Unexplained person found in photo thumbnail

Posted by admin
September 3, 2008

I was busy searching for a photo on my Windows XP PC. Searching in a folder that was set to thumbnail view I found this image that I thought I could use. Upon opening it, I noticed that the image displayed in the thumbnail was different to the image displayed in full view .

The enlarged photo was missing a shadow that looked to be a man standing next to the stairs on the right.
Proportions of the shadow in the thumbnail look completely real.

This is the original photo on my pc that shows a figure next to the stairs when viewing in Windows XP thumbnail view.

Ghost in Image

This is what the thumbnail looks like


What I did was cut out the figure, enlarged it and placed it over the large photo.

Download the top image and try for yourself.
So can any one explain this?????  (comments welcome)

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Comments
Comment by Simone Puterman on September 3, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

It’s the twilight zone…

Comment by coda on September 4, 2008 @ 1:48 am

This link explains it

Comment by purrplekat1989 on September 12, 2008 @ 8:41 pm

Oh man I downloaded it to see what happens. And I was like hodang it works!!

Comment by Ryan Grange on November 4, 2008 @ 8:40 am

You can see the spots in the large versions where the person would be. The thumbnail was generated and embedded prior to this person being cut from the image.

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