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22-OCT-2002

Don't Fear the Wraith in the Mirror - Bodie, California

Two or three phantasms reputedly reside in the ghost town of Bodie, which is located in the mountains of the Great Basin desert.Over the years I've spoken with a few rangers who talk about occasional strange happenings in the town that could, if you believe in such things, be attributed to these ghosts. The ghostly image here was completed with the help of a willing, living, and impromptu model, one nice enough to pose for the several minutes it took to conceive and make this picture.

Minolta DiMAGE 7i
1/6s f/8.0 at 12.4mm iso100 - tripod full exif

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Lance DeMartino 27-Apr-2005 01:41
I've been to Bodie many times and have camped there once. There are ghosts. We heard a girl's laughter past midnight and saw a white shape moving around through the sagebrush. Next day the rangers told us we weren't the first to see and hear this spectacle. The story is that the girl was murdered in Bodie in the 19th century and returns now and then to haunt its environs. Very spooky stuff.
Guest 17-Dec-2004 20:06
I like this portrait it's abstraction makes me thing that it is a hounted house
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