tags: mystery image, Image of the Day
Photographic proof of the existence of the "Ghost of Central Park's Shakespeare Garden" is available for the first time. It's existence was news to me. Having never heard a rumor that the place was haunted I was doubly shocked to have stumbled on the provocative and eerie scene at just the right moment. I assure you that the photo was not concocted in Adobe Photoshop or some other software. It's a genuine image. So what is the spectral figure lurking in the shadows?
The photographic solution follows tomorrow.
Image: Bob Levy, author of Club George. [larger image].
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Aw, there's a little kitty in there... I actually see something relatively similar when sitting in my living room from time to time. The smallest of the cats I have, Charlotte, loves to sit in a little hole in the scratching post and look out into the other room, so I usually see the eye shine from the tapetum lucidum when the light is just right.
I bet it's got big nashy teeth!
I agree with Laelaps - looks like a cat.
There are a number of other animals common to the area (like raccoons), which also have a structure similar to a tapetum lucidium.
I'll guess that it is a pussy cat.
Kitty! Laser eye kitty. Hosta are good fur hidin, I see.