Hello all

I was in Avonmouth near Brsitol this weekend watching my brother playing in a band at the Avonmouth Tavern, as usual I had taken serverl pictures of the band and the local's having a great time,
When we returned home found this picture which is a bit freaky!
I dont smoke and cant stand the stuff but this picture is thick with smoke!
Also a great Ord for good measure even if it is dust still pretty good.

What were you trying to take a picture of in the second pic ?

I was just randomly taking pictures of the pub.

Hi, I think that is cig smoke - check the guy sitting in the distance with a cig in his mouth as well as the ashtray.

One good thing about the smoking ban in Scotland is that smoke is now one factor nill in pub/Inn pics

Yep, someone smoking a cigarette.

I find those red ear muffs more odd than the smoke

The band must have rocked.

the only person smoking was at the other end of the bar!
there was no noticable smoke when i toke the picture, yet this looks like a bloody fire wilth all this smoke!

Is it possible that it didnt' appear all that smokey but the flash from the camera reflected off the smoke making it really stand out?

Agreed. It may not have seemed like it at the time but the flash hit it and poof, instant highlights. I've had a full roll of photos from a Halloween party one year ruined because I got drunk was was smoking the whole time I was taking photos. Play with it a bit, it won't be hard to recreate.

The fact there is a guy with a cig in his mouth and the ashtrays it makes it impossible to take this pic as anything other than smoke a camera flash would illuminate smoke, smoke can linger thickly in humid/stuffy conditions..

yeah but still bit freaky!

And lets not even get into the orbs.

but not as freaky as those read ear muffs

that girl was a complete loony bin! she was dancing on tables and the bar!

missed the furry ear warmers first time round

Where are the pictures of that??? I could use a good laugh

LOL Razer

please dont let there be any earmuff jokes yet!
please dont let there be any earmuff jokes yet!
please dont let there be any earmuff jokes yet!

bummer!......B




strange days indeed!

JL

....................B








on this note barek will begin new "fake but fun" post(promise! football related delays here!!)

im gonna dissagree with a lot of you on this so please dont bie my head off sure the smoke idea is ok but there is part of the smoke that gets me (see image below) in my "magical" red circle (lol) i have part of the smoke that seems to be acting weird, not like the rest of the smoke, its thick in the middle then slowly gets thinner. anyone have any elplanations that could help me understand?

(please note i am taking no credit for this photo or saying its mine cause its not its NEWTEZ's)

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w185/Bl..._2007/smoke.jpg

Looks positivley evil to me look above the 6 individual lights near the top and you can see a spooky looking face and as far as that wierd smoke goes looks like an arm??

Cheers for the replys, even my 4 year old girl can see the face,
The landy lady of this pub knows this pub is haunted she told us a few tales, she said that when she is stocking up and she will clean the beer lines, she will turn the gas off connect the water flush the beer then will pull through the beer, reconnect the gas but when she returns back to the pumps no gas! she returns back to the celler the gas has been turned off, she turns the gas back on then returns back to the bar to pull the beer through no gas again! you have to turn the gas reallly hard to cut it off she advised! she said this can happen five or six times, plus she is the only one in the pub as both doors are bolted from the inside

I. Really. Hope. You're. Joking.

If not, this board has reached tenuous new lows.

I just see smoke and a woman pulling a face.

I just see smoke in a bar......rare and odd, I know.....but I sincerely can't see anything paranormal there. It would be freaky, though!! Nice Pics!!

I see the face too...but it kind of looks like it has bunny ears on the head...but I am an artist so I could be seeing what I want. lol.

I'm with Blueguardian on the smoke "arm" acting weird though.

Also, I smoke and I KNOW that is not smoke exhaled from the guy waaaay off yonder. That's what smoke looks like up close, usually trailing of the lit end...except for the weird arm thingy.

And did you guys say this was in Scotland? Scotland is so XTRA haunted...I'd believe it.

Regarding the smoker being so far away, smoke drifts and it does stay in the room even though it is often not visible to the naked eye (especially in darkened environments).

There is also the possibility that someone simply walked by and blew a puff in your direction before the shot was taken.

It is possible that this isn't smoke, but smoke is certainly the most likely explanation. Occam's razor gets my vote.

Hehe, sorry, beat you to it

You know, I have to admit the first time I looked at the photo I thought it looked a bit like a face in the cloud of smoke.

don't u guys see a face in that photo? or is it just me? i mean i could see two spots(eyes) and a bigger spot (mouth)

There is something that looks facelike when I view the photo. I don't put to much into that though, we are actually hardwired from birth to recognize human faces and it is completely normal to see faces in natural objects. Just look at all the Virgin Mary and Jesus pieces of toast you see on Ebay.

Pretty sure that's just smoke.

Yeah the old toast one that was something else! shame I cant sell this on ebay.
Funny thing is my neighbour cant see the face yet her husband can,
If you look closely the smoke where the face is formed is tightly packed as opposed to the smoke around it which is flowing freely.

This is the pub

http://www.3ales.co.uk/avonmouthtavern/avonmouthtavern.htm

Nice tavern, reminds me a bit of one I hang out at on occasion. Of course, we have to go outside to smoke, so if I take a picture like yours... that would really be something!!! hehe.

Shame really that would be somthing else if it was a non smoking pub,

hey MVxK i am entitled to my opinion just like everyone else, you dont have to agree with it, but you dont have go and say stuff like that

cheers people (sorry this is a bit off topic)

smoke in a non smoking pub that should be something to think about

Man, I really am hungry for some Jesus toast now.

You'll have to settle for the Jesus bandaid.

? I can't eat a bandaid. Well I guess technically I could, but it'd be chewy and taste horrid.

UPDATE
2nd viewing PICS-(done laffing at muffs)- face? sure! -I SEE FACES IN MASHED POTATOS- but look in the upper left of the smoke you will see a dim orb grouping...cool!..............b








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do u guys have a link for the toast? cuz i can't find it on ebay

I"m with the folks that said the ear muffs are the most concerning object in that pic.

Yeah thats weird how it does that

I'm not quite sure what to make of the pics. My brother took some pics awhile back at my mom's house. They showed similar smoke-like swirls and such. He swears he wasn't smoking when the photos were taken, so I don't know. I do know that I had a lot of experiences in the house while growing up there.

I began working professionally as a photojournalist in 1985. Today, I'm a professional writer and photographer.
It's smoke.
Smoke. Smoke. Smoke.
I know. I've had the same thing happen when I covered public meetings and such.
Someone mentioned that the camera flash can bring out things you don't see, or see very faintly. This is absolutely true! In a room with a number of smokers, smoke can linger and swirl about for some time. I smoke a pipe on occasion, and often see its smoke hang in the air in layers and swirls if I get into an extended puff-fest.
Actually, you can use smoke to your advantage for photos. The flash brings it out, so you can send a puff toward a creepy headstone in the evening and photograph the stone with flash. You'll get an odd mist around the stone. Makes a good photo for a Halloween card.
Orbs? Oh puhleeze! It's dust in the camera, on the lens or floating in the air. In the old days, before digital photography seemingly made everyone a professional photographer, we called such spots, "crappy photography." Today, it's the source of much mystery and speculation.
It's dust. Dust and smoke. And the human brain's ability to create faces out of darned near any arrangement. Put two dogs on a page, and draw a line under the dots, and you instantly have a face. It's something we're born with.
As to the red ear muffs ... weird. Was the band so LOUD she needed them? Did the heat go out?
And just WHY didn't you get photos of the gal dancing on the tables and bars? Huh? I would have preferred that!
As for the pub being haunted, that's likely. Pubs seem to draw a lot of ghosts. Frankly, if I were dead I'd want to haunt one: beer, laughter, music, dirty jokes, pretty girls and the occasional barfight for high entertainment.
I'd be a randy ol' ghost too!
I can picture some cute waitress leaping in the air exclaiming, "Gatofeo! You nasty ol' cat! I know you're in here! And if you grab my bum one more time, I'm calling in a herd of exorcists to send you where you belong!"
<spectral giggling> heh heh heh ...

^^^^^^^^...I was thinking the same thing myself......

Oh and yes it look's like smoke from a cig to me.....

Yea but he said that pub was a non smoke pub some where did the smoke come from?

I didn't read that it was a non smoking pub, it clearly is a smoking pub as there is an ashtray on the table with cigs in it and a man with a cig in his mouth