Paranormal
December and January are generally slow news months in Australia. The pollies have gone home, cricket is on the TV and we can find time to relax. It can be a testing time for the media, with column inches and tabloid TV segments to fill. But all is not lost.
Enter the fortune tellers.
What does the year ahead hold for us? Let’s ask our resident astrologer/medium/psychic/mystic/clairvoyant.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of I Call Bullshit. Today we’re looking at ghosts (cue Ghostbuster music - you know you want to). This week, photographer Yvette Worboys has got more publicity than money could buy with her pictures of Sydney’s Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital, a decrepit old lunatic asylum.
The pictures are haunting; the effect eerily similar to the one achieved by my free Hipstamatic app. Sepia tones and shadows, dappled light and nostalgic colours.
Worboys took her pictures to mediums, who said they saw a presence in the picture printed above - apparently just to the left of the door.
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