The craving for humanity to the mysterious and mysterious is inexhaustible, which is why photographs are so valuable that the photographer was able to capture something inexplicable or something that was not in his field of vision when the lens clicked.
Ghosts, ghosts, the souls of the deceased - all these inexplicable phenomena, although quite rare, but sometimes sometimes somehow incredibly get into the camera lens, although at the time of shooting they are not noticed. Skeptics will say that this is just a defect of the film, if it is a question of old cameras, or a failure in the program, if the picture is taken on a digital camera. Who knows, perhaps the origin of some images does have such a trivial explanation, but the reliability of others is confirmed by experts. Consider some of the most interesting pictures taken at different times in different places.
Contrary to the popular belief that ghosts appear only at night, almost all the photographs presented are done in the daytime. In addition, ghosts do not necessarily have to live in the enclosed space of old mansions - as you can see, they are also found in the bosom of nature.
1. A woman on a stone
So, the first on our list is a picture of a sitting woman, as if basking in the sun. All would be nothing, but only this woman is translucent and she sits on the gravestone of the abandoned cemetery of Bashelor near Chicago (Illinois), which has the notoriety of a fatal place. Moreover, according to the photographer, no woman at all was nearby, when he took this picture in 1991.
Cemetery Bashelor is widely known in the US for its paranormal activity. In addition to the sitting woman, eyewitnesses watched mysterious glowing balls floating in the air; A black dog disappearing as it approaches; Madonna and Child, floating between the old graves on the full moon; a ghostly house, which suddenly appears for a while, flickering, floating in space, and then dissolving in the air; monks wandering around the cemetery, and a number of unexplained phenomena.
2. A Woman with Binoculars
This photo was taken in the Corobori Rock natural reserve near the Australian city of Alice Springs in 1959. Transparent woman, as it were, is going to watch something through binoculars. The picture was examined by skeptical experts, who, however, could neither refute nor prove the authenticity of the photograph. In the place depicted in the picture, Aborigines in the past conducted their eerie rites, but during the shooting there was no human activity.
3. Mysterious man
This picture was taken during a picnic in 1997 by the granddaughter of an elderly woman. After the death of my grandmother three years later, the author of the photo, reviewing the pictures, noticed something strange: she suddenly noticed a mysterious man who was not at a picnic. But the most incredible thing is that he was strikingly reminiscent of her grandfather, the deceased husband of a woman, portrayed in a photo portrait, who died in 1984. If you look at the picture of a man, the similarity is obvious.
4. The girl and the astronaut
In 1964, while resting in nature in Burg Marsh, England, his father took several photographs of his five-year-old daughter, and in one of the pictures he noticed a mysterious figure in light robes resembling a spacesuit behind the girl. The man claims that apart from them with his daughter nearby there was no one who could go unnoticed into the frame. With the development of the film, Kodak experts confirmed the authenticity of the photo. Who it was in fact and whether it is possible that the photographer did not notice the mother of the girl, who could accidentally get into the frame, the experts did not find out. The picture, however, got into the newspapers and became very popular and loved among ufologists, and the mysterious figure was called the Solway-Firth or Cumberland cosmonaut by the name of the area where the photograph was taken.
5. The girl at the conflagration
On November 19, 1995, the massive building of Wam Town Hall in Shropshire, England, was engulfed by a powerful flame that completely destroyed its interior. Photographer Tony O'Reilly arrived at the fire site to take a few pictures of the burning building. To his surprise, with the development of one black and white photograph, he found the figure of a girl standing near one of the entrances. The locals suggested that it might be the ghost of Jane Cern, a girl who was accused of arson in 1677.
6. Ghost of Reinem Hall - a woman in brown
England, with its rich history and well-known adherence to traditions, has a vast amount of evidence of paranormal activity, especially associated with ancient mansions, palaces and castles. However, there are not so many photographs that captured the ghost. Perhaps the most famous ghost in Britain is a woman in brown, a picture of which, according to the photographers of the magazine Country Life, was made by them in 1936. This name was given to the ghost by the brocade brown dress in which the woman walked about in the estate.
According to legend, the ghost of Reinem Hall is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole (1686-1726), the sister of Robert Walpole, who is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Lady Walpole was the second wife of Charles Townshend, who was explosive in character. Viscount Townshend allegedly learned of the betrayal of his wife with the famous Lovelace Lord Wharton, for which he locked her in the estate for the rest of her life. In 1726, Lady Walpole died of smallpox.
For the first time, the ghost of a woman dressed in an old-fashioned brown brocade dress appeared at Rheinam Hall a hundred years later, in 1835, and for the next century frightened the inhabitants and guests of the estate from time to time. In September 1936 the photographer of the magazine Country Life with his assistant arrived at the estate to take a few pictures of the interior of the mansion for the article. According to them, after taking a picture of the main staircase, they were going to take it down again, when suddenly the air over the steps thickened, forming something resembling the outline of a woman who slowly began to descend to the photographers, but they did not lose their heads and quickly filmed a mysterious figure, making a ghost woman in Brown is the most famous English ghost.
7. The Phantom of the Wife of King Henry VIII
One of the last pictures of the lost soul, made in the English royal palace Hampton Court in 2015, is a photograph of one of the wives of the most odious English King Henry VIII, who, as is known, treated quite severely with his numerous wives.
The history of the picture is as follows. The driver of the tourist bus, delivering his clients to the palace and park complex of Hampton Court, walked through the halls of the palace in anticipation of a return flight, and, having seized the moment when there was nobody in the hall, took a photograph of the majestic marble staircase. At first he did not notice anything unusual, only when he returned home, he showed the picture to a friend who noticed a figure at the top of the stairs and asked who this girl was. Then the author of the photo appealed to the security service of the palace, which confirmed that in the same place a mysterious female figure was recorded by one of the surveillance cameras.
Given the five-hundred-year history of Hampton Court and the numerous evidences of ghosts wandering around the myriad rooms, the captured ghost (if it really is) may be the ghost of one of Henry VIII's wives: either Catherine Howard imprisoned in the palace until her execution at the age of 21 she was beheaded, without unfair accusation of adultery), or Jane Seymour - the beloved wife of the king, who died of the fever soon after the birth of the heir - the future King Edward VI. The ghosts of these two women most often appear in the palace.
8. The Phantom of King Henry VIII himself
In Hampton Court there are not only the ghosts of the wives of Henry VIII. The camera of outdoor observation once fixed a figure in ancient clothes, which appeared on the threshold of one of the exits. Presumably it was the ghost of the king himself.
9. The Amityville Horror
November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald Defeo broke into the bar "Wu Henry" in Amityville (Long Island, New York) with a howl that his parents were killed. In the house of the Defoe family, the police found six dead bodies: Ronald's parents, four of his younger brothers and sisters were shot in their beds face down. Ronald said that he had been at work all day, and when he returned, he found that his family had been killed. However, after in his room was found a 35-mm rifle Marlin 336C, from which the victims were shot, he confessed to the murder, which he committed the day before, about half past four in the morning. After a lengthy process in which Ronald Defeo was found to be sane, he was charged with second-degree murder and was sentenced to six prison terms of 25 years.
Nevertheless, in this crime there were many inconsistencies and blank spots. So it remained unclear how one person could commit all five murders, why none of the members of the family woke up and tried to defend themselves, why they all lay in one position - on their stomachs face down (experts found out that the bodies did not move), and why no one heard rifle shots, although there are other houses in the neighborhood (it was established that the muffler was not used). All this, as well as Ronald's statement about the mysterious voices he heard 28 days before the murder, was the reason for some researchers of the paranormal phenomena to consider what happened as a result of the influence of otherworldly forces.
On December 18, 1975, 13 months after the tragedy, George and Catherine Lutz bought a house in the Dutch colonial style where DeFeo lived. They could not even imagine that they would live only 28 days in the house.
While new tenants unpacked things, a Catholic priest came to them to light up the house. The priest ascended the stairs to the second floor, entered the former bedroom of the defeated brothers Defeo and began to sprinkle the room with holy water when he heard "Get out!", Said unknown by whom. The priest hastened to leave the house, without telling the new owners what he had heard. He only warned them not to make a bedroom from the upper room. A little puzzled, the new tenants decided to follow the advice.
From the very first day in the house, the life of the Lutz family began to change for the worse. The head of the family was always cold, although the fireplace did not stop drowning, the couple became increasingly unwell, and their little daughter spent all the time in her room playing with an imaginary friend, although she had never been followed. Then on the walls began to appear or disappear dark spots, in the room on the second floor hundreds of flies flew, although the window was winter, and the owner of the house began to wake up every night at exactly 3:15, which coincided with the established time of the murder of Defoe. Waking up one day, George was horrified to see his wife, who turned, as it seemed, into an old woman. Another time he imagined that she was hovering over the bed. When, one night, suddenly claps and mysterious noise began to be heard in the house, and the pieces of furniture began to move, the Lutz family, having collected the essentials, left the house in a hurry, having moved to the neighboring city to mother Katherine.
Twenty days later, exploring the paranormal activity of the house arrived popular in those years, ghost hunters Ed and Lauren Warren, accompanied by TV journalist Marvin Scott. During the study, parapsychologists, they claimed, were exposed to multiple exposures to ghosts, which they often pushed in the back and were in the form of corpses of dead victims. During the filming of the interior, one of the photographs revealed a ghost of a boy resembling the youngest of the defeated brothers Defeo.
Digging into the archives, the parapsychologists also established that on the land plot of the house built in 1924, formerly housed the cottage of John Ketchum, who was actively practicing black magic and by will was buried next to his house. Even earlier on this land was a house in which the Indians kept the sick and the crazy, who remained in this place until death. Thus, Ed and Lauren Warren suggested that a place with such an eerie story became like a magnet attracting otherworldly forces that played a tragic role in the death of old and terrorized new residents.
One can only wonder how true this story is and whether it was all an invention of the lawyer Ronald Defeo in order to justify his client. The facts are that after 1975 there was no paranormal activity in the house, and the last owners bought it in 2010 for $ 950 thousand.
Based on the family history of Lutz in 1977, the book "The Horror of Amityville" was written and two films of the same name were shot - in 1979 and 2005.