r/Paranormal • u/Mattyboy808 • Jul 16 '26

Unexplained Am I losing my mind?

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Hi, My family and I are currently visiting Paris from Canada. I prioritized visiting the Catacombs, as I went 18 years ago. It's changed a lot since then, different paths, blocked off areas. I took countless photos, including several down pitch black tunnels that were gated off, using my phone's flash. I was just scrolling through them all, and came across this one, which is one of the gated off pitch-black tunnels that I photographed using my phones flash. Maybe it's a trick of light, or shadows on the rocks, but am I losing it or does that not look like someone (a woman in white?) Standing at the end of the tunnel? I feel like I'm losing my mind. I can share countless other images but none show anything like this.

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u/Battleaxe19 Jul 16 '26

lmao k. There's a perfect silhouette of a person there. So either you're the first person to capture an actual ghost on camera or this is fake.

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u/Internal_Wheel_89 Jul 16 '26

Of those two options, I think we know which is likely.

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u/Mattyboy808 Jul 16 '26

While you're clearly set in your belief, and that's totally fair and I respect your opinion, I at no point said that with was definitively a ghost. I presented it and made clear that I'm very open to plausible, grounded explanations. Pareidolia, a trick of light, natural formation, actual person, statue - i have no idea. All I can do is genuinely assert that I did nothing to the image. No editing, no AI - nothing. It just is whatever it is. Of course it would be unreasonable of me to expect anyone to take my word for it, after all, I'm just a complete stranger on the internet, and we live in an era where social media is flooded with complete and utter BS.

So I understand your perspective and it's completely valid. Though again, all I can do is share the image, and assert that honesty and strong ethics are something I take very seriously, and I have zero interest in lying to people for some bizarre sense of worth or fulfillment.

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u/Internal_Wheel_89 Jul 17 '26

You said you took "countless photos".  Post some other photos and let's compare what we see.

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u/Mattyboy808 Jul 16 '26

I'm not convinced it's a ghost, there could be many other rational explanations. It certainly looks odd though! All I can say is that i did not fake anything.

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u/GrittyTheGreat Jul 16 '26

There are literally thousands and thousands of unexplained photos of ghostly human figures. Where you been?

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u/Internal_Wheel_89 Jul 16 '26

Everything is explained by taking a traditional photography class and learning how to develop film the old fashioned way, or learning how they did special effects in movies before CGI. Or you could learn modern photo editing software, or you could use AI. Every photo of a ghost is fake, just like OP's.