Found a strange photograph on the floor of the train earlier today. Didn't take it with me but grabbed a quick photo. I've been having a look online with tineye out of curiosity, but no luck. Thoughts?

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  4. Sorry, left it behind after me. The curse is yours now. Abandon all hope.

  8. Haha the auld train curse. Oldest trick in the gypsy’s book.

  11. Would say that’s someone’s art project, messing around with long exposures. If they printed it themselves in the darkroom then tin eye’s not going to help you

  14. Looks like a fella with a bad case of vertigo after a heavy night out. Nothing strange about it. Seen it all before.

  17. Over the next few years you’ll become obsessed with this photo, before ever so gradually phasing in and out of the multiverse and becoming the subject. Your last coherent act in this universe will be to leave a copy of this photo on the train.

    And so the eternal coil.

  18. I swear I’ve seen that image before. Have you done a reverse image search on it?

  22. To give a real answer that looks a new photograph judging by paper and the quality. Probably someone messing with the exposure time.
    Or it’s a curse

  24. One of the last existing spontaneous combustion photos…throw it away before it spontaneously combusts in 5, 4, 3… 🔥

  25. Congrats, enjoy the curse. If you are from Mayo bad luck mate

  26. This is not an oddity but it is very foreboding.

    This is what is known as a Parsonage photograph.

    A Parsonage is a church house provided for a member of the [clergy](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=e74a10221791e7e3&sxsrf=AHTn8zrBefQLQqXU3gLeZTFka0SWMayyqQ:1740446518480&q=clergy&si=APYL9btfm7lNLuo1yW1KZRdWc6yLeuahB4iWNI0S5I_MpKzM9KV-jOR8fbntkgS4Gla1rRRiLQUH9RznV35ct0MVV-rO3yLLkg%3D%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC-O_D1N2LAxVkTkEAHZI8CcoQyecJegQIOxAP). It is something given to them when they take up a clerical position. It is akin to a vicarage (in England), priory, clergy house, parochial house (in Ireland), chapel house (in Scotland), presbytery, and rectory.

    A Parsonage photograph therefore is a photograph provided for a person who has yet to take up a position in the church. The provision of the photograph is completely unknown to the “finder”. Many scholars say the provision of said photographs are supernatural, or inexplicable. They are regarded (once found) as a subtle, spiritual reminder to the “finder”, to take up a position that, he or she, has previously committed to spiritually; but has not taken up.

    Only 14 Parsonage photographs exist or are known to exist. The Parsonage photograph usually depicts half human, half spirit figures, male, female and animal in nature (5 cases). The animal depictions are normally equine.

    The Vatican were first aware of these photographs by around 1850, with one, supposedly being a Daguerreotype.

    The Church of England, were aware of a Parsonage photograph as early as 1846, but kept its existence hidden.

    An international collaboration and comprehensive study of these photographs began in 1928, stemming from an article in The Westminster Gazette, an influential and Liberal newspaper of its time. Although records show a very financially liquid company, astonishingly, The Gazette went bankrupt in the same year, months after publishing a small, obscure article about Parsonage photographs.

    Sir Thomas Norwood (1866-1942) was the renowned English expert on Parsonage photographs, owning 13 of the 14 Parsonage photographs. He had accrued the photographs over a 50 year period, at great expense. He bought at auction and from private sellers, from as far afield as Florence, Kilkenny (Jerpoint Abbey), Transnistria (Moldova), Philadelphia and even, Macau. The photographs were in his possession at his time of death, on his actual person.

    His estate and material assets were sold at auction at Christies, London, in June 1946 (it was seen as an opportune post war time to sell.) The Parsonage photographs were bought in one lot (Lot 110) by the Fondation Absentia, based in Switzerland. They are currently on display in the Bibliothéque du Genéve, in Geneva, Switzerland.

    There was only one Parsonage photograph never accounted for, it was known as Absentia.

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