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Pub Phantom?

Last updated: 24 November 2005

Reuben Hayward thinks he may have snapped a spook at the Tynllidiart public house in Capel Bangor near Aberystwyth. Click through these images he took using a mobile phone camera and see what you think.


Photograph taken by Ruben Haywood next page
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Reuben Hayward, originally from Aberystwyth now living in Narberth:

"I took these photos of my friend Polly in the Tynlllidiart pub on Friday night a couple of weeks ago (March 2005). When I saw them later, they freaked me out. I believe I might well have seen a ghost..."

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Freya from Anglesey
If the woman wasn't holding a cigarette in her hand then I would beleive this photo. It's just smoke that has, by coincidence formed the shape of a face!
Fri Oct 5 08:38:02 2007

Leanne from Monmouth
That is so fake!! I believe in ghosts whole heartedly - but Im not stupid!! Great site though, really enjoying peoples real life tales of ghosts......
Mon Aug 13 09:39:50 2007

person from somewhere
the first two there is nothing except what looks like smoke {bottom left corner} in the first two.
Tue May 15 10:23:43 2007

Sandy
The wonders of Photoshop! The 'ghost' clearly crosses the boundary in the image of the girl's forehead yet it is behind her nose. Hmmm... you can do better than this methinks!
Sat May 5 14:56:19 2007

Ashley Martin from Chawton,Hampshire
The first two photographs don't show anything strange at all but the third is certainly very odd. There is no possible way that Cigarette smoke can create an image like this. It is definitely a person's head, real face with a long neck(and what I think are white hands in front of it in the bottom left hand corner of the picture). The photo seems Just to good to be a fake because it certainly is Extremely Ghostly but I could be wrong...
Mon Apr 2 09:49:41 2007

hauntedpubsuk
It's just smoke!
Fri Mar 23 11:31:18 2007

Sam Hall from Havant
It is clearly a ghost, maybe it's the previouse owner of the pub, or maybe it just got caught on the camera there and then.
Fri Mar 23 09:46:26 2007

Kindra Vaughn from Ohio
That was really freaky and doesn't look made up.
Thu Jan 25 11:15:59 2007

Jim and Bartz
WTC smoke was real.I saw it live on TV as it happened and I said wow the devil.
Mon Nov 13 10:01:46 2006

mashood frm fortkochi
I think it is because of the smoke or so me tricks used to cheat the public anyway, It is good.
Thu Sep 14 11:23:01 2006

Kat, Reading
If it is a ghost...it had a very small head when he was alive??? I believe in ghosts and that and I believe the faces in the 9/11 clouds but I am not too sure about this one although...supernatural isn't supposed to be real...
Wed Aug 30 16:33:19 2006

Shane from Blaeanavon
It doesn't appear to be any kind of spectre or supernatural entity, just merely smoke, although, one can't deny the uncanny appearance that it has to a man.
Tue Jun 27 12:36:20 2006

Jemma from Lichfield
It is clearly human. It is a man sat behind her, but masked by her human smoke. I am a believer and I do not believe that that is spirit life forming, sorry to burst your bubble and all that, but it's not. You need to get the photo properly checked out by a pro, if it is an apparition, then I shall eat my so-called hat.
Tue Jun 20 13:58:12 2006

josh
its too real to be fake.
Thu Jun 8 10:14:35 2006

Tina from canada
I don't think that it is caused by smoke the face is too clear. And if it is nice trick.....
Thu Apr 13 15:36:55 2006

Alex Clarke from Reading
It's prbably the smoke - sure, it looks pretty real but it's just a coincidence. Clouds form all sorts of shapes in the sky but the occurance is only natural.
Mon Mar 6 20:56:42 2006

Dio, Weird Wales
It's not a ghost. She's smoking, the human brain is hardwired to see faces in random patterns. Once you see it, there's little you can do shake the image. Its like the Face of Mars or the man in the moon. If she wasn't smoking I'd be impressed, but as she is, this is little more than a chance smoke pattern - like the devil's faces seen in the billowing smoke in the aftermath of the Twin Towers attack on 9/11.
Wed Feb 22 15:56:18 2006

Richard from penarth
That looks to be one of the best ghost pictures ive ever seen! WOW
Mon Jan 30 17:05:16 2006

Goth, Humberside
In Hull we have lots of ghosts in our pubs we even have a pub called the Ye Old White Hart witch has a scull to this day behind the bar to stop the pub from been haunted by the the ghost that the scull belongs to and a pub cold the Ye Old Black Boy is haunted they say there was a smugglers tunnel from the docks to the pub but it flooded and the smugglers drowned and they haunt the pub.
Fri Nov 11 03:04:14 2005

Paul, Banbury
A ghost definitely but not a ghoul!
Tue Oct 11 15:45:39 2005

Peter Williams from Delaware
In smoky pubs, one can imagine almost anything. Anyone daft enough to smoke in the first place deserves to see ghosts...
Thu Sep 8 13:41:28 2005

Nia, Blaenavon
I think there is something supernatural about the third picture. I don't see how smoke can take the shape of a face.
Thu Jul 28 14:58:55 2005

Cerys
John from London must have really weird smoke in his neck of the woods!
Mon Jul 11 21:21:27 2005

Carys Kirny from Llandudno
Wow, that's really creepy.
Sun Apr 10 16:17:27 2005

John from London
It's clearly just smoke!
Fri Apr 8 14:25:58 2005

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