Ghostly images startle woman

RIVERVIEW - Jeanne Culp has never believed in ghosts. But she does now.

The Hillsborough County woman caught something strange on her home security cameras.

"I didn't know what to think. I really didn't know," she offered.

When she rewound a tape that caught the action outside her home last month, she held her breath. It was a cloudy day and a steady drizzle rained down. She saw a flash of light in the middle of the picture. She saw the light grow, change shape and move as she forwarded through the tape.

Jeanne thinks she was watching a ghost move across the screen.

"I think it was the movement. And when you rewind it back, it's more visible than when it goes forwards," she explained.

She also saw the outline of a person and a streak of light fly by.

The image appeared right after Jeanne poured an extension to her driveway. She's lived in her house for 30 years. But she doesn't know of anyone who died there or if anything strange happened that could have caused it to happen.

But now she's a believer.

"I think there may be a possibility that they are other beings out there," she said.

Ghost hunters sure think so. Bill Sharpe says you have to open yourself up to the possibility.

FOX 13 showed him the video. He thinks in this case it's just a reflection on the camera, caused by humidity. But he says, "you never know."

Sharpe says the fascination with ghosts has been going on for years.

"That goes back to when you were a kid -- when three or four or five of you were left at home or your parents were in a different room and you'd tell stories to scare each other," he said.

He says people wonder what happens when they die -- where they go or if they go. Now Jeanne Culp says she wonders, too.