Mayan Mystery Phantom

[7redorbs]

Here is a very cool picture [Clint Mason] took at Chechen Itza of the Great Pyramid at that location. We were standing on the north side where the "stone snakes" come down: twice a year on the solstices, people gather to watch the shadow "snake" slither from the top to the bottom of the stairs. And if you stand on that side and clap your hands, you can hear this very strange, high-pitched, bird-like "ping," almost like a bullet ricochet or a bird chirp that is on fast-forward.

(from Clint Mason, Campbell River British Columbia)

I was taking pictures while my family was clapping and I caught this. This is untouched and I had about 200 pictures on this camera, and this was the only one to show this form. I also checked five other cameras that my family had. Some took pictures at or very near the same time and we were standing side by side but do not show this form.

Zoom in to this picture and you can see a figure quite clearly. It looks very similar to many of the Mayan gods drawn and carved in stone. I don't know what it is. I have never seen anything before or since on that camera that makes me think it is a technical "issue" with the camera. If it is a reflection, it sure is funny; it looks like it is running on the ledge of the pyramid.

update: me and frog think its facing east.

I'm almost positive its not relevant but, what the hell:

1225 is a Triangular Number.

1225 is a Square Number(35x35).

1225 is a Hexagonal Number.

1225 is a 29-gonal Number.

1225 is a Centered Octagonal Number.

1225 is a Centered Nonagonal Number.

[A.G.Frog]

This is really something
The only way that I could explain what could cause this is the same thing that makes a dry road look wet when you are approaching a little dip while driving in the summer sun
If the sun was at the right angle to hit one stone reflect to the stone on the next level and then into the camera. Sway motion of the photographer would overlap the reflection on the exposure to cause the weird shape.
This would work if the sun was not coming from the right and behind this side of the pyramid.
I would have to put this one in my x files until more was available on his position to the sun.
I think we will be seeing more people experiencing things like this as we approach 2012.
Our angle of perception is definitely changing;)
J

[7redorbs]

Built by the pre-Columbian Maya sometime between the 10th and 13th centuries AD, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity closely related to the deity figure Quetzalcoatl known to the Aztecs and other central Mexican cultures of the Postclassic period.

It is a step pyramid with a ground plan of square terraces with stairways up each of the four sides to the temple on top. Great sculptures of plumed serpents run down the sides of the northern staircase, and are set off by shadows from the corner tiers on the spring and autumn equinoxes. The pyramid has 91 steps on three of the sides and 92 on the north staircase, which adds up to 365 steps, or days of the year.

When counting the top platform as another step, in total El Castillo has 365 steps, one step for each day of the approximated tropical year recorded by the portion of the Maya calendar known as the Haab'. The structure is 24 m high, plus an additional 6 m for the temple. The square base measures 55.3 m across.

El Castillo, Chichen Itza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kukulkan ("Plumed Serpent", "Feathered Serpent") is the name of a Maya snake deity that also serves to designate historical persons. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in other cultures of Mesoamerica. Kukulkan is closely related to the god Gukumatz of the K'iche' Maya and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs.[1] Little is known of the mythology of this pre-Columbian deity.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukulkan