Cemetery Strangeness

by Carrie
(Shreveport, LA, USA)

I went to the little, secluded cemetery in Deweyville, Texas two weekends ago to take photographs of my great-grandmother and great-grandfather's graves. It's silly, but as a formality, I always like to identify myself to the ancestors whose graves I photograph. If I have discovered their heritage, their family connections, I like to tell the dead about this, acknowledging where they came from and what I know about them, who their parents were and any stories they passed down that turned out to be true.

Next to my great-grandmother's tomb and his headstone, there was this large, brick tomb with no identification. It was strange to me, a large brick resting place with no identification, no name, no dates... I felt drawn to it. As we were leaving, I decided to take some photos of it so that I might enlarge the photos later and possibly find out who was buried within. I thought that maybe one of their children was buried in the tomb and maybe I could make out some initials or something carved upon the side.

Last night I began to edit the photos of my ancestors' graves so that I could put them online. I had thought I had photographed this tomb from all sides, but I had not. There was only this photo and another from the opposite side. When I opened this one to edit it, I noticed the strange red blob in the bottom right corner first. There is another blob near the top, purple and a little off center to the left and a green sphere between tree branches at the top a little left of the purple blob, that I think is the refraction of light from behind the trees.

The sun was getting ready to set in about two or three hours when I took this photo. It was a very dry day so these may be dust of some sort, or pollen, but the only water around was in a bottle and I hadn't spilled any on the lens of the camera. I took other photos around the graveyard, but this is the only one where I got those strange blobs. I don't think they're ghost, but I'm curious enough about them to ask other people what they think they could be.