Description: This is the photo that changed my opinion about ghost photos, says
Terry Ike Clanton, who runs the TombstoneArizona.com website.
Clanton is an actor, recording artist and cowboy poet, and is also a
cousin of the legendary Clanton Gang who clashed with the Earps and
Doc Holliday at the famous gunfight at OK Corral. Clanton took this
photo of his friend at Boothill Graveyard. The photo was taken in
black and white because he wanted Old West-looking pictures of
himself dressed in Clantons 1880-period clothes. Clanton took the
film for developing to the local Thrifty Drug Store, and when he got
it back was startled at what he saw. Among the gravestones, just to
the right of his friend, is the image of what appears to be a thin
man in a dark hat. By height, the man appears to be either legless,
kneeling... or rising up out of the ground. I know there was no
other person in this photograph when I shot it, Clanton insists. And
he believes the small figure in the background is holding a knife.
We thought this was a tie at first, but after further review, it
appears to be a knife, Clanton says. The knife is in a vertical
position; the tip is located just below the figures right collar. If
youre not convinced that something is weird here, look at my friends
shadow in the photo. It appears to be going back slightly to the
right of him. The figure in the back should have the same shadow,
but it doesnt!
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