It was clear, not on the photo, in the photo. MATKOWSKY: The photo came out - a single word in the middle of the room. MATKOWSKY: Are you a good ghost or a bad ghost? And then someone grabbed a camera and went, are you a - what was it? - are you a friend or. HUCKERT: It's one thing to get, like, you know, ectoplasmic, fluffy, white things, and it's another to get communication, like an answer to our question. MATKOWSKY: You can see the word, yes, and that was the beginning of the communication. HUCKERT: Snapped a picture, and they were all watching it. MATKOWSKY: One of our friends, he asked if he's here now - if whatever it was, was here now. So we started showing them the pictures, and they're asking, you know, a thousand questions a mile a minute. We said we have something to tell you guys, and it's a little strange. HUCKERT: Finally, we decided to invite a bunch of friends over and show them the photographs. MATKOWSKY: I mean, how do you share this? Why would you - you know, people would think we're insane. But then it just got to be too much to not tell anybody about it. It was too strange, and we were afraid people would think we were nuts. This was - what? - three or four months of this. And that encouraged us to keep getting more film. Half the time, we wouldn't get anything, but sometimes we would. You kind of sense this tingly thing, and then that's when you take the picture. We kind of describe it as, like, when you have, like, goose bumps or, like, a little bit of a sunburn. We try to take pictures when we'd sense something or feel something. We just thought, OK, well, here's the moment we find out whether this is real or not. Then we ran out of film.Īfter, like, a month of just sort of sitting with these photographs, we decided to go out and get some more film. And I didn't know where to put it in my mind. I felt out of control, like I didn't know what was happening. But it was, like, larger and more strange. And he took the picture of me, and over top of me was this similar-type shape. HUCKERT: And I went over and stood in the - in what is now known as the vortex, but it's the area right in front of the bathroom. How did you do this? He goes, I just took these pictures. JOHN MATKOWSKY: So he shows me these photos, and I'm like, wow, these are really cool. What do you think about this? And I showed him the pictures. And then when Matkowsky got home, I said, I have something I want to show you. You know, I just kept going back and forth between incredulous and denial. And then I started getting, like, nervous again (laughter). It was almost like a similar image, but it was like the thing in the first photograph had moved closer to me. And I remember, like, being really nervous about it, and then suddenly I thought, you know, this is - my dad messed with the camera or something. It looked so, you know - the eyes - the big eyes and the screaming mouth and the sort of weird, wispy, you know, quality of it floating in the air. And as it was developing, I just saw this - almost this stereotypical version of a ghost. They're Polaroid photographs, so you basically sit and watch them develop. And then I took another picture, and that's when I got the first photograph of this experience.
And then I was like, OK, OK, calm down, calm down (laughter). And I actually took a picture of - like, I was shaking so bad, I took a picture of, like, the top of the television set or something. And I started shaking, and I picked up the camera to take a picture.
Something was in the room with me, tingling kind of sensation. So I got up, and I was actually nervous because something just felt like it was there. And the bathroom door opened in front of me, and it seemed so demonstrative. And I just went back to working.Īnd then I remember sensing something, and I looked up.
Nothing showed up in the picture, and of course I felt kind of silly at the time. So I sensed that the door was opening by itself. And the bathroom door opened, and no one was home. And then I was sitting in the house one afternoon. I took some pictures with it, and it was cool to have a Polaroid camera. JOHN HUCKERT: I had gotten a camera from my father for Christmas and - I don't know. But hold on, don't worry, you're about to meet a real one. Our next story comes to us from the city of fake ghosts - Los Angeles. Welcome back to SNAP JUDGMENT, "Spooked V: Innocence Lost." I need you to stay close, keep the lights turned on because today we're taking you on a semi-guided tour of the dark side.
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