You just can't escape it, there is talk of ghosts all over the internet. I think the internet is great, but as great as it is, it is also just as bad. In between, it is full of information. My experience has shown that most of the information is right but, some of it is wrong. Depending on what type of information we are looking for, we will either believe what we read, disbelieve it, or take it with the proverbial grain of salt. When it comes to ghosts, their photos and information about them, as far as I am concerned, I take the information as fun. There is so much of it that one could write thousands of pages on the subject without ever scratching the surface. Don't worry, I have no intention of writing even tens of pages on the subject, it will be my usual one page for a quick read. I have had people ask me to write longer articles and I have written one or two, but I think that most of you enjoy a one page article more, since you can read it quickly and be on your way. I know that this is a busy world and there is much to do. I found some photos that are said to be in the public domain that I thought you might also enjoy.

Brown Lady

There is a female ghost that has been photographed, that has become somewhat of an icon since the internet has come into being. She is known as the brown lady. Many people state that this photograph is the best ghost photo ever taken, I will let you decide this. When she was alive, she was Lady Dorothy Townshend and she was married to Charles Townshend. He was the second Viscount of Raynham and lived in Raynham Hall in Norfolk, in England. Raynham Hall is famous today because of its hauntings. Raynham Hall is a pretty big place. It is a twenty room mansion that is now a museum. Here is a strange thing, since the photo was taken of the ghost coming down the stairs, there have been no reports of it having been seen again. It was said that Lady Dorothy Townshend was the mistress of Lord Wharton, another blue blood of the time. Some say that her death in 1726 was faked and a mock funeral was held. Why would anyone do this? The story goes on to say, that the reason for the false burial was that the Viscount didn't want anyone to know that he had locked her up in the basement. Wow what a nice guy! Others say that he was more liberal and only confined her to the house. This seems to be incorrect to me, because it would indicate that others would have know she was alive, including the servants. In any case, this is why she is said to haunt the house, because she never got over her confinement.

There is another famous photo of a man sitting in his car, with a ghostly figure of his deceased mother-in-law in the back seat. You can't help but notice that the steering wheel of the auto is on, what I call, the British side. It is hard to tell, but the auto seems to be from the late 1950s or early 1960s, but I certainly could be wrong about that. Someone said to me that it was bad enough that you have to be saddled with a live mother-in-law, but then having to have a dead one haunt you is just too much. Hey, all you mother-in-laws out there, I didn't say that, I was just quoting someone else. Notice that she is wearing glasses. You would think that you didn't need these things in the hereafter, wouldn't you? It was said that the man in the auto had brought his wife to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave and she decided to snap a photo of her husband and that is where this photo comes from. The photo was examined by an expert or claimed that it was not a double exposure and not a reflection.

I guess when it comes to anything, we all have favorites and ghost photographs are not any different. I actually like one that I feel is very intriguing. What makes it so interesting is that it is a photo of a World War I squadron that was taken of everyone in it. That, in itself, is not interesting, but the fact that a deceased member of the squadron appears in the photo is what I find so interesting. The photo was said to have been taken two days after this poor mechanic died in an accident. Some might say, that maybe the date of the photo is wrong and that it was actually taken before he died, which would make the photo no fun at all, but many have researched the date and swear that it was actually taken after his death. I can't prove anything either way since I really don't have the time to look into it that deep, being just a one man operation here, but I will go with the flow. By the way, the photo is from 1919 and is of a R.A.F. group. The deceased man was Freddy Jackson. It seems he walked into a spinning propeller, ouch! He is standing in the top row, fourth from the left and a blowup of him is on the left.