Sunday night, some friends and I went to Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs, IA. It has tombstones dating back to the mid-late-1800s, as well as the "Black Angel" bronze statue based on a vision of the dying wife of Grenville Dodge. So there's some history there and we went to see if any spirits were around.
I didn't find much interesting, mostly just a lot of annoying "orbs" in the photos I took because of my cheap digital camera's flash. However, this photo is strange.
Most of the picture isn't blurry at all, just crappily lit...however, in the top-middle of the picture there's a light trail. There were a lot of fireflies, so I'd think it was just one of those, but I took a lot of shots as I was walking by, so wouldn't there be a motion blur on the tombstones and grass as well?
TL;DR: Possible explanations for a singular light trail in an otherwise static, short-exposure picture?
Tacky as it sounds, here goes.
When I was a kid (7-10) I used to be scared shitless in my room. Of course of ghosts, also of aliens, nuclear armageddon, that whole shebang. And as a young'n I used to see lights appear in my room. Not bright enough to light the room, just enough to be easily seen from the corner of my eye. If I looked at them directly they'd fade, but not disappear entirely. If I left my room (they only appeared in my room) and returned with my mum or stepdad, they'd have disappeared. They never happened at my dads, or after I moved to a different room.
The reason I thought they were significant or paranormal, and not a hallucination (it did cross my mind), was that they scared me shitless. Pretty lights rarely do that.
I haven't seen them in years, and by now I would think of them as a hallucination, but I've heard my brother, who now sleeps in that room, talking about seeing them.
Can you guys think of a decent explanation? I recently crossed over from 4chan, so I don't know if you guys get it here, but please no "who wuz fone?!!!1?" bullshit.