Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia & Western North Carolina
Famous Ghost Pictures
This photo was taken by Jude Huff-Felz of the Ghost Research Society in 1991. It was taken in the day time and when developed, the lonely figure of a woman appears sitting on a tombstone. She has been dubbed "The Madonna of Bachelor's Grove Cemetery."
In 1958, Mrs. Mabel Chinnery visited her mothers grave. After taking a few pictures of the grave, she took a picture of her husband. When it was developed, she automatically recognizes the spirit of her mother in the backseat of the car.
Terry Ike Clanton took a picture of his friend in old-time garb in Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, AZ. When he developed the picture, he found there was a man in the photo he is sure was not there.
Borley Rectory
In 1944, Life Magazine was writing a story on the Borley Rectory, supposedly one of the most haunted places in the world, in the village of Borley, Essex, United Kingdom, the photographer caught a shot of a brick floating in mid-air.
This photo was taken in the graveyard of Borley Rectory. It seems to show a ghostly figure in the trees.
The infamous "Brown Lady" was first sighted by Lady Dorothy Townshend's son when they were staying at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England, in 1926. The other guests agreed that the lady looked just like the portrait of Dorothy Walpole. In September, 1936, Captain Provand took a picture while shooting for County Life Magazine. His assistant, Indre Shira, had heard about the ghost and when he saw a haze on the staircase, he asked Provand to take another picture of the staircase. He did, and the famous picture was featured in the magazine on December 6, 1936.
As Wem Town Hall, Shropshire, England, was burning to the ground on November 19, 1995, Tony O'Rahilly took a picture of the building. None of the onlookers saw the little girl, but when the photo was developed she was there standing in the doorway. He submitted the photo to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) who deemed it genuine. When they did their research, however, they found that Wem Town Hall had caught on fire before, in 1677, when a little girl, Jane Churm, was careless with a candle. She was dubbed the "Burning Girl."
In 1982, photographer Chris Brackley took a photograph of the interior of London's St. Botolph's Church in London. When he developed the photo, he saw a woman standing on the choir loft, where no woman had been when he had taken the picture.
In 1891, Sybell Corbet took a picture in the Library of Combermere Abbey in Combermere, England. When the photo was developed, sure enough a partially transparent Lord Combermere who had been hit days before was sitting in his favorite chair.
This photo was taken in 1919 of a group from the Goddard's squadron, which had served in World War I aboard the HMS Daedalus. On the top row, fourth from the left, there is an extra person. It is unanimously believed that it is the face of Freddy Jackson, an airplane mechanic who died two days before this photo was taken when he was killed by a propeller.
This photo was taken in the Hull House, erected in 1856 in what used to be the suburbs of Chicago, and is the property of the Ghost Research Society. It clearly shows a robed monk holding a candle.
In December of 1924, James Courtney and Michael Meehan of the S.S. Watertown were cleaning the oil tanker. That was the last anyone saw of them; alive, anyway. Many different crewmen reported to their captain, Keith Tracy, that they had seen on several occasions the faces of the two men in the ocean, following their ship. Tracy took 6 pictures of the water, and when they were developed, the sixth picture showed two faces in the water. The Burns Detective Agency reviewed the negatives and found no evidence of trickery.
Many people don't know this, but Mary Todd Lincoln was deeply interested in spiritualism, as was her husband, Abraham Lincoln. After his death, she traveled across the eastern United States in search of a medium who could contact her deceased husband. She used the pseudonym Mrs. Tundall on a visit to Boston, where she believed her husband was touching her on her shoulder. She then visited Boston engraver William Mumler, who claimed he could photograph the dead. Sure enough, in the picture, Abraham appears and is touching his wife's shoulder.
This ghost photograph looks ridiculously fake and reeks of double exposure. But, to date no one has been able to prove it is a fake. The now infamous photo was taken by Reverend K. F. Lord at Newby Church in North Yorkshire, England in 1963. He swears there was no cowled figure standing there at the time he snapped the photograph, which may be true, as analysis shows the figure stands just over 9 feet tall.
This photo was taken in St. Nicholas Church of Arundel in England in 1940.
Reverend Ralph Hardy took this picture of the "Tulip Staircase" in 1966 in the Queen's House section of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. It was said that phantom footsteps could often be heard on this staircase. Even Kodak could not verify that the negatives were tampered with.
An old Canadian picture. You can clearly see an apparition in the middle.
The Myrtles Plantation in St. Franksville, Louisiana; this photograph supposedly shows the ghost of Chloe behind a tree, and two young ghostly boys sitting on the roof.
This photograph appeared in the December, 2003 issue of the England Newspaper and is a screen capture from a security video of an alleged ghost in England's Hampton Court, long believed to be haunted by the ghost of Jane Simor, the third wife of King Henry VI, who died in childbirth in the tower; the video has been proven to be a hoax.
A picture of the Buxton family taken by spirit photographer William Hope in 1924. It allegedly shows the spirit of the couples recently deceased son.
Taken by a Mrs. Andrews in 1947 in a graveyard in Gatton in Queensland, Australia, this photo seems to show an apparition of a little girl from a nearby grave. This photo has never been discredited.
Taken in Eastry Church in Kent in 1956.
This fake-looking apparition was taken by Derek Strafford in 1990 in a graveyard in Prestbury in Gloucestershire, England. The "Black Abbot" has never been discredited.
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