"THE BEST GHOST PHOTOS EVER TAKEN - PART 2" > Page 1, 2, 3
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The Ghost
in the Burning Building
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.
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Ghosts of
the SS Watertown
James
Courtney and Michael Meehan, crew members of the S.S. Watertown, were
cleaning a cargo tank of the oil tanker as it sailed toward the Panama Canal
from New York City in December of 1924. Through a freak accident, the two men
were overcome by gas fumes and killed. As was the custom of the time, the
sailors were buried at sea off the Mexican coast on December 4.
But this was not the last the remaining crew members were to see of their unfortunate shipmates. The next day, before dusk, the first mate reported seeing the faces of the two men in the waves off the port side of the ship. They remained in the water for 10 seconds, then faded. For several days thereafter, the phantom-like faces of the sailors were clearly seen by other members of the crew in the water following the ship. On arrival in New Orleans, the ship's captain, Keith Tracy, reported the strange events to his employers, the Cities Service Company, who suggested he try to photograph the eerie faces. Captain Tracy purchased a camera for the continuing voyage. When the faces again appeared in the water, Captain Tracy took six photos, then locked the camera and film in the ship's safe. When the film was processed by a commercial developer in New York, five of the exposures showed nothing but sea foam. But the sixth showed the ghostly faces of the doomed seamen. The negative was checked for fakery by the Burns Detective Agency. After the ship's crew had been changed, there were no more reports of sightings.
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