Story / Question: Can you tell me if these photos look like anything unsual. A few friends and I were up at Cuba road one night. It was in early Jan. 2005. We were parked directly on a side street which is directly in front of the cemetery across Cuba Rd. My friend has digital camera and she took a few pictures. In one picture in particular, there is a dense area of what seems to be fog all around us. Also in that same picture, you can kind of make out like a leg type object in the left hand corner. What is this? Another picture, after development, started turning colors it was the weirdest thing. However, I think the oddest thing about this experience at Cuba Rd. was when we first arrived, my friend’s digital camera just came off the charger and had a full battery. But after the first initial foggy picture, the camera died. Then all of a sudden, about 10 minutes later, it came back on. Then she tried to take another picture but nothing came up on the camera, she took about 5 pictures like this. Her camera was brand new too. Kind of odd. Have you ever heard of cameras not working after an initial photograph? I attached the pictures to see what you make of them. Thank you so much. Kate
P.S. We also hear a lot of rumors about Rainbow Rd., what is the truth behind Rainbow Rd. Also last time we went to Rainbow Rd. the house or whatever it is was for sale and they were demolishing what was on that piece of property.
Response from Scott Markus: Kate, First off, thanks for your submission and you made a lot of very good observations. In your eMail it sounded like you meant to send several pictures, however I only got one. In the one I got, there’s definitely a lot of fog, there also appears to be two small orbs toward the right of the picture. There may be a few more smaller ones further off in the distance, but it’s hard to tell if they are orbs or reflections of distant objects. Some questions I would ask are: What were the weather conditions that night? Was it foggy? In addition to explaining the fog, it would also explain the orbs, which tends to be how larger droplets of moisture appear on a digital image. Was that van engine still running? Was anyone in the area smoking and was it cold enough that people could see their breath? Pictures like this can be tough because one that can be explained often looks exactly like one that can’t be explained.
Please do feel free to send the additional images and I’ll take a look at those as well.
In terms of having a paranormal experience, I believe you definitely did have one. The reason I say this is your story with the malfunctioning camera. Equipment failure of every kind is common at haunted locations, from cell phones to cars to everything in between. You mention the camera hadn’t had these problems before. Has it since?
As for the House on Rainbow Road, yes, it’s well known as a haunted location. From what I’ve heard, I believe it. However, I have not experienced anything there myself. From what I’ve heard the entire property is being leveled and sold off as, I believe, five different lots for new homes. Time will tell if the new homes become haunted as well. Thanks for writing & I look forward to hearing more.
Response from Katie: I just got your first email about the picture and camera. There was no fog whatsoever that night. The cars were turned off and it was not cold enough to see breath. Also no one in our group smokes. As for the camera, it works fine right now, there is nothing wrong with the camera, it is in perfect condition. My friend has taken many pictures since then and the camera worked on all of them. Also thank you for the email about Rainbow Rd. I do have another question for you. Have you ever heard of Flint Creek Road? It is located in Barrington too. Supposedly there was a car with 3 people and they were playing chicken and ran off road because the car that they were playing chicken with didn’t stop. Out of the 3 people, 2 died. The third person said that the other car didn’t stop and he blacked out. I was just wondering if you had heard anything about this. Also a group of us went down to Flint Creek Road and my one friends had his voice recorder on from his cell and he caught all of this weird almost talking noise on this recording. We were all quiet so we don’t know what it was. Do you have any idea what it could have been? Can cell voice recorders pick up supernatural noises? Thank you so very much for your input and help.
Response from Scott Markus:I do believe that any type of recorder can capture EVPs, some better than others though. I would love to hear what was captured and post it on the site. I have never heard any Flint Creek Road hauntings, but will post your tale on the site and maybe someone else will chime in!
