Earlier this month, we reported on a group of tourists' photo from Myrtles Plantation that purported to show a ghost in the background. Opinions on the internet range from thinking that the figure is an actual ghost to assuming it is the product of Photoshop. I decided to take a look at this image myself and see what I could find.

The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1796 and is indeed famous for its paranormal activity, having been featured in the ninth season of Ghost Hunters. The most famous of the ghost stories is the legend of a slave named Chloe who accidentally poisoned the children of her master. Naturally, Chloe is the popular supernatural culprit for the ghostly image.

The first thing I do is check the metadata, where nothing is listed, not even anything detailing that it had been pulled from social media. I then zoom in on the image and compare the pixels of the rest of the image to that of the figure and the space around it. This image is 960 pixels wide at 72 dpi. That is definitely getting into a larger-sized image on the internet, but the resolution of the pixels making up the image (dots per inch) is typical web quality. My thoughts are that this was taken with a newer smartphone and then screenshot, given the black frame around the image.