I was not successful during my research for a strong article on a psychologist’s perspective on the paranormal. So I have nothing as of now but I intend to keep searching. Instead, I came across several photos but there is one in particular I want to focus on. This photo helped me see connections to another source I blogged about. With this photo I was able to come to a partial conclusion towards my question, can science solve paranormal events using scientific evidence?

Recently, on October 26^th, 2011 Stephen Wagner wrote an article about a woman named Elizabeth who took the photo shown above. She thought that all she captured was her husband fishing on the beautiful remote lake in northern Wisconsin. Little did she know that her photo also captured the ghostly figure of a young girl.

Elizabeth says, “I took the picture in early 1990s. It wasn’t for some time after I had it developed and then realized it appears that a young girl, possibly wearing a pinafore and bonnet, is off to the right of my husband (1).”

It drew my curiosity that this photo was taken in the 1990’s. I felt it somehow connected to my other source about a paranormal legend from over 50 years ago (Paulding Light). Both sources have in common, a paranormal belief that had taken place before being investigated. For the case of the Paulding light it was scientifically proven that the ghost’s lantern people claimed they had seen shining off in the distance was just an optical illusion. As for the mysterious ghost girl standing only several feet away from Elizabeth’s husband. I come to question if this as well was an optical illusion or if it could be scientifically proven real or fake? Elizabeth insists this is no joke and she supports her claim when she states,

“The lake has no boat launch and no homes are on the lake. We had to hike in to the lake through brush and weeds (1),” Elizabeth defends her photo by informing us it would be impossible for a child to be out and about because there were not any homes around, nor people, they were in the middle of nowhere, just her husband and herself and all that there was surrounding them was brush and weeds. So, the photo and the ghost girl is strongly believed to be real.

Elizabeth shares historical insight of this Wisconsin lake and how it once was a busy logging area. Many young children died in this location years ago due to a plague. Elizabeth explains “there is a cemetery in the area — Star Lake Cemetery — with all of their graves. If I had to guess, I’d say maybe it is a child spirit or possibly a Native American child spirit. I don’t know. I just know nobody was there when I took the picture (1).” With being said, the ghost girl that appeared in her photo could very well be one of the many innocent children that lost their lives during the tragic time.

Overall, I learned that some mysterious are meant to stay mysteries. Maybe 100 years from now when technology advances and we gain more intelligence there may be answers to the paranormal, such as the Paulding Light case that was solved over half a century later. Until then, our knowledge, explanations and theories we have are not sufficient enough to explain every superstition with science.