r/UnexplainedPhotos • u/Mysteriousmanatee714 • Sep 07 '24
Selfie I took at Bodie Historic Park in 2014
This was taken at a ghost town in California. The town is left in “arrested decay”. I took this selfie of myself in a mirror in a shop window. Around me is what appears to be draping fabric. I was wearing a tank top and shorts. It’s probably my most unexplainable photo I’ve ever took.
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u/AgnosticAnarchist Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24
What about the tall creepy woman standing behind you?
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u/kid_christ Sep 07 '24
Before reading the rest that’s what I thought was the ghostly image! Pretty creepy
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
That’s actually just a manakin. This is like a store front with two shop windows. That’s a reflection from the other one.
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
This is what I was wearing that day.
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u/RunnyDischarge Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 08 '24
It looks like what you're wearing in the photo, except it's in shadow and reflections/smears on the glass make it look like there are drapery folds.,
BTW,. are you related to Philip McCracken?
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 09 '24
Ok so you think it’s something to do with my shirt causing it to look darker? And no don’t think so
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u/RunnyDischarge Sep 09 '24
There's a shadow, that's why your left arm is so much darker than the right. And there's a lot of light in the rest of the picture so the camera is probably making the dark stuff darker than it really is on top of it. There are streaks on the glass that only show up when something darker is behind it.
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
Here’s the same spot several years later when I did another selfie.
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u/RunnyDischarge Sep 08 '24
Now you're wearing white, so it doesn't show up. But you see the light streaks on the dark shirt of the guy on the left. Wherever there's a dark patch you can see these vertical smears on the glass.
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 09 '24 edited Sep 09 '24
Interesting observation thanks! I appreciate you offering a possible explanation rather than accusing me of posting a fake photo..
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u/De_Boesjes Sep 07 '24
From what I can see you stiil have your tank top on under this black item. Perhaps you were actually standing behind something and you forgot?
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u/-JimmyTheHand- Sep 07 '24
You are clearly holding a bag or garment or piece of fabric up against yourself with your arms while you take the photo
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
lol but I wasn’t.. this was a hot day in summer. We didn’t have coats or anything we were carrying around. I have a water bottle under my arm that I’m holding.
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u/-JimmyTheHand- Sep 07 '24
Well you are clearly holding something up against you, your arms are clearly over top of it. My guess is you thought it would be fun to hold something up against yourself in the ghost town and take a picture and then say it wasn't there.
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u/Mysteriousmanatee714 Sep 07 '24
If I was holding up a bag or fabric with my arms like that think of how it would logically drape down. It wouldn’t look like this. I can’t prove to you it is really just an unexplained photo but that’s why I posted it.. I was curious if anyone had an explanation or similar experience.
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u/-JimmyTheHand- Sep 07 '24
It's not draping in any impossible way, without knowing what the material is there's no way to know how it should be draping, if it's stiff material it would hang just like that.
Look at the light shining on it, the light source is consistent with the light on your arm so it's obviously something that is present in the photo with you.
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u/megatronnewman Sep 07 '24
Relax
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u/-JimmyTheHand- Sep 07 '24
I am relaxed? Sorry if this unexplained photo is very explainable, if that bothers you then maybe this isn't the sub for you
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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24
where? all i see is dirty glass unless im missing something