r/Ghosts • u/Flower_in_space • 8h ago
I took two pictures at a family member’s house around 2018. There is something in the mirror that isn’t me.
I took the first two pictures while at my grandparent’s house for a birthday. I was around 14 at the time and I enjoyed taking selfies like most girls around that age did. I didn’t usually review them afterwards, I just took them and moved on. A few years ago (around 2023) I was browsing the Snapchat folder on my phone and I could see something in the mirror’s reflection behind me so I tapped on the picture and looked closer. No one was in the room with me, I was completely alone. I did have a filter on in one photo but not the other, and according to Snapchat those photos were taken less than a minute apart. The thing in the mirror changes shape, too. I didn’t notice anything when I was taking the pictures, and no other pictures I took that night had anything like that in it. Only these two. After I did notice it I took other pictures in the mirror and the background when I went back. I couldn’t find anything that would have caused that figure in the mirror. My grandparent’s house honestly just has some weird stuff happen and the property feels super creepy at night. They have two acres and aside from the area the house is on, the rest is dark and unlit at night. Sometimes we’ll hear thumping when there’s nothing there and a few months ago something knocked down a sturdy stacked wood pile and we didn’t even know until we went outside to help take out my grandparent’s dogs. We didn’t hear a thud or leaves crunching or anything that indicated they’d fallen despite being in the room closest to where the pile was. They’ve also found a unexplained scorched piece of wood really close to the house which is a log cabin with lots of dry leaves and foliage. My grandparent’s old house definitely had activity too. Growing up there my mother said one time she was home alone as a teen and something kept going up and down the walk up attic stairs and calling her name, and she also saw the ‘shadow man’ there. My brother and my cousin also saw it a few times, with my cousin saying that she would see it at other places. Plus a neighbor drove by right before the city tore that house down (it was on a flood zone) and took a picture that had a face in the window, which wasn’t possible because the windows were boarded up.
Honestly, I don’t know what appeared behind me in the mirror but I do know it wasn’t my own reflection, and I find it weird that other things still happen at that property sometimes. I’ve never had anything else like this happen in other pictures. Also, I’m sorry that the first two pictures with that thing in it aren’t great quality. Back then I had an iPhone 6 still and the camera quality wasn’t great.
Edit: The silhouette beside me in the picture I believe was mine, but the face in the mirror that can be seen under the lights fixtures isn’t me.