© 1991 Ghost Research Society - www.ghostresearch.org
August 10,1991
Photographer: Jude Huff-Felz
Credit to Dale Kaczmarek of the Ghost Research Society for sending in this material.
Credit to Kevin Watson of Illinois for sending in the original photographs.
Captured on 35mm black and white infrared film.
This photograph was captured during an investigation with a group of Ghost Research Society members. The picture is an enlarged black and white infrared shot taken of an area where many of the group noticed something unusual with some of the equipment they used. It appeared in both the Chicago Sun-Times and the National Examiner. NOTE: The white square spot on the photograph is a defect from the original negative.
This photograph was also presented on the Discovery Channel.
This photograph was also presented on the Travel Channel.
This photograph was also presented in the Chicago Sun-Times.
October 30, 1992
The following was extracted from www.trueillinoishaunts.com
Interview conducted of Dale Kaczmarek by Michael Kleen - October 10, 2011
Tell us about the circumstances surrounding the controversial photo of the woman sitting on a headstone at Bachelor’s Grove. Can you personally vouch for its authenticity?
On August 10, 1991 members of the GRS conducted a thorough investigation of Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery. Everyone was paired up in teams of two and given maps of the entire cemetery. The maps were covered with transparencies and the teams were told to slowly walk through the designated routes and to mark with grease pencils wherever their equipment fluctuated, they felt or had a personal experience, etc. Teams were told not to bunch up and to stop when the team in front of them stopped to make sure there wasn’t any contamination of evidence and to prevent the rest of the group to hear what a particular team might have just experienced. We continued this until all team members had made the entire circle through the cemetery and then I removed the transparencies and overlaid them for comparison purposes. It became immediate that there were at least three areas where most had some kind of experience including a small checkerboard tombstone with no name. That area had the most check marks. I then split up the groups to those areas in question for additional experiments with cameras, tape recorders and equipment to see what could be gathered. Jude and Mari Huff were among the GRS members in attendance and their 35mm camera was loaded with black and white, high-speed infrared film which was pushed to 400 ASA.
There was no other people in the cemetery at the time of these experiments except the GRS team. I was observing the experiments and was very near to Huff’s area by the checkerboard tombstone when she took a series of pictures of the tombstone. I can attest that at the time, there was no real person sitting on the tombstone and surely nobody dressed in a long white gown in our group at the time. Of course after the film was returned from the processor, it clearly showed a semi-transparent figure of a woman sitting on the tombstone in profile with long brown hair. Parts of her body, namely her head and knees are transparent. You can see through the to the trees and foliage! Of course throughout the years I’ve taken a lot of criticism and flack for this photograph because it simply “looks too good to be true.” However I was there at the time and would not have ever jeopardized my name or my reputation over any one picture. I do still to this day believe it’s one of the best examples of authentic spirit photography that we have in our collection.
