July 19, 2008

Mummy on a Bridge
FOUND by ELee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Found in a closet in my high school's dark room.
Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville
Creepy.
+ July 19, 2008 12:31 AM +
L
Who says there's no photographic proof of the paranormal?
+ July 19, 2008 01:22 AM +
imfine
it has a shadow, so it's not a ghost
+ July 19, 2008 01:36 AM +
baby basil in the herb garden
Looks like Iowa's Gypsum Man, a 19th century hoax statue they tried to palm off as a petrified human. Can't remember what they called it but it was made of gypsum ie plaster of Paris.

28 times 15 is what? A pain in the ass!
+ July 19, 2008 01:57 AM +
Gloria in excelsis deo
The Gypsum Man cometh! How does that legend go? He emerges on the first day of summer and gives plaster ice cream cones to all the good girls and boys..

(28 times 15? at least you got arithmetic.
Try "which month follows Shevat")
+ July 19, 2008 03:32 AM +
Blaze in KS
Oh, look! Nightmare fuel!

Do not want!
+ July 19, 2008 05:15 AM +
kooky
i want my MUMMY
+ July 19, 2008 05:50 AM +
Alvacado in the fridge, rotting
This picture is what you would get if you crossed the ending of The Music Man and the story of Lot's Wife from the Bible...
+ July 19, 2008 06:28 AM +
Moonshine in the dungeon
The bending shoulder really done it in for me. *hides in grannie panties*
+ July 19, 2008 06:49 AM +
Jess in Lewes, England
dammit mummy! I've been looking for you everywhere! what are you doing taking pictures on bridges? The British Museum are seriously pissed you've been gone so long, you'd better get back in your sarcophagus now!
+ July 19, 2008 07:06 AM +
It's Michael in the bathroom (http://foundmagazine.com/find/1076)
cuz this is thriller! Thriller night.. and I can scare you more than any ghoul would ever dare try..
+ July 19, 2008 07:44 AM +
peanut butter & jelly in my bellie
I wanna know what the heck that is. I dont think its a ghost or a mummy.

Maybe it's a statue? It would make sense b/c its all white and has a shadow...
+ July 19, 2008 08:06 AM +
the mummy returns in taking scary pictures on The Bridge
Or maybe it's only a photo of an alive human being gone wrong... purposely or otherwise... but you all knew that... hope I didn't ruin your fun :)
+ July 19, 2008 08:29 AM +
Just me in you know
Milwaukee! Home to Plank Road where my life source begins.
+ July 19, 2008 09:26 AM +
Me again in the darkroom
This may not be trick photography so much as it's trick developing. When I was in HS we would sometimes leave little tiny objects on the photo paper before exposing it to the picture to come up with some fun images.
+ July 19, 2008 09:31 AM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
And here I was all this time, thinking Huey Lewis was the whitest dude on Earth.
+ July 19, 2008 10:07 AM +
sick in tired
No, Flargy--the whitest dude on earth is currently Michael Jackson.

The only black man in the world who looks like a white woman. Specifically, a Barbie doll.
+ July 19, 2008 10:46 AM +
baby basil back in Foundland
OK, I'm back. It's "The Cardiff Giant". The gypsum block was "mined" or whatever you call it, in Ft Dodge Iowa and the dirty work at the crossroads was done in NY state. Of course. They tried to palm it off as a petrified man.
+ July 19, 2008 10:53 AM +
Clover in the cool lawn
Ghosts MIGHT have shadows.
+ July 19, 2008 11:10 AM +
A Ghost in the Lost and Found said:
Ghosts certainly have shadows, but they don't MAKE shadows.
+ July 19, 2008 11:29 AM +
lars in all my forms in the nwc?
i like the arc and symmetry of the bridge.
+ July 19, 2008 11:52 AM +
fooch in The Rabbit Hole
Cool. Creepy. Bitchin.

Good cover for the next Stephen King book.
+ July 19, 2008 12:16 PM +
Sammy Davis Junior Jr in someone's treehouse, trying to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzz's
@ Jess in Lewes...LOL!! Made me choke on my toast.

Ghosts can't have a shadow cuz they are ghosts. And they leave some weird slime (at least they did in Ghost Busters), which I do not see in this photo.

Therefore, if must be a mummy.
+ July 19, 2008 12:28 PM +
Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville
This reminds me of The Springfield Files episode of The Simpsons -- when Homer drinks a bunch of Red Tick Beer and thinks Mr. Burns is an alien.
+ July 19, 2008 12:53 PM +
Lolita in Ooo-la-la
Inga: Werewolf!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Werewolf?
Igor: There.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What?
Igor: There, wolf. There, castle.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Why are you talking that way.
Igor: I thought you wanted to.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, I don't want to.
Igor: Suit yourself. I'm easy.
+ July 19, 2008 01:37 PM +
Lady Guinevere in Sir Lancelot 's chamber
There wolf and there mummy and there goes the neighborhood.
+ July 19, 2008 02:58 PM +
Smallbear in the Cave
Mummy on the bridge
Wrapped up with snow-white rags
Isn't he so creepy?

Michael Jackson's ghost
Haunting a pretty bridge now
Thriller is made real.


Homer Simpson says:
Burns is an alien,Doh!
Homer pees his pants.
+ July 19, 2008 04:27 PM +
Amanda in Chicago
I'm going to pretend that there was a person standing on the bridge and the developer of the negative cut them out before expossing it so they could add it to the secret collage they've been making out of pictures and artifacts the person in the photo had touched. "this will go so nicely next the chewing gum she chewed last week, my stalker poster is nearly complete!" Yea, I'm going with that explaination, that way I won't be as creeped out. Stalkers I can handle, paranormal whatever-you-wish-to-call-its, not so much!
+ July 19, 2008 10:33 PM +
Clover in the ghost's shadow
I think this find is great! I wonder what it really is. Could be a darkroom trick, a statue, a ghost, a gypsum man, a mummy, or the photographer's albino boyfriend, overexposed.

It's a slow day at Found today. Maybe everyone is out finding things.
+ July 20, 2008 12:10 AM +
orinoco womble in wimbledon burrow
I don't think this was done in the darkroom, given the very dark, well-defined shadow perfectly placed behind the figure on the bridge. I think it might be a piece of art or a cut-out with someone standing behind it, holding it up.
+ July 20, 2008 10:46 AM +
Debra in Belton,sc
Look yall he has black dancing shoes on
+ July 24, 2008 11:49 PM +
MadCat in Pirates of the Caribbean
Ok... i know a lot about ghosts... they can have shadows... but not likely, there are many things it could be.
+ July 26, 2008 12:09 PM +
darcy, listening to the best radio station in the world in in my room
creepy. awesomely so.
+ August 07, 2008 03:22 AM +
darcy in ARGHH
OH SHIT i did the 'in in' thing! i HATE it when that happens!!!
+ August 07, 2008 03:24 AM +

Sign in or register to start a profile and keep track of your comments. You may also post without creating a profile, but you'll have to answer some tough spam protection questions.




Skull with Parasol

August 05, 2007
Totally Hot

April 13, 2006
Crucial Advice for ...

May 23, 2007
Neet to Straighten...

November 18, 2005












Welcome to FOUND
Sign In | Register


We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...