In the past when we’ve posted ghost photos, we didn’t have any connection with the photographer. However, the photos today have a traceable history. We know not only the location, but the photographer, and what camera was used, and why the photos were taken. So here’s the story.
St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the U.S., founded in 1565. Old Town is known for its spooks, and ghost tours are part of the tourist landscape. These photos, however, were not taken by a tourist. Rather, they were shot with a cell phone by a construction worker who was renovating the old jail. The photographer’s name is Kenny Cannon, the son of Connie Cannon, who comments here often under the handle, MathAddict.
Connie says that Kenny has mediumistic abilities and took the photos because he sensed a ghostly presence in the room. She writes:
“When Kenny is at work, he’s busy. However, sometimes he feels, senses, or even sees spooks, as I do.”
Connie knows that some people will wonder if the images were created by light coming through the windows. “Proving it? Hard to do. No matter what lengths one goes to prove the pics to be valid, there will always, always be skeptics who will trash it.”
When we suggested that Kenny take more photos, he followed through and the intriguing photo below was sent to us. What looks like a face appears in the center of the photo. The image on the right side of the photo is another person who was in the room.
“The man with the yellow hat on who is standing on the back far right side of the orb is one of kenny’s co-workers. He was totally whacked-out scared by this pic because they could FEEL the presence of these entities in these old buildings, and then to see them in photos….pretty hard to deny.
“This is why St. Augustine is considered to be one of America’s top five most haunted towns. They’re everywhere.
“The skeptics don’t want to accept that there are true researchers who have no interest in attempting to fool people. Throughout my entire life, my efforts with cameras and recorders have been to prove to MYSELF, and to no one else, what I am actually feeling, sensing, seeing, and hearing. It’s been one of the ways I try to convince myself I’m not crazy or delusional. And I go to tremendous lengths to DISprove what I get before I begin to think, okay, maybe, just maybe, these are real. That’s what makes me a good researcher. I’m a relentless digger for truth, and even when I find it, I still allow myself to have a bit of doubt. We’ll see what we can get.”
great post and photos – i’d been here and read and meant to come back and comment but with my own personal goings-on, have been a bit remiss in getting around lately – this post reminds me of the colored image of the woman who had died in her home that i saw when i was a child – and the image of the dead woman in her bed imprinted on her dresser mirror – anyway, my mother had a photo of that mirror and the woman’s image – but i’m afraid it was lost in the house fire with all our other family records – anyway, the story is not the same at all but it reminded me of the other story –
Those photos would’ve been keepers, gypsy!
How bout that stage blowing down? Got any syncheeee’s with that one?
yeah, blowing leaves blowing stages falling stones…..
I edited it for typos. –
Trish
Played some poker from about 1:45 to about 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday morn (16th)… won the first hand which is something I don’t like to see happen (FACT). But during the first hour to an hr. and1/2 of the session, got very high energy cards. Best hand beating second best possible, red deuces being held… turning into “quads”, then next hand guy (mio) gets red deuces and makes full. Couple of hands later another person turns them “red deuces” into winner. Many things happened like this. I commented to the whole room about how the spirits where playing cards tonight (actually morn!!!)Never had I seen in years of the somewhat social activity cards of this high energy.
that was high energy cards for the table in general
I thought it was a horse too! Awesome info too, thanks, Connie.
Nothing to disprove here…these photos are the real deal. Great photos Kenny.
Excellent ghost picture! You should submit it to http://www.ghoststudy.com! Don’t browse the gallerys late at night (especially in October!), because some of those eerie images will give you chills, and sometimes result in ghost-infested dreams.
Vicki that is just too funny!! I actually have told Kenny that the images look like the read end of a horse or mule, and even a tail seems visible!! That tall image moving towards it from the left could have been going towards a horse. You know, in any space there could be almost anything over centuries of time, and the energies overlay each other. And yes, there was a barn near there and horses and mules everywhere. This town continues to have horse and buggies all over the place. I don’t know what was there prior to the Old Jail, but can assume it may have been some kind of place or homestead that had a barn, as we have barnyards even now in the middle of town where the tourist buggy horses are housed. No telling. We once lived in a house in GA that had been built over a campsite where travelers in covered wagons had camped, and their images remained. Also, I’ve told T & R about a small strip mall here that was built directly on top of a mass grave where literally thousands of yellow fever victims were dumped and burned and then covered with dirt. I can’t go to that mall because it makes me violently sick….a reaction that happened before I knew about the yellow fever epidemic here or the mass grave. I only discovered it after getting violently ill three times there and went to check out the historical society for what might have been in that space at some point. I was astonished to read about the yellow fever victims and the mass grave. But your remark struck me funny because it’s synchronistic with exactly what I told Kenny about a horse!!
You’re right about that face, Nancy! And of course the space, like everywhere else these days, is a “no smoking” area, so it isn’t smoke of any kind. Pretty hard to deny that one, for sure. Those little squares over by Dave, Kenny’s co-worker, are just tiny windows in an old iron door that locked the inmates inside, and certainly there could be no reflective light from those to over where the face is.
Kenny and Dave both said the nasty odor around the “face” was nauseating, but only in that one small area. They both said you could “step in and out” of the noxious odor and the cold. Kenny doesn’t freak at all, but the other guys do, which is natural, I think. Some of them refuse to work in that part of the structure. We have a famous cemetary in the middle of Old Town that dates back to the settling of St. Augustine, and ANYONE taking pics there never fails to get tons and tons of all kinds, colors, shapes of orbs and other strange phenomena.
Ghost hunters from all over the world come here. Pretty fascinating stuff.
The first photo does look at first like it could be light from the windows except for the fact that there are streaks in that mist which you wouldn’t find from light streaming through a window. The streaks seem circular.
The second photo looks like a horse to me with it’s head looking over it’s left shoulder at the photographer. Was this area in a barn?
The third photo you can definitely see a face yet you can see another face a little lower to the right on the big face and then possibly both of these faces over a larger face. This is interesting because you note that this area was called “death row” and so could be many faces of those who died there.
I know from when my youngest daughter was 3 that when people die they seem to leave behind a ” picture ” , as she would tell us who was buried because she could see them standing beside or hovering above the gravestones.
Very interesting pics, thanks for sharing. I would love to see the pictures your Navy friend took!
Hey Vicki! Good to see you. To me, that face looked like a dog – a husky?
It’s been a busy summer and I have been busy writing, but I am always checking out this site!
Oh, love the new book and my daughters got a real kick out of seeing my name etc. In your new book!
Thanks, Vicki! Are you working on your book???
Yes, I am editing and basically rewriting and then will start sending to I guess agents etc.
Holler if I can help!
P.S. One way to determine if the images are reflections from the windows is to note that the images are curved and bent. Light reflections from square or rectangular windows or from any type of light source that is square, etc, will not be curved or bent. The reflections will be in the shape of the entry through which the reflection emerges, as it does on the far left. Those curved images to the below right of the windows shift and move and change form within only a matter of a second or two, which light reflections wouldn’t do. On the left of the photos, that tall slender image moving towards the windows certainly cannot be a reflection of window light and it also moves within a matter of a couple of seconds. In that actual room, there are no doors or windows or light sources behind or beside that “moving” tall slender image on the far left. The guys with Kenny got really freaked in the Death Row area of the structure. That one was snapped on another day after T & R asked for more photos. The guys were freaked because they “walked through” the space that the picture appeared on Kenny’s phonecamera, and it was cold and smelled dank and damp, while the rest of the area was unbearably hot and dusty. These, by the way, are not arguments. They are merely details that one must consider when attempting to discern what we may be seeing. I will always be intensely interested in defining the other-dimensional “thingies” that our everyday tools can pick up. Telephones, computers, cameras, tape recorders, etc, even TVs, are sometimes used by entities, or rather, are sometimes the INSTRUMENTS with which such entities that are outside our five senses may be discerned. We just must always remain open for purely physical explanations before we draw a conclusion that we’re seeing or hearing Invisibles. That applies to Evidential Voice Phenomena as well. I used to use a reel-to-reel recorder, and would put it in a tightly controlled area that was soundproof, making absolutely certain no external noise could be picked up by the recorder. I would leave it there for hours, recording nothing but running, locked up. The occasional EVPs were pretty convincing. But then, with EVPs we also must take the laws of physics as they pertain to Sound into consideration. There’s a theory among physicists that any sound ever made is still reverberating in the ether and might be picked up by a sensitive instrument. Also the same with radio waves, etc. So, even EVPs that seem to be discarnates may have other explanations. Having lived my entire life since birth with one foot in the land of the living and one foot in the land of the so-called “dead”, I must be even more careful than most. Some pretty simple tests we use can be applied. When my Mother-in-law died, there was a definitive experience at her gravesite during the service of her burial. I saw and heard her clearly, with a large group of shadowy forms behind her. (She was 100 years old, and the last of her large family to transition.) She was refusing to go with them. After the service, I wrote down what I’d seen and heard, and later I asked Kenny, who was a pallbearer and standing on the opposite side of the open grave, to do the same, if he had seen and/or heard anything. He wrote exactly what I had written, and even what he had heard her say, which was, word for word, what I had written and seen. It wasn’t telepathy between my son and me. His grandmother had told the discarnates behind her, “No. I’m not going with you. I have to stay here and wait for Buddy. He might burn the house down with his cigarettes.” That’s what I wrote on my paper, and that’s what Kenny wrote on his. We both had distinctly heard and seen her. Grandma indeed remains in that ancient house in the mountains where the older son Buddy lives, drinks, and smokes, and sometimes falls asleep in his chair while smoking. We can visually see her….she was half Native American Cherokee and her energy is powerful….and she most often sits on the end of the old sofa where she sat while “alive”. But she also goes into her bedroom, and goes outside. I was taking a picture of the family out in the front yard one afternoon, and that old lady literally pushed me backwards down a terraced rock garden! Guess she didn’t want the pictures taken! Or she was mad at me because for awhile after her death I tried to get her to go on and not stick around. After she pushed me down and actually hurt me….deep lacerations from the rocks….I stopped trying to talk her into leaving, and I never go into the house anymore when we visit Buddy. She’s not mean, I suppose. Just has retained the personality of a stubborn old woman and I choose to not get around her!! I’m sure she feels the same way about me!!
That last one is truly strange. Wow. There is no doubt that is a face.
Interesting photos but I can understand how some will be skeptical about the top two – light through windows does play tricks with photography. The third photo certainly appears to be a face. Personally I do not doubt the integrity of the pics or the people concerned. I feel, however, that the perfect ghost photo, to satisfy all, is probably not possible – but as technology changes who knows …
Thanks, Trish and Rob, for printing Kenny’s photos. Just a few comments: We take every possible precaution for validity when we “catch” images that appear to be other-dimensional. If you study the first couple of photos, which we did, even using a ruler, you can see that Kenny did not move his phone camera. The distance between the top left edge of the window and the board on the rafter is the same. However, the “tall spook” on the left DID move, towards the windows. Also, there is a square reflection that IS from the window, again, on the left. It’s square, and is a deeper blue and opaque, not transparent. The spook images have a completely different shape to them. They are distinctly rounded and “humped” in a manner that reflection from the window isn’t. Those top two pics were snapped in what was once the jailer’s quarters above the jail.
The third photo was taken in an area that, in the 1800s, was called “Death Row”. There are no windows in that area. (The photo where there appears to be a “face” in the image.) Of some interest, the heat index here has been in the triple digits, and there is no AC and no fans or drafts in that structure. But where the pics were snapped, not only Kenny but his co-workerws report a consistent intermittent drop in temperature sufficient to make it actually chilly. Tourists don’t go to these areas on the tours. I’ve previously mentioned taking pictures and using recorders (for EVPs).
For many years I used a Polaroid camera with high-speed black and white film. There was NO way to “photoshop” a Polaroid picture, or even to double-expose one, or to use any kind of special lens. You simply clicked the picture and whatever was there would be on the emerging film. I can no longer get the film for my trusty old Polaroid so it’s obsolete. But we are extremely didligent, as I said, to be careful and check out anything and everything that MAY be a spook…..we check for shadows, reflections, anything, and we write everything down in a notebook when we take the pictures. In other words, we make note of the true lay-out of a space and of anything that is there to account for what may appear on film.
Many of our pictures have tangible explanations and are caused by photographic stuff or by above-mentioned explanations. Many, contrarily, are extraordinary and would seem to be quite real. I do have some skepticism in me, as does Kenny, so the orbs and other images we get are scoured for any other possible explanation besides spooks before we eventually accept that what we’re seeing is a true ghost or spirit image. As T and R said, I’ve always tried to DISprove what we’re looking at, and we never, ever use any kinds of special lens or trick photography, because we’re “in it” to learn, and if special lens or tricks were used, what would we have gained?
This is a lengthy comment, but I want to add one more little story. In GA we lived across the road from a fellow who had been a Navy photographer for twenty years. He had a Hassleblad and other out-of-this-world cameras. Jack was a complete, laugh-in-our-faces skeptic. He decided to put the idea of spook photos to his own test. So, our family and his family went on an outing to an old plantation way out in the country that was reputed to be haunted. Jack made the rules. He did not allow Kenny or me near his camera. He didn’t allow us near the film. When either Kenny or I would see, sense, or feel the presence of what we thought was a spirit or ghost, we pointed a finger in that direction, and Jack took a picture. Afterwards, he developed the film himself in his darkroom. Well, Jack became a believer to the degree that over time he became a card-carrying Rosicrucian! The photos he took at the plantation were phenomenal, and he couldn’t deny their reality. Very clear pics of spooks by a Navy photographer skeptic!!! Sometimes what you DON’T see is what you get!! 🙂