In our recent tests, we were amazed to discover how often a camera strap could look as if it was floating against a dark background.
We’re not sure how often this happens in ghost hunting.  It’s definitely worth noting if you’re analyzing ghost pictures.
Here’s a clear example.

Against a light background, the entire length of the camera [...]

Ghost pictures can be real, fake, or the product of simple mistakes.
In our another article, Ghost vortex or camera strap?, we showed a variety of vortex-like images made by stray camera straps.
But, that’s not all we discovered in our [...]

A ghost vortex–defined by some as a line that indicates an active passageway to the ‘other side’–can be thrilling to discover among your ghost pictures.
However, if you aren’t careful about camera straps, you may not know if it’s a vortex or something far more mundane.
Important: This article is not intended to ‘debunk’ all ghost [...]

That’s not some fiery anomaly intruding on our photograph. It’s one of three photos with bright orange splashed across them, at the end of one roll of film. The auto-rewind in our new Canon camera didn’t fully rewind the film, and our photographer opened the back of the [...]

These two photos were a huge disappointment.
In order to identify anomalies in particularly dark photos, we scan them and use one of our graphics programs to increase the contrast, brightness, and saturation. Sometimes we can see more that way. (Our photos online are not enhanced, unless [...]