In the spirit of Halloween

[Bertha Adamson <badamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the pun is intentional.

I am addicted to the television cable channel, The Discovery Channel.
They do programming on a lot of different topics, ya know, documentary,
behind-the-scenes type shows. Anyway, one program was on the equipment
investigators into paranormal phenomena, i.e. ghost-hunters, use to
detect spirits. 

One guy extolled the virtues of using infrared film and nightshot
cameras with an IR light source. At first, I thought he was saying he
became inspired by the "ghostly" appearance of people in infrared, but
he is actually referring to capturing images not visible to the naked
eye. The infrared prints were flashed up so quickly that I couldn't pick
anything out of the glowing foliage. But using the nightshot cameras,
they got footage of little balls of light that seem to move
deliberately, changing direction and so on.  

Now, I remain skeptical because these things are taken too much at face
value, (little real scientific method applied to analyzing the data) but
it did get me wondering. We have so many people who have so much
experience at taking infrared images, I thought it would be fun to ask
if anyone on the list has an image that has caused a shiver down the
spine. Particularly shots at castles or especially bloody battlegrounds,
which as we all know, are swarming with ghosts.

No, it's not a technical question, but I hope it has enough IR relevance
for the purists. ;-)

Bertha

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