In December 1984, four teenagers—three boys and a girl—were driving on a highway in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. They were on their way to a rock concert and weren’t deterred even by the wet snow mixed with rain. As they passed by the golf club near Hyde Park, the car skidded on the wet asphalt while entering a curve and crashed into trees on the roadside. The boy and girl sitting in the back seat suffered only minor bruises, and the driver was unharmed. However, a 16-year-old boy named John Bulvard, who was in the front passenger seat, was severely pinned and sustained fatal injuries.
After the ambulance and police arrived and the deceased’s body was extracted from the car, one of the officers, Brian Coyle, took several routine photos of the vehicle. He later handed the camera to another officer, asking him to develop the photos and attach them to the accident case file.
A few days later, the officer returned visibly shaken and handed Coyle the stack of developed photographs, saying there was something strange. Several photos indeed showed inexplicable twisted or broken white-yellow lines, swirls, or something resembling cigarette smoke. But the most terrifying was one photograph showing a distorted human face, screaming in agony, “hovering” right above the roof of the car. Also visible in this photo, near the half-open car door, was a strange oval blur resembling a translucent figure of a dog sitting with its back to the camera.
When Coyle compared the face in the photo with a picture of the deceased John Bulvard, he was stunned: the curly hair, prominent nose, and chin—all matched. Had he captured the tormented ghost of the boy screaming in horror?
More than forty years have passed since then, and Coyle has repeatedly contacted various psychics and spiritualists to try and explain what was captured in the photos. Was it really the spirit of John Bulvard? And what was that dog?
According to one psychic, Coyle had captured a rare moment when the soul of the deceased had already left the body but was still resisting its departure from this world, screaming, “No!” She believed that John Bulvard, a cheerful and kind-hearted boy, desperately wanted to live. The crash had happened just two days after Christmas, and the teen had been looking forward to celebrating with his friends at the concert. He didn’t want his life to end so suddenly.
As for the dog, John had a Labrador that had passed away earlier that same year. The psychic claimed the dog had been sent to meet John and accompany him into the afterlife.
