"Spirited" Activity?

Here's the deal:

FIRST check out this - have a good look.

THEN check out this - a photo taken by me on Christmas day in 1997. What do you think? Same thing? :)

Now, I'm not a believer in things that go bump in the night (as commonly understood), and this is the first photo in the very many that I've taken where something like this has shown up. But there's no logical explaination for it - there was nothing in the way of the lens at all! Strapless aim-and-shoot camera, hair tied back, fingers out of the way etc.

I've had fun freaking out certain female collegues with the pic - but I'm the Ultimate Sceptic. Have sent it for a laugh to the ghostsbusters web guy to see what he says.

So what do YOU think???