This is going to be kind of hard to explain.
When I was in the 5th or 6th grade we had a substitute teacher. A very animate man with long hair, very effeminate. But we all loved him and enjoyed having him as our sub!

Anyhow, he told us a story once during our history lesson. He said he had visited the city of Hiroshima (or what was Hiroshima?) and that the shadows of the people remained as they were at the very moment the bomb hit. The shadows still existed, and hadnt moved.

Im not sure if this is an urban legend, true, or just some story he made up. Ive tried researching it, but cant find much.

Any help?

I'm not sure if it was of people, but I was able to find shadows imprinted of other things, like this :


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Years ago I saw photos of these "shadows", but I would have no idea where to look for them. They exist, but finding them may be hard

Wow! Thats pretty interesting...

Thanks

true, there was a doco about the 60th anniversary with interviews from survivors and several of the bombing crew. They showed a shadow of what was once somebody sitting on some rock steps pretty crazy stuff

NirmalaMaya I seen this link on a different thread:www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
Charon said there was some graphic pics there.
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well it makes since why theyre there and how they got there.

Yes, it is true.

I've seen many pictures of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, alot of them about this particular phenomena. Thermal rays leave imprints of shadows on stone.

bathory, good memory. That is indeed one of the more famous stone stadows. Here is the picture:



It is believed this person was sitting on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank, about 300 meters from where the bomb hit i believe, waiting for it to open one fine morning. Suddenly, a flash, heat within seconds exceeds temperatures well over 1500 centigrade, and the person was incinerated instantly on those steps, leaving behind only his shadow.

The shadow remained on those steps for about 10 years until it was moved to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. I don't know if it's still there, but 10 years of erosion took it's toll on it.

Here is another picture:



This is about a kilometer from the blast, you can see where the extreme heat scorched the surface but where the railing had cast a shadow the area is less scorched. 3-5 seconds of massive extreme heat from the detonation of the atomic bomb causes this.

Those are some wicked pics

Whoever finds people's shadows burned into the ground as a grisly reminder of what happend many years ago cool cannot be called normal.

Very good pics but I find all this rather simple to explain: when the blast took place, radiations moved across in all directions and scorched everything on their path, meaning: all that was behind any kind of object remained unscorched and untouched. The things that you guys are perceiving as shadows are actually places on the roads and such which are not scorched. It is the same thing as the getting tanned, if you observe the place on your hand where you wear your watch, it will be of a lighter shade than the rest of your hand because it is unexposed to the suns radiations.

Our english teacher was talking about those before. That's really weird looking, those poor people. :/

Wow thats horrible but also a reminder of 200000 peoples lives evaporated in a blink of an eye.

I see the pictures on PBS every now and a then... Japan poked at us and got the full brunt of the American hatred of the deaths at Pearl Harbor... as much as it was disgusting... in a way it was beautiful... the innocent for our innocent times so much.... they all scream it was bad for us... they poked at us! And they got it! Sorry to sound war happy... but they attacked us expecting us to roll over. How wrong they were...

Today Japan seems to honor being our allie... tis just shows times can change for the better.

It was such a terrible thing... killing alot of innocent people, but times CAN and HAVE changed.

This is a much better fate than what the residents of Nanking endured at the hands of the Japanese. Rape, torture, cutting pregnant women open, murdering children, burying people alive, burning people alive.

Yeah, that was a terrible incident with things we shouldn't have been toying with. A few good things came from all those people dying, if you will to have an optimistic view on things.

1. We learned that nukes aren't toys (Although we REALLY should have known this BEFOREHAND).
2. "Operation Downfall", the planned invasion of Japan would have been a worse alternative.

i think wat happened is that since lets say... turn on a fire in the ground, itll leave a burn mark around , but somehow with the nuke it made it from the inside

I don't know if it's true what happened there but that kinda thing was mentioned in the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.It said,


"Ten-fifteen. The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness. The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn. Here, as in a photograph, a woman bent to pick flowers. Still farther over, their images burned on wood in one titantic instant, a small boy, hands flung into the air; higher up, the image of thrown ball, and opposite him a girl, hand raised to catch a ball which never came down.
The five spots of paint- the man, the woman, the children, the ball- remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer." - There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury.

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I've seen a few documentaries about the bomb and they usually show the shadows. Kind of creepy, kind of sad but, I'd like to go to Japan one day and see them myself. A moment frozen in time forever. It was a bloody war with a blazing finally. I wonder if Usama has ever seen these shadows?

I am really against war.

Shadow have no form and are thus invinsible

What the hell are you talking about?

wow...that is down right crazy. i wonder what would cause such... very interesting never the less. happy holidays.

Jesse, I read that story in school. Freaked me out then, still does a bit. Of course (dating myself here) when I was in school we all expected someone to push the button any minute. I used to have nightmares about nuclear war. Once, when I was a teenager, I was playing hide-and-seek in the dark with my younger relatives and ran into a tree limb. It knocked me out and the last thing I thought, seeing a blinding flash of light, was that the war had begun.

I've seen pics of those shadows too. Very sad.

Anyhow, he told us a story once during our history lesson. He said he had visited the city of Hiroshima (or what was Hiroshima?) and that the shadows of the people remained as they were at the very moment the bomb hit. The shadows still existed, and hadnt moved.

Why would the shadows have moved? How could they have moved?

This is old.

My question got answered. (Thanks to everyone who answered it! Very interesting stuff)

So, in other words...
I will waste my time replying to you. But I wont waste my time trying to explain some technicality that doesnt even matter. ~_^::

Have a nice one.

Are they actually shadows or just an imprint/parts where the blast didnt touch/etc?

Does any one here remember the name of that "Duck and cover" turtle? They used to show us that when I was in elementary school. That was as late as the early 1980's!

To those of you that do remember it, I'm sorry. You'll be singing that song for the rest of the day now, huh?

Hiroshima is a city in Japan.It was one of the 2 cities that was bombed by American troops in 1954 during the Wrold War 2.it was bombed by Atom bombs.And yes it is true that these shadows are the shadows that was left from the huge explosion.

I came across this site while searching the web for the scientifically unexplained 8 survivors of the Hiroshima A-Bomb disaster. I thought some of you may be interested in the story about these survivors since it has to do with this event. So I signed up just to post this...

Following are two links that I found in my search. I know there are more out there but I don't have the time to post any more:
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Aside from this topic, there are numerous proven revelations, miracles, and events that God has allowed for the hard of hearts and the unbelievers. This is a grace you can take advantage of by doing a little research. Fatima was real. Eucharistic Miracles happen. People are miraculously cured through prayer by God. Unfortunately, people try to underscore and skew the truth for whatever reason. If you sift through the junk you Will find the truth. It's out there and you'll find it if you search hard enough.

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It seems odd to call them shadows, but think of them this way: A shadow is where light cannot pass through an object, or passes through it only slightly. The same goes for an a-bomb blast.

so sad...

Yep Try reading the book "Making of the Atomic Bomb" By Richard Roads. The pictures that you are looking for are in there. I must say it is creapy seeing a mans out line burned into bank steps or a horse, and man burned into asphalt. I could go on trust me... I want to go to hiroshima before I die.....

Weird...

As a youth in the Sixties, I read John Hershey's Hiroshima, and the burned-in shadows were mentioned in the book.

I have seen the pics that your talking about. Even with the shadows left by people that were killed. Im trying to look for photo's but haven't found any yet.

This is a great topic (only, it's a very sad subject) - what I mean is, when you read the OP you think it's a load of rubbish and can't be true, but it turns out that it is true, there are shadows in Hiroshima.

I couldn't imagine how horrific it was that day.

Hah I was going to comment about the pic but I just noticed that I posted here before :-p

For me it could be a imprint of the body from ash or you ever thing of this the body singed to a crisp molded with the concrete

Trust the Yanks. So many innocent people who had never done anything wrong, children playing with their loving parents, people like you and me (Not that I am in the least comparing you and me Kratos) without warning stopped living. And that is how you sum it up.

You disgust me.

Seek out and read a copy of Iris Chang's "Rape of Nanking." You'll learn just how brutal a nation can be.

Another picture...

Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel, Langhorne)
(1835-1910) b. Florida, Missouri

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.


Man is the true wild beast of this planet; I am so convinced of this…Pavot

I do not mean to be rude..but where are you living?? People are still killing each other...innocent people are being killed everyday. Humans are blood thirst, we have always had murder and war and always will.

The shadows were not just of people and objects. The pattern of this woman's kimono was seared onto her flesh. It was a horrible use of man's power. The flip side is that, while the US killed 200,000 people with the two bombs, the alternative was an invasion of the mainland. The months leading up to that would have seen a continuation of the firebombing of major Japanese cities, which was estimated to be killing 250,000 people per month. Additionally, the invasion itself would have claimed about one million Japanese lives.

The US Secretary of War at the time, Henry Stimson said, "The face of war is the face of death." There is nothing pretty about the mass slaughter of human beings. And the fact that the more 'advanced' man becomes in weaponry, the more civilians will pay the cost. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were big enough single events to capture the attention of the world, but the problem goes far beyond these two dates.

That poor women. No one should have to go through that....

I will. Wait, is it depressing?

In the extreme. I'd say brutalities of war, but "war" is stretching the point.

http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgott...5457&sr=1-1

"China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed."