When I can't sleep at night I usually tune into a late-night
radio program that leans towards the unusual, paranormal type stuff. With my headphones on, stories of the unexplained usually tuck me in. The other night, though, I heard something that I couldn't believe. A Colorado man kicked the bad habits in his life when an old photo of him surfaced. Read below for more ...
It's a picture you really have to look at, and when you do, you'll notice something is just not normal, in fact it might be... paranormal. The man, Joe Martinez, reports he was able to kick his drug habit when a picture of him at a relative's anniversary celebration showed what appears a demon on his shoulder.
Joe Martinez told Fox 31 News in Denver that drugs were killing his soul.
Because of the photograph, however, he's now on the road to recovery.
"I look at it and I carry it wherever I go," he told the local TV station. The photo showed a typically smiling couple at a anniversary reception. What it also shows is what Martinez's wife, Patty, describes as "Satan."
"Right away I really thought, I said, 'You're really walking with Satan'," she told the stationm.
The creepy pic was taken at a family anniversary celebration several years ago. It was in an album until just months ago, but Martinez says he won't be without it now because of the reminder it provides.
What appears to be a dog is looking over Joe's shoulder, in a closer view of the anniversary reception photo:
"There's good and evil in life. The good on the right hand side of me, and the evil on the left side of me," Martinez told the station.
The photograph, on closer examination, appears to include the image of a dog peering over Martinez's shoulder.
Brian Bonner of the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society said most such cases are explained relatively simply. But for this one, he said, there's not enough evidence to support a conclusion.
A photographic expert, John Davenport of Roach Photo, told the station the picture did not have evidence of tampering.
"It doesn't look like it was double-printed or spliced in," he said. "The grain is uniform."
Martinez admits having battled drugs. "I always prayed to the Lord and told him, 'I can't do it alone,'" he said to the station.
He and his wife credit the appearance of the image in the photo for his recovery from addiction.
"There's not another high left in me," Martinez said.
