Magabanashi: Ghost Stories Spreading on Social Media - Vol. 2 Ch. 15 - The Man Who Sells Photos

[sotokouya]

It reminds me of one quite well known site back in 2005-ish which showing ghost photos or just simply ectoplasm photo. Most of us believed the ghost in the photos were real, but after one of my friend just blurted out: "that just a photo of cigarette smoke!" The hype gradually went down and site was taken down not too long after.
Yeah, you can't make a logic of supernatural thing i guess. Like that's the charm of it. But, sometimes making sense of supernatural thing is the best thing to do.
It reminds me of a couple of supernatural hoax photos that came up at the same years, people weaponized it for religious fearmongering. The two photos that i still clearly remember were:
1. A photo of a very ugly man with cone head. The story went that man cursed for rebelling against his parent. Years later after i joined Biology department in university, i realized that stupid photo is just the face of manta ray skeletons.
2. A disturbing photo of woman-dog chimera with hunched body. They story went similar to the first one. She rebelled against her mother and desecrated holy scripture. She was cursed to be a dog as her punishment. Turned out it just a photo of deformed Saluki or Borzoi dog. Those dog breed kinda creepy to me tho, like their face kinda has human like feature.
Moral of the story is you can believe about ghost photo and the existence of a ghost but take it with a grain of salt. I believe ghost exist, but i also belive they are ton of scumbags out there who use the supernatural for their own pocket money.

lemme guess, primbon?

1. ah yes the anak durhaka
2. i think that one was art sculpture, basically most weird looking inanimate one is actually art objects

 

[sotokouya]

this is really vague, it's either the teacher got cursed or the photo seller guy hinted at the kids that he was actually a sinister guy

 

[ElP45]

He shows that kanamori sensei sometimes abused his family, judging by pair of his family shoes in each hands, also that weird looking smile on his face, it's creepy tbh

 

[zawarudo]

To me Photo Man is not good or evil, it is likely he is a supernatural being himself - or at least a person with some spiritual power - but he only does the things he does because it amuses him, not out of goodwill or evil intent. He even clearly says the things in the photos are bad things. He might have been intrigued by whatever is in the Kanamori house, which was clearly malevolent, and perhaps he wanted to let the neighborhood know but only in the most roundabout way possible since he doesn't actually want Kanamori-sensei to not be possessed, let alone the Kanamoris being saved. As luck would have it, Kanamori-sensei sealed his own fate by telling the kids to stay away from him. Then Photo Man succeeds at getting the final laff by showing the kids a fully possessed Kanamori-sensei.

The lengths some will go for their entertainment, I guess.