My good friend Kjori is getting married and for those of you who know Kjori, you must know that no average bridal session would do. With this in mind, Kjori and I brainstormed for months about where and what to do for her bridal portraits and we finally settled on this amazing location! Kjori looked absolutely stunning in her wedding dress and with her beautiful thick red hair, flair for the dramatic, and quirky props, we had a blast! The cool temperature kept Jake and I in jackets and hopping up and down to stay warm, while Kjori was perfectly comfortable in nothing but her dress. Perhaps it was our lights that was keeping her so warm.
Kjori confessed to Jake and I that she really didn’t believe in ghosts and lets just say, I think after our visit to this town, she is a believer. We had our first encounter in the old hotel. We were setting up for our first shot and Kjori was hanging out on this amazing staircase and when I looked up her face was in total shock. She said she saw a woman out of the corner of her eye on top of the stair case, the woman then came right down next to her and starred her right in the face. She could distinctly feel this, but couldn’t see a thing.
A little later we all went upstairs and we all stopped “dead” in our tracks. All of us began having a little shortness of breath and all of our hearts were beating like crazy. We all felt that there was a man present, a young man probably in his 30′s with dark hair. It took us all a few seconds to speak to each other, but when the sensation passed we all emerged with the same feeling/vision of the entity. It took us all by surprise.
Our final encounter came a couple of hours later when we entered a small house towards the edge of town. We walked in and something didn’t feel right. Kjori and Jake thought they heard footsteps upstairs and the whole house was moving. Now the moving part was due to the heavy winds and the fact that it was really really old, but still there was a horrible feeling there are we opted not to shoot there. The really creepy part is that later that night we read up on the town’s history and there was one home that is said to be very haunted. People have reported the sounds of crying children in this home because it was designated for the quarantined members of the town who were dying from various contagious diseases. We wondered if this could possibly be the house that we felt so uncomfortable in so when we returned the next morning, we went to investigate. Sure enough, the home that we got the bad feeling in and scurried out of, was in in fact the home that is said to be haunted and that housed all those sick and dying people.
Aside from our few run ins with the paranormal, we had a great time visiting the town and creating some beautiful portraits that I hope Kjori will love. Here are just a few of my favorites, it was so hard to choose.
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