portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Sunday, August 19, 2018

SPELUNKER HEAVEN!


As it's Sunday (well here it is?!?) we'll post something to try to scare the Beejayzus out of ya! (he was the Irish Jesus I think?) 
I love the struggle with science and getting to grips with explaining things that prove either to be fake (UFO's etc) or merely phenomena we don't yet understand (and there's lots of it remember . . . . . every living thing contains mercury . . . . and we don't know why!) 
Check this



This photo was taken in 1895 by an amateur spelunker/photographer named Oren Jeffries while exploring an unmapped section of Grand Caverns, in Southwestern Virginia.
At the time it was taken, Jeffries was conducting photographic experiments, using super long exposures to see if anything at all could be captured in the total absence of light—otherwise known as “cave darkness.” He would situate himself on level ground, extinguish his lantern, and then open the lens of his homemade box camera for as long as he could stand the darkness.
During one of these experiments, he heard something approach from the deeper recesses of the cave. Frightened, Jeffries abandoned his experiment and set off one of the Blitzlicht flashes he used for taking traditional photos underground.
According to the report he later gave to a local newspaper, Jeffries saw three “humanoid” creatures staring at him from the shadows and took off running in the other direction and didn’t stop running until he was topside. Several days later, he returned with three other men to retrieve his box camera. This is the image that was recorded on the film inside. (Source)

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