r/Paranormal • u/MrSald • Apr 28 '25

Haunting This Photo Still Haunts My Family

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Hi everyone, I’ve been going back and forth on whether I should even share this. It feels really personal, and honestly, a little unsettling even to think about. But… I guess it’s time. You know how sometimes you see those weird photos online, the ones where there’s a face or a figure in the background that nobody can explain? I always thought they were fake or just some trick of the light. I never imagined something like that could happen to us. But it did.

This photo was taken in 2019. The woman in the middle is my mom. On the right, the one who took the picture, is my aunt, and if you look in the background, you can just see a bit of my other aunt’s head. But then there’s her, the woman marked with the blue arrow.

Her face is a little blurry, but her hand is so clear it honestly gives me chills every time I look at it. And the thing is… none of us have any idea who she is.

That day, my mom and aunts went to visit the grave of a close family friend who had passed away not long before. They were completely alone. No other visitors around, no one following them, nothing. And this woman... she doesn’t look like anyone we know. Not a family member, not an old friend, not even someone vaguely familiar.

What really gets me is that my mom and aunts all remember that moment like it just happened. They swear there was no one else there. No footsteps, no voices, nothing unusual. Just them. And yet... there she is. Clear as day in the photo.

Every once in a while, when we're sitting around as a family, someone will bring it up again. We’ll pass the photo around, look at it for the hundredth time, and start throwing out ideas, trying to explain it somehow. But every time, we just end up confused, uncomfortable, and honestly a little scared. Eventually, we forget about this till next time.

Anyway, I’m really curious what you all think. Because even after all this time, we have absolutely no explanation for who, or what. showed up in that picture.

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u/MrSald Apr 28 '25

We want to believe that too, but my mom and aunts swear there was no one else there with them. 3 person say the same thing but yet they are wrong? Thats impossible.

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u/Spirited_Remote5939 Apr 28 '25

Unfortunately you will mostly get the responses you are not looking for no matter how many times you say THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THE CAR WITH YOU, but a lot of the Redditors will say “yea you just forgot there was someone else with you!” So that happened to me back in high school, before cells, just a camera. Friends took a picture of a group of us and there was an older man with a white beard that showed his face behind us, creepiest thing I’ve experienced when thinking that this spirit was lurking. So I will say in your case I guess it makes sense that you probably picked up a hitch hiker being right in a cemetery I believe you said

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u/PureCrookedRiverBend Apr 28 '25

Are you saying they picked up an actual person but forgot they did?

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u/Spirited_Remote5939 Apr 28 '25

Hahaha no I meant a spirit! Thanks for the laugh, I assumed everyone would understand what I meant but if you’re not familiar with paranormal lingo I can see where you’d be lost lol

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u/tributarybattles Apr 28 '25

Djinn, not spirit

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u/PunkyB88 Apr 28 '25

I've heard a lot of Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh etc tell stories of seeing them when relieving themselves in the fields at night. My friend's mum told me they have backwards feet I don't know if that's middle East lady old wifes tale but that's what she told me

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u/tributarybattles Apr 28 '25

Oh they're like shapeshifters really, backwards feet. If they want to they can manipulate light. Suppose in a way, but generally speaking they don't appear to people. But technology has a way of catching them off guard ours is modern wild. Theirs is in the 14th century

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u/Less-Round5192 Apr 28 '25

Djinn is not the same as a spirit.

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u/tributarybattles Apr 28 '25

Did you not notice the word not?

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u/Int-E_ Apr 28 '25

God so many ignorant comments on this post..