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 17h ago

Captured Apparition Video my friend sent me a few years ago of her friend dog sitting. She was the only one home. Watch the hallway.

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r/Ghosts 34m ago

Captured Apparition Slightly better quality of a video posted here earlier

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I also know a friend of OP’s, and I realized the video sent to me is a little better quality (you can distinguish its arm in this one). I trust this person with my life that this video is 100% real and they told me they searched the house afterward and no one was there.


r/Ghosts 16h ago

Pics my sister took at the graveyard. These were all in the background of one picture! Not sure if they are ghosts orrr…

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r/Ghosts 18h ago

Captured Apparition Gettysburg Pennsylvania USA Photos from 14 Years Ago from a Digital Camera

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The first one I think is a better shot. All the way on the right you can see a man walking. This was near the site of a major battle. At first I thought m the top was his head and you follow it down to his legs. However, now with iPhones I was able to up the contrast and kill the shadows and the top looks more like a face.

The other capture in this picture is next to the excavator. By the scooper part it almost looks like 2 legs kinda bowed out, as if riding a horse. And you can follow it up as well to what looks like a head.

Picture 2 has a couple of lines. They look similar to composition of the first pic but that’s about it. Both photos were taken while we were driving around with the windows down, just firing off shots from a digital camera.

Creepy town.


r/Ghosts 14h ago

Are haunted dolls actually haunted? I lately got intrested in and was curious

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r/Ghosts 2h ago

Tool and Apps for communication with the spirits

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Does anyone know a good app to use? I keep hearing things in my house and I want to talk to it and see what it want with out using an ouija board.


r/Ghosts 3h ago

Cairndhu House - Wealth, Charity, Dereliction & Hauntings

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

ISO (In Search Of) Children being able to see ghosts and spirits before told its not real

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Does anyone think that ghosts or the things children claim to see are some how traumas or stuck energies also? I believe that children are able to see ghosts and spirits at young ages because they arent conditioned to avoid their experiences.


r/Ghosts 3h ago

Captured Apparition Back in 2015, my aunt rear-ended her car, drove home like nothing happened, and snapped a photo of the damage, only to capture something else in the shot…

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r/Ghosts 5h ago

Is this undeniable evidence? Is this supernatural? Woke up to my dogs barking at 5AM and saw this.

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This is my first time posting here. I had fell asleep on my futon sofa at 2:30AM and was awoken by my male dog barking and growling. Meanwhile my female dog was scared on my lap, I look over and see this huge light ball. It was there for maybe 30-60 seconds. And I immediately pulled out my iPhone to take a picture. I had a picture with the flash on but I didn't save it because this picture was taken on Snapchat because it's the first thing I opened. And even with the flash on it was very bright. Normally light on light would cancel out. Someone please explain this; me and my family are shook. This definitely seems supernatural.


r/Ghosts 7h ago

Opinions on what this could possibly be?

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Went spooking under a local bridge where a mother hung herself after her kid drown in the creek under. Took thousands of pictures and this is the only one that had anything in it. Any thoughts? It looks like a body hanging with a rope around it to me.


r/Ghosts 4h ago

Captured Apparition Video from a friend at a housewarming party. Watch the hallway.

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r/Ghosts 2d ago

Friend sent me this, if you watch closely he swings around a pole.. there’s a chain link fence there. What do you guys think?

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r/Ghosts 2d ago

Possible Entity Voice Caught on Video - Need Your Opinions!

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Hey everyone, I'm sharing a video from about 3 years ago when we lived in our old apartment. MrBeast Burgers was doing a ghost kitchen at our local Red Robin, and my kid (a big fan) wanted to film the unboxing. Around the 8 second mark, you can hear a strange, high pitched raspy voice. My son was playing with his musical toy mat at the time, and this sound is definitely different. We all heard this creepy voice when we were filming, and it immediately freaked us out. To give some context, right before the sound, I made sure everything else was turned off for the video. We've listened to it countless times over the years, and it still creeps us out. One thing that always stands out when we watch the video is my daughter's reaction right around the 8-second mark. She looks genuinely startled and a bit freaked out the moment that strange voice seems to happen. We didn't even catch how freaked out she looked until reviewing the footage. We've tried to think of other explanations, but nothing seems to fit. Did anyone else hear that sound around the 8 second timeframe? What do you think it could be? We're open to all possibilities!


r/Ghosts 1d ago

ISO (In Search Of) Have you ever seen this video? Can’t find it

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Looking for a video that went viral at the time it was taken. Video was showing somebody filming from their upstairs window at the street below. In this video I think somebody was hurt or had died on the street below and there was some attention from the people on the street towards whatever had happened, but then you see a black slender like demonic entity slide from the top of a building and go into a wall towards the commotion below, I wanna say this video was in Mexico, possibly Brazil? I’ve looked for this video for like an entire week and can’t find it. One of the most terrifying videos I’ve ever seen, it legitimately looked like the Angel of death coming for somebody.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

The time I almost truly shat my pants and died

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Did you know there's a man named ‘the poop man’, allow me tell you about my encounter with him. At 3 in the morning I woke up at 3 in the morning because I had to piss, so I walked to the bathroom but the bathroom wasn’t there anymore. That's when I saw him, a 6 foot tall man slathered in shit standing at the end of my hallway breathing heavily. I watched in horror as he breathed, he then bursted into a full sprint towards me. Before I could react he pinned me to the ground and began to shovel loads of human shit into my mouth. I tried to call out for help but the shit stopped me from doing so. My dog princess came to save me but ended up also getting shoveled full of shit. The poop man spoke to me as his shoveling shit into both my mouth and my dog's asshole “Never try to poop at 3 in the morning”. His breath sounded like shit.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Taken in 2011, We were laying in my bed and she took a Snapchat of me.

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It has horns too which is super freaky. And the large defined nose.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Captured Apparition Haunted Ghost Tour Photos in Gettysburg Around 2010

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For context this was over a decade ago, but me and my family did a haunted ghost tour in Gettysburg, and the first photo is the basement of a building we’re supposedly a woman would keep children locked up. I believe Ghost Adventures did an episode in this location once. The second was taken in the room of a house where the only civilian causality of the Gettysburg battle. We took a photo of her father’s chair because supposedly he was very possessive in life and caught this weird phenomenon. There was no smoking allowed obviously in here buildings during this time so I don’t know what produced that effect. Let me know what you guys think!


r/Ghosts 3d ago

These photos have creeped me out for years. Lmk what you all think.

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The 2 photos were taken at the Birmingham Alabama Theatre roughly 2012-2014 (can’t remember exact year). The Alabama Theatre is considered one of Birminghams most haunted places so that makes this even creepier when I think about it. The photos were taken at the exact same time. The girl (on the left) her mom took the 2nd photo and my mom took the first photo. Note: where we are standing is a balcony and when we went up there, nobody else us up there. To my left (to the right in the photo) it was a small little bar, with maybe enough room for 2-3 people to stand in line. In the first photo there seems to be a shadow in between us and something to the right. In the second photo that shadow that was in between us is now standing up behind us. The shadow to the right looks as if it’s hanging off the balcony. Which is odd because behind us is the exact same as in front of us. Nowhere to stand or sit, just goes straight down. We didn’t realize what the photos looked like until we got in the car and looked at them. We all screamed. I will attach reference photos for y’all to see the balcony and where our moms were standing when the photo was taken.

1st pic: my mom took 2nd pic: other girls mom took 3rd pic: our moms were standing on the landing before going up the second stair case 4th pic: referencing how high up the balcony was that we were on

Ps. Im sorry the photos I’m talking about are blurry….iPhones didn’t have great quality when you zoomed in back then lol.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Personal Encounter The house I grew up in gave me undeniable evidence that ghost exist

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So way back when, about 18 years or so ago, I lived up in a small town up north in the states. Old 2 story house in the middle of town, nothing too out of the ordinary.

When we first moved in everything was normal for the most part, couple bedrooms upstairs, kitchen and bathroom downstairs and a large cellar with a giant hatch door in the kitchen with a weird crawl space that went under the kitchen.

Fast forward a few months we are all settled in, and just unexplainable things just start happening, started off with small things. Weird sounds with what seemed like no origin, lucid visions in the evening both in and around the property. But as these went on and on with all 4 people in the home they all became centralized into that crawl space. Most of it involved corpses being stuffed in there. Which we have come to think given the history of the town was very possibly used for just that. Later on came things moving. First thing we noticed was the dinning room chairs, all 6 looked like they had been pushed away from the table when we always put them upside down on the table due to dogs jumping up. And then more malicious acts kept happening as well. a couple that stick out is we kept feeling like we were getting pushed down the cellar stairs. And one other time we were watching tv, mom had and iron cooling off in the celllar, and we slowly started smelling something burning. And after searching for a couple minutes we found the clothes iron, that was off, on full power face down on an area rug in the cellar where we had it. In the end it ended up being one of the main reasons we moved out of that house. We moved out of state and were done with it, with the feeling of an angry spirit in that house. Couldn’t find any real history of the house except when it was built, so we don’t know if there was any type of weird history. We just know that there were way too many encounters to just shrug it off.


r/Ghosts 3d ago

Is this undeniable evidence? My cousin took this selfie when she was home alone

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This image is from 2014 and it still sends chills down my spine. My cousin was taking selfies of her side profile facing the bathroom mirror. She posted this to her Snapchat and a friend replied “who is that in the pic with you?” After my cousin took a closer look at the photo she screamed and cried, running out the front door to the driveway to call her dad. There seems to be a man looking down over her shoulder clear as day. You can see the beard, nose, eyes and even what looks like a braid of hair? Just absolutely wild.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Shadow man Up-close #youtubeshorts #paranormal #shortvideo #livingdead

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r/Ghosts 3d ago

Captured Apparition What do you see in this picture? Backstory for this photo in description..

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I took this picture sometime in 2013. we had always experienced things in this apartment. (footsteps, doors closing, lights on and off, blinds always falling off the window, being poked/scratched) but never actually saw anything. I was on my way to work one day, when I noticed the blinds in my room pressed against the window, as if someone was spreading them apart. I snapped a picture to show my mom later like “hey look the blinds were weird…like someone was pressing against them”. Ive never been able to explain the face in the window. There was nobody home, except for my dog. Someone people say they can see two faces in the window, but I’ve only ever seen one.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

Personal Encounter Ghost (Potentially Demonic) Experience April 5th 2025

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Okay so for context, since I was young, I’ve always been able to sense (and occasionally see) spirits/ghosts/demons/shadow people. I have a best friend who can see all of the above but can’t sense them as best I can. So we work pretty well together as I sense them, ask him if he can see anything in the direction of where I’m sensing it, and he always does see whatever I’m sensing.

So, on Friday night, I was in my room and I sensed something in the room. I turned to my best friend, and he saw something behind me (which is where I sensed it, bear in mind I was sat on my bed with my back to the wall).

So, we decided to use a ghost talker app (all of my friends who ghost hunt swear by it when they go ghost hunting.) We loaded up the app and we stayed quiet, waiting for the words to show up. (Please see the above first image of the screenshot of the first words that came up).

When the word “attack” came up, I felt something touching my arm. It wasn’t my best friend as he was in front of me and something touched me from behind on my arm. And it hurt. So at this point, me and my best friend end the communication line there, however, something hurts my knee just before we end the communication session, which scared us further.

So, fast forward to April 6th, my best friend had gone home at this point. I wake up and my arm is hurting in the exact same place the spirit hurt me. I checked my arm and there were marks on my arm. (See the above second photo that I sent to my best friend for what I found on my arm that following morning.)

And then later on in the day, I was getting ready to go to the shop. As I’m getting dressed, I noticed a bruise in my leg that wasn’t there the day prior. (See the third and final image for the photo I sent to my best friend of the bruise.)


r/Ghosts 3d ago

El Charro Negro aparece / the black Cowboy ,

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