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Ghost of Lady Di video

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Lady Di's ghost

Lady Di's ghost

Ghost of Lady Di video

A tourist exploring and videotaping a church in Glasgow, Scotland believes he may have captured the ghostly image of the late Lady Diana high in one of the church's stained glass windows.
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Yes, there's a vague resemblance of the image in the window to portraits we've seen of Lady Diana Spencer. In this pose, it looks as though the Princess is wearing a tiara.

But that's about as far as this video goes. The image doesn't move, as you might expect a ghost would do in a video. We do not get a clear, sharp, close shot of that part of the window, so we don't really know what the image in the glass really is. It could be the image of a woman, such as the Madonna or a female saint. Or it could be some other image that in this instance just happens to take on the appearance of a woman's head. (If anyone can find a photograph of what this window really looks like in close-up, please send it along.)

As it is, however, I think we have to judge this one as pure pareidolia -- an optical illusion -- and not a ghost.

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