27/05/2024
The owner of these photos said…
First 4 photos are snapshots from my phone to show the time stamp. 5th photo is the original photo.
Some context: It was February 1st 2020, and my wife and I were on a Williamsburg, VA ghost tour. I took lots of photos and my method is to take multiple shots back to back because I believe that if spirits are real, they can pop in and out of our reality in seconds if they wanted to and a paranormal investigator once told me it's a recommended practice.
I don't remember the building name or it's history, but remember there being a rope barrier from where we stood, and when the tour guide told us we could now take pictures, the 8-ish people in our group basically lined up to the barrier and began taking photos at the same time.
I just remember after the tour was over and my wife started driving us home, I reviewed my photos and wash shocked to find this one photo different from the rest. 3 reasons why I believe this is a genuine photo:
1. No one could have been in front of me because everyone was behind the rope barrier lined up from left to right parallel to the building.
2. It couldn't have been a shadow because everyone else's shadows including mine did not project on any other photo I took. And I don't remember anyone standing behind me with a bright enouch spotlight to project my own or anyone else's shadow so prominently and in this smokey fashion.
3. I took snanshots from my phone of the original photos to prove the time stamp that these photos (8 total) were taken in less than one minute. If someone were to have jumped out in the split seconds it took me to take these photos, it wouldn't have looked the way it did.
Thoughts? You won't hurt my feelings. I've got nothing to gain to photo shop a ghost and I could care less about "likes". And to those wondering why I didn't post this 3 years ago when it happened, it's because Reddit wasn't my first thought to show this to back then, life and work got ahead of me (to include the covid hell we all went through), and I simply forgot I had this saved in my albums.