Posting this photograph, taken by my sister a few weeks ago. Do you see a ghost over the bed?
The photograph was taken mid-day, and the intention was to photograph the French doors. Neither my sister nor I noticed the image over the bed when she took the photo, and she didn’t notice it when she sent it to her friend from whom I purchased the salvaged French doors. Her friend is the one who asked us if there was a ghost in the picture. That’s when my sister and I took a close look at it.
I thought the image was pretty spooky, actually, both because it looked like an old bony face peering out from a hooded cloak and because of where it was — who wants a ghost floating above you while you sleep? Before posting this, I decided to take a picture of the bedroom myself. In this one, it looked like there were TWO bony ghost faces, both as ominous as the faces in the first picture.
However, in the picture I took, I also noticed something not visible in my sister’s picture — a curved edge. It occurred to me that the big round vanity mirror in the sitting room outside of the bedroom might be causing a reflection in the glass of the French doors. I removed the silk flowers from the top of the vanity mirror and took another picture.
No ghostly images, just the outline of part of the mirror.
I do believe that mirrors can actually be powerful portals and divination tools — but I have to admit that, in that case, I was glad to come up with a mundane explanation for the menacing images. For the most part, the spirits haunting my house stay in the hallway and other rooms.
