These pictures were taken at my aunt's house in AZ. We took them to send to other people to show the house. While reviewing them we noticed an odd transparent shape in one of them that didn't appear in others. I'm not really sure what it is, and it very well may be nothing, but I thought it would be worth a try to get some opinions on it! Thanks!

Just looks like something due to the effect of either a shaky camera or double exposure to me.

It was a digital camera and every single picture of the house came out looking rather 'shaky', yet the camera was held very still. And when we took pictures with the same camera outside of the house, it was all normal. So I'm still not sure....

I've learned that when the batteries start getting low in our digital camera it causes the pics to look like the ones you posted. Course, even with fresh batteries we had that problem. Finally took the camera in and exchanged it.

The pictures are unclear. I believe it could just be a reflection which has been given an area by the image problems.

On second thoughts, it doesn't look like a reflection,
But I believe that the area it covers in only because of the image problems.

May I also inquire as to why you were taking a picture of a desk?

In blurring (in this case motion blurring) almost anything can be percieved as something else so attempting to define an object within this image will probably be inconclusive.
Strange picture, try photographing the house or specifically the area you have captured there again with a camera that appears to take non-motion-blurred shots and see what you come up with, thanks for the submission

Strange picture, try photographing the house or specifically the area you have captured there again with a camera that appears to take non-motion-blurred shots and see what you come up with, thanks for the submission
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Good idea DeadRobot. It's always a good idea to try to take pictures in the same place as ones in which anomalies have appeared. I know from experience it is not always possible.
Quite apart from the shakiness effect and what looks as if the picture was taken through a pane of glass the streaks which are being zoomed in on (in on which are being zoomed? ha,ha) do look similar to many other "intrusions" I have seen in hundreds of other pictures (and some even which I have taken), in their beaded form with kinks at the ends or in the middle.
The picture below which I post via photobucket, was taken by me in Rome at Trajan's Column at 10:thirty p.m. in September 1996. LONECAT

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b393/Lonecat/roma1996.jpg

Sometimes I accidently push the auto focus button on my camera and even if I am perfectly still my pics will come out blurred. Maybe you accidently hit that?

I myself have been having problems with my digital camera as well(blurring), what type of camera did you use?



Sounds like a plan.



Precisely!!!!

(Miss Nikki is another username I had to use while this account was down. Sorry for the confusion!)

HaHa Well they weren't just supposed to be pictures of a desk! The photos were taken by some people from a company that studied paranormal activity professionally, (I believe they are really called Ghstbusters! LoL) And only parts of certain pictures are blurred or 'shaky.'

I'd go take more pictures, but after all the scary stuff that happened in that house, they moved within a few weeks of moving in.

Before my camera phone took a swim, I had a strange photo. It showed the flat with a fireplace and other features which didn't exist in my present surroundings. It looks like the same thing has happened in your photos Miss Nikki. Digital cameras seem really sensitive to the paranormal around us like a microscope opens up the microscopic world for us. I often wonder if due to their sensitivity if somehow they are picking up on other dimensions. A hall use to stand where my block of flats is now. I often wonder if the fireplace that showed up where my settee was at the time meant that my flat was part of a much larger room. Also, I was told a cottage stood here, so it could have been the fireplace from the cottage. It was really weird and there was a figure in it, too. Shame my camera took a swim due to a spasm in my hand; otherwise I would have posted it.

Wow! That's really weird! I've found that different digital cameras have weird things in the pics as well. And sorry to hear about your camera!

Is it possible that it could be caused by a slightly corrupted memory card?

This looks like what I call a "double click".
That happens for a number of reasons. If the battery is low, if you hit the auto focus (like said before by cold), or if the camera has a faulty shutter. Sometimes the shutter will open twice, or stay open for a slightly longer period of time then usual causing a blur effect.

Well they were professional cameras and professional photographers, but I suppose anything is possible. I don't doubt anything in the world today!

I dont know anything about that company, but you might take into consideration that as a paranormal company they possibly have an agenda. Convincing people that there is something to be seen. Lot of frauds and hoaxers in the field who tamper with their own photos in the darkroom. Who developed the film, by the way?

Hmmm... I'm not too sure on the company. All I know is that it was ran by ASU professors and students, so there is a large chance that there was something there. It would have been an easy hoax to pull off since we had already seen and heard strange things in house.

There was no film to be developed. It was all digital and done with other 'paranormal investigative' devices.

Duh. Lol. And after we'd discussed digital cameras. Just not with it today.

HaHa that's ok! I'm a little out of it too!

That's a shame you lost the pic and phone:( That would have been interesting to see. If you believe in residual energy and time slips then it sounds like you may have photographed something like this!

Find it a bit confusing to know what it is that is out of context in these pics becuase of the double take. Is it possible to post clear pics of the same area?

I don't think I understand what you want to see. Can you explain some more?

I have to agree with the general consensus here...camera fault.

Yeah, deffinatly a camera fault. Looks exactly like a photograph of a Storyboard I was working on, it somehow turned got purple streaks, glowballs, flares, things not there, etc. But... If a storyboard that was assembled just an hour before, is somehow paranormal... Ghost-hunters should follow animators around.

Really, paranormal hunters should carry flashless high-grade non-digital cameras. Along with a digital camera, if the digital shows something, snap something with a more reliable, and proveable medium. Negatives can't be photo-manipulated after all. Also, flashes can turn a spec of dust into an orb, sometimes with digital cameras they cause orbs to appear out of nowhere. Mostly because you have a damnable flash going off without your control.

It is obviously the chupacabra!

I don't see ghost in those pictures but I think it's just some 'tech' problem of your camera.

Ive managed to remove the infra red filter from my old webcam (its the coloured what almost looks like lcd/holographic plate in the chamber of lenses that are between what it recieves to the light sensor), now if im not mistaken a digital camera works in a similiar way to a webcam, with the filter removed remote controls can be used as torches and various other silly amonilies can appear. This is not really an explanation of why your getting crazy things happening in your digital photos but it is explaining that these things operate completely differently to old exposure cameras and thats why we dont get so many unexplainable effects with exposure format as frequently as we can on digital.

professional photographers? surely if they were they would be able to dismiss it as non paranormal.

probably the camera used was not the best, or it had a fault with its electronics, but could have also been on a manual exposure setting.
a camera on automatic mode should automatically limit its shutter speed to somthing around 60ms when the flash is on, so that it captures mostly just the flash and a minimum amount of the natural light in the environment.
this photo shows the camera stayed open for longer than that and caught hand movement/shake whateveryou want to call it..

they moved house because of this?

They were professional paranormal investigative photographers.

They did not move because of THAT they moved because of all the other weird things happening in the house. Things flying around the room, voices and people seeing things.