(90 votes)
Here’s an awesome one sent in by Joao Gratuliano. It took me really long time before I understood what happened here, supposedly there was no photoshopping involved. How come the hanging bars project a shadow on a background wall, while the hand doesn’t? Can it be that the author is a ghost, or vampire maybe? [...]
(40 votes)
As Daily Mail reported, a climber in Poland has taken this astonishing photo, of what appears to be a ghostly figure emerging from the morning mist on the side of a mountain. This illusion, which occurred at dawn in the Tatra mountains (Zakopane), is actually what is known as a Broken Spectre phenomenon. It can [...]
(42 votes)
This one today was one of the 2010 Optical Illusion Contest finalists. The only reason it didn’t win, was because of spectacular Magnet-Like Slopes that competed at the same time. Anyway, despite its relatively simple nature, the effect it holds is more than entertaining. Here’s what you have to do to understand the illusion: observe [...]
(53 votes)
You might remember back in 2007, when John Shadowsky introduced us for the first time to the new kind of optical illusion he invented. I’m talking about one that gave us ability to see black and white photos in full color! This is the closest you get to having super-hero powers. It was really an [...]
