Watching

[Arcadia]

Took the camera on my ride today to get pics of whatever would be blooming or breaking the surface. I get off the bike whenever I spot something curious. Sometimes at some points along the trail it feel like I'm being watched. Don't know why, but today when I got that feeling, I pointed the camera in the direction of where I felt it coming from and zoomed as much as I could. Wasn't really expecting to get anything but figured since I had it on higher res I could zoom more at home in a pic editor.

I did that. The first pic has just been reduced in file size for easy loading. The second pic is the area I cropped.

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I know it's common to spot faces in trees. I love doing that. But I never spotted one like this before. I don't know how visible it will be here.

Do you see it?

I don't know if it's just the markings on a tree, a person, something else. But I posted in paranormal because of the feeling of being watched that I had.

What I see is a part of a face with an eye peeking from between the foliage. It feels very female to me.

[Selendrile]

I don't see a mouth there. I think you're looking at the tree that is in front of and obscuring what I perceive as the partial face. Look a bit to the right, between that tree and the green leaves. It's actually kind of fleshtone with a lighter eye color. Definitely more human looking than plant to me. When I said face in the trees, I was kind of making a play on words. The face is among the trees, not in the bark of one.

It felt like observation. Curiosity and caution. Which is reasonable given the circumstances. If I had to give words to the wave, they might be, "Who is that woman? What is she doing? Can she see me?" General stuff.

The trail was built over and old railway that went as the crow flies through farmer's fields and woods. There's all kinds of remnants of the track back in the woods as well as detritus from fields. Big rock piles covered in moss etc. I go into them sometimes to explore. I think many do the same from the farms and houses on the other sides of the woods. It's interesting back there.

I know one thing for sure. I need to save up and get a better camera. The lens on this one is for poop now. So grainy, you'd think I was hunting the yeti.

I see the eye peeking out now! She seems watchful .

[Vale]

Took the camera on my ride today to get pics of whatever would be blooming or breaking the surface. I get off the bike whenever I spot something curious. Sometimes at some points along the trail it feel like I'm being watched.

I know it's common to spot faces in trees. I love doing that. But I never spotted one like this before. I don't know how visible it will be here.

I spend a lot of time in ancient woodland and yes I often feel I am being "watched".

Some areas are "friendlier" than others; I have at times felt distinctly unwelcome and had one deeply unpleasant experience with the local wight that I'm not sure I'd have believed if it hadn't actually happened to me. I have taken great care not to go back there. More often though I find them watchful but not unfriendly and I have at times asked for and been granted a little help.

I love spotting faces in trees but they are hard to capture even with a reasonable camera. Somehow the play of light and shade doesn't always reproduce well - this is my favourite. We call it the ent!

[Annie Roonie]

I spend a lot of time in ancient woodland and yes I often feel I am being "watched".

Some areas are "friendlier" than others; I have at times felt distinctly unwelcome and had one deeply unpleasant experience with the local wight that I'm not sure I'd have believed if it hadn't actually happened to me. I have taken great care not to go back there. More often though I find them watchful but not unfriendly and I have at times asked for and been granted a little help.

I love spotting faces in trees but they are hard to capture even with a reasonable camera. Somehow the play of light and shade doesn't always reproduce well - this is my favourite. We call it the ent!

That is fricking beautiful.

I need to look into what wights are exactly. The wiki on the is small. Will do research later (eggs boiling).


I took the photo to large smartboard today and asked if anyone saw a face. I was king of surprised, not because of the some do, some don't, but because one girl saw another face. She called it a ghost. She walked to the board and pointed it out and I saw it immediately after that.


This cropped bit comes from the center of the original just under the green and it too seems to be looking straight ahead. There appears to be three quarters of a misty face there. Definitely the stereotype ghost look.


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Now I cannot unsee the spirit type face too. I wonder if they are aware of each other.

[Sharysa]

I don't see a mouth there. I think you're looking at the tree that is in front of and obscuring what I perceive as the partial face. Look a bit to the right, between that tree and the green leaves. It's actually kind of fleshtone with a lighter eye color. Definitely more human looking than plant to me. When I said face in the trees, I was kind of making a play on words. The face is among the trees, not in the bark of one.

Holy crap, the two of them are literally right on top of each other. They look like the classic "Drama/Comedy masks."

It felt like observation. Curiosity and caution. Which is reasonable given the circumstances. If I had to give words to the wave, they might be, "Who is that woman? What is she doing? Can she see me?" General stuff.

It's like a wide-eyed little puppy. Looks like it wants to talk, but is just a bit too shy to actually call you over. I've made that expression LOTS of times. XD Maybe you could go to the same spot again and try to initiate the conversation? (Provided nobody's around to call you crazy. :P)

[Annie Roonie]

Holy crap, the two of them are literally right on top of each other. They look like the classic "Drama/Comedy masks."

Yes! That's what it reminded me of in juxtaposition. I couldn't place it. Leave it to an actress to nail that one!

It's like a wide-eyed little puppy. Looks like it wants to talk, but is just a bit too shy to actually call you over. I've made that expression LOTS of times. XD Maybe you could go to the same spot again and try to initiate the conversation? (Provided nobody's around to call you crazy. :P)

Dude, I DID. And the next time I got another photo of what I perceive as a ghost, but this time it was a man. (I'll attach, but it is even more blurry.) And that time I had only guessed the spot. I stopped at several and felt nothing but the regular trail life, though the regular trail life was behaving more boldly. The chipmunks totally stopped jumping in holes at the sight of me and a gopher literally came out onto the trail and made me and other biker stop until it moved. That never happens. They're scaredy cats.

After the gopher, I stopped under a canopy. It is located at a spot I call "Skunk Spot" because I am unimaginative sometimes and it smells like skunk ALL the time. And of course, I now think the skunks regularly scent because of the ghosts.

When I stopped I felt a sadness overwhelm me and I began to cry. I was not sad. I had to lower my sunglasses even in the shade of the canopy so that passersby would not think I was in trouble. I just let it flow and took about a dozen shots.

The first one was like a puppy interest. Not super emotional but as if there was just a general interest. The second felt so different.

This is cropped and enhanced by color saturation.
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This is the unenhanced ghost man of major blur and thereby major doubt.
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I see a dude. I sent all the photos to a ghost photographer and he said they were too blurry to tell anything. And they are admittedly. But I travel that portion of the trail twice a day in summer, so I'm going to keep an eye out and my mind open. I've decided not to overlook the feelings that wash over there even if there is no proof. I may have to borrow some thick boots to explore.

[Sharysa]

Yes! That's what it reminded me of in juxtaposition. I couldn't place it. Leave it to an actress to nail that one!

And the comparison makes a LOT of sense with your next encounter.

Dude, I DID. And the next time I got another photo of what I perceive as a ghost, but this time it was a man.

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When I stopped I felt a sadness overwhelm me and I began to cry. I was not sad. I had to lower my sunglasses even in the shade of the canopy so that passersby would not think I was in trouble. I just let it flow and took about a dozen shots.

He looks like a man whose body is facing you but he's turning his head away, since the left half is obscured. And the shape he's got is almost exactly the silhouette of someone who's hugging himself or gripping his arms; it's just missing the lower half of his body. (Most likely what's been throwing off you and the ghost photographer.) Definitely the posture that most people take when they're crying or upset.

[R03e]

Clear as day. Just don't look too hard. An eye, and an eye brow, very high arched. Reddish brown skin. That what you see?

I saw the same thing. Althought I was ready to rule out shadow even after seeing it I can't help buy be creeped out of how the 'shadow' in the shape of an eye is a perfect eye shape. It actually looks more like an eye, but in shadow due to the trees instead of an actual shadow. I swear I was trying to look at it with inidfference. Maybe it could still be nothing.

[Annie Roonie]

I saw the same thing. Althought I was ready to rule out shadow even after seeing it I can't help buy be creeped out of how the 'shadow' in the shape of an eye is a perfect eye shape. It actually looks more like an eye, but in shadow due to the trees instead of an actual shadow. I swear I was trying to look at it with inidfference. Maybe it could still be nothing.

I am sorry I did not reply sooner. I did not come back to this thread though it has been on my mind. After this I took to scavenging the woods to find whatever I could find. It turns out that faces and eyes in particular are very easy to see. Every limb that's lost a branch and has healed has an eye like scar on it. Still, when there is no tree about, it becomes a little more unsettling. I still cannot explain this one no matter how much I zoom. I've chosen to enjoy the creeped out feeling though.