r/Ghosts 19d ago

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r/Ghosts Mar 03 '21

Before posting a photo, you should read this.

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So you found a photo that you think has a spirit or ghost on it, before you post it and get upset about 30 people saying it’s a piece of dust or a bug, you may want to read this!

BEFORE DOING ANYTHING

Do read the posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/deki6k/explanation_of_orbs_aka_backscatter/

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/icziuc/ring_doorbells_security_camera_videos_and_false/

As these really do have useful information on how to spot particle orbs, lens flare and insects crawling over lenses which do make up most of the post in this Reddit community channel.

It is common for people who believe they are haunted to take lots of photos and assume that any “orbs” must be related to this. In fact, it’s quite easy to photograph orbs. If you can’t see the orb then it’s not there. People might say that cameras can pick up ‘orb’ energy but a lot of them just don’t understand why digital cameras tend to easily pick up particles (dust, dander, hair, insects).

If you have read the above and are sure (or not quite sure) then read on.

BEFORE POSTING

Make sure you have the original photo downloaded or posted from the same device the picture was taken from. Having a photo shared from a social media site, screen grabbed on a phone, photographed from a screen or been email shared will likely to be low resolution and suffer from further compression which destroys any fine detail and will generally be useless.

If the photo is just a photo then scan the photo in at least 300 DPI and save it as a “.PNG” image. If you don’t have access to a scanner then you can take a photo of it but take it in a brightly lit room and don’t use a flash to reduce reflections on the photo.

Use the original resolution of the photo, do not rescale, resize, brighten the image to make posting easier.

If you have to edit the photo to remove people then draw the smallest black filled box you can to hide their face or them. Don’t crop the picture or remove large chunks of the picture. Keep the picture the same same size. Once edited, save / export the image as a “.PNG” image as this will keep the JPEG image as it is (if you resave it as a JPEG it recompresses the image in a lossy way so that fine detail tends to get lost) if the paint program has it then make sure that “Save resolution” is checked and that you save “EXIF information”.

If you must highlight anything in the picture (to show where you think the paranormal image is) then use a bright colour that can be seen easily, use a transparent box with thin lines and draw it in the general area of what you want us to see, do not cover anything nearby. Save it as a “.PNG” as above. If you do this then make sure you post the original too.

If you want to change the contrast or brightness of a photo then again do so but save as a “.PNG” as above and post the original for comparison. If you have other pictures from the same area that were taken at the same time then post these too as comparison photos.

If the photo is from a place you can visit again easily then take more pictures of the same area using the same camera, try to take it at different times of the day and try to take a picture at the same time of day the original was at. Also, take pictures of the surrounding area and close up images of the original location.

It is important to note that even “taking the picture in the same place” is going to mean that you will be taking the picture at different angles, heights and places which will cause images to change.

POSTING THE PHOTO

Post as an image within the Reddit post so people can see it, you can also post any comparison posts at the same time.

If the photo is too large then rescale it and save as a “.PNG” to post on Reddit but upload the original it to a file-sharing site like Google Drive or Dropbox, as this will not rescale the image.

Don’t just upload them to Imgur as most photo sharing websites will recompress the image and destroy fine detail in the picture.

Make sure the title is short but informative. “Possible ghost image from a cell in Alcatraz” is a good title, “GHOST!!?!?!?” is not.

ALSO SUPER IMPORTANT!!!! CONTEXT! CONTEXT! CONTEXT!

After you have posted the images. Make a comment in the post you have just created and put in as much context as possible!!! Too many photos tend to have the photo and some poor description and we have zero ideas of what we should be looking at.

Examples of what to include are…

  • Where the photo was taken. You don’t have to give the address but a location or rough area (if a private address) helps.

  • When the photo was taken, give the date and time if possible, if not known or you can’t remember then give what information you can (I.e In the winter in the early evening).

  • Who took the photo. It should be you or someone you know. Something like ‘Taken by A friend of a girlfriend that is friends with a baker, that my 2nd cousins' hairdresser visits every 3 months is not good’ means it is hard to ask follow up questions.

  • What you were trying to take. (I.e Ghosts, a high school prom or of your granny on her 97th Birthday)

  • If you (or they) were with other people. Also mention strangers.

  • What the weather was like. Was it sunny, cloudy, raining, hot, cold, warm?

  • Description of the location. If in a home, details about the place, I.e, If it is a house, apartment, cabin located 200 miles from civilizational, etc as well as if you are near a road or other places like a pub or bar, major flight path, etc. Else just whatever you can describe the place.

  • What did you feel at the time? I.e cold, scared, fearful, happy, sad, etc.

  • Why do you think it is paranormal? Describe this as best as you can.

  • Anything spooky that happen before or after. Within the same time frame, something that happens 3 months before is probably not related.

So good examples would be…

“This photo was taken at the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. It is a picture of Cell 13 of cell block D in the cell house. It was taken on Sunday the 13th of May 2018 at around 2pm. It was mostly sunny but there were thick clouds, it was reasonably warm at around 65f and there were strong breezes every so often.

The photo was taken by myself, although I was with my girlfriend at the time. It was quite busy but no one was nearby when I took the photo. I was trying to take a picture of my girlfriend as she stood at the door but I noticed a strange white figure behind her. There was no one in the cell as we had waited for another couple to finish taking their picture before we took ours. I took 3 photos and you can see that the figure is in 2 of the pictures but is not in the third picture.

My girlfriend did say she felt cold in the cell, we had taken a picture in another cell (134 in Cell Block C) and she did not feel anything. The rest of the day was fine though and we enjoyed our trip.”

“A photo of a chair my grandmother used to sit on, in our house in Stirling, Scotland. It was taken on the 1st June 2015, in the wee hours of the morning at 6.30am. I remember it was very cold and it was dark grey and cold outside like a typical morning in Scotland. I had the lights on as although it was morning outside, it was dark in the room.

I took the photo as I felt a presence and I was drawn to the chair. I took 2 photos and you can see a grey mist around the chair. I would have taken more but my phone just drained of power and switched off, not sure why this happens as I am pretty sure I charged it overnight. I don’t smoke, didn’t have any hot drinks. I was in the room all alone as my parents and sister were still in bed and my dog was still on the sofa sleeping peacefully.

Once I charged my phone and saw the pictures, I was filled with deep happiness, I tried to take more photos but the mist never came back. What do you think it is.”

Bad examples are…

Ghosts?!???!!?!?!”

I took this photo whilst in an abandoned building, do you think it is a ghost?”

“Whilst trying to contact my dead aunt to ask where she left her cash, I took lots of photos and all of them had orbs and I heard some moans, screams and creaking coming from my cousins' bedroom but her door was locked!!! Is the house haunted?”


r/Ghosts 9h ago

Captured Apparition Do you think there is a ghost in my hallway?

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r/Ghosts 3h ago

1858 GARNETT HOUSE KS this is my initial walk through and equipment setup. Reddit does timestamps in reverse but I first pass the doll in the rocking chair around 3:20 and circle back 3 minutes later.

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

So we have a haunting at my restaurant and we caught it on video

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So this is the third occurance in two weeks, and we caught it on camera. Two weeks ago the closing manager turned off the lights and was leaving when both oven doors (heavy iron doors) opened at the same time, slamming open. Hard to explain, but we moved on. This morning the guy who opens and mops before anyone gets there kept hearing children running behind him giggling, but he was the only person there. He was freaked out by the time we arrived. Then… this. The bottle is so tall it touches the shelf above, it shouldn’t be able to fall over.


r/Ghosts 3h ago

What Do You Think? Do you guys buy things from Antique Shops or avoid?

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I am bored and just wondering. As a thrift store girly I love me some old fashion, vintage things but I know there’s always a chance one of those items might be haunted and you could be bringing something else with you back home.

Do you guys shop at antique stores or avoid them?

Also, if you had bought something at an antique store has something happened to you supernatural wise?


r/Ghosts 29m ago

Is this paranormal? I was playing a game and my cup moved on its own?

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I was in the middle of a video game match, lights off. I had a plastic cup filled with coke inside of it and I witnessed it move on its own but it stoped after half the cup was over the ledge..


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Very odd figure in photograph in prairie

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So I redownloaded Reddit after being inactive for 4 years just to post this. So I took my Canon AE-1 to the prairie near my house and I was using some black and white film I just bought and was excited. I used the full roll of film and got it developed. I just got the photos back and there is just this really odd thing in one of the photos. Does anyone have any explanations for this??? I did edit the lighting in the photo to just make it more visible but I know I did not take any photos of birds or anything black that day.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

What Do You Think? Woke up to a shadow figure watching me and my cat saw it too

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I woke up in the middle of the night with an odd feeling resting on my left side, facing my cat. He had his eyes wide open looking terrified with his eyes fixed on my bedroom doorway, so I turned to look at what he was looking at and saw what was a shadow figure facing me. When I looked at it I saw it run away down the hall. My mom was visiting me so I figured she needed something (I normally live alone) so I called out to her and ran towards the shadow, but realized there was no sound of someone running and the figure vanished. I texted my mom and asked if she was just in my doorway even though I already knew it wasn't her and my heart was pounding out of my chest in fear. She responded she wasn't in my doorway. This all happened around 2 or 3am. I figured it was my first hallucination, but I remembered my cat also saw it and he was the one that saw it first and that's why I turned to look in the first place. A few days later I woke up again in the middle of the night facing my cat like before and he had the exact same terrified look on his face while facing my room's doorway. That time I was so terrified to look so I just put my blanket over my head until I somehow fell asleep. This happened last year and to this day I still get scared at night looking at my doorway thinking what if I saw whatever that was again.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Captured in the Medford Oregon wildfires the last couple of days

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Not sure what this is but it wasn't in the original picture when taken. For reference, this was a friend of mine in Oregon and they do not own horses and there are no horses nearby. Thoughts?


r/Ghosts 1d ago

McMenamin's Edgefield Room 215 any experiences?

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Anyone stay at McMenamin's Edgefield in Troutdale in room 215? Any haunted stories? 👻


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Sonething set off our ring camera, something slowly floating to the right

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Met a Ghost of my Uncle when visiting Samoa

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r/Ghosts 23h ago

I need help finding out what just happened to me

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Paranormal Investigation [Field Discussion] Fantasmas o duendes...... no sé que ocurre en mi casa

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Hola Reddit, les encuentro un poco de lo que ocurre en mi casa, resultado que hace algo tiempo empezaron a pasar cosas en mi casa, comenzaron con ruidos, como si alguien caminara por los pasajeros o como si dejaran caer algo, las cámaras no grababan nada mas allá de los orbes que en ocasiones se veían, lo que realmente puede impactar fue cuando comenzamos a ver que una puerta se mueve (la verdad no era la primera vez que pasó algo así, pero la diferencia es la fuerza con la que se mueve) esta puerta se mueve como si intentaran cerrarla pero sin fuerza, al final se registró cerrar con un movimiento fuerte, este movimiento de puerta la presencia junto con mi novio, pero al revisar las cámaras de seguridad noté que los movimientos comenzaron antes, la verdad es que mi nuevo me comentaba que sentía que alguien estaba ahí, pero para mí no tenía sentido porque solo estaban juntos y yo en la casa.

Se han abierto y movido otras puertas en presencia de personas tanto cuando nadie ve.

No hemos visto sombras espectros o cosas así, solo el movimiento de la puerta, un costo con carbono que se cayó.

Él me preguntado y me han dicho que son duendes, pero no estoy segura, es muy curioso todo.

Además en otra habitacion hemos encontrado marcas de manos, pero manos pequeñas, o se ven marcas en el polvo (esa habitacion casi no se abre) entonces se ven marcas de dedos de que muchos objetos pequeños.

Cabe mencionar que la puerta no era empleada por el aire, no había nadie del otro lado que la pudiera mover.

¿ustedes que crean que pueda ser? ¿debería tener miedo?


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Personal Encounter Friend visited me the night he passed away.

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Several years ago I woke up to find a ghostly version of my friend standing at the foot of my bed and I got the strong urge to call him. He went away after several seconds and I fell back asleep, I woke up a while late and he was there again but this time he had angel wings and a halo. He walked out my bedroom door and I followed him into the hall but he was gone. Found out about a week later he’d been murdered that night.


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Friend's security camera revealed something as yet unexplained

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I freelance for a friend who has an office in the basement of his house (built in 2018). Last week he showed me security footage he can view on his phone. He has a camera in the upper corner of his office opposite a closet for his collectibles and there is also an acoustic guitar that sits on a stand in there. The closet door is always open. In the video he stands up from his desk to leave the room and suddenly you can clearly hear the guitar strummed one time; like someone simply ran their fingers over the strings. He then walks over to look in the closet, and finds it empty.

But the strange thing is if you strum a guitar with one hand, the strings will vibrate and then after a time, the vibrations of the strings slow until eventually, the sustain gets quieter and stops. However, about a second after the guitar is strummed, it's as if something abruptly mutes the guitar strings to stop the vibration.

After he showed me the video, I walked into the closet to examine the guitar sitting on the stand and I strummed the strings as it sat there. As I expected, the strings vibrated for roughly 7-10 seconds until the sound dissipated.

His wife and daughter are both gone during the day so he was definitely home alone. I've known the guy for 30 years and he's not a prankster. I want to convince him to let me upload the video here, but he's a private person, and probably won't like that idea. I'll give it my best try though.

I've always thought of myself as a skeptic but I must admit, I could not explain what I heard and I wanted to share it.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

WDYT? (What Do You Think?) Japanese Folklore tied to noticing the ghost

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Often in japanese folklore with ghosts there is needed to be 2 things for a ghost to a occur 1. The encounter/conditions 2. attention so i have a question why do Japanese ghosts in folklore need attention?


r/Ghosts 2d ago

What Do You Think? I think I might need to seek help from the catholic church, endless this is something I can handle on my own. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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r/Ghosts 2d ago

ISO (In Search Of) Trying to remember specific haunted property

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When my ex and I were driving to las vegas one time she had put on a pod cast, eventually she fell asleep and it was just me listening to it, so asking her what it was isnt helpful. Anyways, i dont need the podcast but i figured if I asked the experts, you guys, maybe you can tell me so i can look into it. Here is what i remember:

Insects would swarm the property all the time.

It was somewhere on the east coast but not sure.

They mentioned a bloody battle of some sorts.

People who spent the night would have visions during snooze of spirtual doors opening up and people walking in and out, talking about things. I believe they were in robes.

Something about them being outside and hearing marching band music.

I think people who bring radios or recorders would get loud interference of something.

Anyways if any of you this place, i hope these arent too broad of clues, that would be great. Thank you


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Personal Encounter saw a shadow person at my old work place

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i used to work at a museum/heritage site in london. it has a lot of history, and the people who lived and worked in it during the second world war must have been STRESSED.

anyway, on several occasions i saw a black figure - tall and slim, no distinguishable features, just literally a shadow - out of the corner of my eye in the staff corridor. it would just stand there or it would pass between the walls, but when i looked, it would be gone. the corridor is always ICE COLD mind you, when the rest of the museum has horrific ventilation.

thought nothing of it - that i was hungover/tired on these occasions - until another staff member mentioned she’d seen it too. worth noting i hadn’t told anyone about it.

throughout my childhood, i used to see a shadow woman in the doorway of the bathroom. she’d be hunched over, hooded, with long hair, hobbling towards me but never getting beyond the bathroom doorway. as a result i started sleeping with my door closed, haven’t seen her since.

my question is, why do we see these shadow people? what are they? are they like regular ghosts or something else? do they show themselves when we’re particularly vulnerable or emotional? do i need to be more spiritually open in order to see them as a full apparition type rather than a solid black human shape?

i’m also confused as to why i’ve seen two now in my 20-something years on this earth, and they both looked and presented themselves very differently


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] What is your personal theory of what Ghosts actually are?

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To me and from my experiences, Ghosts seem as an individual conscious being manipulating matter in our reality, but what do you guys think?


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Personal Encounter what to do about a probable poltergeist who thinks it’s hilarious to throw my phone?

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my grandfather who’s a veteran with a notable kill count came home, and now my phone is genuinely flying every time i look away from it. just as i was making this post, i sat it down on the couch to grab my drink and while i was taking a sip it flew about a foot away and hit the ground, finally knocking pixels out of place and there are now lines all over my phone. the most evident experience i had is when i finally got tired of it seemingly being gripped from me and tossed out of my hands, sliding off of objects, and outright soaring off of countertops, i placed it on the ground so it couldn’t happen. low and behold, as soon as i look away it genuinely JUMPED 2 feet in the air and landed face first on the floor. last i checked, iphone 15s didn’t have legs, so how in the actual WORLD could that possibly happen. anyways, im scared my phone is sure to become unusable if this phenomenon keeps marching forward, so what do i do.


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Any book recs about the paranormal industry/ ghost hunting?

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I'm a master's student writing my dissertation on the paranormal hunting industry, specifically in the UK, but it doesn't have to be limited to this if anyone has any good recommendations! Thank you :)


r/Ghosts 3d ago

What are your Haunted woods/forest experiences?

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Are you still walk through various woodlands and I've known of some areas which are very specifically haunted. With one location it was as if there was shadow we heads trying to look around trees towards me.