34 Comments Posted by Ilaynay

Looks like the vegetation in the foreground just happening to get in the way of the windows to me. Motts--I love your photography, but unfortunately your visitors seem entirely too determined to find ghosts in it even when there are perfectly logical mundane explanations for what they're seeing...

With all due respect... If you look at the picture with the intent of finding some sort of ghostly figure, yes, you'll see just that. I urge people to remember that not every odd shape and shadow is a shadow figure or a mysterious face! Something beyond the window which we can't see clearly could easily be causing an odd shadow that sort of looks like it could maybe be a face, and the shadow figure has already been explained.

It's my impression that there were far, far worse things happening at Pennhurst than simply being allowed to just sit and stare out a window. Seems an odd thing to complain about, really, in light of the rest of the abuse and neglect. I'm sure some of those kids would rather have been staring out a window.

...Not to mention, the chair might not have been in that position the last time someone sat in it. ;)

Dude... I think you guys are looking too hard, or maybe I just don't have enough imagination. I don't see a shadow figure, or a child, or anything like that. The thing at the bottom left of the window just looks like a big pillow to me. (Although I guess the photographer has said it's just the vulture, time-exposed, anyway. But it doesn't even look like a person at all to me.)

But anyway. I agree, beautiful shot, no matter what the thing is!