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Portrait of a Real Ghost
from the Hollow Hill staff ©2005
Portsmouth house, Portsmouth, NH
October 1999, about 11 a.m.This photo was taken outside a Portsmouth private residence. While living in that house, I saw two ghosts and experienced considerable poltergeist phenomena. I took several photos of the house in late October 1999, to illustrate my pages about this very haunted house.
When I had this film printed and examined the photos, I kept returning to the photo shown above. Something about it didn't seem "right." My attention was drawn to what seemed to be window reflections of the old lilac bush in front of the house.
The following day, I decided to enhance the image with my computer, simply making it larger so I could determine what was bothering me about the picture. That enlargement appears below:
Either this photo looks like a man looking to the right, with longish hair and 19th-century dark sunglasses, or it looks like a reflection of lilac leaves. Nobody seems undecided about this photo!
If you'd seen the male ghost in that house, you'd recognize the window reflection right away: That's our ghost. He has a broken-looking nose, a scar under his right cheekbone, and his hair is thinning on top.
In spectral appearance, he was about 5'5" tall and stocky. He looked like a hastily-groomed, slightly British version of Buffalo Bill... sort of. When he wasn't wearing sunglasses, he had average no-particular-color eyes, somewhat tanned skin, and slightly sunbleached brown hair. He favored brown clothing, usually wore a suit, rarely buttoned his jacket, and he always seemed in a hurry to go nowhere.
When I took this photo, I had the sense that someone was at the window, but I didn't really notice the man's face. And it was entirely reasonable that the current residents of the house might have been peering out at the strange woman taking photos of their house. I don't put any significance on my discomfort at the time.
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Camera: Olympus AF-1, point-and-shoot
Film type: Kodak ASA 400 b&w film, 35mm
Negative shows: Same image. Nothing unusual.
Developed and printed by: Shaw's Supermarket overnight photo service
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