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It all began when a Tamil-language newspaper carried a story with a photograph showing a young boy posing under a tree with a "ghost" with long loose hair, empty eye sockets and no legs hovering behind.
People in the town remained under a thrall of terror until police investigations revealed the "ghost" was simply a photograph of a Malaysian girl on the internet that had been added to the photograph using computer graphics.
It had been published in the youth section of the mass circulation Tamil newspaper Thanthi last October. "Some prankster has downloaded the stuff from the internet and created a new scare out of an old photo," a senior local police official said.
Investigations also revealed that the stories about the boys falling into coma and dying and girls fainting were nothing but rumours.
Originally posted by yogibear
Anybody else out there familiar with this remarkable case of utter foolishness?