{"id":203,"date":"2011-05-12T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strider.gifnet.us\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2011-05-14T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:25:18","slug":"the-marksville-ghost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?page_id=203","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of 608 N. Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are looking to capture a ghost in a photo, you take three pics in rapid succession of the area where you suspect there may be one lurking about. The process is take them in complete darkness with your flash on.\u00a0 The reason why you take at at least three pictures is so you can compare them and see if the ghost only appears in one of the pictures but not the others.\u00a0 The ghost shows up as a perfect circular orb, usually white.\u00a0 Rarer colors are red.\u00a0 A red ghost indicates an angry spirit while white usually indicates a calm spirit.\u00a0 I learned about this method of capturing ghosts in a photo while Pan and I were on our honeymoon in Branson, MO.\u00a0 I also have several photos from there as well that have these same types of images.\u00a0 It is said that these ghosts are more easily captured on a digital camera than a regular film camera,<\/p>\n<p>I took these pictures on the 4th of March at 10:09 pm about one second between them.\u00a0 The second photo has one of these images that I described above except for one major difference.\u00a0 It&#8217;s green.\u00a0 It shows up in the second picture at the very top of the photo near the end of the greenhouse above the second and third support boards.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-203 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?attachment_id=204'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7475-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-204\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204'>\n\t\t\t\tNo ghosts here\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?attachment_id=205'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7476-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-205\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-205'>\n\t\t\t\tThere&#8217;s a ghost in this pic\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?attachment_id=206'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_7477-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-206\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-206'>\n\t\t\t\tNo ghosts here\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Now I should provide\u00a0 a little history about the house that I own in Marksville, Louisiana.\u00a0 The house was built in 1938 by the parish sheriff of the times.\u00a0 He then sold it to a Mr. and Mrs. Couvillion in 1947.\u00a0 They purchased the adjacent property and then added to the house, a sun room and expanded the master bedroom as well as built the greenhouse in the photos.\u00a0 Mrs. Couvillion, which I will call Ellen as that was her name, loved her greenhouse and it was always full of plants, even in the winter time.\u00a0 There is still a gas heater in one corner to keep it warm. Later on in her life, Ellen developed Parkinson&#8217;s Disease.\u00a0 One night while her husband was away working, she had to go to the hospital for some unknown reason to me.\u00a0 Her doctor was not available so she returned home only to pass away a few days later before her husband had returned.\u00a0 He lived in the house until his own death and then my mother purchased the house in 1978 after it had been empty for over five years.\u00a0 She transferred the house to me in 1986. and I have owned it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I learned of Ellen&#8217;s story from her grand nephew Cane Couvillion, who lives just a few house down.\u00a0 He is one of the electricians that rewired the house for me.\u00a0 We have our own story that we shared together while he was working in his great aunt&#8217;s home but that is for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are looking to capture a ghost in a photo, you take three pics in rapid succession of the area where you suspect there may be one lurking about. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/?page_id=203\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/209"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gifnet.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}