I have here, an image I took only this Sunday, 01-04-04, on 35mm film. It is a black and white exposure, of a railroad trestle, over a river. I have been doing some black and white exposures around the area more as a hobby than anything. Some of the older architecture in this area looks really good in black and white, I think.

In this particular instance, I simply pulled up on the road bridge, walked down it a ways until the view looked about right, set up the shot, clicked the shutter and was on my way.

I would like to direct your attention to the railroad tressel, just right of center. That dark human shaped object was NOT in the shot when I composed it (close-up above, full image below). I am very meticulous about things like that. It is a high res scan, and I have the negative as well. I inspected the negative, and sure enough, there it is, so it is not from processing. I do not know how or have the means to doctor negatives, so that is out. I disassembled the camera, and checked it, but as this does not appear in the adjacent pictures I already knew that was out too. I returned to that very spot today, to visually check the area for the figure. There is nothing there.

I am going to investigate and find out if perhaps there was someone killed on that tressel, or if something else might have happened. Just thought I would share it with. you.

--Jeffrey T.


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Here is a close up...

looks like a bush .. might it be some smoke too!!
or maybe some one who committed suicide .. and thats its ghost!!

Thats a bit creepy.

However, on the close up the object looks to be behind the bridge, rather than on it, also there is no reflection on the water so the object has to be either on the far side of the bridge or behind it, and looking at the scale of the picture, I would estimate that it would have to be 7-8ft tall.

Mind you, this is just my opinion, and on first look it is still spooky.

oh man...
what kind of ghost is that...??

thats quite scarey, and it does look quite human shaped.

Wow Lionel... that does appear to be of human shape!!!

Creepy

Let us know if you find out any ghostly history of the bridge!

i would direct your attetion to main photo, look under the figure and on the water, it looks like repells!

Interesting. I would like to hear if anything surfaces from this, after all, the guy DOES sound professional in what he's done, checking the area, negatives and such.

Edited 'cos it sounded lame.

that photograph is beautifully intriging,
it is so simple yet so complex
almost as if you see the person but you never know them
as i said it is BEAUTIFUL.
you are a very talented photographer
i hope it gets you far.

i think this is the time you wish this image was colour so you could tell easier if it is a ghost or not

It looks like the person is standing on the far side of the bridge with his/her back to the camera. That would explain no reflection on this side of the bridge in the water. The right arm is down to the side, the left arm is perhaps in a look-out position by the face or maybe wiping tears or something to that effect... at the right pillar of the bridge, you can see the water breaking on the opposite side. The picture was taken from upstream.

Either the person standing there was over-looked during the shot, it was a planned pic, or you might just have something really f...ing cool there, bud!

Heres an idea... go the same bridge, at around the same time you took this pic above, and take another pic of it w/ color film. See what you get..



Beth Ro

Yes, I know this is 18 months too late, but I just found the site. Any, if you look at the shadows, the sun would be opposite Lionel. If you look at the water right below the "stranger" you will see a reflection on the water similar to the "stranger". And since some of the trees and bushes are almost black compared to the others, this could very be a bush.
Let me add that I do not believe in the paranormal, but I would probably be crapping myself if I saw this for real.

I could take any picture and say afterword, "That painting on the wall wasn't there when I took this picture! This is unexplainable!"

Normally, I would agree. If you're on vacation or whatever and taking pics of family, buildings, etc. you're not concentrating on everything in the shot. That's where I think a lot of these "it wasn't there when I took the photo" things come from. But, in this case, you have a photographer who's taking time to set the shot up, making sure everything's hunky-dory, so on and so forth. I think he would've noticed.

But on the ooother hand, I've set up things to take pictures of, then looked at the shot (digicam) and discovered there's a baby toy still on the floor/couch/whatever. So, who knows. I do know this black thing, while it has an upright shape, does not look like a person to me. I don't know what it is.

TWO WORDS.PRETTY FREAKY.

it does seem human in shap. legs together looking at something. i dont think it is a bush or tree. all the other trees were alot lighter. besides, im sure lionel would have noticed it being so dark at that spot

The upper torso looks fairly human, but the legs seem to come together near the bottom. It doesn't look completely human, but it is humanoid, if anything. I don't think it's a ghost, but I can't explain it if that is the case. Veeery interesting, and creepy as well.

I think it looks like a dark top of a tree. Things are usually different if there are solids compressed, such as leaves. Also the person would have to have one shoulder raised up.....

it looks like a ghost but it also looks like a man in dark cloths, i am sorry but this is just not good enough to be a real ghost pic, but i am still open to the idea it could be!

It was there before you took the picture.

I'm guessing you aren't completely colorblind, as you say stuff looks good "in black and white" i.e. different from how you see them. So unless you are completely colorblind, you would not have seen that area the same why it looks in the picture.

That black thing only appears black in the picture. It's probably dark green or whatever in real life, and it was probably a shadow of something.

Also, you probably overlooked it at the time because you were concentrating on the full scene.

I take pictures myself from time to time, of scenery, and the worst thing about it is that cameras never take in the entire scene that you're looking at in real life. Even though the bridge takes up the whole picture, I'm guessing that what you saw there, facing the same direction, was a lot more. You centered the bridge and didn't even notice this thing because you were concentrating on the bridge itself.

Also, like I said before, you saw it in color.

Quite an eerie picture, but in the close up it definately looks like it is behind the bridge. Perhaps the 'ghost' is floating.

Perhaps the bridge is floating...

That is maybe just a shade of a tree or something. I seen this type of shading on some bigfoot pictures. Like a picture was taken in a forest and like there was a log, but it looked like Bigfoot, but then if u did some hard I SPY or whatevers it came up as a old log. Anyways nice shot though.