spooky tales

I’ve written before about my scepticism when it comes to the paranormal, even though I have had a couple of ghostly “encounters”.

Besides the incident with the car, I’ve had three other strange occurrences happen to me – all on my photographic trips to the waterfalls.  Dim the lights, close the door and read on.  If you dare…

The first happened when I was making a very early morning pilgrimage to a remote waterfall that I was visiting for the first time.  My trek involved crossing a rickety old river bridge and walking up through a wooded embankment before descending back down to the river. As I was hiking up the bank, I felt someone tug at my tripod which was attached to the back of my rucksack.

It was a very definite and surprising “pull”, so much so that I turned around expecting to see another photographer or hiker behind me.  But there was no one.  There was nothing for my tripod to have got caught in and no reason for me to have been pulled back.

I continued onto the falls but walked back a different way and never walked up that embankment again.

what could possibly go wrong here????

My second encounter happened at a much more accessible falls.  I’d made a split-second decision to go there late one evening.  I got to the falls and took my images, but while I was packing away I sensed I was being watched.  Again, turning around, I saw a young man sitting, smoking on a rock about 30 feet away from me.  I nodded at him but there was no reaction.  What struck me as weird was his clothing.  It was incredibly old-fashioned like something from the 30’s, and he seemed to be lit strangely - like a hologram almost.

I continued packing and when finished I turned back but he’d gone.  He was literally nowhere to be seen.

The last spooky tale involves another evening trip but this time with my sister.  We both took identical photos of the same waterfall, about 30 seconds apart.  Happy with our images we returned home and loaded them onto my computer.

There in the bottom left of one of Corinne’s images was a spooky swirl of mist. It was nothing to do with the waterfall and we thought it must be something on her lens or sensor.  But it wasn’t seen on any other images she took. It was only when we uploaded my images from the same location that we saw the self-same misty, spooky swirl.  It was identical to that on my sister’s photograph, and again was not present on any other of my images.

And do you think either of us can now find those pictures anywhere?

Spooky?  Or what? 

Anyway, what’s that in the shadows behind y…………….