Although our understanding of the world has progressed in recent years to unprecedented levels, thanks to the advances in science and education, there are still many things that we as a species simply cannot explain. There are countless mysteries and unexplainable phenomena that have puzzled experts for hundreds of years. Many of these have been brought to the attention of the public in the form of photographs or film that show creepy scenes that seem to defy any sort of answer.
While modern equipment and software allows anyone to modify an image using simply a computer, this has not always been the case. Despite the fact that most of these pictures could easily be faked in this day and age, it would have required a large amount of expertise or imaginative techniques to create some of the most frightening photographs from the past few centuries – something that just might not have been possible at the time.
This just adds to the eerie nature of the pictures as they are not just inherently scary but it is also impossible to know whether they were faked or actually show some kind of strange event that no person can adequately explain.
15. Solway Firth Spaceman
Commonly known as the Solway Firth Spaceman or the Cumberland Spaceman, this unexplained picture has been puzzling people for some 50 years. It was taken in 1964 by a local firefighter and amateur historian called Jim Templeton, as he spent a day at Solway Firth in Cumbria, England. He swears that no one else was in the shot when he took the photograph and was shocked to find what looked like a man wearing a spacesuit standing behind his daughter’s head when the film was developed.
Amid calls that the picture had been doctored in some way, Templeton sent the original to Kodak. The company eventually confirmed that the photograph was genuine – although there has been a possible explanation offered by some analysts. The major excuse is that the spaceman is actually Jim’s wife, with the white suit actually just her dress that was overexposed and appeared white.
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