Could this be the ONLY known photograph of the Grey Lady?
The Grey Lady has long been rumoured to haunt the iconic Dark Hedges in Stranocum...and now it seems that a Ballycastle man might just have managed to capture her on film.
Gordon Watson took this photograph at the Hedges on Friday and when he processed it on his computer, he spotted the wispy, grey shape in the centre which looks almost like a grey figure floating in the air.
Well-known local photographer Kevin McAuley examined the photograph and stated that there was no way the image had been digitally enhanced in any way.
Kevin said: “It looks like a dress going towards the shape of a figure and it’s at this end of the trees where the Grey Lady has been seen by a variety of people over the years.
“This is the only known version ever to have been recorded in any fashion,” he added.
Legend tells that a supernatural ‘Grey Lady’ haunts the thin ribbon of road that winds beneath the ancient beech trees. She silently glides along the roadside and vanishes as she passes the last beech tree.
Some say the spectre is the ghost of a maid from the nearby house who died in mysterious circumstances centuries ago.
Others believe that she is a lost spirit from an abandoned graveyard that is thought to lie hidden in the fields nearby.
On Hallowe’en night, the forgotten graves are said to open and the Grey Lady is joined on her walk by the tormented souls of those who were buried beside her.
Just in time for Halloween, actor Keanu Reeves shared a real-life encounter he once had with a ghost.
During an appearance on Wednesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Reeves answered a series of random questions from the late night host, including whether he’d ever seen a ghost.
“Yeah, when I was a kid,” the 50-year-old “Matrix” actor replied. “It was in New York. It was cool. So I’m like a little kid. I’m probably like 6, 7 years old, [in] a new apartment. … We’d come from Australia. Renata, nanny, was in the bedroom. … There was a doorway and, all of a sudden, we’re looking over there and this jacket comes waving through the doorway, just empty – there’s no head, there’s no body, there’s no legs. It’s just there and then it disappears.”
Reeves added, “I was a little a kid, so I thought, ‘That’s interesting.’ And then I looked over at the nanny.”
The actor pulled a shocked face.
“And I’m like, ‘Oh wow, so that was real.’”
Reeves then turned to Kimmel and asked, “Was that a ghost? Or just some weird floating jacket?”
Kimmel quipped, “That’s a reason to move, to me.”
Reeves also revealed that he’s met another Keanu before.
“Yes, I have a cousin,” the Hawaii-born actor said. “There’s a cousin, Keanu. I didn’t meet that guy until I was 8 or 9, so I’d never heard that name for another human until that time.”
Mother discovers her new house is haunted after she takes photo of a GHOST staring out from the window
Michelle Midwinter had gone outside to take a picture of her new home
She noticed a man peering out window and ran inside to find no-one there
Mother-of-one believes sighting was spirit of Samuel Kent who died in 1872
His daughter notoriously murdered his son when he was three years old
Miss Midwinter is convinced house is haunted after a clock fell off the wall
A proud homeowner was left terrified after taking a photo of her new house only to notice a ghost staring out from the window.
Michelle Midwinter, 30, had gone outside to take a picture of her new home in North Bradley, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, to share with friends on her Facebook page. But it was only when she took another look at the image that she noticed the spooky apparition of a man peering out her window. The mother-of-one, who was at home with her two-year-old daughter, ran inside to discover that no one was there. Miss Midwinter, who moved into the house last month, believes the sighting could be the spirit of Samuel Kent - a former factory inspector who worked in the area. She said: 'I decided to take a picture of the front of our house and post it on Facebook to show how well we were all settling in. 'I went outside and took a picture but after initially admiring the brickwork the face just sort of jumped out at me. 'I ran into the house to make sure no one was in there because I knew everyone else was at work, but it was just me and my two-year-old daughter. 'I studied the photo for a while and then put it on Facebook to see if anyone else could come up with an explanation as to how the face could have got there.' Miss Midwinter, a mobile phone case designer, added: 'The photo caused quite a stir on Facebook, but no one could really come up with any plausible explanation. 'Most people thought it was a reflection of the flowers below the window but the angles are all wrong.' 'It's hard to believe but it clearly looks like the face of an old man.' She denies claims the image has been doctored and after witnessing a number of ghostly goings on - including a clock falling off a wall - believes the house is haunted. 'I'm a self-confessed non-believer of ghosts but the picture coupled with a clock randomly falling off the wall and smashing to pieces that morning did creep me out,' she said. 'The clock was there when we moved in, so it hadn't fallen off due to a dodgy fixture we had put up. 'Another weird thing was that my friend saw a door handle move down and the door opened in the same room the face in the window was in.
'I was just so surprised because I thought someone was in the house. We also checked the attic to make sure no one was living up there. 'I can't really say what I think the face in the window is as I honestly don't know. 'I would like to say an odd reflection but it doesn't make sense, I am a very logical person but I cannot come up with a logical explanation for this photo, it's just spooky. 'And to be honest, I would rather not think about it as we already hear strange scratches in the walls, noises from upstairs and the lights flicker on and off to. 'You end up scaring yourself if you think about it too much.' Local historian Andrew Jones, 50, has done extensive research into Samuel Kent, the father of Constance Kent, who brutally murdered her three-year-old brother when she was 16 in the nearby village of Rode in 1860. He thinks the photograph of the shadowy ghoul, dubbed Old Man Kent, bears a striking resemblance to Samuel Kent, who died in 1872. Mr Jones, who is a caretaker at John of Gaunt School in Trowbridge, said: 'From looking at the photograph, to me it looks like Samuel Kent, father of Constance Kent, who committed an infamous murder in the area. 'There are a number of reported ghost sightings in Trowbridge but I have not come across any in North Bradley. 'I know Samuel lived and worked as a factory inspector in the area, so there's every chance it could be him.' Mr Kent was originally a suspect in the 1860 Rode Hill House murder, but his daughter, Constance, was arrested and eventually convicted of murdering his three-year-old son. The Rode Hill House murder case found fame again in recent years thanks to Kate Summerscale's award-winning book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The sighting comes after a spate of reports that ghosts have been popping up in photographs across the nation, most recently at Cannock Chase in the Midlands, where a black-eyed ghost child was caught on camera.
A TEAM of ghosthunters are to return to a haunted Lothians mansion after claiming they spotted a spooky woman with a broken back crawling along a main road
Lanarkshire Paranormal investigators say they spotted the injured woman – dressed all in black - on her hands and knees as she made her way along a road in Cockenzie, East Lothian.
But after being helped to her feet the ghostly apparition stood up straight, thanked them for their help and then promptly disappeared.
The mysterious encounter came as the ghostbusters visited Cockenzie House, in East Lothian, earlier this year.
And the team have been so impressed with the ghostly goings on at the 17th century mansion they are returning for further investigations next month.
During their last visit, the ghosthunters also say they had other-worldly contact with a man who murdered his wife after his affair was uncovered, heard screams from a young girl and one member received a punch on the arm from an angry spirit named Edward.
In a recent report on the team’s last visit to the spooky home in June, Steff Murdoch-Richards, co-manager of the group, was reported to have gone to the aid of a woman who was crawling on all fours along the main road outside the mansion house.
The report states: “As he helped her up she was very cold and pale and, although she was crawling on the floor in heavy rain, her dress seemed dry and no signs of mud.
“She had no weight to her whatsoever and seemed perfectly fine once she was standing up.
“Within a few moments of walking away, he turned round and she was gone.”
In a video posted on the ghosthunting outfit’s web page, Steff adds: “I started thinking ‘why was she in that position?’
“She was crawling on the floor and it looked like her arms and quite possibly her back had been broken - but there was no sign of that when she stood up.
“And then, obviously, where did she go?”
The spooky encounter came on a night when the investigators had spent several hours in the historic house with guests and encountered a range of paranormal activities.
In the basement, the spirit of a man called Richard who had stabbed his wife Mary after being confronted about having an affair was picked up some members.
Several people also reported sensing the presence of a young girl who had severely damaged her legs in a fall, while on the top floor of the property a number of different spirits were sensed.
The paranormal team is returning to Cockenzie House to further investigate the reported phenomena next month.
Has this ghost been busted? Owner of store where cabinets smash and pictures fall off wall thinks the spirit of a local tramp is doing the damage.
Glass cabinet left in empty, locked room smashed spontaneously
Children ran from antiques store screaming after pictures fell from walls
Owner called in ghost hunters to find out what was behind events
Spirit of tramp, who used to hang around the cemetery, could be culprit
When a glass door in an empty locked room shattered spontaneously and a painting mysteriously fell from a wall, workers at an antiques store were left both mystified and terrified. Children who saw the ghostly happenings ran away screaming and workers trawled through CCTV images for an explanation for what was happening, finding none. But now the 'ghost' behind the mysterious activity may have been rumbled as a specialist team of ghost hunters found that a tramp, who used to hang around an abandoned cemetery that the shop has been built on, could be haunting the shop and be responsible for the damage. They also believe a tramp, whose presence was felt in the antiques shop, could be responsible. The man who used to hang around in a graveyard that was situated where the store now is. Jenny Bryant, founder of GCUK said: 'There used to be a church there I'm told, and he used to hang around watching what was going on. 'We had a medium with us who told us about him. We don't know what his name was but we don't think he was nasty, he was just particularly nosy. 'He was interested in what was going on in the shop so he was making a lot of noise and throwing ornaments. 'She did however seem to think he was quite happy about the shop being turned into an antiques shop and so he was just trying to make that known. 'There were also some children picked up as well and they were the ones being particularly mischievous.' Ms Bryant added: 'Hauntings can happen at any of the day as Daniel has found on the CCTV. In this case they are coming out of the history of the objects he has in the shop. 'We went in one night after hearing what had happened in the shop. 'We set up all the cameras and equipment and took pictures while asking for things to make themselves known. 'We asked questions and got a huge response. This was much different to what normally happens. The paranormal events started last month when a glass cabinet smashed without warning in an empty room. Further examination of CCTV showed no-one was near the object when it spontaneously shattered all over the shop’s floor. Mr Parker, 42, said: 'I never really believed in ghostly things, but I can’t find any other explanation for what’s been happening. 'Since I’ve had people in who’ve described them as friendly ghosts, I’m not too worried and I think it adds some novelty and charm to the shop. 'They haven’t actually damaged anything so we’re just waiting for things to happen now, when the ghosts feel like being playful.' Mr Parker claims since the first incident in September he has heard children singing the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider as well as had pictures falling off the wall and statues spontaneously falling over. GCUK said they believed some of the paranormal events were taking place because they were connected to items in the store. Mr Parker has started buying antiques he thinks could attract further ghosts.
Watch eerie moment 'ghost' takes hold of woman's hand and writes letter.
Catherine Kennedy claims spirits take hold of her to send messages to loved ones they've left behind The is the chilling moment a ghost inhabits a woman’s pen and writes a letter from beyond the grave. Catherine Kennedy filmed herself in the Scottish guest house she shares with her husband, Antonio, to show people how she communicates with the dead. Holding a pen lightly, she claims spirits who are present at the time take control of it and share messages for loved ones they’ve left behind. “Whenever the spirits take the pen, my writing completely changes and my hand guides across the page,” Catherine explains.
“I just sit back and let them finish. It’s an incredible gift.” From the age of eight, Catherine experienced premonitions but said she was too young to understand what they meant." “I was only young and my neighbour suddenly popped into my head while I was playing in the garden,” Catherine says. “Days later, my mum told me he’d passed away. After that, it kept happening. I’d have visions of people I knew, then hear terrible news. It didn’t scare me, I’d always believed there was more to life than what we could see.” It wasn’t until Catherine was older that she realised the extent of her supernatural skills. “I was at home relaxing when I got a powerful urge to pick up a pen and paper,” Catherine says. “I asked if anyone was there and my hand started tingling. Then I watched in amazement as my wrist was guided across the paper.” Catherine didn’t stop until she’d written four pages. Stranger yet, it was in perfect Italian. “I speak a bit because Antonio is Italian but I don’t write in it,” Catherine says. “At first he didn’t believe me, but when he read the letters he said it was obvious it wasn’t me. He was amazed at my flawless translation.” Signed ‘Ivo’ at the end of the letter, Antonio knew exactly who’d come to say hello. “Ivo was one of his friends from Italy, who had died 10 years earlier,” Catherine says. She urged Antonio to try to speak to him too, and picking up the pen, Antonio felt the same force. “Ivo shared his experience of the afterlife but he swore us to secrecy,” Catherine says. “He also reminisced with Antonio about tearing around in their teens and Antonio riding on the back of his scooter.”
For the next 12 years, Ivo communicated on and off. “Antonio once saw him on the stairs and it nearly frightened the life out of him,” Catherine says. “After that we came up with a system. Ivo would let us know when he wanted to talk by moving a hat from one side of the wardrobe to the other.” In time, Catherine felt comfortable confessing their secret to those closest to them. Friends and family were fascinated and starting asking if she could contact their loved ones who had passed. “One pal asked me to see who would come through for her. I started writing and couldn’t believe what I read on the page,” Catherine laughed. “It said ‘Yes we have no bananas.’ I thought I can’t show her that, it’s nonsense. But her jaw dropped. It was her dad’s writing and he always used to sing the silly song with that name. “With those few words, she knew her dad was watching over her.” Using her gift, Catherine has helped hundreds of people receive messages from the other side. This year, she published a book filled with their stories. “I know some people won’t believe me, but I’m helping these spirits stay alive on the page,” she says.
Firefighter captures ghost on camera before battling house fire in Indiana.
A firefighter may have captured proof of the paranormal after he took some photos of a burning house. When he posted the images on his Facebook page, his wife noticed a strange shadowy figure engulfed in flames in one of the windows of the home.
Firefighter Douglas Tipold was called to a house fire in Gary, Indiana and when he arrived he took some photos of the property. As Tipold was waiting for his partners to unravel a hose he snapped a few shots of the burning house with the camera on his cell phone to document the scene. Later that night Tipold's wife Donna noticed something strange in one of the photos after he posted it to his Facebook page. "This is a photo taken from my husband's camera phone. He doesn't know how to photo crop. I only believed it when I looked it up myself on his phone. The picture you see is exactly how the picture was taken. I still don't believe in this stuff, but I will say it is pretty creepy!" Donna Tipold said in a comment on Facebook.
In the photo, an eerie dark figure can be seen in the left window of the house and it is engulfed in flames. A ghost of a child can be seen in the doorway of the home.
Paranormal investigators from the Illinois Paranormal Research Association believe that the photo is original and has not been doctored. According to Tipold, the original image is still in his cell phone.
What exactly is the eerie figure in the photo? Is it a hoax? Could it actually be a shadow figure or a ghost? Sound off with opinions in the comment section below.
