A Ghost in the Ravine

parlance · Guest

There's a waterfalls out near the end of Captain's Bay that I visited in the spring. I climbed up on the mountain to get to a vantage point for taking pictures, but I really wanted to get close in from the bottom if that was possible. A few days ago I went out there and explored around and found out there was a road going into the ravine a couple of hundred feet to facilitate the removal of gravel from one side and then the creek was actually traversable because the middle was blocked off and one side was dried up. I didn't get as far as I wanted to up the ravine because it began to rain, so I came back a few days later when weather permitted.

My second sojourn into the ravine met with no success. I found out the last few yards to the bottom of the falls was impassible unless I was dressed to get wet and it's too cold at this time of year for that kind of shenanigans, so I was taking pictures from the vantage point I had gained and suddenly I had that weird feeling, the one you get when something sneaks up behind you and doesn't want you to know it's there.

There are no large mammals on this island, and it would have been really hard for a person to follow me unseen into the ravine because there were no hiding places large enough for a human being. My whole body started to get that something is here and it don't feel right kind of feeling. But I just told myself to ignore it and do what I was there to do, take pictures.

When I turned to leave, I felt that presence back away, but the feeling of it being with me stayed with me for about half the journey down the ravine. The next day I was looking through the 400 or so pics I took of my little adventure, and low and behold, there was an anomaly in one of them. It was kind of like an orb, but it had an eliptical nimbus around it. I had been taking burst series of images and I didn't save all three of that particular set, but the first image had nothing and the second had the anomaly. I believe I caught a photo of the spirit that had come to see what I was doing.

My friends in Denver have asked to use my photo on their site and when they post it I will post a link. I am really happy with that picture because it validates the strong feeling I had of something being there with me in the ravine.

The neat thing is, there was no direct sunlight. At this time of the year, at that time of the day, the sun hasn't come over the mountain tops yet, and it would have been behind me. A haze had begun to gather in the upper atmosphere, so the sky was slightly overcast with a thin veil of clouds and all light was diffused. So no, it wasn't a sundog, and no, I wasn't using any flash. And no, there were no reflective surfaces around. As for moisture, I was near a creek, but I took hundreds of pictures without anomalies and this picture was on the dry side of the creek, and the anomaly was in the area of the pic where it would have been the dryest.

I am really happy with this photo, it is a clear image of a spirit form. I have no idea what it was doing there and it is the first ghost I have encountered in the wilds. All the other ghosts I have seen have been in or around dwellings.

Nobody in their right mind would try to build anything or bury anything in that ravine, so this is really interesting.