Our garden of beetles and snakes also hosts the paranormal. Here's proof of the haunting, and the background story.
So I had spotted two frogs doing the double-back in the garden, and it was too good an opportunity to let go. It was night time, and it was drizzling, which was both good and bad. Bad because of visibility and the danger of moisture getting into the camera, good because the drizzle took care of the mosquitoes so I could take my time observing the...event. I decided not to risk the Nikon. The phone camera was handy, and accordingly, I spent some time being the voyeur. As an aside, I must admit I was pretty impressed by them frogs. You wouldn't have known that such squat lazy figures could jump so nimbly while...umm...not breaking the position. The Kamasutra folks could have taken tips. Photo somewhere in my Facebook.
But this story is not about the frogs. This story is about paranormal activity in the garden.
Once I was back inside the house and admiring all the frog pics, I saw some dark shots. "Ah, blank shots", I thought. I must have pressed the Click button without realizing. All that slickness due to the drizzle.
Then I noticed a faint outline of what seemed like a part of face peering at me in closeup the last pic. Wha..??!! I pinched it out for a better look but after a point, it just became grainier. I called up the other apparently blank shots and zoomed into them. A couple of shots were too dark to make anything out, but at least two more showed a part of a face. Again, pretty close to the camera. Since I was there alone, out in the garden, focusing on two frogs, there was NO way anybody should be peering out from my camera!
I wasn't sure whether to be shit scared, or whether to be thrilled that somehow, I had managed to gather solid evidence of the paranormal. But I sure was glad that I escaped unharmed! Whatever it was that showed up on film didn't do anything else at least. To be honest, I was rattled enough to stay away from the garden for the next couple of nights.
A few days later, I was still trying to figure out how to react. Should I just put a lid on it and forget I ever saw anything odd, or should I keep probing? Which was the more rational way to go? I had unconsciously pulled out the pics and were going through them again when that outline looked kinda... familiar? I looked closer. Sure enough! Wasn't that the zit I was trying to get rid of? And since when did ghosts wear glasses?
Yeah. I had accidentally pressed the front camera of my mobile. Those pics were the result.
