spooky Halloween episode that didn't turn someone's horrible murder into a "scary story".
Very well compiled, very interesting. Many thanks for your time x
I think spooky books with a lot of these famous pictures are where I started getting into ghosts and horror. Thanks for this!
Seems like there are a lot of those old pics with a bunch of people all lined up like a class photo that have a ghostly person at the back. And they are always said to look just like someone who's dead. I always thought it was just some person who moved out of frame or turned or whatever. They reason they always look "just like" someone is because its blurry, and, most of the people in the pictures always look a lot alike.
The duplicate picture frame in the Raynam Hall photo is the object against the wall about half way up rhe stairs to the left of frame as we look at it. It looks like part of the banister, which is maybe why you're missing it, but if you look at it, you can see the lines don't match up for it to be a banister. It could be another painting sitting on the landing and resting against the wall, but that seems unlikely.
This was great. Thank you, Shrouded Hand.
I had always most liked the story that the Cooper family photo was actually an unfortunately-timed snapshot, taken as the floor above suddenly gave way and dropped a mysterious corpse onto the table. This always made the most sense to me because of the blur lines seen on the dark figure but not the family, but also because there are a lot of photos like this that aren't spooky at all, where the picture is taken just as the event has taken place, but before anyone else in the photo has even been able to register it or react. That's what I always found most disturbing about the Cooper family photo.
This is the story I heard too, and it scared the hell out of me
Happy Halloween Shrouded Hand! Thanks for keeping it spooky season for us all year long!
I'm loving the new mascot guy! Watching him talk is adorable!!
Spooky and soothing as ever 🖤
Hey man i watch your content to fall asleep, and thats no diss! Thank u for that
18:26 this was the photo I remember sticking with me as a kid in the early 90s .. that, the De Loys Ape and the Bélmez Face photos all freaked me out back then! 😅
The picture of the ghost boy always gives me chills.
i love learning about the origins of images, especially the creepier ones so this video was really interesting to me! no image has unnerved me as much as that amityville ghost photo,, gives me the shivers everytime i see it, even while knowing the whole thing is most likely a hoax…
Thank you so much Shrouded Hand!
I’m same as you. Started reading and watching spooky stuff and before I knew it, I was hooked on horror and all things Dark!
Happy Hallows Eve❤🎉
The only guy in my subs who posted something spooky for Halloween so thank you! Lol love your stuff dude
Halloween without shrouded hand would be boring. Great video as always.
Thank You very much Mr Hand! Just what we needed!
I really loved the little logo head of yours flaunting around and commenting 😂
Lovely Halloween video, too, thanks for that 😊
Perfect timed upload right as I’m in bed! Happy Halloween!
Shrouded Hand, it's a request that you give book suggestions also. I know this might not be your niche, but please do so, there are worms like us who want to go for books too and just a glimpse of your collection made me fascinated. It would be great if you share the names and reviews.
I remember reading the book Amityville Horror when I was a kid in the 80s and it scared the crap out of me.
I've always wanted to visit the amityville house
I'm curious what supposed supernatural evil would think of me 😊
Nice! YT gets so much fun on Halloween.
That last photo of the 'monk' used to scare me sensless as a child. Every so often I would pick up the book with it in again and get all spooked out. A thought occurred- perhaps some of these images are the people doing the developing having a little fun with their customers. I should imagine it would be easy for professionals to do this, then just send it out into the world!
I wouldn't appreciate photos I had taken of my family being doctored
Happy Halloween, keep feeding us the creepy stuff year round!
This was great, thank you and Happy belated Halloween!!
I'm sure you know the one, but the ghost photo that scares me the most is an old one of what seems to be a cloaked or nightgown figure pulling themselves up a banister in a stairway. It's very old
Tulip Staircase Ghost.
I remember the photo of a couple having their picture taken beside trees and bushes and to the right and behind them is a clear shot of a woman running towards them with arms flailing screaming with black empty eye sockets
The amityville photo still makes me unsettled to this day every time I see it
I’ve just found your channel and your voice is so soothing, I could literally fall asleep listening to you speak.
GOD I totally forgot about the best in the Airbud movie collection; Amityville AirBud!
Thanks for the nostalgia knock, Shrouded Hand!
The Cooper family photo reminds me of the haunted house theme park attraction in Silent Hill 3 where a body drops from the ceiling as you go through it.
That's Danny 😊
15:14 that amittyville air bud is a nice touch. i would have believed it to be real when the amittyville series of movies includes "Amityville In The Hood"