Spooky or Fake Ghost?
Regardless of whether you believe in ghosts or not, graveyard shifts sure bring a number of us into fits of fear. The latest addition was a worker in a UK hospital, who while getting ready for a night shift and spotted a ghost wandering around in a children’s ward.
Andrew Milburn snapchatted a photo of the ghost to his girlfriend. The image shows the diaphanous figure of a girl dressed in Victorian-style clothing, leaning into a door at the end of a long hallway.
The ‘ghost photo’ has made Milburn an internment celebrity. His page is called Andrew Milburn, Ghost Hunter under the category, Public Figure. The photo has also received thousands of likes on his Facebook account.
Though the spooky viral image is being hailed as proof of spectral beings and scaring the hospital staff -- a lot of whom reportedly even heard footsteps around the area where the apparition was caught on camera -- a section of netizens have slammed Milburn for using ghost adding app like Ghost Capture and Snap Ghosts.
The fake ghost app allows users to superimpose ready-made “ghosts” into their own photos to make hoax pictures and spook their friends by fading them into the image to appear as an apparition. What’s more, the girl ghost in Milburn’s photo looks very similar to one the images in Snap Ghost.
But the accidental Ghost Hunter says the photo is very much real. (Supporters claim that since he was sending it to his girlfriend as a ‘proof’ that he was actually working that night, he wouldn’t dare to doctor it.)
Another group of retractors have also added on to the buzz around the photo, albeit for a totally different reason. According to their group, the focal point is not existence or non-existence of a ghost, rather the fact that his girlfriend did not trust him at all! While some called Milburn untrustworthy and a cheat, several others sent the girl hate messages for being controlling. So much for being an internet celeb!
Keeping the trouble in relationship aside, the photo certainly looks hair-raising more since we all know eerily quiet hospital corridors can be at night.
