Ghosts & Poltergeists

This picture is of Reverand charles Cook, he was a skeptic and did not believe in ghosts until he seen the picture, which was developed under his supervision. the photo was developed by Ed Wyllie, and Cook said that Wyllie had no oppurtinity to doctor the photo. Also Cook believed the face in the photo was that of Flora Louden one of his college classmates from 1866 and she had died in Ohio in 1873. Cook said the the flower, the heart and the cross were symbols which had private meaning in his relationship with Louden.

The Brown Lady of Raynham: The story behind this picture is that the spirit is Dorothy Walpoles, who once lived in the Manor in Norfolk in England. The spirit was first seen by a house guest in 1835. The guest claimed to see a woman in a brown satin dress, and her eyes had been gouged out. The Brown Lady was reported several times after this sighting.

'The Crewe Circle' The Crewe Circle were a group of early 1920's spiritualists. They followed in William mumlers tracks of spirit photography and they had a reputation of producing genuine undoctored photos. It turned out that their photos were frauds and they used special film plates. They were exposed by Harry Houdini in his book, A magician Among the Spirits.

The Toys R Us ghost: This photo was taken by a thermal imaging camera during an investigation in a Toys r Us store in California. The man leaning against the wall on the left was only visible in the photograph and could not be seen by any of the police officers in the store.

The S.S Watertown: An accident at sea in December 1924 took the lives of two crewmen of the S.S Watertown, James courtney and Michael Meehan. They choked from toxic fumes in the cargo tank and they were buried at sea. The next day the captain and crew of the watertown said they saw two faces appear in the water trailing behind the ship. The captain took six pictures of the faces and when developed only one showed the faces. The other five just showed waves