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These Are The Best Ghost Photographs Ever Taken

[tps_title]The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall[/tps_title] The-Brown-Lady-of-Raynham-Hall-urban-legends-234828_1020_1336 in September, 1936 Captain Provand and Indre Shira were assigned to photograph Raynham Hall a magazine article. According to Indre Shira this is how they ended up with one of the most famous ghost photographs of all time:

Captain Provand took one photograph while I flashed the light. He was focusing for another exposure; I was standing by his side just behind the camera with the flashlight pistol in my hand, looking directly up the staircase. All at once I detected an ethereal veiled form coming slowly down the stairs. Rather excitedly, I called out sharply: ‘Quick, quick, there’s something.’ I pressed the trigger of the flashlight pistol. After the flash and on closing the shutter, Captain Provand removed the focusing cloth from his head and turning to me said: ‘What’s all the excitement about?'”

Legend says the “Brown Lady of Raynham Hall” is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole (1686–1726) who was locked away in a remote corner of the house by her husband who suspected her of infidelity.