Ghost picture ??

Did I capture a ghost on a picture? Can't really decide, but it does look very strange.

During the 75 years ww2 freedom from nazis festival ( ) in my area, they were doing some ww2 style parachute jumps.
Was actually only using my camera with zoom lens as binoculars, but took some pictures anyway.
Then I noticed something strange on one of the pictures.

On the 4th picture there appears to be a guy sitting on the tail wing of the plane.
Maybe it is somebody that jumped out, photographed in an odd way, but even then there's something off.
I put timestamps out the Exif underneath to indicate passage of time during the shoot.
If you look closely, paying attention to the time you'll notice that guy should not be there.

The focus is a bit poor, pics were taken in a rush with my DSRL on manual focus.

Still can't decide.  

It does look like he jumped with his legs straight.
But the legs are dark as if in the shadow, though there shouldn't be a shadow there.
All jumpers had the same uniform, so it wasn't that he was wearing dark pants.

Guess maybe it's just a weird trick of light then.

Very odd indeed,he looks like a paratrooper but if
he was real he would be chopped into bits by the tail
section.
His uniform does seem different also,parachute at the front ?
Enlarged and sharpened.

Like you said I also noticed it appears like he should be hit by the tail wing if he was solid.
And the other jumpers got their legs swiped from underneath by the wind after they jumped, but this guy is perfectly straight as if unaffected by the wind.
Also I can't see a backpack or parachute.

It could all be a coincidence caused by weird perspective and light, but it's a very strange pic for sure.
Wish I had taken video for comparison, but if this really is a ghost, it probably wouldn't have showed up in the video anyway.

This reminds me of those random pics Robert van den Broeke makes with all kinds of deceased people and entities showing up in his pictures.

WWII paratroopers have parachutes at front like your ghost seems to
have and it appears your re-enactors have rear parachutes do they ?

muckyman wrote:

WWII paratroopers have parachutes at front like your ghost seems to
have and it appears your re-enactors have rear parachutes do they ?

Yes the actors only had a backpack with rear parachutes.
The one on the front is a reserve in case the main parachute fails.

At the top of this page you can read that the front pack is a safety parachute.
https://www.101airborneww2.com/equipment.html