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Originally posted by Xaberz
Why don't you ask Cindy if she knows who took the photograph. Then you can show the picture to the person who took it and ask if they remember if your brother was there.
Originally posted by Trueman
The ghostly face on the right of the flag looks like smiling for the photo too. What about the camera used, do you have it now?
Do your brother recognized the clothes his image wears in the photo ?
Frank was (and still is) an extremely dangerous individual. Big on guns and creating corpses
Originally posted by AlphaBetaGammaX
Originally posted by chrismir
Indeed there's something fishy going on at the top of the picture. At the ceiling, from the back wall to the top of the picture there's four lines. The two most left and the right one are visible all the way to the top of the picture. The second line from the right does not, just as the chandelier chains abruptly are cutoff for no obvious reason. Overexposure, as elevenaugust suggested for that spot, would have been more gradient like.
I assumed that to be the result of the extremely bright light from the doorway. It looks like the room was rather dark, and it was really sunny outside (maybe even an hour or so from sunset, so the angle of the light made the light shining into the room more extremely bright compared to the rest of the room). While considering an object cutting off the sunlight at different angles, one could see how the light might appear like it is in the picture.
Originally posted by soaringhawk
reply to post by NorEaster
What did you mean by this?
Frank was (and still is) an extremely dangerous individual. Big on guns and creating corpses
Creating dead bodies? He's a murderer?
Originally posted by ThinkingCap
The expression on his face is very strange. When I was reading your thread I at first thought that this was your youngest brother whom had died - just on Brion's expression alone.
Once again, look at his face. He looks like he sees a gun, I must say. Heh.
Originally posted by Fatmandy
where are your brothers legs? Im pretty sure given the height of a torso and the position he is standing there should be more leg seen under Cindy's right arm.
Originally posted by cfnyaami
reply to post by NorEaster
Did your brother who passed away look like Brion? Maybe it's he who's in the photo...or someone who's a doppleganger...
Originally posted by fixer1967
Are you 110% sure this is at the VFW hall and taken at that time. Do the woman in the photo have the exact same clothes on in the other photos taken at this event?
The hall would have changed a lot since then so going back there is out. Can you get photos from other people that were taken at the VFW at this time and this event and other events at the VFW hall around this time. If so try and find other photos that match the back wall and ceiling. The flag will be a good center reference point. I am trying to remove all question of the exact location and time frame of the photo. And this may help explain the odd lighting if the same is seen in other photos.
Originally posted by davethebear
I had a very similar experience to this at the end of the eighties, regarding a lookalike, doppelganger photo.
In the middle eighties I used to live in an area called the Black Country in the West Midlands, UK. That particular area is called the Black Country because that is where a great deal of the industrial revolution began, therefore loads of smog and soot is from where the area got it's name.
In the eighties between 1984 and 1987 I used to play in a band, all the members of the band used to perform wearing 1920's and 1930's clothing, I was the only member of the band who used to wear a bowler hat. I am instantly recognisable, not because of my bowler hat, but because of my build, face etc. For those people out there who know what a person with Acromegaly looks like and their characteristics, then you will know what I am talking about, we are normally sighted and whispered about within seconds of getting on a bus or entering a room, that's how much we stand out.
Anyway, in the Black Country area there is a weekly paper called The Black Country Bugle. The Black Country Bugle is a weekly paper that looks at years gone by in history from around the local area. Every week there are old black and white photographs that people send into the paper to be published along with a particular story to run alongside it. On this particular week in about 1986 there was a photo published on the front cover of the BCB that was taken in 1919. The photo was of a cricket match that was taken alongside a band stand where a band were sitting with their brass instruments and people standing around watching the game of cricket.
But this is where the photo became interesting....Slap bang in the centre of the photo, and looking straight into the lens of the camera and smiling, was me. When I say it was me, it really was the spit of me. I was dressed in the clothes of the day and was wearing a bowler hat, the person had my face, my stature and even stood in the same way as what I do.
I wasn't even aware of this photo being published until I got a phone call from a friend asking me how I managed to be part of photograph from 1919 and wearing the clothes that I was wearing and performing in as part of my band attire. People I bumped into over the next few weeks kept commenting how they had seen me on the front of the newspaper and asking if it really was me. To this day I still do not know who that person was and why they looked like me. I still have the paper clipping in my mothers loft in England somewhere. I now live in Australia, but when I get the chance I will try and get the photo from 1919 and post it alongside a band picture of me from 1986, the resemblance is totally uncanny.....
I actually remember the next band rehearsal we had after the photo was in the BCB. We all sat round staring at it in amazement, not really knowing how it was possible......
Originally posted by Death_Kron
Put simply OP, if your sure that's definitely your brother in the photograph then he was there. I can't think of any other logical reason....
P.S. Cindy is hot!edit on 12/7/11 by Death_Kron because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Trueman
Bilocation could be the explanation.
Bilocation can be defined as the simultaneous presence of a person in two different places. Numerous witnesses connected to the Christian religious tradition have reported events of bilocation, which have been attributed to many Saints. Padre Pio had this charisma and had been seen by eyewitnesses in different places at the same time. Here are several testimonials.
www.padrepio.catholicwebservices.com...
Originally posted by soaringhawk
reply to post by NorEaster
So why wasn't the law ever called on him and brought to justice?
The photo doesn't look doctored to me. I believe thing's can appear in a photo that has no logical explanation. My family has had one odd photo from a Polaroid.edit on 12-7-2011 by soaringhawk because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mossme89
reply to post by NorEaster
Just curious, but why do Brion and Frank hate each other?
Originally posted by Time2Think
One other question for you because honestly your story itself is sort of hard to follow, you have like 5 or 6 different people invovled and 2 or 3 different stories occuring during the same period of time - your brothers weren't twins were they?edit on 12-7-2011 by Time2Think because: (no reason given)