OURCURIOUSWORLD.COM GHOST PHOTO COLLECTION - Photo No. 009

The Toys-R-Us Apparition

SPECIFICATIONS:

Date: 1978

Location: Toys-R-Us store, Sunnyvale,

Photographer: Photog- rapher from Alpha Labs hired by the television program That’s Incredible!

Type Camera: Unknown. Infra-red.

Other Information: Location has a history of poltergeist and paranor- mal activity.

This classic shot has one of the best hands in his pockets leaning casually the site when it was an apple orchard pedigrees among spirit photos because against the wall. in the nineteenth century—had ac- it was shot under carefully controlled The curious thing was that the man cidentally severed his leg with an axe circumstances with numerous witness- was not seen with the naked eye at the and bled to death. It is thought it is his es present, making fakery especially time nor did he turn up on the high spirit who now haunts the store’s loca- difficult. Taken in 1978 at a Sunnyvale, speed footage shot from the same van- tion which, if true, makes him a fairly California Toys-R-Us store known for tage point at the same time, making long-lasting and, by most accounts, one an inordinate amount of hoaxing especially unlikely. Addition- of the more active spirits ever to haunt activity, the picture was shot by pro- ally, the sheer number of witnesses a specific location. Definitely one of fessional photographers hired by the present—as many as a dozen—would the best documented and impressive TV program That’s Incredible! Using further seem to eliminate collusion. spirit captures ever taken and one about both high-speed and infra-red cameras, This particular Toys ‘R Us had a his- which people really can say “That’s In- a photographer was filming store em- tory of inexplicable events such as items credible!” ployees holding a seance (led by noted falling off shelves with no one around, Sylvia Browne) as they tried to strange feelings of being watched by contact whatever spirits there may be. store employees, cold spots and other When the film was developed by Al- paranormal happenings. There is also a pha Labs, the infra-red camera caught story that goes that a young man named this apparition of a young man with his Johnny Johnson—who had worked on