Pictures from Another Time
“I will try to explain what I see in the pictures and what my friends have thought. I tried several times to show these photos to Native Americans, but they are afraid of them. This is because they agree, the photos are a ritual of cremation. The pictures were taken in my backyard in Placentia, Orange County, California September 1969. They were taken with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye 20, with b/w 620 film. The camera cost $10.00 in 1961, and I had to wind the film myself. There were 20 photos on the roll. 19 photos developed, number 20 was black on the negative.” -Rita
In 1997, Rita Swift found an old undeveloped roll of film with a note on it. The note read “taken in our backyard Sep. 1969.” Rita took the roll to get developed and 19 of the 20 pictures developed successfully.
When going through the first few photos nothing was unusual. They were typical photos of her at 5 years old, her dog, cat, swing set, just a normal backyard, with great clarity!
Pictures 17-19 (ordered top to bottom in this post) took Rita by surprise. The last three pictures appeared to show what Rita claims to be a Native American ritual of cremation. She took the developed pictures to the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles where they suggested the Native Americans in these photographs, resemble the Chumash. They tribe dates back to the 1700s.
Rita believes these pictures were a portal to another time.
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