These ghost photos were sent by Kiki of
aot1897@yahoo.com.
The first photo is of the Farnsworth House courtyard,
Gettysburg PA Using an Olympus Stylus 35mm camera, this photo was taken by my
mother on April 14, 1998 as dark had fallen. She was trying to photograph a
black & white cat that happened to be prowling through the courtyard. If
you look closely at the center of the photo, you can see the cat. It was
clearly too dark at the time for the photo of the cat to turn out.
The second photo is remains of South Fork Dam, St. Michael
PA (about 15 mi. NE of Johnstown PA) The photo was taken by my mother on April
16, 1998 with her Olympus Stylus 35mm. We were standing on the western remains
of the South Fork Dam, which gave way on May 31, 1889, resulting in the
infamous Johnstown Flood. We were looking across the break to the east, across
the South Fork Creek and former bed of Lake Conemaugh to the Johnstown Flood
National Memorial on the hill. Weather was overcast. No other photos taken at
that time show the same kind of image. The negative is not damaged, and
multiple prints yield the same image. Historical notes about this location:
While accounts indicate that all of the 2000+ deaths from the 1889 disaster
occurred downstream from the dam and not in this immediate vicinity, both the
dam and the hillside beyond were nonetheless the sites of very intense emotion
& activity on May 31, 1889.
The third photo was taken by my mother with her Olympus
Stylus 35mm camera on July 13, 1998 in a Voss, Norway cemetery, which dates
back to the late 13th century. The town was bombed by the Germans during WWII,
but this church and the cemetery survived. Weather conditions were good when
this photo was taken - no fog or rain, nor was anyone smoking. My mother
doesn't have a history of allowing stray objects in front of her lens, so we
doubt that would account for the fuzzy gray object in the bottom center of the
picture. The object is partially transparent, yet almost seems to cast a
shadow. Very strange!! There is no evidence of damage to the negative. Multiple
prints yield the same image.
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