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Thanks for sharing the photos.

Quite honestly those are both examples of "wanting" to see something that wasn't there, IMO. I saw both photos before reading your lead-in. The crosswalk photo, to me, was clearly a blurred image showing the reflection of the streetlights on the sidewalk. I saw nothing else. At the house, again I saw an exterior light source, the "orb" in the upper corner, and the illumination of the curtain fabric, which was behind the pane, from that light source. I saw that light being a flash from a camera.

I then reread your memory description and I could "see", if I tried, both the images you recalled. I believe being prepped to see such thing on a ghost tour, even if one is skeptical, can lead to an ease in conflating what is seen into what is wanted to be seen. Take a look at the "Face on Mars," looks a lot like the "face" peering out the window.

And yes, witness accounts are not very reliable and are some of the least dependable in police investigations. That, of course, does not mean witnesses did not believe they saw what they claimed.