I think that I'm going to have to go with reflection on this one. With the first pic I enlarged it and inverted the colors to see the 'mist' better and the lighter color on your son is in a direct line with the lighter bit on the water heater, leading me to believe that it's from the same light sorce, the flash maybe. The line on the cuppord door I think is a reflection from the water heater. It probably doesn't show up in the second one, along with the light on your son and mother moving, because it was taken from a slightly different position or angle. It's easy to end up with different reflective angles, even with successive pics because both the photographer and the subjects of the photograph move constantly without being aware of it.
One thing you mentioned that I wasn't able to see in you second picture was the bright light above your mother's head. I saw the flaws from the printing machine in the upper left hand corner, like in your sister's other pictures. Was that what you were talking about? I also see a lighter spot on the wall that I think is a reflection from the water heater as well. If I'm not looking at the right thing let me know and I'll lookey again. =) Sometimes ghostie's just don't scan well, I've had a couple of pics with various anomalies that showed up great in the actual print but were extremely difficult to see once I scanned them-I could see them but nobody else could, frustrating thing.
I'm going to go read about your mom's house, I don't think I've read it yet.
Good call on the 800sp film. You get a lot of detail with it.
I just had to mention this too, your son is a real cutey!
[ March 26, 2005, 10:48 AM: Message edited by: Renee ]