For months now my wife has insisted that she hears footsteps on the upper floor of our house. They are loud, clear and definite, she says. My daughter has heard them too. And my son who has a bedroom on the upper floor concurs as well. The footsteps can be heard with regular frequency during late evenings and night hours since months. My wife believes that he is a guardian angel keeping our home and happiness - and protecting our house even over the past 4 or 5 years, when I travelled extensively and she was often alone at home.
Last night I was trying my hand at photography. With my camera mounted on a tripod I took a series of shots of a brandy glass (or 'snifter' as the purer bred amongst us call these things). The shots below were taken well past midnight, actually sometime around 02:00 hours. I am going to ask you to look at some photos below, however withholding your judgement on my photography skills. These were simply test shots as I was experimenting with a new macro set up using a normal lens (the macro lens is planned to follow soon). The photos are reproduced below exactly as taken - they have not been cropped or adjusted in any manner whatsoever so that authenticity is not lost in any manner. The camera used is a Canon eos 400 digital with an old, but rather good quality EF 35 - 70 mm 1:3.5 - 4.5 lens.
Anyway note the first shot (no reflection) and then the next two which show the reflection of a 'figure' on the body of the glass extending right up to the rim. Click on photos to enlarge.
The first shot which is without any unexplained reflection.
The next shot - watch the looming reflection on the left side.
And the same reflection again - on a next darker shot.
When I spotted this, my hair slowly crawled up. I forced myself to think that it could been just a strange play of light. So I called my wife and son and we experimented with positions.
At first though we reconstituted the scene exactly. I placed myself at the same spot directly behind the tripod and we looked at the glass. No reflection appeared in the glass - so it could not have been my own reflection! Then I moved slightly back and to the left of my position. My reflection appeared instantly on the same spot as the figure in the glass.
My wife tried it and then my son did too, exactly with the same result. The only conclusion we could arrive at was that the figure in the glass must have been standing on my left, slightly behind me when I took these photos.
Is this our friendly house ghost? we are wondering.
Your comments, opinions or thoughts are welcome. Please let me know what you think of this phenomena?
And if you have a similar experience or a similar photograph please post it here with a short description of the incident.
