The Cooper Family Ghost Photo

The Cooper Family Ghost Photo

This photo is doing the rounds again at the moment on paranormal sites and social media, garnering attention and a lot of theories.

The stories circulating vary, but the gist of the story is the Cooper family, from Texas USA, posed for a portrait, and when the photo was developed, the strange “falling body” of a man was seen in the photo.

Some variations of the story suggest the family knew there was a body upstairs, and it fell through as the photographer snapped the photo. Another suggestion is that there is no reaction from the family as the body was there the whole time and they knew, posing, hence why no reaction and no-one looking at the body.

The origin of the story is murky at best, with the “Cooper” family only be attached approximately in 2007. Previous incarnations of the photo don’t suggest the Cooper family origin story.

The most plausible explanation for this photo is that it is a fake. The photo could be a double exposure, and the film itself has been turned upside down to create the 'ghost', or it is a recent photoshopped photo made to look older.

Whatever the case may be – it is still a creepy photo!

What do you think, real or fake?

Further Reading:

Creepy Photos: http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f239/creepy-old-photos-103314/

http://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/275v8g/the_falling_body_i_find_this_photo_very_eerie/

Stigmata: Heather Woods

Stigmata of Heather Woods

A remarkable case of Stigmata is that of Heather Woods, why is it so remarkable?

Because this is one of the best-documented cases of The Stigmata in modern, if not all times.

Researchers John and Anne Spencer have put a great deal of their own and time and money into documenting Heather's particular case.

The couple's study has seen them live for three days with Heather as well as accumulate 12 hours of videotaped interviews, over 130, 000 words of dictated memories, access to all of Heather's private diaries where she had written about messages from God, her pain and other writings about her stigmata, as well as having access to all of Heather's writings that she claims are channelled messages from God.

Heather came from a background of child abuse, she was removed from her parents at a very young age, and subsequently abused by her carers, this led the researchers not to trust her psychological health as many people who suffer such trauma at an early age have psychological issues in their adulthood.

Abandonment issues often show themselves in ones adult lives as attention-seeking behaviours, of which Stigmata would certainly fit the bill.

Heather would fall into trance-like states, and begin writing at incredible speeds and drawing pictures of her visions, at the same time her stigmata would appear. She believed wholeheartedly that her writings and vision were given to her by God.

Her writings read like sermons and her pictures would always be of Jesus either being baptised or being crucified.

Heather stated that when she had the Stigmata she felt like she was “inside Christ” upon the cross, and felt herself with him at many times throughout Jesus life in the biblical times. She also felt herself with John the Baptist, she described it as 'It was as if I was there. I could see the water dripping from him, sparkling in the sunlight.'

Unfortunately by the time Heather was 44 she had been in and out of surgery for various organ failures and had most removed, she also suffered from cancer, and her body was a wreck, but she still maintained a sense of dignity, and some witness claim, “holiness” about her in her meetings with people and interviews with the media.

Heather was featured in a 1994 Easter documentary in the USA and is also the subject of at least two books.

http://stigmata-phillosophy.blogspot.com.au/p/heather-woods.html

Stigmata Video :

http://youtu.be/7dNFTJld8rc

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