London podcaster’s eerie wedding dress fitting photo baffles social media
A chilling detail in a wedding dress-fitting photo has left Tess Cotter, a podcaster and comedian from London, and her sister stunned. During her one-hour fitting session in a London bridal shop, a store assistant took snapshots of Cotter trying on different gowns.
After the session, Cotter shared some of the snaps with her sister and they noticed a baffling detail in one of the images.
In the image, Cotter, wearing a wedding dress, stood in front of a two-paneled mirror. However, her arms and hands reflected in each panel were in starkly different positions.
“I looked at the picture and had a full-blown panic attack in the street.”
Cotter initially thought the image could have been captured in Live Photo mode or as a continuous shot.
Upon rechecking, she discovered it was a standard photo taken in a standard mode. Cotter then sought help from social media, posting the eerie photo on Instagram and Twitter with the caption: “This is a real photo. It’s not edited. It’s not a panorama. It’s not a Live Photo.”
She added that if anyone doubts there’s an issue with the photo, they should look at the next photo and would never be able to unsee it.
The image quickly garnered the attention of netizens, with many sharing their own eerie experiences. Cotter later updated via Instagram stories that she went back to the bridal shop to see if the shop assistant could shed light on the image. But just like Cotter, the woman was visibly freaked out by the photo and was unable to explain the occurrence.
Cotter’s sister even tried to get her company’s IT department to examine the image, but their conclusions only made Cotter feel worse.
“Eight guys were looking at this photo, and they all screamed.”
In her search for answers, Cotter finally visited an Apple Store, where a man named Roger was called to examine the image. He admitted he had never seen anything so creepy or terrifying before. However, Roger theorised a possible cause, reported Sanook.
He explained that a phone is a computer, not a camera. Even when using an iPhone to capture a standard photo, the device takes extremely rapid continuous shots from left to right. Therefore, while this photo was being taken, Cotter might have been raising her arm, resulting in an image with different left and right sides.
“It’s like a decision made by AI, and two photos were combined,
Cotter revealed that Roger estimated the chances of such an event happening as one in a million. But at least his explanation made her feel better and finally allowed her to sleep.
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