Ghostly Retail Hell Prank

From Bort:

I myself live in Retail Hell twice a week at an office superstore in Connecticut. 

The story I'd like to share with you today involves my brother -in-law who used to work in the photo department of a local drugstore. 

It goes like this.

Everyday people come in with their stupid pictures of their ugly children and stupid pets and always find it necessary to "oooh and ahhh" over them right in front of me at the register while angry inpatient customers wait behind them. 

Well one miserable day I decided that I was going to play a little prank on one unsuspecting customer. 

So this guy comes in with his girlfriend and says he needs these pictures developed as quickly as I can because he says he's caught ghosts in these pics. 

He tells me a stupid story about how him and his friends went to a cemetery at midnight and took all these pictures. 

I almost laughed in this guy's face but managed to keep a straight face. 

I even egged him on by pretending to be interested. 

So I take the negatives and I very carefully cut out little ghost looking shapes and glue them to the negatives. 

Amazingly when I developed the pictures it worked! 

It looked as if he had taken pictures of ghosts!

After the pics were done I carefully took the cutouts off the negatives and put everything back as if they were normal. 

Unfortunately when I came to work the following day I had missed the guy. 

But the girl I worked with told me that the guy was going crazy and jumping around like an idiot all excited! 

He said that he was going to mail them to the Ghost Hunters as evidence! 

I still laugh to this day when I think of this. 

I hope I run into him in the future so I can shatter his dreams in person.

Bort

Comments

[Michael]

That's priceless. I hope you kept the ghost cutouts to show to him in your reveal.

[Pharmacy_psycho]

A) Hello fellow Connecticut person!

B) I love to go on Ghost Hunters myself. I don't believe 99.9% of what people think they see, but its still fun. I figure if people are having fun, then have at it.

C) I didn't say I didn't believe in ghosts. I used to live in a haunted house. There were so many unexplained things that happened that couldn't be explained through normal channels. But out of the hundreds of pictures I took in the 11 years we lived there, there was not one "ghost capture". No sightings either.

D) While what you did was mean, I have to say I'm LMAO! I could never do it because I'm just not that way, at least not where there is even the slightest chance of getting caught. I'd be afraid that they would hunt me down and beat the shit out of me. 8-O

[Hellbound Alleee]

He will have a belief in sheet-ghosts (is that the shape you made?) the rest of his life. When he puts these up on the interwebs, it'll fuel their beliefs, and spread.

Skeptic pranks like these never convince believers--it only becomes Canon in believers' communities.

But it's also hilarious, so maybe it all is even.

No one will EVER seek confirmation about this.

[CrustyCusty]

Alleee is pretty much right on about what believers will do, since their theories are vague and their mentality is that where if the puzzle piece doesn't fit, you simply force the corners to fit until the puzzle piece fits.
But who gives a shit about that? This is bloody hilarious. XD

I mean, yeah, it sucks you drove the last nail into this guy's delusion-coffin (making it impossible to shatter his dreams), but fuck, you know better than this guy, anyway, so fuck him and just retain all the amusement for people that should know better. :P

[Wolfycat]

I'm sick of all those ghost fanatics. I mean, I don't mind if anyone believes in ghosts, but the ones that go around trying to imitate TAPS all the time piss me off. TAPS even fakes their evidence sometimes. That's why a lot of people have left the show.

I believe that if there are ghosts (I haven't experienced any), they wouldn't be posing for a photo shoot... especially not in a cemetery.

[Magical Shrimp]

I too hope that these were "sheet ghosts." That's hilarious! I'm sick of TAPS and their "investigations" and "scientific tools." Of course, they'd probably love this guy's sheet photos and put him on their team.

[Jit]

>.< Ghosts... that reminds me of the one I apparently touched at my place of employment. Blah.

[S.]

bahahahaha I work in a One Hour photo lab and this is the funniest thing I've ever heard of someone doing!!