False Positives
The photos found here are examples of
"evidence" that can easily fool the eye, if  strict
protocols are not followed.
The descriptions of the circumstances are
labeled below each photo.
Eerie ectoplasm leaking in through a bedroom
window? Of course not. Upon closer
inspection, and with the help of a photo
editing program, an outside light source was
soon found to be the cause. (see photo to
right).
After noticing the strange light through the LCD
display on the camera, we snapped another
photo in this direction. After uploading the photo
and editing with the lighting, this is what we
discovered - the outside light source; nothing
paranormal in nature.
The three red lights seen here, below the small rope, caught our
attention immediately, but again, after using a photo editing
program to lighten the photo, we discovered that a window
existed in the far back corner. At just the same moment that the
investigator took the shot, a vehicle happened to be passing by,
three stories down, on the street below. These are the tail lights
from that vehicle.
Vortexes are extremely rare in nature and even
more-so to capture on film. Snapping a photo
through dirty, cracked glass is definitely not
the way to accomplish this.
The spirit across the lake? No. Believe it or not,
just a bug caught in the flash of the camera.
Some might think that a UFO has landed in a cemetery - quite a
paranormal experience. Again however,  it is vital that all
background lights are considered when taking photos in the dark.
The lights are from a city, off in the distance.
The object on the lower right is nothing more
than a storage container. The two "orb"-like
anomalies on the left are only spider eggs; their
webs trailing off to the right.
This effect was created by moving the digital camera
slowly while the setting was again at slow shutter
speed, when the shot was made. The light source was
that of a small lamp on the mantel.
We feel vortexes to be very rare occurrences and have yet to
stumble across this type of phenomena. Although the
camera strap was black in color, it showed up as white
when the photo was processed.