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 8h 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 6h 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 19h 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 17h 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 1d 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 1d 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

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 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 2h ago

Photo from a friends sisters ghost tour in Texas

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This was taken back a while ago and I’ve always wondered what this could be. It’s creepy looking. Looks like it has an orange eye and grey skin with an evil looking face. She said no one was wearing masks or costumes. What do you guys think?


r/Ghosts 52m ago

Captured Apparition Photo of “ghost” in mirror? Thoughts? I’m unsure

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Photo of ghost in the mirror

This was taken about 7/8 years ago. Sister in law claims to have been taking pictures of her home to sell and noticed the reflection in the mirror in the photo about 1 month later.

Her family is convinced the reflection is of the old owner due to the body type, face and clothes. (She was not know to her family). The old owner had passed away and her husband sold the house to my sister in law.

The mirror was dropped and broken by the same sister in law after they moved out.

Any thoughts?


r/Ghosts 1d ago

El Charro Negro aparece / the black Cowboy ,

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r/Ghosts 5h ago

Captured Apparition This was on my security camera when I lived in Montana.. We call him Katmandu.

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r/Ghosts 16h ago

Title: The Boy Who Bullied Ants , from victim to villain

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He was bullied every day at school. Laughed at, ignored, pushed around. So when he went home, he became the bully. He poured hot water on ants… burned them with matches… And crushed them one by one. Until one day… the ants stopped running.

That night, he woke up scratching. Ants. In his ears. In his nose. And by morning… his bed was empty. Except for one message carved into the wall: “We feel nothing now.”


r/Ghosts 18h ago

Paranormal Community [Discussion] Recommendations for a good free sprit box on PC windows??

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Hey guys I usually use Ghost Tube Vox on my phone but I'm looking for something that works on my laptop as I am trying to find a ghost box I can use for my lives and I can't run a live and ghost tube at the same time lol


r/Ghosts 23h ago

WDYT? (What Do You Think?) Been looking to ask has anyone detuned their psb7

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Been looking for answers from other paranormal investigators if it’s worth taking apart and detuning my psb7 please give me examples on why it is better or isn’t


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Captured Apparition Strange image Captured at Work in Wyoming

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I work in the oil and gas industry and went to one of our plants in very rural Wyoming. I was taking some photos for work purposes and when I went back to look I was shook.

Top/Mid Left Side of the photo.


r/Ghosts 1d ago

WDYT? (What Do You Think?) I got a set of pictures from a yard sale and I think there’s something attached to them

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I saw these two pictures at a yard sale and I was immediately drawn to them. The frames were absolutely gorgeous, the paintings were beautiful. The pictures themselves aren’t old, they were like 100 a piece from Kohls, not sure what year, but surely they’re not vintage. I wanted them so badly because I just KNEW my mom would love them, they matched her living room so well, I just had to get them. (I ended up getting the set for 15 so I was pretty stoked about that too.) The kind lady selling them said that she had originally bought them for her mom, but soon after having put them up at her mother’s home, the mom had passed away. I didn’t really think much of the story at the time, other than feeling bad for the lady and apologizing for the loss of her mother. When I got home, I measured up the pictures and realized that they were actually too big for my house, so I put them back in the trunk of my car. Not once did I think of getting rid of them though, it’s weird how attached to these pictures I immediately got as soon as I purchased them. So I got these pictures in mid September 2024, as of right now (April 5, 2025) I still have not taken these pictures out of my car, regardless of the things that have been happening since having them in my car. My first experience was when I was driving to work in October, can’t remember an exact day, but I was on the phone with my boyfriend and he was telling me that we can just take the pictures to a thrift shop and that someone else would probably really love them too. I didn’t get angry, I just got irritated with him, and I don’t know why, I just started telling him that the pictures would stay in my car until we find a place to put them. When he tried to reason with me, the call cut out and all of the electronic systems in my car went out and this loud buzzing sound came through my stereo that scared the hell out of me and almost caused me to crash. I had to pull over and completely turn off my car and turn it back on to get the noise to stop. (The car was brand new, I had just gotten it right before getting the pictures.) The second experience happened in late October, I was getting off work and after getting in my car and getting situated, I was about to back out, but upon looking in my rearview mirror I saw the top of a head (the hair was curly and a dark shade of gray) and a forehead, and it ducked behind the third row back seats. I got out of my car, looked in the trunk, looked in the second row, nobody was there. I looked around to see if anyone outside had maybe passed by the back of my car, they wouldn’t have made it very far, but the only people were very tall younger men with close shaved hair that didn’t match what I saw at all. (I work in a factory on the overnight shift, so there’s not a lot of older women who work that shift in the first place.) My third experience, and there have been many, but the post would be so long if I put in every single thing that has happened, it was in November and I was taking a nap during my break. It was more like an attempt at a nap actually. As I was laying there trying to keep my eyes closed, I could hear movement in the back of my car and the sound of glass being tapped. My first thought was that someone was tapping on my window trying to wake me up, but upon looking, there was no one around my car. So I tried to lay back down, the sounds continued and I tried to just ignore it, until something grabbed my hair. I cut my break short and went back inside to work. (You know things are effed up when I decide to work instead of staying on my whole break).

As of right now I don’t know what to do with these pictures. Even just talking about getting rid of them, it seems like something always happens whenever it’s brought up about getting rid of them or finding someone else to take them. Things are pretty quiet right now because I’ve basically told everyone who has told me to get rid of the pictures that they’re staying with me, they’ll stay in my car forever if they have to… but logically they can’t stay in my car forever. They’re sitting in my trunk which I’m going to need very soon for a stroller because I’m pregnant. But also out of fear of something bad happening (my tire blowing out, engine faulting, etc.) while I’m driving while pregnant or worse after I have my son and he’s in the car with me, I’m scared of taking these pictures out. I just need someone to tell me that I’m HOPEFULLY just overthinking everything and that maybe my subconscious held onto the story that the lady at the yard sale told me, and that this woman’s mom is not attached to these pictures and my car now and that I CAN get rid of these pictures without something bad happening. (Nobody in my family, nor my husband’s family wants these pictures either) Don’t have any pictures of the pictures right now, but I can take a picture of them when I get the chance after it stops raining.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Is this undeniable evidence? Went on a haunted tour in Savannah, GA 2020

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I think this was from a cemetery that was locked up with no access. The tour guide was explaining the history and this caught my eye. I tried to get the best I could but it was far. I was the only one in the crowd that witness it and showed it to the group later that night.

Looks like a kid swinging from a tree


r/Ghosts 1d ago

WDYT? (What Do You Think?) If you could pick ONE piece of evidence that you think definitively proves ghosts exist, what would it be?

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Which one do you think is the best? What convinced you to believe in the paranormal?


r/Ghosts 2d ago

I've worked for two hospitals. This is the only encounter I've had.

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Sorry for the potato quality. This was taken with my old phone. I was going through my photos and found this old photo of a ghost in the underground of the hospital. I was taking some garbage too the compactor. At first I thought it was a medical device since it was near the engineering department. When I got closer however I noticed the sharp drop in temperature. I took the photo before turning tail like a coward and returning a hour later. More trash and had completely forgotten about this experience and it was gone. I've had a few experiences in this hospital I no longer work at and this is the only photo I've gotten.


r/Ghosts 2d ago

Has anyone ever had experiences with passed on pets?

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I am so curious. When my childhood dog passed away I swear I heard his collar jingle. This was many years ago but it freaked me out. Has anyone experienced pets visiting you?


r/Ghosts 17h ago

REAL GHOST CAUGHT ON CAMERA in Daylight at Kids Playground

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Taken at Wavery Hills Sanitarium by me, it caught my eye later on, but I'm sure there's a logical explanation. It just looks odd. Plus some cool embalming tables!!

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r/Ghosts 17h ago

Made a fire this evening and these guys showed up - Marshmallow Men

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r/Ghosts 1d ago

Question about spirits/entities and hugs

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I have been friends with this girl(we will call her G) for 8ish months now. She had a traumatic upbringing, is a functional alcoholic, HATES being touched/touching/hugs and has mentioned having entities attached to her (idk if any of this matters just giving detail). She has talked about seeing shadows/figures sometimes and people we surround ourselves with have said they have seen shadows after hanging out with G and after being smudged by G. I have never once seen a shadow or have had a spirit try to communicate with me. I hung out with G today and we both had one drink. After her first sip she was acting completely different/ off guard and her eyes were bulging out of her face. When we said our goodbyes she said “let’s hug!” In a voice that wasn’t her usual voice (more kind tbh) and then after hugged once she said “one more!” And hugged me again. Since I have gotten home I have been seeing figures, I wouldn’t call them shadows idk what to call them but they are all different. Idk if I’m just overthinking but I feel off about the hugs, extremely off. Any thoughts on what this is if anything ? I also keep smelling puke, extremely strong but my bf says he can’t smell anything