Lord Combermere’s Ghost Photo

 In 1891 an amateur photographer named Sybell Corbet decided that as the entire household of the Combermere Abbey was attending the funeral of the late Lord Combermere four miles away, it would be a good time to take interior photos of the abbey while it was quiet.

This included the Combermere Abbey Library, where she set up her camera hoping to get good results using the natural light coming into the room. The Abbey had been around since 1133 after being founded by monks and some of the interiors are simply stunning making them an easy muse for a photographer.

However, Corbet got a bit more than she bargained for when besides the interior of the library she also captured what appeared to be a ghostly figure in one of the room's chairs. Could this be the ghost of Lord Combermere himself, visiting his home once last time while his funeral was taking place a short distance away?

Ghostly Pics: S.S. Watertown Ghosts

 

In December of 1924, James Courtney and Michael Meehan were killed by gas fumes aboard the ship S.S. Watertown. The two men, who were part of the ship's crew, had been overcome by the fumes while they were cleaning a cargo tank on board the vessel.

The S.S. Watertown was in the middle of a journey between New York City and the Panama Canal at the time of the two deaths and the men were given a burial at sea off the Mexican coast.

However, the next day at dusk, and for several days thereafter, the crew claimed to see the faces of the two dead men in the waves in the water near the ship. When the ship came to port in New Orleans, the ship's Captain, Keith Tracy bought a camera, hoping to capture the apparitions.

After setting off from New Orleans the faces appeared again, and Tracy took six photos of the ghosts before locking the camera and its film in a safe till the voyage's end.

It was these events that spawned one of the most famous ghost photos ever, and one of the most popular pictures proving that there was indeed life after death.

However, new research conducted in 2010 may make you change your mind about one of the most famous ghostly pics of all time...

Ghostly Pics: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall Ghost

 

This is another relatively infamous ghost photo that was taken at Raynham Hall in Norfolk in 1936. It was taken by two photographers for Country Life magazine, which made its name highlighting the pleasures of living in the country and used photographs of various stately homes as evidence of this.

 According to the story, the two journalists were doing just such a photo shoot when they saw the ghost descending the stairs and quickly took this photograph.

Ghostly Pics: The Newby Spectre

 

The photograph of the Newby Church Spectre is often cited as one of the 'best ghost photos ever' and with good reason. It has particular resonance with me because it is one of the first photographs that ever really scared the hell out of me as a child.

Ghostly Pics: Tombstone Cemetery Ghost

 Some places are just perfect for a ghost story or the perfect location for an excellent ghost photograph. Well, nothing quite says 'haunted' like the trappings of the American Old West, with its tales of ghost towns abandoned after the money went dry in those areas and the body count created by the outlaw atmosphere that prevailed there.

One infamous and easily debated evidence of ghosts in an old west setting was the one taken at Boothill Cemetery in 1996 when Ike Clanton posed for a picture on the old burial site.

However, they did not count on the mysterious figure in the background, dressed in clothing similar to those worn in the Old West and holding a knife.

Ghost Dog At The Tower of London?

 The Tower of London has a history of ghosts and hauntings, so it is not surprising that a current resident of the historical landmark is reporting she has had a run-in with a spirit, in this case, possibly a phantom dog...


Tik-Tok user Megan Clawson, also known as Meganambxr on the video-sharing site, says that although she has been asked many times if the Tower was haunted and indeed Megan thought she had felt a cold spot or two and had heard 'the odd footstep,' but never had anything really scary or weird happen to her.

Until the night the ghost dog came to visit, as she recalled in a video this month.

Megan, who has a dog herself (which was away on the night in question at Megan's Mother's house) was in bed when she heard her pet's squeaky toy squeaking in the middle of the night even though her dog was as said in another dwelling about one-hundred-and-fifty miles away:

"...I was struggling to get to sleep, which is quite strange for me anyway.
Because as soon as my head hits that pillow I am out like a light.
So I was just listening to the clicking of my plug-in radiator...because I live in the wall of a castle so it's bloody freezing.
I hear this squeak... so I have this dog toy in my room with a little squeaker on the end.
And every hour or so I would just hear one... one squeak.
And [then] it would stop."

Megan also noted that one of her neighbors told her that they had felt like a ghostly dog had curled up beside them on a couple occasions prior, pushing the idea even more among the many ghosts at the Tower of London, there is still room for man's best friend. 

-Thomas Spychalski 

(Via MyLondon)

Three Men and a Baby Ghost: (Paranormal Cardboard)

 

This is an urban legend I once fell hook, line, and sinker for.

I first heard of the 'ghost boy' who appeared in the film Three Men and a Baby when my dad told me about it after reading the story in a magazine. The story said that if you went to a certain part of the movie, a little boy could be seen in the background and that little boy had died in the apartment the film was shot in.

In short, the little boy in the background of the film...was a ghost.