Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: Ghost of Forest Hill Cemetery Investigation Report
Hello Everyone,
Recently, I took a quick trip to Forest Hill Cemetery to take some photos of the really old tombstones and tombs. The cemetery was established in the late 1800's and has some 41,000 graves and tombs. Even Elvis Presley was originally buried in a tomb at Forest Hill Cemetery (I did take some photos of Elvis's original resting place).
As I was taking photos of a awesome marble tomb, I noticed a amazing stained glass window inside and just had to get a photo of if. I tried to open the door of the tomb, but it was locked and a key was needed to enter it. There were two small windows on the door with two narrow rod iron bars on each window.
The stain glass could be seen from the window, so I turned off the flash, because I did not want to get a flash reflection from the window. The tomb was empty and the sunlight was passing through the stain glass making it shine. I aimed the digital camera through the tiny opening and snapped a quick photo. I took 2 other photos of the stain glass, but out of the three photos only one of them caught something really exciting.
Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 79 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Ghost of Forest Hill Cemetery Investigation Report
Well from what I can tell the first and last pic the camera is aimed much higher up, so it's not the same view as the middle pic. Really hard to tell from the pics what is what. It looks to me as a another statue that is in the shaded part of the tomb as one of those young child/cupid statues with the kids with the puffy checks or just matrixing.
Just curious, what makes you feel it's a little girls ghost? I'm not sure how you can tell it's female.
nventit wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Recently, I took a quick trip to Forest Hill Cemetery to take some photos of the really old tombstones and tombs. The cemetery was established in the late 1800's and has some 41,000 graves and tombs. Even Elvis Presley was originally buried in a tomb at Forest Hill Cemetery (I did take some photos of Elvis's original resting place).
As I was taking photos of a awesome marble tomb, I noticed a amazing stained glass window inside and just had to get a photo of if. I tried to open the door of the tomb, but it was locked and a key was needed to enter it. There were two small windows on the door with two narrow rod iron bars on each window.
The stain glass could be seen from the window, so I turned off the flash, because I did not want to get a flash reflection from the window. The tomb was empty and the sunlight was passing through the stain glass making it shine. I aimed the digital camera through the tiny opening and snapped a quick photo. I took 2 other photos of the stain glass, but out of the three photos only one of them caught something really exciting.
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ghost of Forest Hill Cemetery Investigation Report
Jesse wrote:
Well from what I can tell the first and last pic the camera is aimed much higher up, so it's not the same view as the middle pic. Really hard to tell from the pics what is what. It looks to me as a another statue that is in the shaded part of the tomb as one of those young child/cupid statues with the kids with the puffy checks or just matrixing.
Just curious, what makes you feel it's a little girls ghost? I'm not sure how you can tell it's female.
nventit wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Recently, I took a quick trip to Forest Hill Cemetery to take some photos of the really old tombstones and tombs. The cemetery was established in the late 1800's and has some 41,000 graves and tombs. Even Elvis Presley was originally buried in a tomb at Forest Hill Cemetery (I did take some photos of Elvis's original resting place).
As I was taking photos of a awesome marble tomb, I noticed a amazing stained glass window inside and just had to get a photo of if. I tried to open the door of the tomb, but it was locked and a key was needed to enter it. There were two small windows on the door with two narrow rod iron bars on each window.
The stain glass could be seen from the window, so I turned off the flash, because I did not want to get a flash reflection from the window. The tomb was empty and the sunlight was passing through the stain glass making it shine. I aimed the digital camera through the tiny opening and snapped a quick photo. I took 2 other photos of the stain glass, but out of the three photos only one of them caught something really exciting.
Please, let me know your thoughts and opinions about these photos.
nventit
Well, at first I didn't give a gender to the image, but after a couple of my team members had commented that it looked like a little girl's profile, then I referred to it that way.
I am going to take another trip to Forest Hill Cemetery this weekend and I am going to take more photos of the tomb, just to see if there was something that I overlooked that could have been the cause of the image. I will take another couple photos aimed in the same exact direction as the one with the little girl in it.
I was not out there the first time to conduct any full scale investigation and I wasn't looking for any ghost activity or anything. It just happened - I don't know what to say. Either you believe in ghosts or you don't - I do.
I will conducting a full scale investigation this coming Holloween with evp, video and photo investigation. I will report all of our findings and discoveries on my blog and I will post a report on GhostHounds, too.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:42 am Post subject: New Tomb Photo Evidence
Thank you all for your insightful opinions as it's MidSouth Ghost Hunters attention to put our evidence and investigation reports to the ultimate test by presenting all of it to the public. If the public can discredit any investigation evidence, then we will accept the outcome and continue to investigate for other evidence. This is the main reason why we decided to go public with every investigation that we conduct.
I did return to Forest Hill today 09/12/07 to take more photos of the tomb and this time my EVP expert went with me. We tried to re-create the exact shot and with the same results as the first photo, but we were unsuccessful at re-creating the image. I am in the process of setting up a Ghost Gallery with all of our recent photos and you can decide if it will shine any light on the past photo evidence that I originally posted on this thread.
The new photos does give a much better idea of the layout of the tomb. We did discover that the tomb has one stone craved cross inside the tomb, but no statues of human-beings. We do have some ideas of what might have cause the image in the photo, but we still need some comfirmation for the public, before we can close this investigation. We are not totally convinced that what we captured is a ghost or something else entirely - like I said we did notice something in the newest photos, but we cannot announce our ideas, because we do not want to plant any ideas into anyone's mind. We want to do this right and we will announce our final conclusion once the public had a chance to respond, first.
We will always accept quality help from our fellow ghost hunters - that's what makes good evidence, great evidence. If the evidence cannot stand-up to public opinion, then it is not good evidence and it's time to do more investigating.
Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 79 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: Re: New Tomb Photo Evidence
nventit wrote:
Thank you all for your insightful opinions as it's MidSouth Ghost Hunters attention to put our evidence and investigation reports to the ultimate test by presenting all of it to the public. If the public can discredit any investigation evidence, then we will accept the outcome and continue to investigate for other evidence. This is the main reason why we decided to go public with every investigation that we conduct.
I did return to Forest Hill today 09/12/07 to take more photos of the tomb and this time my EVP expert went with me. We tried to re-create the exact shot and with the same results as the first photo, but we were unsuccessful at re-creating the image. I am in the process of setting up a Ghost Gallery with all of our recent photos and you can decide if it will shine any light on the past photo evidence that I originally posted on this thread.
The new photos does give a much better idea of the layout of the tomb. We did discover that the tomb has one stone craved cross inside the tomb, but no statues of human-beings. We do have some ideas of what might have cause the image in the photo, but we still need some comfirmation for the public, before we can close this investigation. We are not totally convinced that what we captured is a ghost or something else entirely - like I said we did notice something in the newest photos, but we cannot announce our ideas, because we do not want to plant any ideas into anyone's mind. We want to do this right and we will announce our final conclusion once the public had a chance to respond, first.
We will always accept quality help from our fellow ghost hunters - that's what makes good evidence, great evidence. If the evidence cannot stand-up to public opinion, then it is not good evidence and it's time to do more investigating.
Just to make sure we are looking at the same thing, You are talking about the dark figure like on the right side in the original photo?
If this is what your talking about. Start at the bottom of the picture down at the V section on both pics and just slowly trace your way up. Some reason the original pic looks compressed or out of proportion. So it looks shorter, but if you compare the points and lines of the shadow/front statue with the white statue in the back, They still match up.
Hope that helps.
Not sure if it's the share a pic site. I was able to get the original pic to show up at 1600x1200, But could only get the second pic to show up at 750x560, No matter how many times I clicked on it.
Joined: Sep 06, 2007 Posts: 146 Location: Fairburn, GA
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:33 am Post subject:
Any chance it was your reflection on a window? And, did anyone else go with you, that could have been there reflection on a window? I'm not sure what the place looked like, so I'm not sure if you were taking pics from a window, but that is what it looked like it could be. I'm a believer, myself, but just wondering about the possibility. I want an update once you know! It is wicked looking!
Joined: Aug 26, 2007 Posts: 79 Location: Tampa, FL
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:
fluffyluggage wrote:
Any chance it was your reflection on a window? And, did anyone else go with you, that could have been there reflection on a window? I'm not sure what the place looked like, so I'm not sure if you were taking pics from a window, but that is what it looked like it could be. I'm a believer, myself, but just wondering about the possibility. I want an update once you know! It is wicked looking!
Thanks, and good luck.
Jen
I'm clueless what you guys are looking at... That site is a litte slow for me, So by the time the next photo loads, i have QWERTY on my forehead. But tired to look at every inch of all of them. Don't see anything outta place.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject: Reply
fluffyluggage wrote:
Any chance it was your reflection on a window? And, did anyone else go with you, that could have been there reflection on a window? I'm not sure what the place looked like, so I'm not sure if you were taking pics from a window, but that is what it looked like it could be. I'm a believer, myself, but just wondering about the possibility. I want an update once you know! It is wicked looking!
Thanks, and good luck.
Jen
Hello Jen -
No, I do not believe that it could have been a reflection, because I turned off my flash to prevent glass reflection. However, I now do believe that the image was indeed a trick of the eye, because we discovered something in our new photos of the tomb and I must say it was a disappointing discovery. That's the nature of this business - not all ghosts are really ghosts. We must continue to investigate until we capture something that cannot be disapproven.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: Re: New Tomb Photo Evidence
Jesse wrote:
nventit wrote:
Thank you all for your insightful opinions as it's MidSouth Ghost Hunters attention to put our evidence and investigation reports to the ultimate test by presenting all of it to the public. If the public can discredit any investigation evidence, then we will accept the outcome and continue to investigate for other evidence. This is the main reason why we decided to go public with every investigation that we conduct.
I did return to Forest Hill today 09/12/07 to take more photos of the tomb and this time my EVP expert went with me. We tried to re-create the exact shot and with the same results as the first photo, but we were unsuccessful at re-creating the image. I am in the process of setting up a Ghost Gallery with all of our recent photos and you can decide if it will shine any light on the past photo evidence that I originally posted on this thread.
The new photos does give a much better idea of the layout of the tomb. We did discover that the tomb has one stone craved cross inside the tomb, but no statues of human-beings. We do have some ideas of what might have cause the image in the photo, but we still need some comfirmation for the public, before we can close this investigation. We are not totally convinced that what we captured is a ghost or something else entirely - like I said we did notice something in the newest photos, but we cannot announce our ideas, because we do not want to plant any ideas into anyone's mind. We want to do this right and we will announce our final conclusion once the public had a chance to respond, first.
We will always accept quality help from our fellow ghost hunters - that's what makes good evidence, great evidence. If the evidence cannot stand-up to public opinion, then it is not good evidence and it's time to do more investigating.
Just to make sure we are looking at the same thing, You are talking about the dark figure like on the right side in the original photo?
If this is what your talking about. Start at the bottom of the picture down at the V section on both pics and just slowly trace your way up. Some reason the original pic looks compressed or out of proportion. So it looks shorter, but if you compare the points and lines of the shadow/front statue with the white statue in the back, They still match up.
Hope that helps.
Not sure if it's the share a pic site. I was able to get the original pic to show up at 1600x1200, But could only get the second pic to show up at 750x560, No matter how many times I clicked on it.
Hi Jesse,
Yes, I resized some of the photos, so they would load faster. The original photo size was 1600x1200, but it takes forever to upload 20 to 100 photos that size.
We are talking about the same dark image that I first posted to this thread and the new photos that I took of the tomb on my return visit.
I just setup a new gallery, but only with 2 photos (one of the child's profile or the original photo and one of the new photos that we think explains the cause of the original image. I circled the area that is at question, so that the images can be compared easily.
Joined: Jun 09, 2006 Posts: 609 Location: Duluth, GA
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:
After looking at both sets of photos, I would have to say that the dark image on the right from the first set is the cross from the second set. _________________ Eeek the Kat (aka Darren)
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: Reply
eeek_the_kat wrote:
After looking at both sets of photos, I would have to say that the dark image on the right from the first set is the cross from the second set.
Yes, this was our conclusion, too. The first visit to the cemetery when the first photos were taken, I did not notice the stone cross that was inside near the front of the stained glass and the photos came out quite dark. The second set of photos that was taken upon another trip to the cemetery came out much clearer and brighter and after looking through them, we concluded that the image of the first photo was the result of the dark foreground of the stone cross shape as seen in the second set of photos.
As the Myth Busters would put it - "This case has been busted" case closed.
Thank you for your time and opinions, they really help us a lot in our investigations.
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