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Ghost. United States

ID #1493626356
Added Mon, 01/05/2017
Author July N.
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Initial data

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Incident date: 
26.04.2017
Location: 
Салем, MA
United States

Like in Salem, one of the oldest cities in North America, located in Massachusetts, who once became famous for a witch hunt, and today is considered the best place to celebrate Halloween, not just scary enough.

On Wednesday 26 April 2017 mayor Kim Driscoll came across a terrible sight. She put on Twitter a picture where you can see the stern frowning face with wrinkles on forehead and mouth in the shape of the letter "O" looking glass street lamp standing in the Northern part of the city.

"Who else sees the face in the lantern? the mayor asked Driscoll in his tweet. – Though it is terrible?"

Maybe it's the Ghost trapped in the transparent lamp, or is it just a play of light and shadow on a cloudy day? Whatever it is, people immediately responded to the mayor's appeal. One of the Twitter users wrote that he saw the lantern the face of the dark wizard Voldemort, sworn enemy of Harry Potter.

If such a thing had appeared in some other city, it would be possible to laugh at the strange anomaly. But this is Salem, a former pirate hangout and the city of witches.

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Hypotheses

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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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Investigation

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If we consider this and other lights on Federal street near city court, it becomes clear the structure of the lantern. He clouded the glass and the interior arrangement of the parts of the bats such that the distortion and refraction could give this effect.

For example agalychnis lantern from a different angle:

If you look closely, it is also seen face, just quite sad.

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Resume

The most likely explanation. The version, confirmed by the investigation

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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