When Addison Logan, 13, saw an old Polaroid camera at a Wichita, Kan., garage sale and thought it looked like a fun relic little did he know it carried a photograph of a dead uncle he never met.
Deciding the camera was “rather awesome” and worth the $1 asking value, he headed house with his grandmother, Lois Logan, and searched the internet to find out how it worked, The Wichita Eagle reported.
When he opened the camera, there was a photograph within. He showed his grandmother, who was shocked to see her son, Scott, who died 23 years earlier in a automobile accident.
Addison Logan, 13, and his grandmother Lois with the old Polaroid camera he discovered at a garage sale in Wichita, Kan. The camera incorporated a photograph of Addison’s dead uncle.
The photo showed Scott with a large college girlfriend about 10 years ahead of he died. For Lois, it was proof he was still searching down on the household.
Addison’s father, Blake, mentioned of the image, “I’m just shocked. The much more time that passes, the much more in disbelief I am … It is almost like he’s reaching out to us, saying he’s still with us.”
The Logan family don’t know the family that sold the camera, and the house that held the garage sale didn’t exist in the 1970s when the picture was taken, ruling out the chance the camera belonged to the girlfriend pictured with Scott and had been left there.
The family is happy to accept the random nature of the find, with another of Scott’s brothers, Jeff, saying, “When you get something like that, that’s almost like a sign telling us, ‘Hey, everything’s all right, I’m still here.'”
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