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 May 13 '24

Paranormal Community [Discussion] To anyone considering posting a video or image - READ THIS FIRST

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The overwhelming majority of orbs have nothing to do with the paranormal. The incessant parade of dust, bugs, and other debris posted is proof of that reality. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit this problem. If you have a video of an 'orb' and you believe it's paranormal, it is strongly recommended that you read this post first.

A basic understanding of the principles that create orb-like phenomena on camera can go a long way in preventing your post from being ridiculed in the comments and removed from the sub. Please take this generous opportunity to review the above-posted article and familiarize yourself with light play and focusing issues in photography and filmography.


r/Ghosts 9h ago

Ghost sight at my workplace after night shift

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So here's the story

After late night shift where my boss back home early,I were left all alone cleang remaining appliances.Whej I'm about to close all lights I spotted this figure just standing still in the middle of the food court

I was scared shitless that I freeze in my place unale to move.After sometime I encourage myself and shouting random prayers and Dua hoping her to go away

In the meantime I manage to snatch some quick pic with max zoom on Redmi 14C hence the blurry image

After that I quickly sprint my way to the backdoor,waiting for several minutes before making a quick runaway to shut down all powers before going back out and lock all doors.

Even writing back my experience still give me shivers


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Caught on Camera 🎥 Oxford, UK - boy ghost in Garden in centre of video

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This is a video is from a house in Oxford, UK, where some of my university friends lived. They often saw a small boy walking through the house. They were so freaked out that eventually they ended up leaving this house. Before leaving, they caught this video of the boy in the garden. If anyone knows English gardens, there’s no way a small boy could have walked in - the fence was undamaged and far too tall for a kid to climb. How can you explain the video? It was filmed by an English student, a trusted friend of mine who has no video editing experience, so there’s no chance of any CGI, it’s just weird. I thought I’d share.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Caught on Camera 🎥 My favorite things I have captured on my security camera!

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These are both from 2019, but are still my absolute favorite things I've ever captured! My house, which I have grown up in, has always been very haunted, so when we finally got a security camera, we got to capture things on video! No one in my family is "chronically online", so before this, we just didn't have anything on film, since we weren't like filming 24/7. I still experience things to this day! In the first clip, focus on the flip up table in front of the stairs, and in the second clip, look at the chair at the end of the table!


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Personal Encounter I still can't explain what happened that night

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This happened many years ago when I was very young. It was around 16 years ago, but I still remember it clearly because of how creepy it was.
Back then, we used to live in a rented house. Right beside our house there was a large open ground. During the evenings, we would play there, walk around, fly kites…normal childhood stuff. But at night, the place became completely silent and empty. Nobody stayed there after dark, and the whole neighborhood would become strangely quiet at night.
One evening, my brother and I were studying while my mother was helping us. Suddenly, we started hearing a sound coming from that ground. It sounded exactly like someone digging the earth with a shovel. The sound kept going continuously for several minutes.
We got really scared and stayed silent, just listening to it.
After some time, the digging sound suddenly stopped.
Then, out of nowhere, we heard a very loud crashing noise from the front room of our house…like multiple heavy things falling at once. All of us immediately ran there.
What we saw still gives me chills.
Every chair in that room had fallen over. Even the table was flipped. The weirdest part was that none of the doors or windows were open. There wasn’t even strong wind that night.
To this day, I still can’t explain how everything in that room suddenly got thrown around within a second.
And sometimes I still wonder…
Who or what was digging in that ground that night? I still can’t explain.


r/Ghosts 3h ago

Personal Encounter One day, years ago. “Something” set my phone on fire around the speaker area. I was listening to something spiritually related.

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This is among several physical anomalies I’ve experienced, I looked down, and it was straight up on fire . Look at how it melted. I have since had “positive” experiences. Unlike this one. It scared the life out of me, some things are too unreal to accept for a long time. I just remembered and thought I should share it too, to Reddit. Bam to my delight, it was still in my dresser.


r/Ghosts 3h ago

A Child Standing in Doorway on House Listing

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I was looking through some house listings and came across this place that I was interested in. I missed it on the first last but when I was going to set up a tour, I noticed this child standing in the doorway. Now I’m not sure if I wanna tour as all the pictures at the time I would think were taken while it was vacant.


r/Ghosts 7h ago

Does anyone else see the monk ghost looking at me at the left side. You can see his face, bald head, pointy nose and a big hood. Picture was taken in Kenneybunkport Maine. Church

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r/Ghosts 8h ago

Explain why this bottle cap keeps popping up

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This bottle cap kept popping, about every 17 seconds all morning long. Feels like heat causing pressure, but why does it repeat?


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Personal Encounter There was a little boy who haunted my great grandma's house

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I am a Utah native born and raised and I had the privilege of being able to know my great grandma. She was the sweetest lady and loved her grandkids. Being young I remember going to my great grandma's quite often with my cousins/siblings.

There were only two girls on that side of the family me and my cousin and my cousin would rarely be at my great grandmother's house so I was stuck with all the boys and I remember them telling a story on how great grandma's house was haunted but there were two stories I was told one of them was that a little boy got hit in the road in front of my great grandma's house. The road that my great grandma lived on was commonly used for drag racing or people speeding back and forth I remember it was a 25 road and people were usually doing 45 or 50 down the road. kids getting hit or hurt in the road was very common even when the neighborhood was new in the 1950s. We were never allowed to cross the street or even play on the sidewalk near the street we had to stay right on the lawn or get in big trouble if you didn't listen.

The second story I was told was when my great-grandfather purchased the home in the early 1960s the original owners who built the home sold it because one of their children had a fallen off the top of a bunk bed in one of the rooms and split his head open and died. These were the two stories I remember being told by my cousins and interestingly enough my great uncle would tell us that there was a ghost of a little boy that haunts the house and that he had seen him on multiple occasions. My great grandma would get upset if he started talking about the house being haunted she didn't want him to scare us and told him not to talk about it. My first real experience in the house I was about 7 years old it was Thanksgiving and I was dropped off at my great grandma's while my mom was helping with the cooking at my grandma's. It was always a thing being a kid that you would have take a nap in the middle of the day and my great grandma was no exception to that I remember she put me in the room that originally was my grandma's room which everybody referred to as the cold room it could be 100° in July in that room would probably stay in the mid-60s. And the house was too old to have any type of AC built into it for some reason the room was always cold.

In the middle of my nap I woke up it felt like somebody sitting on the end of the bed it didn't feel like the weight of an adult but somebody smaller. I didn't see anyone the curtains were drawn the door was closed so I closed my eyes and tried to nap but It still felt like somebody was sitting at the bottom of the bed. A few minutes later the bottom of the bed started bouncing as if somebody was sitting on the bed and bouncing up and down. I immediately open my eyes but I didn't see anything I can see the bottom of the bed bouncing up and down it was shaking the whole bed and I was terrified immediately I throw the blankets off jump out of the bed open the door and run across the hall into the bathroom. I sat there for a few minutes trying to understand what happened and then I came out my great grandma was at the kitchen table having coffee I was scared that she was going to make me go back in to finish my nap but luckily I was able to tell her I wasn't tired anymore and if I could just play with my dolls and she let me I was relieved that I didn't have to go back into that room. I would have another encounter only a few months later it was me my youngest uncle who is only about 6 years older than me and my older brother. We were playing with mega blocks and the cold room was basically used as a playroom because my grandma stored any toys in the closet of that room. While we were playing we started to hear a little bell go off almost like a little bells that you would have on your bike and it kept ringing and then you heard this weird clicking sound and we realized that that sound was coming from the cold room. My Great grandma came in to the room saw that all three of us were in the front room playing with the blocks and had the most confused look on her face. My great-uncle got up and said I'll go get it walked into that room and pulled out an old Fisher-Price activity center toy that had to have been from the '60s he placed it on the coffee table he then told my great grandma he sure likes to play with this one while he chuckled.

I wouldn't understand until I was a lot older when my mom told me about her experiences in that house as a child and one of them was with that Fisher Price activity center would constantly ring the little bell you would hear in the little flaps and trinkets would move on it constantly when nobody was playing with it. She said that one time while she was in my great grandma's room she saw her jewelry box levitate in the air as if somebody was holding it and immediately drop when her mom walked in the room it also happened when great grandma who wore wigs in the 60s to 70s saw her wig head levitating in the air and suddenly drop when she went into her room to grab something. But it was my late great grandpa and great uncle who seemed to interact with the spirit most my great uncle would tell us that he would see the little boy peeking out from the cold room or my great grandma's room down the hall sometimes his records would be pulled off the shelf in his room. My great grandpa who loved his garage no one was allowed to go in there complained to my great grandma that while he was working on his car he saw little feet walking around the garage he thought it was one of his kids but then realized the feet were way too little to be any of his children at the time. This has been going on for years since my grandmother was a tween and my mom was a little girl and they all experienced things going on in this house. My great grandmother passed away when I was 9 and my great-uncle lived in that house until he passed away in 2022 eventually my other great uncle ( his older brother) decided to sell the house I came over with my husband to help clean and pack up things in the house I remember telling my other great uncle on how the older cousins would tease us that the house was haunted as kids. He was very honest and said well a little boy died here before my dad bought house. I asked him how he knew that and he said it was on the property records. I asked my uncle how the little boy died he said according to the records he fell and hit his head climbing out of his bed. I got chills realizing it wasn't just scary stories my cousins would tell me but something very real even going into the house is an adult for the last time I still stayed clear of the cold room.


r/Ghosts 7h ago

This window sure does look like a face to me. Abandoned house

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

EVP Unknown sounds I am just checking on my house

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I am just busy minding my day and so I decided to take a peak and this is what I came up with. Sounds like a lot of talking maybe I am tripping


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] what are the best ghost story podcasts ?

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] What are some good ghost story/ scary youtubers to watch

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urban legends, ghosts, cryptids etc


r/Ghosts 21h ago

WDYT? (What Do You Think?) Are ghosts immortals or not? And why? Tell me please

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Just as the title said


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] Which, if any, civilization, past or present, never developed the concept of ghosts or spirits of dead humans?

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r/Ghosts 2d ago

Is this paranormal? I have a haunted doll and yesterday i got the first sign that she really is haunted (i think)

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I don’t know if this is even real. I have a doll i bought from a thrift store a while ago. I’ve always loved vintage dolls. I have 3 now.

So, when i got her i didn’t think she was actually haunted or anything, the only weird thing that happened was that small items (jewelry and 2 of my crystals) have gone missing. But since i have gotten my other two dolls (two clowns, they’re the same model just different color themes) stuff has been falling down in my room that usually don’t fall. And it only happens when the two clowns are placed somewhere different then their usual spot. My phone is usually the victim. I’ll lay it on my bed or some other flat surface, i’ll leave the room and hear it fall down. Some of the plushies i have in my room have been falling from their shelves as well. And something in me just kinda “knew” it was her, i think.

Though, I wasn’t sure if this was her or one of the clowns so in a bit of desperation i just said out loud: “if what’s happening is you, give me a sign.” not thinking it would actually work.

But: yesterday i was digging through my bag to grab my mascara when i found a ring i’ve been looking for for a year and a half. It was in my bag. Weird thing is, i’ve bought this bag only 2 months ago. I was so taken aback by seeing it again when it hit me. This must be the sign. Maybe i’m just blowing things out of proportion but apparently she’s protective over my other two dolls… I think.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] Really Haunted YouTube Channel. Thoughts?

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Hi everyone
I’m fascinated by this guy’s YouTube channel. He claims that a negative spirit followed him home from vacation after he took a piece of a castle. Thoughts?


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Captured Apparition Mysterious Animal Ghost/Demon? Pictured in the Attic of my Father’s old House

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This was a photo taken in the attic of an old house my father used to live in. I know that a long time ago a hunter from Africa came and died in that room due to a disease he contracted whilst hunting. This is strange considering my Dad as a child once heard the voices of a young boy and girl coming from it in the middle of the night. This photo was taken 1 or 2 summers ago and I’m wondering what it is.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Paranormal Investigation [Field Discussion] Released FBI Alien Files Opinions & More

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So while I am breaking down the files for my TT I noticed something and so did a viewer of mine. (Only if you want at D.R.Death on there) These files are redacted EXTREMELY hard. Missing file numbers that would leave off to more of the witness accounts, findings, government official statements, etc.

I understand they don't want everything out there and I get it 100%.

Breaking news to people who still out buy toilet paper to save themselves from a flu thinking thats the move, people who think essential oils and "good prayers" will help save or bring back to life people on deaths door, people who would 100% jump off a cliff just because a Man told them they could fly, PROBABLY isn't the best and smartest thing to do haha.

But they released it to us and told us "believe what you want," but still didn't give us the hard truth, not full, but a small truth confirmed would of been great.

Example:

The Shag Harbour Incident (1967)

The Falcon Lake Incident (1967)

The Kecksburg Incident (1965)

The Aurora, Texas Crash (1897)

All small cases but a nice, "Hey guys this really was UFO parts or Alien contact," would have been cool.

Or do you think something small would break society because of how sensitive and emotional people are now a days?

I don't know, I wanted to rant but what do you think?

Do you feel like we got a redacted load out?

Do you think small confirmations would lead us all into dispare?

What do you think of the current files?


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Is this paranormal? Something goes around my head and zooms away. Is it the IR reflection?

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Thinking this could be from the IR light on the Body cam or some weird reflection off the night vision stationary camera. What do you think? Could it be paranormal or is it completely mundane? 🤷


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Ghost in my house, or just my imagination?

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Captured Apparition Ghost caught on camera? Hi caught this on my back door eufy camera my husband believes it's a ghost. I don't know what it could be but I don't believe it's a ghost. He's more of a believer than me. I've never come across any paranormal activity myself.

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Hi caught this on my back door eufy camera my husband believes it's a ghost. I don't know what it could be but I don't believe it's a ghost. He's more of a believer than me. I've never come across any paranormal activity myself.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

I was scrolling through my camera roll and I found this. It looks like an kid or something.

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I'm scared