Deadly Ghost Photo

For quite some time a ghostly photo has been making its way through the internet attached to a chain letter with a deadly story and a warning. And for quite some time we at Haunted Bay have felt left out because nobody forwarded this letter to us as a chain letter. Well we don't have to feel left out any more because it has finally arrived (via 39 other people), the famous "Read before you look at the photo" letter.

Here is the letter:

The guy in the photo went to the Sundarbans with his friends and he asked 1 of his friends to take his picture in that very place. While his friend was taking the picture he screamed and fainted, 2 days later he died in the medical college. Doctors said he died because of heart attack. When the photos were exposed, in the last photo there was a lady standing right beside him though friends claim that he was standing alone. Many people said it is a rumor and the picture is the result of the blessings of latest technology. However, the photo itself is very scary and I'm sure you'll also feel the same way I've felt. Here you go with the photo!!

A navy officer sent this letter to 13 people and he was promoted! A business man received this letter and threw it away ..not believing in it.. and he lost everything he had within 13 days.. It reached a labourer and he distributed it to 13 people.. he was promoted and all his problems were solved within 13 days.. So you must send this e mail to 13 people for something  good to happen to you so people.. get sending !! :) don't be lazy.. P/S : Do not send back to the person who send this to you!!!

Needless to say it is a hoax and suffers from some rather poor photo editing but let's face it, a great story. It's reminiscent of the various Ring movies where, after watching a video tape, the viewer has only a limited time to live or in this case before something bad happens. In both cases if you do something, either solving the mystery of the ring in the case of the movies or forwarding on the letter here, you can avoid misfortune.

What takes this hoax a step above the average urban legend type hoax is both its longevity and the amount of disturbance it has caused. Reported in an Ananova story last year an Indian newspaper was duped into reporting both the photo and the story which apparently caused quite a stir when it was picked up by other news agencies. Residents of the covered areas took the story seriously and made their children stay out of the region where this incident supposedly took place and even went so far as to keep their children out of school.

Interestingly, this isn't the first time this particular ghost has made rounds in a hoax photo chain letter. The photo to the right circulated prior to the above with a story about a British photographer who took the photo in an old Malaysian cemetery some time after World War II. The story goes on to say that the photographer saw nothing unusual while actually taking the photo but upon developing the film he saw the ghostly figure. After viewing the developed photo he began to have horrible nightmares in which the woman from the photo would visit him. He discovered she was raped and murdered by Japanese soldiers during the war and will not rest until she finds her murderers. Of course, the reader, having now seen the photo will become the victim of these terrible nightmares too unless they send the photo to 50 people.

Our guess is we haven't seen the last of this ghostly apparition. We can only imagine what deathly fun she will be up to next time.

Have you received a spooky letter like these? Then contact us or forward the email to spookyletters @ hauntedbay.com, we'd like to hear about it.