Sometimes, we want to say that there’s a normal explanation for a photo, but… we can’t find one.  Not one that works for the setting and the circumstances, that is.
That’s the case with this July 2005 photo at Brennan’s Restaurant on Royal Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
We’ve written about Brennan’s Red Room ghosts.  This [...]

Ghosts are seen and heard at the Texas Governor’s Mansion. That’s not news. However, our deliberately blurred photo of the Mansion reveals some very interesting, possibly paranormal images.
Many people sent us helpful comments. For example, several observant readers mentioned [...]

A ghost picture…? We’re not sure.
At the 2003 New England Ghost Conference–at which Hollow Hill’s Fiona Broome was the opening speaker–a few of us were discussing whether some ghosts need an energy source to manifest. The context was EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena, or recordings of ghosts, talking) and whether ambient [...]

original photo (unretouched)

scanned image, outlined

 
We took the photo on our webpage, Ghost Hunters - Ecto and Smoke, as part of a controlled experiment. We were demonstrating how smoke can look like “ecto” in photos.
However, although this picture was not taken in a “haunted” location, we wonder if the spirits are [...]

Ghost hunting becomes routine after years of research in eerie cemeteries. It takes a lot to startle us, but this tall, strange headstone did. And, every time we’ve visited it since then, we’ve felt that something isn’t right about that grave.
The skull is [...]

Annie, a friend of the Hollow Hill team, brought us this picture, taken by a friend of hers.  She wanted us to see the figure in the window.

Girl in window?
(Click on photo to see the full, unaltered image at over 100K) Right away, I saw [...]

 

 

Schoolhouse Cemetery, Nashua, NH
31 October 1999, about 8 p.m.
(full-size photo below)
Photographer’s comments: After my camera refused to work on Halloween night at Blood Cemetery in Hollis, I visited Schoolhouse Cemetery [...]

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 [...]

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Same photo, color enhanced

This photo is one of seven taken after dark at Gilson Road Cemetery on Oct 13th, 2001, at about 7:30 p.m. It is one of four with this color streak across them.
What makes this a credible anomaly is examining the [...]

One of Hollow Hill’s most popular real ghost photos was taken near the Guard House at Fort Worden, in Port Townsend, Washington, near Seattle on the night of April 4th, 2003.
When this photo was taken, colorful orbs and sparkles appeared all around me. Most of them were [...]