A Ghost Portrait

Carrollton, Alabama
March 25, 2010

Click on the image to enlarge and to see the lightning portrait

Do you see a faint outline of a face in the lower right pane of the window? Click on the photo to get a closer view. Do you see it yet? If you have a laptop, move the screen up and down and around. Can you see it?

I went many miles into the countryside to reach a small town in Alabama to bring you this story of the lightning portrait of Henry Wells. On a top floor window of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, it is said that a face of a jailed man was etched into the window by a stroke of lightning in 1878. Check out the Roadside America website for more about this eerie story.