Don't turn out the light! Terrifying photos of ghosts that will keep you up at night.
These are the things that go bump in the night.
From murdered slaves to tortured hospital patients to forgotten sailors,
ghost stories will
send a shiver down most people's spines.
But this collection of images will call into question everything you
think you know about
the spirit world... and how easy it may be to cross
back over from the 'other side'.
Paranormal investigators have spent decades painstakingly researching
each photograph,
debunking some and failing to disprove others.
(Taken at Corroboree Rock at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
in 1959,
this photograph appears to show a woman holding her hands
toward her face, peering out
into the distance.)
(Locals of Quezon City, Philippines, steer clear of Balete Drive at
night. They say a woman in white with long black hair, her face covered
in blood, stands in the centre of the road. Drivers pack their backseat
with passengers because if there is one empty seat, an uninvited guest
just might take it.)
(This woman was visiting the Fleet Air Arm Centre in Yelverton, Somerset,
in 1987. Posing for the photo, she said she felt strangely cold, though
it was a hot day. She also claims she was the only one in the
aircraft... so who is that sitting to her right?)
(Chloe was a slave at the house on a plantation in St Francisville,
Louisiana. After being caught snooping on her master's private
conversation, he cut off her ear. Seeking revenge, Chloe baked a cake
out of toxic oleander leaves, intended for her cruel boss. When his wife
and daughters ate it instead, she fled but was lynched by fellow
slaves. She still haunts the plantation to this day.)
Take the tale of the white lady of the Philippines.
Locals of Quezon City steer clear of Balete Drive at night as they say
that a woman in
white with long black tresses, face covered in blood,
stands in the centre of the road,
staring at oncoming vehicles.
Drivers try to avoid the street at all costs - but if they must pass,
they pack their backseat
with passengers because if there is one empty
seat, an uninvited guest just might take it.
In photographs, she appears as a bright, white light in the road, legs barely visible.
Or consider the story of Chloe the inquisitive slave.
Chloe lived at the house of Myrtle's Plantation in St Francisville, Louisiana.
She would often listen in on conversations she wasn't supposed to, snooping in on her
master's private talks.
One afternoon, Chloe was caught. According to legend, her master cut off her ear as
punishment.
For revenge, Chloe baked a cake out of oleander leaves, which are poisonous.
She wanted her cruel master to taste it, but his wife and daughters beat him to it.
She
fled the house, but was lynched by her fellow slaves. She still haunts
the plantation
to this day, listening in on the conversations of its
visitors.
Chloe can sometimes be seen hiding behind the doors, columns, or bushes on the
residence.
(This picture was taken in February 2002 of what used to be a local
general store. It appears the building has attracted some shoppers from
the other realm as well.)
(This early 20th century snap of a bureau was taken at the request of
a furniture dealer by Montague Cooper, a well-respected photographer of
the day. It appears he was so good, even a ghost wanted to pose.for him.)
(The Pink Lady of Greencastle, Indiana, was discovered by ghost hunter
Guy Winters when he
went with a friend to photograph the woman who
haunts the O'Hare Mansion.)
(This photograph was taken during the American Civil War. A ghost,
believed to be that of a dead soldier, was captured walking up these
stairs in a basement.)
But not all ghosts have been scorned.
An Australian
woman named Mrs Andrews was visiting the grave of her daughter in a
cemetery in Queensland, in the 1940s when she took a photo.
Her
daughter Joyce had died the year before at the age of 17. She was
shocked to find a
child in the photo that she did not recognise sitting
on top of the grave.
Australian paranormal researcher Tony Healy visited the cemetery in the late 1990s to find
out what had happened.
He found that near Joyce's grave, two infant girls were buried.
(Diane and Peter Berthelot visited Worstead Church in Norfolk in 1975.
Peter snapped a photo of his wife praying silently in the pew. They
didn't realise until later that she was not alone.)
Diane and Peter Berthelot visited Worstead Church in Norfolk in 1975 with their 12-year-
old son.
Peter snapped a photo of his wife praying silently in the pew.
When they looked at the photos a few months later, a friend asked 'Who's that sitting behind
you, Di?'
The mysterious figure appeared to be dressed in old-fashioned clothing, including a bonnet, according to About.com.
Confused and confounded, the couple returned to the church the next year to share their
photograph.
The church vicar, Reverend Pettit, told the Berthelots the legend of the White Lady.
The ghost, Reverend Pettit said, was known to visit people who had fallen ill, offering them
comfort and healing them.
Diane was shocked because when the photo was taken, she was taking antibiotics and was
not doing well.
The
legends of the White Lady date back more than 100 years. She is said to
appear on
Christmas Eve every year and the church in which she once
dwelled is now an aptly
named pub: The White Lady.
(Robert A. Ferguson, author of Psychic Telemetry, was speaking in Los
Angeles,
California, on November 16, 1968. He believed his brother
Walter, who died in
1944 during World War II, was standing beside him.)
(Mrs Andrews took this picture while visiting her daughter's grave in
Queensland, Australia in the 1940s. Her child Joyce had died the year
before aged 17. She was shocked to find a young stranger sitting on the
grave. When paranormal researcher Tony Healy visited the cemetery in the
1990s, he found that near Joyce's grave, two infant girls were buried.)
(In 1924, the SS Watertown was en route to the Panama Canal from New York
City when James Courtney and Michael Meehan were killed by gas fumes in
a freak accident while cleaning a cargo tank. Soon after, crew members
saw two faces in the water following the ship.)
Some of the photographs have been researched for decades, with paranormal aficionados
looking into their origins.
In 1924, for example, the SS Watertown was en route to the Panama Canal from New York
City.
James Courtney and Michael Meehan were killed by gas fumes in a freak accident while
cleaning a cargo tank.
In the days following their deaths, crew members began reporting seeing two faces in the
water following the ship.
The
captain snapped several photographs of the water where their faces
appeared and of
five, one appeared to contain the apparitions.
(This photograph was taken hours before this dying man's last breath.
Three mysterious orbs appeared in the images, which some believe to be
spirits and others swear are fingerprint smudges.)
Blake Smith looked into the history of the image after it frightened him in elementary
school.
He
says the story originated with the oil company Cities Service (CITGO)
who were the
owners of the Watertown. The first publication of the image
was in the in-house magazine
Service in 1934, Mr Black says.
He found another paranormal investigator's research, which included information about
how the captain's film was developed.
A commercial photographer in New York apparently took hold of the film once the ship
docked.
Mr Blake consulted Joe Nickell, investigator with the Centre for Inquiry about his
opinion.
(Two men are seen working on renovations for this old and 'empty'
hospital in 1918 - but on the far left balcony, they're not alone.)
'That picture has a suspiciously hard edge to the (viewer’s) left
side of the face on the left,
and this ruler-straight line (the edge of
a rope) extends all the way to the top of the (cropped)
picture. This
looks like some form of photographic skulduggery (indicative of cutting
and
pasting, or possibly masking in conjunction with an airbrush).'
Despite his findings, he believes that one of the ghost faces may be real, the second added
for effect.
'The photo does date from a time when bogus spirit photos were commonly produced,' he
admits.
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Article Courtesy of
The Mail Online
Photographs Courtesy of
Fortean Picture Library
The Society of Psychical Research
Mantague Cooper
You Tube
Peter Berthelot
Robert A Ferguson
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