These two photos were sent by Karole at Karok28@aol.com.

Karole said, "These photos were taken in the St. Michael's Episcopal Cemetery in Charleston, SC. Most of the graves date back to the early 1800's. A lot of them go back as far as the early 1700's. The graves are in various states of neglect. Stones overturned. Headstones stacked in corners. Family plots with Stones lying about on their backs, broken, with no rhyme or reason for their placements."

"The atmosphere of this cemetery lends itself well to being 'spooked'. Surrounded by an iron fence on all sides with some brick intermingled. And, with the headstones and plots looking so uncared for, it's quite an experience just being there. Large live-oaks dripping with Spanish moss are everywhere. Other brush and palmetto bushes just popping out of the ground wherever they choose."

"The area, however that bothered me was in a corner. A simple family plot with the headstones lined up. It had an iron fence on two sides of it, like a corner. A tree was growing off to the side of it. (Some kind of flowering tree, not a Bradford Pear, I'm not really sure what kind it was). I was strolling through the cemetery feeling just..apprehensive. Interested in what I was seeing, but not overly so. Then I came to the area that I described above. I got an immediate feeling of sadness. Overwhelming sadness. Loss. Misery. I started crying for no reason. "

"The second photo is a Polaroid. I took the photo standing under a limb of the tree that I mentioned before, I made sure that there was nothing in the viewfinder but the headstone that I was pointing at. There was nothing on the lens. No limb in the way, no strap, nothing."

Dave's Notes:
The second photo are balls of light or spheres in motion leaving contrails behind them. These spheres with contrail appear to be dense when the camera freezes the motions at 1/60th of a second as the shutter records the event.

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