FORT WORTH, Texas -- The movie "Three Men And A Baby" was well received by audiences when it hit the big screen in the late '80s. However, the film featuring three bachelors raising a newborn baby generated a bigger buzz following its home video release when rumors spread that the movie captured a ghost on film. Two particular images fueled the fire for the terrific tale, both appearing at a point in the film in which Ted Danson's character receives a visit from his mother. As the characters talk and move about the apartment in this unedited scene, they continuously pass a large window dressed in long curtains. When they make their first pass, a shadowy object that looks something like a rifle appears to be propped against the windowsill (pictured, right). However, as the two pass by again moments later, a grainy, pale image of what looks like a young boy has replaced the "gun" (pictured, lower left). Rumors immediately circulated that the film had inadvertently captured a ghost. Several versions of the story emerged, but each centered on a woeful tale that a boy who died inside that apartment is now haunting it. One quick search of Internet renders hundreds of Web pages devoted to the movie myth. Some support the ghost theory, while most aim to debunk it. A page on the official Web site of one movie insider offers a straightforward explanation to the unusual images in the film. According to Jason Heffner, the executive in charge of production on the film, there is no ghost. While the existence of that apparition is a matter of opinion for some, one fact is certain, according to Heffner. "The apartment in the film was a complete set built on a sound stage in Toronto, Canada," Heffner writes on his Web site. "Only exteriors were shot at a building on 66th Street and Central Park West in New York City." So what of the ghostly images featured in the film? According to Heffner, it's easy to explain away the boy's visit from the hereafter. Heffner says the "boy" was actually a life-size poster cutout of Ted Danson, whose character was an actor in the film (pictured, left side by side). The cutout, appearing elsewhere in the film, featured Danson wearing a tuxedo and top hat and was supposed to be a prop from a film in which Danson's character had starred. "During the shooting we would keep moving this prop around the room so it would be out of the way," Heffner writes. "We had moved it behind the curtains to keep it safe and no one noticed it when we started shooting the scene in question." Heffner also writes, "If you look at the picture carefully you can see that the figure is really wearing black pants, a white tuxedo shirt with a white bowtie, black tails, and a top hat." Story can be found here: Channel3000.com.

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