Get ready for the chills, because these are the five stories beyond chilling that you will read below. Despite being controversial – for many, the photos are nothing more than montages made by people who are very “alive” -, the images of supposed ghosts have resisted the investigation of specialists and given shivers to many people for decades. So, are you going to take a tour of this exhibition from beyond? }}}:-O
Check out the spooky photos in our slide show at the end of the text.
DOWNLOADING ON THE STAIRCASE
The most famous spirit image in history, the portrait of the so-called “Brown Lady”, first appeared in the British magazine Country Life in 1936. The steamy figure descending the stairs of Raynham Hall mansion in Norfolk, England, would be the ghost of Dorothy Townshed, who lived in the house with her husband in the 18th century. Suspecting Dorothy of infidelity, the husband would have locked her in one of the rooms of the house, where she would remain until her death – and after her too…
THE LADY OF THE TULIPS
Retired Canadian Reverend Ralph Hardy was passing through London in 1966 when he decided to photograph the famous spiral staircase – known as the Tulip Staircase – of the National Maritime Museum, in the district of Greenwich. In the revelation, however, he almost fell backwards, when he saw that, in addition to the elegant steps, the image showed a figure wrapped in shrouds, who seemed to lean on the banister with both hands. To this day there is no assumption of who the mysterious apparition would be.
SURPRISE RIDE
In the photo, there is a lady with glasses, who waits patiently in the back seat of the car, who would be the mother of the Englishwoman Mabel Chinnery, who was visiting the tomb of a relative in the cemetery. Everything was very normal, except for one detail: the loved one that Mabel had just visited was her own mother, recently deceased! The photo, from 1959, was taken by Mabel before she returned home with her husband, who – both believed – was waiting alone in the vehicle. Only after developing the film did the couple find out that they had given someone a ride…
MIGHT COME HOT I’M BOILING
In 1995, Tony O’Rahilly was one of the curious crowds outside the town hall in Wem, England, to watch the fire that consumed the building. Impressed, he took several pictures of the fire. And he was even more impressed when developing the film: in one of the photos, a little girl was looking at the street from the burning building! For many, it would be Jane Churm, a girl who, by accident, would have started the fire that, in 1677, incinerated several of the houses in the area, including the one where she died.
PIRATE PARROW
In such an image from 1919, a squadron of the British Air Force (RAF) that had served in the First War was depicted. But in the top row, behind the fourth airman’s shoulder, you can see a face! Only the supposed owner of the face wasn’t there! The pirate parrot would be the mechanic Freddy Jackson – killed in an accident days before the photo was taken, he would have appeared for the portrait of the victors.