By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI Ghostwriter I have been to Thailand and Burma. I have never been to Vietnam, even though I flew over Vietnam and Laos to get to Thailand. I hope to one day visit Vietnam. Vietnam has become a friend to America and tourists are treated graciously. My half brother Andrew Somprise [...]
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The Bermuda Triangle is inexorably associated with time travel, UFOs, missing time and wormholes. Credible witnesses to the effects of the Bermuda Triangle have been witnessed by Charles Lindbergh to Christopher Columbus. When Charles Lindbergh was making a nonstop flight from Havana to St. Louis his magnetic compass started rotating. His Earth-inductor-compass needle jumped back [...]
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Flash reflections can degrade otherwise excellent pictures. This picture is ruined by flash reflecting in a mirror. Shoot mirror pictures at an angle to avoid flash reflection. Any shiny surfaces, chrome, glass, polished wood, etc. can cause a flash reflection. Once on the picture, a reflection is next to impossible to …
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This picture shows an example of a print made from a negative with dirt or dust on its surface. Be very careful when handling negatives because some dirt is difficult or impossible to remove. If dust, dirt or prints appear on a new roll (not reprints), the problem most likely occurred in …
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In the upper left of this picture there appears to be a small floating globe of bright light, with a reddish tint and some sort of “pseudo pod” extending to the right. Closer inspection reveals it to be a stop sign in the distance, several hundred feet beyond the area illuminated by the …
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This image was made by placing the camera on a tripod with an exposure setting of ten seconds. The subject, wearing a long black coat, stood in front of the camera for about three seconds, then ran out of the frame, resulting in a semi-transparent image
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This photograph was taken with an old-styled Polaroid land camera in 1959 at a location on north Damen Ave. which no longer exists. It shows a real girl standing on the stairs and this strange mist-like substance which seems to be exuding from her stomach region and collecting along the entire stairway. Some parts are [...]
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A black and white infrared picture taken at Hull House in downtown Chicago, Illinois by Dale Kaczmarek in November of 1980. This is enlarged blowup of the interior staircase of this most haunted house in Chicago. There was nothing visible to the naked eye when the photograph was taken but what appears are …
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An SX-70 picture taken by a Ms. Sahah of Chicago, Illinois in November of 1982 at the gravesite of her grandmother who died in April of 1934 at the age of 83. It appears to be a double- exposure but this is long before that was possible with an SX-70 camera. In this model, …
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This photograph was taken near a river in a forest preserve by a Ms. Mock. There is no direct sunlight that would cause this type of lens flare effect and it surely isn’t the first or last picture on a roll of film because the reddish blur is near the center of the photograph. …
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