Haunted Gettysburg

While attending the Ghost World Conference, my mother, sister, and I opted to participate in a paranormal investigation. For those of you who don't know, a paranormal investigation is when you visit a haunted site, after dark - spooky! - and use various types of equipment to find evidence of paranormal activity. I went armed with my camera and took the photo above. I couldn't see what I had on the viewfinder of my camera at the time I snapped the shot, so I was rather surprised to see this picture when I downloaded the photos from my camera to my computer.

I took this photo on the main battlefield at dusk. The subject of my photo is a little blurred, but if you look closely at bottom on the left side you can see the word "yes." How strange is that?

Another strange thing happened while I was taking pictures on the battlefield - the batteries in my camera went completely dead. After spending some time taking some pictures, I reached one particular area and all of a sudden my camera batteries were drained. According to paranormal researchers, this is fairly common. I had fresh backup batteries in my camera bag so I popped them in and within seconds they went from full charge to dead. When it comes to my camera I always use good batteries specifically designed for cameras so it was a bit disconcerting to have two sets of fresh batteries loose their charge so quickly.