I was driving in California, in Ventura area, decided to show my friends in Michigan how beautiful the ocean is, so I stopped & took a picture. There was a white, shiny spot, thought it was something to do with the ship in the picture, or maybe glare. I didn't take another picture, but as I went to leave there were then 3 of the spots. I had no idea other people had seen them & they were not jus glare or something to do with the ship. That was late Oct 2009.
The picture to the right was taken at a gathering of friends and family of the woman pictured. She was in her nineties and died a short time after photo was taken. No one noticed for a few years the chilling image behind her. They had even made copies and passed them out to family members because they thought it was such a good picture of their grandma. When it was finally noticed, family members were able to compare the mystery man in the background to other family photographs. The mystery man turned out to be quite the opposite. They all believed it was their grandfather who had long since passed away.
A strange legend surrounds this intersection of roadway and railroad tracks. It was supposedly the site of a terrible accident in which several school children were killed. Legend has it that their ghosts still linger at the spot and will push idling cars across the tracks, Some people believe the figure in the photo looks like a little girl with a dog sitting next to her.
