Elise Thompson

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:25:14 -0800

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your story. I wish I had had the opportunity to speak to one of the house's occupants, but I didn't know they were there until later in the evening, and then I felt uncomfortable barging into that little office. I checked online to see if the SIGHTINGS DVDs have this episode, but it didn't look like it. (I was the person painted blue photographing the witch).

jlww

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:55:58 -0800

HI there, I just wanted to tell you, that my husband and I were also at the ghostly polaroid gallery on Halloween too. I remember you and I remember you having your picture taken by your friend, we commented on your cute witch outfit. We were getting ready to leave as you were standing in the door way getting your photo taken. I was very inspired and moved by the messages that were written in the photos and left the gallery feeling light and sort of glad that we had gone to see it. We also spent a long time talking with the owners of the actual house and felt that they were both very sincere in their story of WRIGHT. After a few days of pondering it and receiving negative feedback from people when telling their story, I also started to feel skeptical and was doubting the authenticy of the photos that we had seen. However.... this last weekend I stopped by the gallery to see John one of the house owners, he did not know that I was coming that day. We had ordered a print from him and I was told I could stop by anytime to pick it up during gallery hours. The only people that were there was myself, John and two of his employees. We sat in the very room where the ghostly polaroids had been on display a few weeks before and I confessed to him that I had moments of doubt about it all. That I wanted to believe it so much because it inspired me but it had been driving me crazy to know if it was true or not, then I told him I had come to the conclusion it was true, that I liked the idea of it. As I finished telling him this, the lights in the gallery shut off and came on again. I started laughing nervously and asked JOhn if that is what I thought it was, he said You mean an affirmation? Yea I am sure it was. Then a minute or two went by and the lights did it again. This was as I was THINKING to myself, was that it? Wow that was cool, I wish it would do it again and then the lights did it again. Nobody was anywhere near the lights when that happened. I am no camera expert at all, but if the image was distorted due to the shutter being closed than why aren't those white whispy tendrils all around your body as opposed to just by your right shoulder? I am inclined to think same as you, WRIGHT seems to have a way to communicate with each one of us who has had doubt.

LAist: Seeing Things : Ghost Polaroids

Elise Thompson

jlww