I was at a restaurant/bar located in an old hotel one Saturday night. It was late and the restaurant itself was empty, and the patrons were slowly drifting away as the last call approached. On my way to the restroom, I looked down an empty section of the restaurant. I had a camera with me to take some pictures and I decided to take a picture of the empty seating area. The right side of the wall had a mural on it, and all the tables were all empty.
Days later when I checked out the pictures, I noticed one picture I took at the restaurant. It was the one taken of the empty area and it had something strange in it, like a vapor. I thought that odd, there was nobody around. Then I looked at this picture again more carefully…and I was startled. This apparent smoke did not follow a random pattern of what would seem to be mere smoke. The smoke seemed concentrated in the center with tendrils of vapor emanating from it.
I looked even more carefully, and I was almost shocked. Suddenly I saw in the mist… a face. Not a caricature or grotesque, but with a symmetry to it. Closed eyes opposite each other…a nose, a chin, a mouth with lips. And the face even had an expression to it…as if someone were drifting asleep, in a dream state, with a hint of a smile. If you can’t see this, I traced out what I saw to make it more visible, side-by-side without the tracing.
I was determined to return to the restaurant and to take more pictures around the same time, hoping to capture something else. Again I took pictures in the same area (with the same mural on the right wall), and I got a picture with orbs. There are several orbs, and an orb by the mural had the same pale blue color similar to the color of my previous photo. It seemed like the orbs were stationed over the tables, as if a congregation of ghosts were seated at the tables when everybody else had left.
What to make of this? Maybe they were former, now deceased patrons of the bar, or just wandering souls, gathered here when people left to experience something like being alive? And maybe my picture of the vapor was a close-up of an orb taken by accident, showing details normally invisible. Perhaps I was at the right place at the right time, and this orb apparition was right in front of my camera.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Those are great pictures, there is so much to think about.
The impressions of the faces in the smoke is great.
I now notice if you take an over all focus of the smoke I see a huge bat with wings spread out.
January 29th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Thanks Zera. I also see other shapes in it as well. I wonder if this was not just one spirit but several combined? This was taken with a film camera, not digital. Maybe I’ll post the actual film negative for additional clues.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Very cool. I need to start taking my camera with me places to see what I can find. I wonder if it works with digital…
BTW- got your e-mail, but haven’t had a chance to read the attachment yet. Been swamped for some reason and am beyond behind.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hi Jen,
Digital cameras work just as well or better capturing strangeness invisible to the eye. With a digital, you can see instantly if you caught something interesting. The downside is there is no physical film negative as real evidence. But digital really is the way to go ghost hunting.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Pareidolia.
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 am
Hi Max. Yes, this vapor could be only imagining patterns in randomness, like the face on Mars or the image of Jesus on tree trunk. However, I think what makes this photo unusual is the symmetry of the face, and it’s expressiveness. Nothing is proven of course.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 am
I see up to four faces in that first(main)photograph. Great picture!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 am
Hi Janis. I also see other shapes…like a tube rising from the forehead and ending in a distorted skull-like image. It really is pretty creepy.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
The first photo smoky appears a picture of a paranormal spirit.It’s a type of multiple orbs.The only thing is that the multiple orbs which i use to see always at any time in presence of sun rays,especially.But I can’t take it’s photos nor it can be shown to any body else.only visible to my eyes only. - - -
If any body could help me in this matter , i will be very thankful.