Otherworld North East Research Society Journal 01 | Page 36

Otherworld North East

The vigil in the Galleries took place between 00.28am and 01.27am on the morning of the
2nd, with a motion sensor and temperature/humidity logger set in the north-west corner,
with the team restricting movement to the south west corner, logging the western and
southern corridors with camcorder and digital cameras. During this time it wasn’t noted
that any peculiar photographic anomaly had been taken, and wasn’t until the next vigil in
the Garrison room, over an hour later, that Mark Winters noticed that he had something
peculiar on camera.
At the next break, the photograph was downloaded to computer, and as the precise time
the photograph was taken had not been noted, the image’s EXIF data was accessed,
showing the photograph had been taken at 00.34am, and when comparison to the notes
was made it was found that the corner in question had been vacated by investigators two
minutes earlier, meaning that the figure shown on the photograph was anomalous in
nature.

Close-up of the anomaly.
Unfortunately it is the reliance on the EXIF data, and the visual investigator’s favourite old
enemy, pareidolia that creates this anomalous image. What looks like a figure crouched
looking down the corridor towards the camera is actually simply myself setting up the
data logger and motion sensor in the north west corner, and not in any way or shape an
apparition or ghost. The first suspicion that all was not what the data seemed to show was

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