. . .but I think this
image is worth examining.
Being in Vernonia, Oregon,
I decided to walk up to the Vernonia Memorial Cemetery (basically you
walk uphill on Bridge Street until you feel like you can't possibly
be on the right road and keep going) and try one of those techniques
you don't hear a lot about on all those ghost hunting shows, take
daytime pictures of a place with no reported hauntings, but
connection to spirituality and/or death. Or simply take pictures
because you have a odd feeling, like perhaps you're not alone?
Well, none of those
pictures, for some of which I even invited anything present to show
itself, captured anything. However, because of recent wind, there
were several potted flowers that had tipped over (I righted a few of
these, if it makes you feel better about the fact that I might be
disturbing the dead), and a large tree branch that had come down
across a couple of graves. So I took a picture of that because it was
interesting:
(The only thing I've done
to this image is re-sized it, since it's somewhat large.)
It too looked perfectly
normal, until I expanded it too full size. That's when I saw this:
(This time, all I've done
here is cropped the image to fit.)
And incase it you're not
quite seeing it, this appears to be the apparition of a child in a
hat:
(Clearly I've edited this
one. If you'll notice the flowers in front of it as well, it's
clearly too small to be an adult.)
But is it an apparition?
Well, I can't say. It could just as easily be an illusion. No point
in getting too excited or bummed about that. I can see two reasonable
future courses of action here; identifying the occupants of the
nearby graves to find their age, and seeing if I can recreate the image
to prove it's only an illusion.
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