Strange Experiance today

Engineer1964 · Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 6 Location: Colchester, Essex

Today i went to my father in laws old house to take an old fridge to the tip, he's in an old peoples home and the house is getting cleaned up to put out for rent.

Anyway after i'd got the fridge in the back of my car, i don't know what made me do it but i took a picture through the kicthen window at the empty kitchen, Not sure why, i guess its pretty sad as there are a lot of fond memories there especially when the Mother in law was alive some 10 odd years ago.

Anyway thinking nothing of it i showed my other half and she says that there is an image of her mum in the window??? I looked and sure enough there is and its almost a spitting image of her mum

Its not a reflection of me because if you look carefully at the mircrowave above the cooker you can actually see me with my Baseball cap, and Black fleece, Also the phone and case is covering up a good part of my face, and there was no one else there with me at all. My reflection also shows a dark shadow over my left shoulder which would tally with the reflection on the window..... Take a peek

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

I cannot see an image of anyone in the window. I can see the reflection of trees in the backgrouns in the window, but that is it.

flossy · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:10 am Post subject:

i cant make out an image of a face, i can see what resembles an eye Confused

i think its a relection of something, maybe something you didnt realise was there at the time, shadows and light reflecting off the window could of caused it too?

Agentscott · Joined: 08 Feb 2011 Posts: 1042 Location: Essex

I'm from Colchester, is this the old peoples housing on shrub end road?
If so I was there recently to when a freind was moving his gran out. I found the place spooky but I cant see anything here?

Sharla Tann · Joined: 03 Dec 2011 Posts: 161

carlos2010 · Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Posts: 288

do you have blue eyes by any chance?

I can see the your hood and an eye, then what id presume to be the phone and case blocking out anything else.

Just a double reflection, thats the problem with taking pictures through glass.

Engineer1964 · Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 6 Location: Colchester, Essex

Ok Here is the photo again with what i can see marked out on it

As you can see my reflection in Microwave the middle of my face is covered by the phone and you cannot see my eyes if that was reflected onto the window the surely it would almost be a mirror copy of my face with cap and dark fleece on and showing the phone also??

The fact that my partner said it was her mum because of the blue eyes made it even more spooky.

Also the Dark shaowdow behind me in my microwave reflectionis in the right position if something was going to be reflected on the glass.

if the sun was reflecting on the glass, surely i would see it also and move before taking the picture but that would only be if it was a reflection of me, I'm pretty positive that there was no reflection at all when i took the picture, and only found out about the "Face" when i showed it to my partner and had to look twice!

Engineer1964 · Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 6 Location: Colchester, Essex

Engineer1964 · Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 6 Location: Colchester, Essex

flossy · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:57 am Post subject:

try going back and take some more picys, just to compare, if you get another like that then maybe it is your mother inlaw trying to tell you something Wink

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3196 Location: Northern Ireland

It is just random patterns caused by light reflecting IMO.

flossy · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:30 am Post subject:

probably is cactus Wink

D B Sweeney · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:53 am Post subject:

It's the usual suspect Pareidolia I think.

DB

carlos2010 · Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Posts: 288

You reflection in the microwave would be different from your reflection in the window because of the viewing angles.

The shadow on the microwave is in the wrong side to contribute to the image on the left.

Double exposure from photographing through glass, freak lught reflection and pareidolia.

bitterbuck1 · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:30 pm Post subject:

After you outlined the picture, I can see somewhat of a profile.