A strange picture with almost no backstory has been circulating the internet for years by now. The mystery of who and where this is as well as what really happened when The Girls in Manila and the Ghost Photo was taken, is still not solved.
A lot of the old analog photos taken of these alleged ghosts can easily be explained by the double exposure explanation. But as we have entered into the digital age and this no longer happens by itself, what then is showing up in the corners of our pictures?
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This was the debate going on about a strange photo that quickly became one of the more famous ghost pictures in the modern era. The Girls in Manila and the Ghost Photo has been circulating on most top creepy photos lists for decades, but what really happened when it was taken? However viral the image itself ended up becoming, the background of the image as well as the true story of it seems more elusive.
The legend behind the picture is that it happened in Eastwood City in Manila in the Philippines sometime in 2003. Two girls out in the city at night asked a stranger to take a picture of them. The camera was with a smartphone, or as smart as a phone could be back then and being a Nokia 7250.
At the time the picture was taken, none of the girls noticed anything strange or the hand that showed up in the picture, grabbing one of the girl’s arms.
Now, the legend of The Girls in Manila and the Ghost Photo has traveled far, and a lot behind the legend has been lost through time as well as translation.
Investigation into the Photograph
The first posting of the photo was made in 2003 and the Nokia model it was said to have been taken with was also released in 2003, so there is little chance that the image existed online for much longer than that. That is if we are to believe that this phone was the actual phone that took the picture in the first place.
Although we don’t often think about it, digital pictures often lose quality when it’s been copied and pasted as well as being edited and uploaded in different places. According to some, they claim that the phone could have taken a better photo than this, and it seems to have been tampered with after being digitized and spread online.
There is also the trend of “adding ghost templates” into pictures in apps and websites. But despite the similarity with many pictures from these apps, did something like this in 2003 that would be an exact match? Even though things look similar, there has yet to be found this. Besides, what came first, the apps doing this or the fame of the ghost picture?
The Mystery Behind the Girls in Manila and the Ghost Photo
When searching for the image, the earliest publications of the image seem to have been taken down. Most posts about it are short lists without many sources and in English. There is strangely little info about this image in the Philippines, something you would have imagined as it is so often posted globally. This begs the question, is the image even from the Philippines and Manila?
Who are the girls in the photo, do they even know about how the picture have creeped out people trying to find the answer to the hazy shadow of the third person?
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References:
Earlier Postings of the picture found by: http://anomalyinfo.com/Source/manila-ghost-photo-sources . Seems to be the one behind most of the research of the photo.
“The Unexplained,” post in the JR Video Spel Film website, posted 12-31-2000, viewed 10-17-2016. Online at: http://www.jrvideo.se/?m=200012 – This post is odd because it claims to have posted a picture from a Nokia 7250 three years before that phone was released.
“The Latest Internet Photo Claimed to be a Ghost Photo,” page in the Castle of Spirits website, posted ca. 2003 [Google sourced], viewed 10-17-2016. Online at: http://www.castleofspirits.com/handphone.html
“Ghost in the Photo,” post in the Ghost Files website, posted ca. 2004 [Google sourced], viewed 10-17-2016. Online at: http://ghostfiles.toxicsnot.com/full-bodied-apparition/ghost-in-the-photo/