| ID | #1553074090 |
| Added | Wed, 20/03/2019 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
From the first glance the shadow on the wall most people will seem just a shadow of the tree. The actual shadow of the tree is on the wall nearby. However, if you closely, the shadow looks very humanoid and like a man in a hat and with a long object in his hand. This photo along with other photos was made in the 1920-ies the British photographer Edward Hallsworth.
Photos for many years was stored in an unnamed family who recently posted the album up for auction for sale. The pictures were taken somewhere in the southern British counties, and this picture captured a little girl, sitting not far from his home.
As he wrote in his diary that the photographer, a strange shadow on the building, he noticed immediately when printed images. In his opinion the shade is very similar to a British soldier during the First world war with a gun in his hand. When he showed the picture to the owners of this home — two young women, they were in shock. It turns out they learned of the soldier, they said it is Jock McKee, who was friends with them when his regiment was stationed nearby.
In 1915, McKee was sent to Gallipoli, where he was soon killed in battle. Hallsworth described in detail what the reaction was from women at the sight of this mysterious picture:
"She immediately flinched and her face appeared frightened expression, then sat down on a low stool, and covering the head apron, started to sway, as if in painful sorrow. At this point, in walked another lady and she also saw this picture, and then exclaimed, "my God, it's Jock!".
Then they told me that Jock McKee was a soldier stationed in the city regiment of Scotland, with whom the sisters are very bonded. Then he was sent to the Dardanelles and came to him to say goodbye before leaving, promising to return. Some time later they heard that he was killed at Gallipoli, so seeing the photo, the sisters felt that the Ghost of Jock came to him, trying to keep his promise. Moreover, they even spotted next to him "shadow" from a little dog — pet Jock".
In total, the archive this photographer turned out to be about 500 photos 1920 - 1930-ies, but apart from one shot, all others were without any mysticism.
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Original news
A photograph that is said to show the ghost of a dead soldier has been discovered in a trove of snaps of the southern counties from the 1920s and 30s.
The eerie picture shows a little girl sitting on a step outside a red brick house was taken by photographer Edward Hillsworth on a sunny day.
When he printed it he noted the shadow of what looked like a WWI Tommy holding his upturned rifle with a dog sat at his feet on the front of the building.
He later showed it to the owners of the building, two sisters, and they were shocked as they immediately recognised the ghostly soldier.
Photographer Edward Hillsworth took this snap on a sunny day in the 1920s and later spotted the eerie figure in the background
They claimed that the shadow was the image of a Private Jock McKie, who befriended the siblings while his regiment was billeted in Rye.
He vowed to say goodbye to them before leaving for Gallipoli in 1915 but never did and was killed in the fighting.
At the time Mr Hillsworth, wrote a note about the conversation he had with the two women.He described showing it to one of the sisters: 'A startled, frightened expression came over her...she sat down upon a low chair, and covering her head with her apron began to rock to and fro in an agony of grief.
'At this point another old lady entered the room, looking very much like the first. Seeing the photo, she too was shocked and burst out ''Good God, it's Jock!''
'It transpired, Jock McKie had been a soldier billeted in the town with a Scottish regiment whom the sisters had befriended prior to him embarking for the Dardanelles in the First World War.
The ghostly photo is part of a trove of snaps from the photographer showing life in the 1920s and 1930s
The unseen archive of photos also contains street scenes and village life, including this showing a woman sweeping outside her home
'He had come to say goodbye before leaving but as the draft were on the move he was sternly ordered to fall in the ranks and was prevented from carrying out his desire.
'They heard later that he had been killed at Gallipoli, and the sisters believed that the shadow was Jock and his little dog, who always accompanied him, come back to fulfil his mission.'
The spooky photo emerged in an archive of 500 period photos documenting everyday life in various southern counties in the 1920s and 30s.
The scenes depicted include Rye harbour, Polperro harbour in Cornwall, Portchester Castle, Hampshire, Romney Marsh in Kent and the Port of London.
It has been consigned by the descendants of Mr Hillsworth, an amateur photographer and founding member of the Basingstoke Camera Club.
The archive is being sold by Surrey auctioneers Ewbanks.
Hypotheses
Pareidolic illusion
A variety of visual illusions (the so-called "sensory illusions additions"); is the formation of illusory images, as a basis which are the details of the real object. Thus, the vague and obscure the visual image is perceived as something distinct and defined — for example, figures of people and animals in the clouds, the image of a man on the moon, "a hidden message", audible when you reverse the audio recordings, the shadows formed by leaves or complexes of objects in certain lighting (sometimes at a certain angle).
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