Mystery of The Deep

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This Doncaster student’s picture of an aquarium has baffled bosses at a tourist attraction with a mysterious image of a ghostly face. Emma Place, from Norton, took the picture on her mobile phone while visiting The Deep in Hull with her dad Alan, 48.

It was taken inside a tunnel which overlooks one of The Deep’s tanks and which appears to depict a human head, seen here at the bottom right of the picture.

The 21-year-old contacted bosses at the popular tourist attraction after her boyfriend Craig Richardson, 23, noticed the face after they had returned.

She said: “I was quite freaked out it’s the expression on the face. I have been there before and did not see it so I emailed The Deep asking what it was.”

Bosses launched an investigation to work out what the image was and CCTV confirmed nobody else was inside the tunnel.

Emma, a second year dental technology student at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “I don’t normally believe in things like that but it’s quite spooky.”

Colin Brown, chief executive of The Deep, said: “We are a scientific centre and we’re sure there must be a logical explanation. It’s just that we can’t find it. There must be some sort of optical illusion or reflection of images between the window, but we cannot figure out how it has been done.”

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3 Responses to “Mystery of The Deep”

scott Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Please…have you never been in a tunnel in an aquarium and tried to take a photo? The tunnel glass is curved and its almost impossoble to take a good, clear photo as the light bounces off the curved glass. This is cleary the face of another tourist walking through the glassed in tube whose face has been reflected off the cureved glass when the bright flash was taken. Duh…
Robin Says:
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
@Scott
But the article says that CCTV confirmed there was nobody else in the tunnel. Maybe you should have read the article properly before commenting?
Mandy Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I think that it is a ghostly face, as the article says there was no one else in the tunnel at the time the pic was taken.