The Ghost of
Sears Tower
"In October of 1998, we came to Chicago to watch my son graduate...
We visited many places and that evening we went to Sears Tower. We
rode the elevator to the top, got out and walked around up there.
It was dark by then so the view of the city from the Tower was
breathtaking...I had my Nikon camera with me and we looked around
to see if we could find anyone to take our picture up there
together, but there was no one else on the floor where we were. I
thought if we waited awhile someone would come but they didn't. So
I took some photos out the window. Then I took two photos of my
sons standing together in front of the window. After that I took a
few more photos out of the window again. We had a great time and
still didn't see anyone else up on that floor with us during our
visit.
When I got back home, I got the photos developed. My sons and I
were looking through them and were commenting on how they all
turned out very well. Until we got to one photo of a man looking
into the Sears Tower window! We all asked each other "Who's that?"
My oldest son grabbed it and said "I want this copy!"
No one knew who this was or how he could get into this photo! We
tried all possible reasonings, reflection perhaps? That would mean
that that man would have to have been standing somewhere to the
side of in back of us. Again, we reminded each other that there was
no one there at that time. We then looked closer at the photo, the
man is leaning his arm on the rail. This rail is directly in front
of the window and no space to stand between that rail and the
window. Again he would have to be standing behind us leaning on a
rail and there isn't any rail behind you when you are up there.
It's just a hall with an elevator behind you and way far back from
the window. I got out the negatives and looked and... #26 is this
unknown, depressed looking, man looking toward us in the window.
This man appears in none of the other photos as "reflections" and
since I took the photos close together in time if he was there he
would have showed up in the other photos. We cannot explain him and
now call him the Ghost of Sears Tower.
I showed this picture to my friend, who said that this photo of the
guy looked looked like he belonged in another era of time, like the
seventies or eighties, because of the way he was dressed."
So what do you think? Real ghost? or phony?
