Can You Spot the Ghosts on These Supposedly “Haunted” Album Covers?

Brian Boone
How Pants Work
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3 min readJan 30, 2017

Paranormal experts think that ghosts are all around us, and traces of them can be found…if we know where to look. They even show up in photographs, which is extremely spooky. Some photographs have even been used as album covers, with photographers only aware of a spectral image or mysterious presence after the fact. That said, these are the album covers or liner notes that supposedly contain the image of a “ghost.” See if you can see them.

Hotel California

The liner notes of the Eagles’ Hotel California purports to contain the image of some of figure peering out of a window. Just a person…or a demon…or a ghost?

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album was a monster hit, selling more than 10 million copies. But look closely at the cover. Right behind band founder Mick Fleetwood standing on a stool, you can just make out the presence of a cloaked female figure trying to grab Fleetwood’s hand.

Mirage

This 1982 Fleetwood Mac album depicts longtime members Christine McVie and Lindsay Buckingham, and…somebody else. Standing just to the right of Buckingham is what appears to be the ghostly image of a woman, with her arms extended outward and resting on Buckingham’s shoulders.

The Dance

Fleetwood Mac reunited in 1997 to record this live album. All the band’s core members returned…along with an uninvited guest. Focus on the picture for a minute or two, and it will come into focus: a beautiful but obviously otherworldly woman is laying across the white piano.

Say You Will

Guitarist Lindsay Buckingham is laying on a floor, with the album’s title superimposed over. But take another look — why does the guitarist have three arms? One of them is draped entirely in black and seems to be attached to a just barely visible image of a pale woman dressed entirely in black. The album’s cover photographer, Karen Williams Johnston, claims to have only seen the figure of “the woman in black” after she had the photos developed. Chill bumps.

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Brian Boone
How Pants Work

Contributor at Looper and Vulture. Writer of many books including GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE.