After arriving home and going through all my photos, 700 of them 2 of them were with in conjunction with this one. (The picture in question) The first one had nothing in it, the second has this questionable picture and the 3rd contained nothing. So my first thought was what the hell was this. I was a bit exited thinking this was the one!! After doing some homework I found that one man was hung at this for treason had a very long neck. �BINGO� this had to be him����..Well not so fast, I immediately started to
Re-create this photo in different lighting conditions with different people walking in front of the camera at different speeds just to be sure someone hadn�t done it accidentally and maybe I just couldn�t remember it. Did someone walk in front while I was taking pictures? I still could not duplicate this photo, not even close, I even used photo shop to try and breakdown this photo. It was no use I couldn�t duplicate it.
So what we did was the weekend after we drove back to Kingston back to Fort Henry, YES 4 HOURS to try and duplicate this photo. Everyone attended except my son who was the missing link to this puzzle. After arriving back at the fort we immediately started taking photos in that same room. Keeping in mind I used the same camera, camera card, same camera settings and even took a few minutes to make sure I was standing in almost the exact same spot the picture was taken originally as I had brought this photo with me to make sure everything in this �re-shoot� sort of speak would be perfect. After doing this, the pictures were still not quite the same. So we waited until the exact time of day the original photo was taken the sun at that time of the day was shining in the door in the next room to the one we where in when this photo was taken. Sure enough we were able to come very close to duplicating this photo as being someone walking in front of the camera possibly being my son.
Maybe your thinking I should of noticed this at the time, again this was not an official investigation, but this location was reported to be haunted and sure enough after doing some home work the hallway we took this picture in had had reports of an apparition walking the hallway.
I guess in closing this is what groups have to do if necessary to duplicate evidence before providing it to the general public as �evidence�. We were almost fooled and thought for sure this was the �ONE�, the ghost picture of the century, but sadly after breaking it down to the best of our abilities and driving 4 hours to try and duplicate it that was not the case�
Jeff Ostrander