I have seen loads of creepy and ‘ghostly’ pictures in my time, but I thought this one put a real chill up the spine…..
Does it have that effect on you?
I have seen loads of creepy and ‘ghostly’ pictures in my time, but I thought this one put a real chill up the spine…..
Does it have that effect on you?
January 26, 2011 at 5:31 am |
Once I found the creepy bit, yes. It took a few seconds though.
January 26, 2011 at 5:31 am |
When you see it, you’ll sh!t bricks!!!!
January 26, 2011 at 5:33 am |
Help me. What should I be seeing.
January 31, 2011 at 10:55 pm
There’s an eye behind her
January 26, 2011 at 5:33 am |
It made me chuckle. I like it!
January 26, 2011 at 5:34 am |
i don’t find this creepy at all
January 26, 2011 at 5:36 am |
If I’m supposed to be seeing what I’m supposed to be seeing: meh.
January 26, 2011 at 5:37 am |
Took me a while to take my eyes off the fit girl to be honest.
January 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Where is she?
January 26, 2011 at 5:38 am |
Look above her head kind of follow her index finger to top of picture.
January 26, 2011 at 5:38 am |
If that’s a bloke with “the eye”…. I wonder if the flash of the camera stopped whatever he was doing
January 26, 2011 at 5:41 am |
Is it the staring eye?
January 26, 2011 at 5:41 am |
Meh. I had to read the comments to find it, but even knowing it’s there, my brain keeps trying to see it as a rolled up poster sticking out from the edge of the bed.
Before I read the comments, the “creepiest” thing I saw in the photo was that this girl still has Christmas tinsel up in February.
January 26, 2011 at 9:32 am
Good spot!
January 26, 2011 at 10:44 am
@ButMadNNW after coming back and looking at the photo again it really does look more like a rolled up paper or roll of twine/cord and if you cover over everything but the “eye” it seems more of a inanimate object. Hey you mean to say you don’t leave your Christmas stuff up year around…lol….
January 26, 2011 at 5:42 am |
Can’t see anything. Feel like a failure. Boo.
January 26, 2011 at 5:43 am |
Its a whispering eye, at first I thought it was that melted sponge bob face on bottom left…
January 26, 2011 at 5:45 am |
At first no didn’t see what I thought I should be looking for….never found what I first thought I should be seeing……ahhh but then I saw IT and yes first sight made me feel a flutter of butterflies in my stomach and a quickening of my pulse…..then enlarged the photo and have been trying to see what it really is or why….and what might have happened after the photo was taken…..he he he could have caused a scare to the person featured in the photo!
January 26, 2011 at 5:54 am |
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January 26, 2011 at 5:57 am |
What is so creepy about someone looking out from under a duvet to see what is going on?
January 26, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Maybe hiding from the camera.
January 26, 2011 at 6:19 am |
Hay come on that isn’t fair she’s not at all she’s lovely indeed, what seems though, can’t tell the inner personality!!
January 26, 2011 at 6:23 am |
The EYE on the top… above tinsel! it is scary!
January 26, 2011 at 6:26 am |
Saw the eye right away, then spend the rest of the time trying to figure out if she’s got a nice body or not.
January 26, 2011 at 6:28 am |
lol
January 26, 2011 at 6:30 am |
I’m not even sure if it’s a real eye. For some reason, every time I look at it it looks just a bit… stylized, as through it was drawn or something. I dunno, is that just me?
January 26, 2011 at 7:04 am |
After a basic zoom-in-and-snootle, I definitely think it IS there (in the original) and it is real because looking closer reveals the edge of a nose and the suggestion of the corner of a mouth, too.
Yup, jolly unnerving to randomly see an eye floating about the place but once brain had worked out “it’s a bunk bed” then we were well away. I think the reason it’s freaking people out is not the last vestiges of last night’s make up, but that the eye looks alarmed or afraid. Even with just one little “corner” of a face to scan, fear in others unsettles us.
January 26, 2011 at 7:13 am |
Wow, that’s certainly something toget the creeps from!
January 26, 2011 at 7:24 am |
I just figured it was a roommate at college who had no makeup on and did not want to be seen in the picture. It was a bunk bed. Nothing creepy, unless……
January 26, 2011 at 7:26 am |
I thought it was the weird doll-like face next to her handbag…had to read the comments to find the eye.
January 26, 2011 at 7:55 am |
I had to read to find the eye. And then still I don’t understand why that eye-like object would give you the creeps.
In the lower left there is also a white thing with a strange face.
Oooh… scary…
January 26, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Me too.
The white thing is the ghost of her pet angel-fish.
January 26, 2011 at 8:53 am |
Nope. If I try REALLY hard I can make that look like an eye but it still isn’t creepy in the least. Am I missing something?
January 26, 2011 at 9:08 am |
Ok, must be thick cause I don’t see anything ghostly on it at all!!
January 26, 2011 at 9:17 am |
I have to say my reaction was along the lines of: “girl in foreground, bunkbed behind, person under duvet peeping out. Where’s the creepy thing? Nope, I don’t get. Ohhhhhh, some people might not see a person under a duvet immediately. Now I get it.”
Didn’t work for me, though, sorry.
January 26, 2011 at 9:20 am |
Oh dear.I cant believe I spent a minute of my life looking at this.lol.
January 26, 2011 at 9:28 am |
When you see the eye, it’s looking straight at you. As a species, our instinct is to interpret a direct stare as threatening, unless further information from the rest of the facial expression provides a different context (as with the girl, who is also staring at us, but who is clearly friendly). Of course, there is huge variation between individuals, so some will find it more creepy than others.
The other factor that makes it creepy is our habit of creating narratives. On first looking at the picture, before we rationally figure out that it’s a dorm room with a bunk bed, what we see is a young woman with someone behind her, of whom she is apparently unaware. It works like the shower scene in Psycho, to create an air of possible danger.
January 26, 2011 at 9:42 am |
BOO!
January 26, 2011 at 10:19 am
AAAAHHHhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaahhhhhhhh……………. {running away} lol
January 26, 2011 at 9:56 am |
Nope, not scary or creepy. Not sure if it’s a depth-of-field thing but the partition looks too close for a real eye to be that small at that distance.
January 26, 2011 at 10:03 am |
Nope, not creepy here either.
January 26, 2011 at 10:19 am |
It’s an eye. And?
January 26, 2011 at 10:25 am |
Sorry, not creepy ..
January 26, 2011 at 10:32 am |
A bit freaky.
January 26, 2011 at 11:10 am |
Not creepy at all. Couldn’t even see what was supposed to be scary for ages. I agree the eye didn’t even look real at first, but after reading comments I see it could be makeup.
Very disappointing illusion.
January 26, 2011 at 11:39 am |
Took a while, but identified the bunk bed before the eye, so didn’t interpret it as suggestive of anything paranormal. Found it creepy due to a visceral feeling of, “This is how a serial killer would watch you before they chop you into bits”
January 26, 2011 at 11:40 am |
Nothing. Even after reading the comments and knowing what I’m supposed to be seeing… still nothing.
January 26, 2011 at 11:41 am |
I was expecting this to turn into one of those screaming flashing terror flips that lure you in with a calm and focussed challenge.
January 26, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Oh jebus! Those scare me half to death!! Glad it was just a crap eye photo now.
January 26, 2011 at 11:41 am |
I must be getting resilient in my old age because I didn’t find it that creepy. Shame, really!
January 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm |
As someone who finds tinsel quite creepy, yes.
January 27, 2011 at 9:22 am
LOL
January 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm |
About as creepy as a stale bread roll. *yawn*
January 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm |
Its just some one in the top bunk bed. Why is that creepy?
January 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm |
I’m not skeptic but this is blatantly a photo cutting of an eye placed in front of duvet.
January 26, 2011 at 12:17 pm |
Plain stupid…
January 26, 2011 at 12:24 pm |
Nope, not creepy at all. Its far too easy to provide a perfectly rational reason for someone being under a duvet in the top bunk. Christmas decorations in February aside.
January 26, 2011 at 12:41 pm |
YES! That abnormally short pointer finger is mega-creepy!
January 26, 2011 at 12:43 pm |
Pictures of the black dahlia or Manson Family victims on slabs freak the me out to the pit of my intestine. This eye doesn’t quite register on the bowel-shuddering scale.
January 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm |
Even after reading the clues in these comments and enlarging the photo I still cannot see what I’m supposed to see, although I can see what I think is supposed to create the effect that I’m supposed to see (if you see what I mean).
Is it a good thing or bad thing not to be able to see things that aren’t there?
January 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm |
If it were an eye then where would the rest of the face be? There’s not space in that mattress for it – there’s no depression in the mattress. So it can’t be an eye, it’s obviously one of those artefacts – a rolled up poster or something; and too unclear to register as anything other than clutter.
January 26, 2011 at 1:00 pm |
Definitely not creepy. Not even remotely ghostly…
If it had been in colour I doubt anybody would have given it a second thought.
January 26, 2011 at 1:09 pm |
Nope can’t see anything but a hot water bottle poking out of the duvet cover
January 26, 2011 at 1:12 pm |
Not creepy. Saw the ‘eye’ straight away, but the effect is ruined by it sticking out over the duvet (so it can’t be properly attached to a face, clearly).
January 26, 2011 at 1:13 pm |
I saw the eye straight away and thought it looked like something drawn. Couldn’t figure out what the fuss was about. Then somehow I forced myself to see it as a real eye and… yes, I was creeped out.
January 26, 2011 at 1:28 pm |
If this one put a real chill up your spine you must be easily impressed. It is about the least scary ‘scary picture’ that I have ever seen.
Pretty girl though.
January 26, 2011 at 1:53 pm |
Didn’t see it until I read the comments – not scary
January 26, 2011 at 2:14 pm |
24 February 2009 was mardi gras, i.e. the main day of carnival celebrations, which may explain the tinsel and the excessive makeup on the person under the duvet.
January 26, 2011 at 2:42 pm |
Didn’t see it until I read the comments. Still not creepy now I’ve seen it!
January 26, 2011 at 2:49 pm |
Person under a duvet? Not creepy in my books.
January 26, 2011 at 2:58 pm |
It looks like the eye of a dead person!
January 26, 2011 at 3:22 pm |
Pathetic. If I squint *really* hard it kinda sorta looks like a picture of an eye. Otherwise it’s just something in the background. If this puts a chill up your spine you’ve led a very sheltered life.
January 26, 2011 at 3:23 pm |
Maybe I’ve been looking at too many “photobombs,” but it just seemed kind of funny to me. Was I supposed to think there was a DEMON back there or something?
January 26, 2011 at 3:32 pm |
Meh. Not creepy. Just reminds me of the face under the sofa cushion picture.
January 26, 2011 at 3:41 pm |
Took me ages to spot it… I think I was looking for a “ghost” type image
But yes, I admit to being freaked out.
January 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm |
She is a murderess. She has just lured some unfortunate fellow into her lair and has brutally killed him. She has wrapped the body in a duvet and taken this photograph as a trophy. Does her gesture intimate that this is the second time she has perpetrated such a deed, or is she asking, ‘will you be number 2′?
January 26, 2011 at 4:28 pm |
I’m a very easily scared kind of soul but I’m not getting this at all. Had to read comments and keep going back to see what was supposed to be creepy. Can see what is being talked about but can’t see it as an eye. Meh.
January 26, 2011 at 4:35 pm |
Is that an olive loaf peaking out from under the covers?
January 26, 2011 at 6:52 pm |
Took me a while to see it, on my phone no effect, on the computer a little scary!
January 26, 2011 at 8:25 pm |
Tinsel in February – Yipes that is creepy
January 26, 2011 at 11:11 pm |
I saw the Cam Eye at once ! But i thought that is not the creepy part…
Two Possibilities:
1. Many Girls do fotograph herself in front of a mirror. But then the Cam will be on the Picture too. So she hide the cam under the bedspread.
2. Her friend hided a webcam undeer the bedspread, and that is real creepy !
January 26, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Ah, and 3:
We are not any more accustomed to watch black and white Pictures. If we see a B&W picture, its art or its from a criminal archive.
January 27, 2011 at 12:04 am |
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January 27, 2011 at 2:05 am |
What is creepy is not the picture but that so many people focused on whether the girl had a hot body…
January 27, 2011 at 1:47 pm |
I just showed this to my boss and she jumped about a foot in the air when she finally saw what it was. Really disturbing and I don’t know why!
January 27, 2011 at 4:46 pm |
On a more serious note, I wonder if vision acuity has something to do with it. I didn’t find it that very creepy, but I’m in my forties and don’t see small details as well as I did earlier. The eye wasn’t that distinct to me.
if I had sharper vision my subconscious might have flagged it and sent the “someone’s peeking at you!” chills down my spine.
January 28, 2011 at 10:21 am |
I keep getting drawn to the left side of the image – there’s a bit of dark tinsel and then what looks like an ornament on the shelf. Just next to that there is a face – looks a bit like a mask, but a ghostly figure.
January 29, 2011 at 7:16 pm |
Related to this I just saw an interesting video on Youtube that is being promoted as a ghost video. I am leaning towards it being fake but either way it is very well done. would be interested in peoples thoughts on this:
January 31, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Yeah… I’m thinking fake. She goes away but doesn’t stop the camera recording, she’s giving TONS of details about the moment, just so you’ll feel she’s a real person and be more likely to believe what she’s saying, and I can’t think of an easier way to move this glass than just pulling it from off screen. If you just had the glass on a piece of paper and pulled it an inch, that’d accomplish the effect perfectly.
January 31, 2011 at 11:36 am |
A bit odd, yes. Scary? Not really.
p.s., I use Christmas lights for lighting all year round. Perfect when all you need is a warm glow. ;-P
January 31, 2011 at 10:58 pm |
Surely it is obvious that it is the top of a hot water bottle – I could just about see it as an eye if I squint a lot. Definitely not creepy.
February 1, 2011 at 2:19 pm |
Just looking at this photo you can see that the perspective is off on the eye. There is a slight overlap where the eye seems to be in front of the blanket. Unless this person has eyes and mascara that pop out of their skull, then I cry fake.
February 4, 2011 at 4:19 am |
Man that scary
February 27, 2011 at 10:47 pm
i know right O_O
December 1, 2011 at 5:20 pm |
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February 9, 2012 at 10:55 am |
…….really……….really!?!?