Ghost Children ghost Photo.
I would like to share one of my ghost experiences, along with a photo that most people agree shows the image of two ghost children.
While wandering through the halls one day, snapping pictures and studying some of the musty items left behind, I entered a room right inside the foyer on the first floor. I had taken many shots of the porch outside, because I found it to an interesting subject - a decayed, overgrown columned porch, where a lone wooden chair sat in front of the two old wooden doors...It had always intrigued me. Anyway, alone in this room, I began to notice a sharp drop in temperature. About the same time, I got the distinct feeling that I was being watched. Since my friends were on the third floor, inspecting some old, musty documents we found there, I knew that I should have been alone. We had also already toured the entire building, and I knew we were the only people there.
This feeling didn't scare me as much as it excited me - I have had several other experiences since childhood with what I have always believed were ghosts. I stayed there, listening for any sounds that might indicate someone or something was there, but I heard nothing. Soon, the cold dissipated, and the feeling was gone.
When we left, I snapped a shot that porch, to add to the others I had already taken at different times of the year. When I got home, I was stunned by the image of it that appeared on my computer - in the window of the door on the right hand side of the porch, there seemed to be a vivid apparition of a little girl and boy, staring right back at me from inside that cold room!
Most people I know have seen this image, and they all agree that they can see these children, through whom can be seen the wooden cross-pieces of the windows. The girl is closest to the center, and the boy is standing just behind her. I imagine them to be either two young siblings, perhaps the children of a doctor, or even patients of the hospital. Whoever they might be, they appear to be forever caught in spirit inside this damp, lonely old building...
Included in this email are two images - the original, and a close up of that same shot. Other than the zoom in, the pictures have not been altered in any way. I have since taken numerous shots of this porch from the outside, from many different angles and in various lighting conditions. I have not been able to reproduce the same result. SInce the building has since been secured by the maintenance workers, I have not returned to go inside.
On November 19, 1995, Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England burned to the ground. Many spectators gathered to watch the old building, built in 1905, as it was being consumed by the flames. Tony O'Rahilly, a local resident, was one of those onlookers and took photos of the spectacle with a 200mm telephoto lens from across the street. One of those photos shows what looks like a small, partially transparent girl standing in the doorway. Nether O'Rahilly nor any of the other onlookers or firefighters recalled seeing the girl there.
O'Rahilly submitted the photo to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena which, in turn, presented it for analysis to Dr. Vernon Harrison, a photographic expert and former president of the Royal Photographic Society. Harrison carefully examined both the print and the original negative, and concluded that it was genuine. "The negative is a straightforward piece of black-and-white work and shows no sign of having been tampered with," Harrison said.
But who is the little girl? Wem, a quiet market town in northern Shropshire, had been ravaged by fire in the past. In 1677, historical records note, a fire destroyed many of the town's old timber houses. A young girl named Jane Churm, the legends say, accidentally set fire to a thatched roof with a candle. Many believed her ghost haunted the area and had been seen on a few other occasions.
"I know there was no other person in this photograph when I shot it," Clanton insists. And he believes the small figure in the background is holding a knife. "We thought this was a tie at first, but after further review, it appears to be a knife," Clanton says. "The knife is in a vertical position; the tip is located just below the figure's right collar. If you're not convinced that something is weird here, look at my friend's shadow in the photo. It appears to be going back slightly to the right of him. The figure in the back should have the same shadow, but it doesn't!"
