Idk that it’s a ghost. I think it’s most likely a trick of the light in leaves. Our brains are wired to see faces

No idea about the camera. My grandma just had the photo. They were dirt poor Okies. Probably wasn’t even their camera

They’re all dead. The Curly haired one died in his teens in a plane crash while on leave from the war. The oldest two grew into kind and gentle men. The youngest was a wild card. He we served in Korea. He was funny and rough and kind and taught me how to play cards and garden. He had no teeth and only wore striped bibbed overalls. He had a skunk as a pet. He passed in the early 2000s after reuniting with an old lover (like Biblically) and I am so happy for him to have gone that way.

Edit: a word

Oh, I think I understand what you are asking. Like was it reprinted on something? I think there were multiple prints made from a single negative. This scan looks exactly like my Grandma’s hard copy. I can’t recall if I have seen another hard copy. I think at my Aunt’s house?

So I think any issue would be with the negative itself

My grandma had an original on her dresser. I got this digital copy from one of my moms cousins whose dad is in the picture. I don’t know if she scanned an original or if someone sent it to her digitally

I have stared at the original of this photo for hours and that’s what I can’t make out. Could someone be kneeling further back? Where’s the top of their head?

The older 3 boys were in one bed and he slept in a dresser drawer til his sister was born. He ended up being huge and eventually had to sleep in the barn cause their house only had room for 3ish beds.

He was 4th of 9 kids and he was Grandma’s favorite, lol, but, yeah, they were dirt poor Okies in the 20s and they all shared those shoes.

The youngest in this photo was born in 1928 or 29

I mentioned in another comment that this is a repost of my photo. It’s my grandmother’s 4 brothers. She didn’t recognize the 5th “face.”

This is a repost of my photo. It’s my grandma’s four older brothers. She had the photo on her dresser when I was growing up. We could never decide if that’s a face in the bushes or a trick of the light, but it’s definitely not my great grandmother or someone my grandma recognized