Angels Caught on Film

Here are two fascinating pictures of “angels” caught on camera. The first is a modern photo taken in St. Peter’s Basilica. While I will agree with commenters on the accompanying story that this is likely just a trick of the light, it’s still a neat picture:

The second is an eerie photograph from the World War I era. The photograph accompanied some letters in an old trunk found in England. As the story goes:

The G.I. who signed himself as “Doug” in a letter to Doidge, told how his unit had been training in Woodchester Park, in Gloucestershire in the spring of 1944. He described how a pontoon bridge a cross a lake collapsed under the weight of armoured vehicles killing more than twenty soldiers.

Doug wrote that in the eve of the disaster, he and a friend named Chuck had seen an Angel hover above where the men would later drown. He wrote: “The whole thing took on the shape of what I can only describe as an Angel. I could see what looked like a long white robe. It had no feet and there were shapes like wings behind its shoulders.”

You can learn more about this story and about angels in general at this link.