Last week we brought you a report of the Ghost Boy photo from a Daily Mail report, and now thanks to the Ghost Theory website it has been officially labeled as a hoax.

It has been revealed that the hoax is thanks to an iTunes application that allows you to create your own paranormal pictures called “Ghost Capture”.

According to the iTunes description of the app:

Create realistic paranormal photo manipulations right on your iPhone and iPod Touch**!

With Ghost Capture, you can manipulate any photo from your iPhone photo album. After choosing an image, (or taking a new photo directly through Ghost Capture) select a ghost to superimpose onto the photo. Choose from creepy Victorian children, faceless torsos, Civil War soldiers, ghostly orbs, and more. After placing the ghost, slip the horizontal, adjust the size, rotation, and transparency to achieve the optimum effect. Don’t like the way your ghost is turning out? Hit the reset button to put it back in the center of the screen for you to start over or even select a different ghost! Save and email your creation to your friends, and let them judge for themselves!

You can also submit them to us for the gallery!

Check out what other people are doing with the app. From jokes to flat out creepy. At times pictures are done so well it’s almost a ‘Where’s Waldo’ game when trying to locate the ghost.

The source of the hoax was John Fores, who “took” the photo outside the building site and was very willing to speak to the Daily Mail, ironically about how this photographic revelation had swayed him towards believing in ghosts.

Perhaps in future though, Journalists should check on their iPhones for verification before printing obviously questionable photographs.

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[via: ghotstheory.com]

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