The Picture of the Ghost premise

August 24th, 2014

There are several cable television programs on where "investigators" use equipment that they claim allow them to detect and even communicate with spirits of people who have passed on. What if they are wrong, and the messages that they get from their devices are not exactly what they think they are? Poor boy Jake gets arrested around the end of the civil war and winds up dying in prison, where decades later an attempt is made to contact him.

This is the premise of the short story, "The Picture of the Ghost".