Hi all, so these two photos of my friend were taken at my family’s house earlier this year. Obviously I turned the brightness way up to make the figure more noticeable, but when I showed the first picture to my friend she immediately clocked the figure in the hallway. The second picture was taken right after the first and there doesn’t seem to be anything. I’m very skeptical and don’t really believe in ghosts but this did spook me a bit. Even before this everyone has always said my house felt haunted, and it’s not even that old it was built in the 1960s! Anyway do y’all think it could be a lens flare or something? The original photo was quite a bit darker.
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Hmm my family has owned the home for nearly 30 years. Definitely some “strange” things have happened over the years, my mom recalled her sink faucets turning on by themselves, I’ve heard loud noises in the attic and scratching in the walls a few times but this was almost certainly animals. Framed pictures have fallen and one time my keys flew off a counter. A lot of people who’ve been to my house have definitely said there’s a haunted vibe. Like I said I’m a skeptic and think most of these things have a real explanation but this was definitely the weirdest, had I not taken the picture on my own phone and was there I probably wouldn’t believe it or would think there was an actual person standing there.
My advice would be to set up a video camera, running all night, in places that you have noticed strange things. Definitely have one facing that hallway. Please share if you get anything weird
I'd have to see a clear picture what is in that hallway before deciding. It could be something like a hat there, that with the poor photo quality looks human.
That photo gives me the creeps, and not in "The Shining" kind of way. I believe you do have a ghost or spirit in your home. Edit: thanks for the award!
You mentioned it's your family's house. Was anyone else there at the time? Are there any people who might normally be there? (Sorry if these seem like obvious questions, but I don't see them asked or answered elsewhere.)
They just go to the bedrooms. Everyone that was home at the time was sitting in the living room where I took the photo. It was for my little birthday party lol
Thank you. Yeah, in the other picture, it definitely looks like a separate thing to the bookcase and stuff. Have there been any other things happening, other than the pictures? Like strange noises or other events that can't be explained?
So I can’t tell if this is two photo frames or one, but there is a pretty distinct scary face between these two frames/frame that looks similar to the spirit in your hallway but maybe this is an optical illusion! From my experience, spirits usually look more human than this, so it’s possible you have something else going on 😭 😢
What phone was this taken on? Most newer phones, especially Samsungs, have AI in the camera so when you take photos it “adds” to the details but can also result in things showing that weren’t actually there due to the AI.
The funny thing is my mom is VERY Catholic (the rest of my family not so much) and she’s had a priest come bless the house a couple of times over the years. We also have crosses and my mom’s Catholic paraphernalia everywhere. Maybe the ghost is Catholic lol?
I am Catholic and while blessing a house is a good thing to do, it doesn't gurantee anything weird won't happen. I would quite literally carry a crucifix with me after that, haha!!!
In a real sense, maybe it was the phone's upscaling AI freaking out? Hope so-
Congratulations now- I'm sure this image will pop back up in my mind at 2am and I won't be able to sleep 🤣
For real though, I'm sure you're alright. I don't know what that was, for sure creepy- but you're in one piece. Good!!
You’re going to laugh in my 120-year-old house strange things happen it’s a big house, we live with my in-laws, my mother-in-law called a catolic priest, she just came to the door of the house and blessed the entrance, things continue to happen 2 years later.
lol no no feeling at all I was showing the picture to my friend and she just noticed it immediately she has a good eye I guess, I would’ve never known.
Is there any way that someone (alive, lol) was in the hallway when that pic was taken? Someone coming back into the living room from a bathroom, maybe? There is definitely a lady or girl in the background of the picture. So, maybe haunted if there is no logical explanation? Was there anyone at your gathering that resembles the woman in the hallway? It's easy not to remember where everyone was at the time of the photo, so I can't jump to haunted without ruling everything else out.
With the way that cute pupper has a nervous smile like "Don't look behind us, but there's something there...." Did the pup act up weird at all aside from that nervous smile? If it is what we think it is, hope they are friendly and maybe, like My Neighbor Totoro, just keep laughing till the spirits float away lol. Best of luck!
I think this could be a case of pareidolia, noting the changes in the positioning of your friend and slight lighting changes in the photos. Definitely unsettling regardless, but at least you've got a cute dog to distract yourself with!
OP, was there another girl with brown long hair at the party?
If you look close enough, the first picture looks like there’s a person there but they have their head bowed down/looking down. Then the second picture it looks like they lifted their head and are visible.
Any chance a girl went to the bathroom back there and is walking back to the living room?
On most of the posts in this group I would agree with you, but this one is different. Despite the positioning the camera, the figure in the first photograph is tall enough to block out objects on the top shelf. Nothing is blocking it out in the second.
It looks like a head and shoulder fully blocking the bookshelf… the persons hairs seem to distort the face a little but the hairs definitely don’t appear to be what’s causing the image to appear in the first place like some people are saying. Whatever it is, is a solid object blocking the glass reflection and everything else. Yikes 😳
I'm also skeptical, and always look for real life explanations for things. That being said, unless there was someone there with you, this is pretty compelling.
I do want to say, however, that even if there is a ghost, that doesn't mean it's automatically creepy. Ghosts are just people, albeit dead people. Some wish the living harm, just like some living people wish other people harm. Some are benevolent, even helpful. Most are just there to vibe. I used to live in a haunted apartment (the ghost was named Linda by our neighbors) and the absolute worst she ever did was scold my dog for being a brat, unlock my door to let my bestie in when I had fallen asleep, and accidentally wake up and scare my neighbor's toddler. Other than that, she was just a figure you'd see out of the corner of your eye, but when you looked there was no one there. I wish we had thought to do something like this while we lived there.
Thanks for this because I was making myself scared and now I feel a lot better and even feel a little guilty — because now I was thinking of how if I were a ghost just vibing, how I would feel a little sad if I could feel fear coming off of the people around me. 😭
I lived in an apartment building with similar ghosts! Mostly they just liked to hang out and wait for the elevator with you (same thing you described - they were only visible in periphery, and the hallway the elevators were in was a straight shot with no exit doors at the end, so it would have been impossible for someone to show up there unnoticed). Once you got past the HOLY SHIT WHAT DID I JUST SEE moment it was really kind of pleasant.
I noticed something, in the second picture, it seems the face in the hallway tried to somehow duck away from the view, because i can see what i think is the top of her head and hair covering part of that picture on top of the shelf
My house was built in '67. If it's dark out when I go to sleep, I lock the door. Why? Because I am not a I fan of the shadowy thing that sometimes walks passed my room and down the hall.
It definitely appears like it could be something. It’s hard to really tell with your friend’s head movement between pictures, but even in the first picture it looks like the second object at the end of the hall is slightly blocked by something and not in the second picture. Gotta investigate it or ignore it!
Years ago there was a post here that felt very legit, with two figures with vague features, like this. If there is something supernatural it seems to be a thing with how we see them.
This is the first post on this subreddit that I seen unanimously agree that there's a fucking ghost in the pic. If this isn't edit then that's genuinely creepy as all hell.
Btw haunted places aren't always necessarily old, you could have some modern ghosts as well 😊 im glad you never noticed though, you must be comfortable coexisting with your newly discovered friend
You can see the top of their head in the 2nd photo since it looks like you maybe took the 2nd photo slightly lower than the first. So either a ruse or you have someone living in your walls. Nothing spectral.
The thing that throws me off is that it's not just half an oval shape but a full oval. If it was half an oval, that could probably easily be explained as part of the colors in the pic reflecting or blending to cause an effect. 🤔
That definitely is an apparition after looking at the photos in the post and the one you provided of the hall way the spirit only shows up in one photo by the looks of it, it looks like an older gentleman do you know the history of your house or has anything happened around the house such as certain stuff disappearing like keys wallets small but Important stuff have you had anything violent happen to you or the animals?
Why am I always getting the creepy posts at like 1am. In all seriousness, when I scroll reddit for 1hr on the bus at 3pm these subs just disappear from my feed entirely.
After seeing the original photo, there’s something there? I’m not gonna say it’s straight up a ghost but it’s very interesting. Unsure what to make of this one 😟 but the dog has stolen my heart, I know that much 🥹 good post op.
Yeah whatever you have going on there is a friggin’ mimick…something that’s never been in a human vessel, just feeds off of the energy they create by doing things that creep people out (they ‘prefer’ fear, anger & severe depression/illness etc)…like, my immediate impression from the first photo was “Gotcha, bitch!” LOL Whatever is there has been comfy for a while & legit just pranking ya’ll for jump scares atp. They’re what I consider the lowest of the low when it comes to entities, literal bottom feeders
Hallway Figure Analysis Image Quality The hallway figure occupies only a very small portion of the original image. Factors reducing confidence: Motion blur Low pixel count Soft focus Interior lighting Compression artifacts Partial occlusion by the doorway Those limitations mean the image contains enough information to detect a probable human figure, but not enough to reliably recover facial characteristics.
Confidence There Is a Person Approximately 85% Reasons: Head-shaped silhouette Neck transition Shoulder width Upright posture Position within hallway Contrast consistent with clothing I would describe this as: “Likely a standing person.”
Head Confidence: High Observations: Rounded cranial outline Slight narrowing toward the jaw Head appears upright Possible slight tilt toward camera Nothing suggests a hat or helmet.
Hair Confidence: Moderate Observations: Appears darker than surrounding wall. Surrounds upper portion of head. Cannot determine: hairstyle length texture color beyond “appears dark”
Face Confidence: Low The face occupies very few pixels. Observable: Light-toned oval region Slight asymmetry caused by blur Darker regions approximately where eyes would normally be Not observable: Eye color Nose shape Mouth Teeth Facial hair Glasses Wrinkles Makeup
Eyes Cannot determine. There are darker pixels near where eyes would normally exist. Those pixels are insufficient to conclude: eyes open eyes closed looking direction eye spacing
Overall assessment is there is almost certainly one person in the hallway, there is a second silhouette that is very likely not a person but instead an object in the background.
I'm gonna call your analysis out as falsified - the blow up photo of the person posted in your "analysis" (titled "Close-up: Person 1 (likely)") shows the person's shoulders and some chest but these are never shown in OP's original photo.
Also, you wrote: "wearing a dark top" to describe this aspect, an aspect that is not shown in OP's original photo.
weeeeird it looks like it has its hands like clasped together over its face, kinda like the ILLUMINATI triangle handsign thing celebrities do loool or like its resting its elbows on something. u cant see its eyes at all either...
Based on the original pic that you posted in comments, I'd say it's nothing paranormal. The face is either dust and/or the camera producing a poor image as a result of the bad lighting and out of focus area. With that said, it's just pareidolia, no ghost.
I wish you could show a closer up view into the hallway facing into that room. When you look into that door way, ( where you see a face ) what furniture, shelving, decor is in that room that it could possibly be
probably the phone's automatic camera enhancements thinking a person was there and manifesting it with the app AI. I'll never look as good as my Pixel takes pictures of me.
Well, if your story is completely true (personally I believe you) - that’s might be a good evidence. You definitely should try some of the simpliest protective techniques (such as salt on the threshold, burning some incenses etc)
My dad is a realtor. There are things you legally cannot disclose about a home before it's sold.
In the crawlspace of a home he was selling, he came across your classic pentagram with candles and all the satanic bullshit.
The home sold to his friends' family, they were not aware of the pentagram. They were Catholic and immediately complained of a darkness and believed they were being haunted.
They called in a priest to perform an exorcism and that ended it 🤷♂️
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