Ghost Stories Collection

Photographer

The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words, and it is true that a picture can convey many words that can be hard to say. There was one man who heard this saying and took it what might be considered a step too far. A young man by the name of Jonathan had always loved photography, but unfortunately he came from a poor family that could barely afford bills let alone have enough left over for a camera for him. Yet Jonathan was resilient. He worked hard and eventually earned enough money to buy his own polaroid camera. He was so excited the first time he took it to school unfortunately not everyone thought it was as awesome as he did. Everyone laughed at his cheap used camera that was barely staying together. Jonathan left school early in tears that day. On his way home Jonathan came across a little chipmunk. He pulled out his camera and snapped a picture. When he looked back to the where the chipmunk was it had vanished, satisfied that he had gotten his picture he continued home. He hung the picture on the wall in his room before he went to bed that night. When Jonathan woke up in the morning he could have sworn the chipmunk in the picture had moved, it was facing the opposite direction now. Jonathan ignored that for the moment, he got ready for school and at the last second grabbed his camera. Jonathan secretly took pictures of his classmates for the rest of the day hoping to avoid ridicule. He hung them on the wall with the chipmunk. The next day no one from his pictures were in class. Jonathan was beginning to think that maybe his camera wasn't so ordinary. When he looked at his pictures he was shocked to see that all of his classmates had moved. His shocked quickly became a sick joy as he thought of all his tormentors trapped in his pictures for eternity. However when people started to question where his classmates had gone, Jonathan vanished taking only his camera and his pictures. There was never any other reported sightings of Jonathan but he left behind a trail of missing persons. And so in the end a picture can really worth a thousand words, from a thousand souls screaming to be released from its borders.