Dawn Berkoski

I’ve been to a few “haunted” places during my travels. I’ve walked through graveyards at night, explored abandoned buildings, and taken hundreds of photos of places where people claimed to have seen ghosts.

Occasionally one or two pictures come out blurry or spotty in odd ways, which ghost hunters call orbs or spirits. I’m not one to jump to conclusions. Not every photo comes out the way you want.

But the old mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, with only around 5,000 residents, is not the same as other places I’ve been to. There is an energy here that feels different. Especially when the sun sets over those sepia-hued hills and the shops close up tight.

At dusk, the red-toned granules of sand above the old mine come alive. The hills seem to move as the heat from the day wiggles out of the earth and into the cooling twilight. Perhaps something else emerges too.

Tragic accidents, lung disease like Silicosis, many people died in those mines. But there are other ghost stories in Bisbee: A little girl who haunts a shop, a woman trapped in a hotel, a haunted theater.

You might have noticed the blurry image in my Copper Queen Mine Tour post. If you didn’t, don’t worry. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time either. Probably lighting or some swift movement. It happens.

But when I visited the most haunted locations in the town that night, and almost every shot came out blurry, and some photos had strange lines and floating lights with no ready explanation, the hair on my arms rose and I felt a strange pressure at the base of my skull. This wasn’t normal. Photo after photo. I took several at any given location trying to get one clear shot.

Especially in City Park, which used to be a graveyard.

So, here is a collection of paranormal photography by an amateur who still doesn’t know what she captured or saw.

Maybe it was nothing at all.

I’ll let you be the judge.

Dawn B~