Posted on 12/15/2004 8:18:49 PM PST by CurlyBill
I agree it could smoke. As someone else mentioned, the flash could have bounced off the smoke. If it was a very still night like the author says, it could have taken along time for the smoke to disapate.
I was visiting my mom and dad a few years ago and my mom had one or two frames left on a roll. She snapped a picture of me when I wasn't looking while I was sitting on the couch looking at the Sunday paper. My brother was there and a smoker. When she got the picture back there was all this white haze around me- smoke! It looked very, very eerie, but it was not ghostly at all. It very much looked like this picture.
I don't remember where I read this- I think it may have been in a book about ghosts in the White House- but a family was on tour in the White House and at some point on the tour they saw someone dressed up like Abe Lincoln. The families little boy was about six years old and went up to this man and talked to him for a few minutes. The man bent way down and shook the little boys hand and patted him on the head.
The family thought this was such a neat idea to have people dressed as the former presidents and at the end of the tour commented to the guide about how great they thought it was. The tour guide looked puzzled and said, "We don't have anyone dressed as Lincoln on the tour."
It's smoke. You don't need much smoke to cause a reflection, when you catch it just right. That is what has happened here. The "ghost" is nothing more than a reflection of light froma small amount of smoke, about the amount you would get from one smoker.
I went to Carnton in the late 70s when it was in disrepair and being used half as a barn and the other half had hippies living in it.
Carnton has lots and lots of blood and of course we all know the spot where the generals were laid out dead after Hood's quioxtic offensive.
The Nashville metro area has lots of WBTS ghost sightings including near my own home.
Ditto....Vicksburg Military Park and Shiloh.
Me too! I'm glad I'm not nuts!
There are pictures of me just after I delivered my baby, with 2 distinct orbs in the picture. They appear to be floating right over my newborns head. :)
Either angels.... or Someone close to you that had passed on, came back to check on you and the baby.
My Mom claimed that a vision of her deceased Grandmother (they had been very close) flooded the room over her bed as she was in labor with me. She even heard her Gram's voice telling her everything would be alright. And the voice used a name that no one else called my Mother, so she knew it was her, not her imagination.
Aaaaah! I see dead people! When I was 13 I lived in Hawaii at Hickam AFB. At night I use to ride my bike over to the morque where they would identify new remains found in Vietnam, this was in the early 90's. One night I was climbing on top of the morque and I heard screams and people asking me to release me and tell my family they found me. It was whack!
Also we went to this morque from WWII in Hawaii that was turned into an alternative school on Pearl Harbor. One of my friend's mom worked there. So one night we got a bunch of tape recorders and polaroids and went on a ghost hunting expedition at night. She actually opened up the school for us that night and gave us free reign to run around and caputre proof of our ghosts. This was probably pretty stupid in retrospect. Anyways we didn't find anything, we ran around and screamed because we thought we heard noises, but nothing really overwhelming. Well the next day when I got the film developed, the one camera that wasn't polaroid, there was a big streaking light across my bedroom with a face in the middle. I snapped a picture in my room before we left that night, needless to say I was not amused. I don't know whatever happened to that picture.
Or maybe it really is the ghost of a headless southern belle.
Gee, maybe my first wife?
If ghosts WERE nekkid would they yell "Boobs"?
Very interesting.
Do you have a picture of the bride you can show us?
I don't see devils or soldiers. I see a lady dressed like a bride could be with a scoop neckline, with her leg raised up and her right arm extended out like for balance. I even see shoulder length hair and a bodice. And I kind of see what could be earrings. I think it could be somehow a picture of the bride overlapping, as it were. Plus I don't think the image goes behind the man. I think it goes in front of him (or on top of his picture). We just cannot see it very well because of the color of his shirt.
But I am not a naysayer. I had my own ghost experience and who am I to say anything. This could be anything. I just wish I could see the soldier aspect. I'll keep looking from time to time. Thank you for this intriguing interlude.
I meant to mention that there are similar pictures at this website. There are several that feature this smoke idea. Since you are interested you might like to compare your picture.
http://www.ghoststudy.com/gallery.html
I know all about ghosts from the WBTS.
One of these days, I get my pics posted.
This pic is "nothing." lol.
Thanks for the ping.
I dunno. I only see the devil face others have mentioned. Can't say what caused the image, interesting none the less.
My father - a combat veteran - said he could clearly feel the presence of the Shiloh dead when he and my mom toured the place. The sensation hit him as soon as he got out of the car and looked at the battlefield. "I could almost hear them yelling and screaming," he remarked. "They WERE there, right then and there." (For the record, dad was about as sober and unemotional a man as I've ever known.)
Wow! I wasn't expecting to see my hometown mentioned when I was reading this thread -- I was born and raised on St. Simons Island. I know there are lots of ghost stories about the Christ Church cemetery, and even the lighthouse, although I'd never heard ghost stories at Fort Frederica.
Hawaii has lots of freaky sites, South Point on the Big Island creeped me out big time, I stayed away from the Heaiu's there. I just felt very unwelcome there, and I was the only one there.
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