These two photos were taken in 1988 at the Hotel Vierjahreszeiten in
Maurach, Austria. Several vacationers gathered for a farewell party at
the hotel and decided to take a group photo. One of the party, Mr.
Todd, set up is Canon film camera on a nearby table and pointed it at
the group. (The table is the white band at the bottom of the photos.)
He set the self-timer on the camera and hurried back to the table. The
shutter clicked and the film wound forward, but the flash did not fire.
So Todd set the camera for a second shot. This time the flash fired.
The film was later developed, and it wasn't until one of party
members was viewing the photos that it was noticed that the first
(non-flash) photo showed a somewhat blurry extra head! (In the sequence
above, the second (flash) photo is actually shown first for the sake of
comparison.) No one recognized the ghostly woman, and they could not
imagine how her image appeared in the picture. Besides being a bit out
of focus, the woman's head is also too large compared to the other
vacationers, unless she is sitting closer to the camera, which would
put her in the middle of the table.
The photo was examined by the Royal Photographic Society, the
photographic department of Leicester University, and the Society for
Psychical Research, all of which ruled out a double exposure as the
cause.