Are Ghosts really REAL?

I think that I am pretty open minded about most things. Does hypnosis work? EMDR did. Herbal remedies? Sure why not. Exercise give you more energy? Yeah most the time. Yoga? Let me know. Anyways, when it came to ghosts I was the same way. Yeah, maybe but I've never seen one. Felt one, maybe. But no actual proof. UNTIL NOW!!! This is the part where you look away or stop reading if you don't agree with me and want to argue it out, or if your scared and don't want to look. There's my disclaimer, my blog, my rules!

I had mentioned our recent trip to Alcatraz, and that I had a creepy photo or two. Yesterday I was looking around for history on Alcatraz and had I have known some of these things BEFORE we went, it would have been a lot stranger/scarier. So, it is one of Americas most haunted places. Didn't know that. Over the years, it has served as a military outpost, a fort, a military prison, a federal prison, and finally a national park. During its history there have been many deaths on Alcatraz, including 45 Civil War soldiers, 8 guards and inmates murdered by other prisoners, 5 suicides, and 15 inmates that died of natural causes. With the beatings, torture, hate and sorrow it has seen, this place has earned the reputation of being one of the most haunted places. While I was looking around it made sense that none of these deaths were pleasant, much less the quality of life for anyone, that the spirits would have maybe stayed around. Ok, so I looked again at my pictures of Alcatraz. There was a lot of hype around the Warden's home which was burned down. So I zoomed in a lot of pictures of the Warden's house. Believe it or not this is what I got, nothing has been photo shopped and we will all only see what we see, so this is really my own opinion.

But I can see a man standing in the top left window. No one was there.

Sami has to do a big report on Alcatraz island, so I took a few pictures of some of the signs in the prison. This is what I got. It looks a little like a cat, but you can see an ear, nose, mouth, eyes and I think a little hand by the mouth. What do you think? This is the original picture but being small you can't really see it on the blog. Top left corner in the brick.

Ok, I posted these before, but after looking into the prison, and finding out about the Civil War prisoners it made sense of his jacket, the long Civil War type. So this is zoomed in. Zoomed in further I make out a face but it gets so pixaly that I don't really know. I have looked and looked at all pictures and there was NO WHERE to stand over there. It was the third floor window and the greenery you see is actually the top of the tree's and a huge 20ft fence. The railing you see is actually pieces of the fence and nowhere near the building at all. The building is flat around the corner too. A little blurry I know but I was getting a picture of the Bay.

So now I have MY OWN proof. Your welcome to leave your own thoughts, but it won't change my mind. I reached over the chains that kept us from the prison hospital and felt ice cold draft and the girls freaked out because they heard a moan. (I didn't actually hear it myself) I did hear cell doors slamming and got rushed out of the prison as lights were going off. We were the last ones in for the night. My camera (new by the way) gave me NO problems before or since Alcatraz, but there were many places in the Prison that it just stopped working. New batteries and it would still just shut off, only to come back alive ON IT'S OWN a few minutes later. I didn't think anything of it but a cheap, broken camera. I still haven't changed the batteries and took over 200 pictures after that. I have more, but they don't show up well on the blog, and I could MAYBE explain them to myself, maybe not.