Strange happenings and UFO events seem to have followed me around during various phases of my life. One odd event in my childhood occured in 1968, when I was 14. We lived in Scottsboro, Alabama, and there was a small playground accross the street where I was hanging out with my friends, Richard (top of slide) and Terry (prone, bottom of slide).
I had my sister's cheap Delta 127 "box" camera, loaded with B&W film, and I talked my pals into posing on the slide for a photo (full image above, close-up below). I wished that I could be in the picture with them, but the camera had no time-delay feature that could allow that to happen.
When I retrieved the photos from the local drug store a week later, another kid (possibly wearing sunglasses) was standing behind Richard, peering around his left shoulder and looking directly at the camera! On closer examination, the figure's left hand seemed to be a little off-register with the railing, and the right arm wasn't completely solid. Of course, when we showed the print to our parents, they told us we simply didn't remember the other kid.
Many years later I had a dark room set up in my apartment, when I discovered the negative in a box of mementos from childhood. I immediately made an 8x10 print, and while it was still in the fix tray, I realized for the first time that the kid at the top of the slide looked a lot like me at the time. It still gives me chills... "