Lori McDonald & Winchester House Double Vortex
This isn't a camera strap or a tree branch! 

This isn't a camera strap or a tree branch!

This is an anomalous dark & light Vortex, which was taken on 9-17-00 by Bill McDonald of Lori and Will McDonald at the Haunted Courtyard to the Winchester House right before our guided tour. We had the both the camera and the photo negative analyzed and it was determined by the experts at Aperture Camera's Darkroom in Dana Point, CA that is was not the camera strap, the case strap, a tree branch in front of the lens or a thread with an attached fiber adhering to the inside of either the camera lens or the shutter door. Had been a tree branch, more texture from the bark would have been visible. We used Kodak 400 speed film. If this had been a camera strap the texture of the weave would have been noticeable. The entire interior of the shutter lens housing was found to be absolutely clean and lint free with out threads or dust. NOTE: The only other time in the past 30 years that they had seen an anomaly like this was when they had taken similar photos at the famous haunted Bloumfeld House in New Jersey and at The House Of The Seven Gables in Salem Massachusetts. He hated to admit it but he said it was an "anomalous materialization." © 2000 Lori McDonald