"All of us were just freaked out by this thing," said Steve Vaughan.
The figure was captured in a picture taken by a pair of local firefighters at the burning Sunday. A ghost enthusiast said it could be some sort of wizard or spirit.
"It's either a real humanoid figure up there hovering in the sky or it's an extremely good projection from either a slide or some kind of camera," said Rick Walter.
The image is getting a lot of attention.
"I showed it to them and they were all, 'Oh my gosh, that's wild,' 'I want to see that, text it to me,' and then they put it on Facebook and it kind of blew up from three," said Josh Ellis.
El Kookooee is a Hispanic ritual where people scribble their fears on paper then throw the scraps into a fiery effigy. Firefighters Ellis and Vaughan were working the event Sunday.
"They lit it up and we are just standing there observing it, you know, taking pictures like everyone else and that's when Josh, one of my coworkers, got the photo of the spirit or whatever it is," said Vaughan.,,read more>>>>...
