The topic of the existence of ghosts can be approached in different ways. But in the history of photography there is a lot of evidence confirming the existence of a parallel world. Today, on the eve of Halloween, we are publishing a selection of 12 mysterious photographs.

This shot was taken at the family estate of the Marquesses of Townshed, Raynham, in 1936 by photographers Captain Provand and Endre Shira. According to his surviving memories, Endre noticed something like a cloud on the stairs and hurried to take a photo. The resulting photograph was published in Country Life magazine in December 1936 and was recognized as real evidence of the existence of ghosts.

Photo by Captain Provand and Endre Shira

It should be noted that the photographers arrived at the scene specifically on the instructions of the magazine “Country Life”, because many people had seen this incomprehensible figure very often. It is generally believed that this is the ghost of Lady Dorothy Townshed, wife of Charles Townshed, who lived on the estate in the early 18th century. According to neighbors, due to suspicions of treason, Charles imprisoned his wife in the farthest corner of the house, where she remained until the end of her days. The spirit of a woman in a brown dress was seen not far from the estate by other eyewitnesses.

This photograph was taken in the library of Combermere Priory by Cybell Corbet. It is believed that the image captures the ghost of Lord Combermere, a British cavalry commander who distinguished himself in several military campaigns and died due to being hit by an overturned horse-drawn carriage.

Photo by Cybell Corbet

During the filming, which took about four hours, his funeral was taking place. It is believed that the photo shows one of the employees, but, according to Lord's relatives, at that moment everyone was attending a funeral four miles from this place.

The author of the photo, former clergyman Ralph Hardy, wanted to take some shots of the unusual spiral staircase in the Queen's House section of the museum. After developing the photographs for a while, the photographer noticed the vague outlines of a human figure holding onto the railing.

Photo by Ralph Hardy

The photo attracted the attention of experts, including specialists from the Kodak company. After carefully examining the negatives, they came to the conclusion that the image was real. On this staircase people are still often seen, footsteps and voices are heard, and even traces of blood are found. According to surviving evidence, a maid was thrown from this staircase about 300 years ago.

The photo was taken by Ghost Research Society expert Marie Huff while exploring the abandoned Grove Cemetery on the edge of a forest in suburban Chicago, which is considered one of America's "favorite" haunted haunts with more than a hundred evidence of unexplained phenomena. Ghostly figures are seen in the cemetery, strange sounds are heard and shiny balls are seen.

Photo by Marie Huff

At the time of filming, only employees of the organization were in the cemetery. After development, the silhouette of a lonely woman in a funeral shroud, sitting on a tombstone, was noticed in the photograph. Local residents say that this female silhouette and other ghosts in monastic robes are often seen here.

Photo taken by Terry Ike Clanton while photographing his friend in a cemetery. The friends wanted to take a black and white photograph in the style of the Wild West, and during the shooting they did not notice anything strange.

Photo by Terry Icom Clanton

But in the printed photograph, Clanton noticed the figure of a man in a hat, who either appeared from the ground, or was kneeling and holding something similar to a knife in his hands. What is also strange, according to the photographer, is that the stranger does not cast a shadow.

This photo was taken by the owner of the house Tony O'Reilly using his mobile phone during the fire. In the photograph, in the middle of the fire, in the doorway we see the figure of a little girl. The authenticity of the original was proven by experts.

Photo by Tony O'Reilly

According to historical data, in 1677 the castle already survived a fire, which began due to the fault of 14-year-old Jane Charm, who accidentally knocked over a candle into a haystack. The girl died, and her ghost is still seen in the castle.

After examining this photograph by an unknown author, the author of the book “Real Ghosts,” Brad Steiger, concluded that there could be no one in the church at the time of shooting. The shadowy figure resembles a priest and is said to appear regularly in the area.

Photo by Lord Revernd

The picture was taken in the ancient church in Neuby in 1963 by Lord Revernd. A 9-foot-tall ghost was spotted while developing film. Experts confirmed that the photograph was not subject to any manipulation. According to eyewitnesses, the strange figure of a monk appears here quite often.

Ghost in St. Botolph's Church, London, 1982

Photo by Chris Brackley

This ghostly figure of a woman was photographed by Chris Brackley in a church. In reality, he did not see anything suspicious; at the time of filming, there were three people in the room, and none of them went up to the attic. After studying the photographs, experts recognized the face of the ghost as a recently deceased person.

Ghost of a Child in a Cemetery, Queensland, Australia, 1946

The photo belongs to Mrs. Andrews, who came to the cemetery to visit her daughter Joyce, who died at the age of 17, and decided to photograph the gravestone.

Photo by Mrs. Andrews

Nothing extraordinary happened during filming. And after developing the film, the woman saw in the photograph a smiling baby looking straight into the camera. According to Mrs. Andrews, this child cannot be the ghost of her daughter.

The photo was taken by an unknown bank employee in a church in an English town in Kent. An elderly man with his arms folded on his chest is standing somewhere near the bench. With his appearance, he resembles the late vicar, whose ghost is seen in the church very often.

Ghost Traveler, Australia, 1959

The strange figure in the photograph is holding what appears to be a camera. In the process of analyzing the frame taken on film, experts came to the conclusion that the captured figure could not be the result of a double exposure of a real person.

Photos of ghosts and their revelations

There are many “ghost” photo collections floating around the internet. The earliest of these photographs caused a sensation in the 19th century, but in our time, people accustomed to Photoshop masters and more sophisticated fakes can only laugh at such photos. However, progress does not stand still, and with the development of the art of photography, falsifications are becoming more and more complex.

Ghost girl

In this photo, even without the arrow, you can see that there is a translucent girl hiding behind the baby. However, due to the fact that the baby has already acquired an anatomical addition in the form of an awl, he himself is partially translucent. Such photographs occur if you shoot with too long a shutter speed. During the time the shutter clicks, the baby manages to change his position a couple of times, and a completely alive and healthy girl can get in and out.

Monster in the forest

The human brain is designed in such a way that, having encountered familiar outlines, it completely independently draws the rest in order to see a familiar image. It is thanks to this phenomenon that people often find that, say, peeling plaster reminds them of their late grandmother. This is exactly the principle that works in this photo, plus, obviously, a minimum of retouching in Photoshop.

Ghost in the Mirror

The ghost, if it exists, will be translucent - everyone will agree with this. But if it is translucent, that means light is passing through it. And since the light passes through, how can such a ghost be reflected in the mirror? The ghost cannot. But an opaque person, standing in a certain place, can easily be reflected in the mirror without getting into the frame - as can be seen in this photo.

Night phantom

There are three people in this photo, and they are all alive. It's just night, the shutter speed is long, and one of them is moving too much. It is quite possible that this is the baby from the first photo, who has already grown up and even had his photo taken with his school friends.

The Ghost of Raynham Hall

This is one of the most famous photographs of the ghost. For quite a long time it was considered irrefutable evidence of the existence of spirits, until a professional photographer unraveled its secret by taking a whole series of similar photographs using the photo collage technique. Nowadays, this technology seems to be stone age.

Lincoln's Ghost

Here's another famous photo. On it we see the ghost of a famous person - the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He stands with his translucent hands on the shoulders of his beloved wife. Sorry, widows. You don't need to be an expert in the field of photomontage to notice that the late president's face was inserted from another photo, and his hands were even drawn on the negative.

Monster in the dark

Monstrous monster in a dark corner. His eyes shine with a predatory redness. Although, no. If you look closely, you can see someone's feet in this frightening darkness. Victim of the red-eyed monster? May be. It could also be that this is a person with a backpack on which red reflectors are installed.

The phantom leaned over the sleeping man

Once again, the classic photograph of a ghost over a sleeping man. And not even a ghost, but perhaps death itself, look at her grinning skull. In the nineteenth century there was no computer graphics, and primitive editing was accepted by people with a bang. But in our time it seems quite obvious. And even ridiculous.

Black man

What a scary photo, isn't it? Not true! However, this photograph is often used as evidence of the existence of ghosts - despite the fact that the man depicted in a dark suit resembles a ghost no more than a sparrow resembles Benito Mussolini.

Dead man in a car

The low quality of photographs often makes it possible to find ghosts where their translucent foot has never gone. The frame is wide enough to hide the rest of the supposed spirit's head, and the interior of the car is so dimly lit that a person in dark clothes could easily pass for an invisible man or a ninja. And if the face is scary, it’s not otherworldly forces that did their best, but the laws of genetics.

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The Internet is full of ghost photos, but not all of them are genuine. In this collection, we have collected for you the most famous photographs with ghosts, the authenticity of which has been established by competent experts.

Photo taken at an intersection in San Antonio, Texas. Andy and Debi Chesney made a special trip to this intersection to check out the ghost legend and take some photos. Quite unexpectedly, a transparent figure appeared in one of the photographs after development.

Freddie Jackson was a mechanic in the Royal Air Force during the First World War and died in 1919 after being hit by a propeller. But two days later he showed up in a squadron group photo, peeking over his best friend's head.

It is believed to be the ghost of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Reyham, who resided at Reyham Hall in the early 17th century.

According to available records, she was buried in 1726. It is suspected that the funeral was a hoax, but in fact Charles locked his wife in a remote part of the house and kept her there until her death.

In 1891, Lord Combermere died after his carriage overturned. The photographer set up his camera in the lord's library with the lens shutter open for one hour.

And everyone else at that time was almost four miles from home at the lord’s funeral. After development, everyone immediately noticed in the photograph the outline of the head and hands of a man sitting in the owner’s favorite chair.

Ghost on the Stairs at the National Museum Greenwich (England). The former clergyman took his famous photograph in 1966. Experts, including several from Kodak, have concluded that the image is not a fake.

In 1959, Mabel Chinnery went to the cemetery to visit her mother. She took a photo of her husband sitting in the front passenger seat. The film was developed, after which it turned out that someone wearing glasses was sitting in the back seat.

In 1996, Ike Clenton took a photo of his friend who was dressed in a cowboy outfit. And it was right in the middle of Boothill Cemetery near the town of Tombstone.

They both claim that when this picture was taken, no one was in sight near them. Ike Clenton says it is impossible to take a photograph like this without showing the legs of the person standing behind.

This photograph was taken during an investigation by the Society for the Study of Ghosts in the cemetery at Bachelor's Grove. On August 10, 1991, several members of the society were in the cemetery near a small abandoned grave.

In 1924, James Courtney and Michael Meehan, two crew members of the steamship Watertown, were accidentally killed by a steam escape. They were buried at sea off the coast of Mexico. The next day, the crew photographed their “faces” appearing and disappearing in the water.

His Reverend K.F. Lord took a photo of the altar in his church in North Yorkshire, England. The photograph and negative were carefully examined by experts who found no evidence of editing or re-exposure.

Mrs Andrews came to the cemetery to visit her daughter Joyce, who died when she was 17, and did not notice anything unusual when she took this photo. The woman claims that there were no children nearby.

In 1982, photographer Chris Brackley photographed the interior of St Botolph's Church in London. On the top floor of the church, in the upper right corner of the photograph, a translucent figure is clearly visible, shaped like the outline of a girl.

According to the book “Real Ghosts” by author Brad Steiger, where this photo was published, there was only one photographer in the church at that time. Since the figure who appeared in the photo was all in black, it was assumed that it was a clergyman.

The photo was taken near Alice Springs, Australia in 1959. The translucent female figure in the foreground cannot be a result of double exposure, experts say.

This famous photo was taken from security camera footage by a nurse at an unknown hospital. A dark figure stands on a patient lying on the bed.

The photo is known as “Face in the Window.” A mysterious face looks out from a courthouse in Alabama. According to the stories, this is the face of a former slave named Henry Wells, who was struck by lightning.

Photo of the so-called Ghost Bridge, according to legend, the photo shows the ghost of a woman drowned in the river.

The photo was taken in the abandoned Waverly Hills sanatorium, where tuberculosis was treated. Because There was no effective treatment at that time, and the mortality rate was very high.

After the discovery of antibiotics, the sanatorium was closed, but according to legend, the souls of the patients still wander there, and in this photo one of the nurses, Mary Lee.

The Myrtle Plantation House in St. Francisville, Louisiana is one of the most famous haunted houses. The most famous of them is the ghost of the slave Chloe, who was hanged.

The Whaley House is also known for paranormal activity. Thus, it is believed that this photo shows the ghost of Thomas Whaley, who died from ant poisoning.

This is a very old photo that was taken during the renovation of the house. Supposedly it depicts the ghost of a Confederate soldier who died during the American Civil War.

Wedding photographer Neil Sandbach was photographing the area when he photographed this barn in Hertfordshire, England. An incomprehensible white figure appeared in the photo, the presence of which Neil could not find an explanation for.

In 1975, Diana and Peter Berthelot visited Worsted Church. Peter photographed his wife praying in silence in one of the church pews. Later he learned that he managed to capture in the photo the White Lady, about whom there are legends among the local population.

The photo shows a happy mother and son who have just moved into a new home in Chicago. After development, the photo revealed the face of an old woman and a bulldog, which can be seen in the reflection of the door.

This photo was taken at Hampton Court Palace in England in 2003. According to experts, the image of the ghost at the door is not a photomontage.

Charleston's Old Town Jail is over two hundred years old and thousands of inmates have died here. It is assumed that the light figure in the photo is the ghost of one of them.

This is a photograph taken at Lake Dorothy Dunn, Wisconsin, USA. According to the photographer, there were no children around when the photo was taken.

The Mary King's Inn in Edinburgh, Scotland has long had a reputation as a haunted house.

The teenager took this photo while attending a wedding at Tulloch Castle in Scotland in 2008. According to The Sun, the castle has been around since the 1200s and is haunted by the ghost of the “Green Lady.”

This photo is from the Decebal Hotel in Romania. Legend has it that an ancient Roman treasure is hidden somewhere in a 150-year-old building, and this ghost is guarding it.

Photo from the Tea Room in Australia. Owner Dan Clifford said the motion sensor triggered something late at night and that's what he found on the security video.

The picture was taken in England, in Aston Church. Experts cannot explain the nature of the ghostly figure.

The photograph shows the ghost of a child looking out the window of the famous haunted house at 432 Abercorn Street in Savannah, USA. Legend has it that a girl tied to a chair by the window died of heatstroke in the house.

This famous photograph was taken at the beginning of the 20th century. A disembodied hand is imprinted on the Queen Anne bureau.

The story behind this photo is also widely known. The photo was taken before the relatives took the old woman to a nursing home. Her husband, who had died 13 years earlier, allegedly appeared behind her.

A police officer took a photo of the abandoned truck before it was towed. A ghostly figure was later seen inside.

This photo was taken at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, USA, known for its paranormal activity. Experts find it difficult to explain the nature of the ghostly figure in the photo.

15 pictures for which there was no explanation.

“This photo was taken on my aunt's wedding day. It was 1942 and the photographer was photographing the newlyweds with a simple box camera. What could it be? Illusion (pareidolia)? A clever prank? Or is it really a real ghost?

“This photo was taken a few weeks ago when my friends and I went out into nature. A little boy seems to be peeking out from behind one of us. When I took this picture, he wasn’t there – just the seven of us, including me.”

“In 2008, my wife and I were on holiday in Normandy and visited the old cemetery and ruins of the cathedral in Grenier. I took the only photograph of a marble slab with the names of American paratroopers and French citizens who died in this place in 1944. The photo was taken on a digital camera and I did not view it until I returned home to Canada. To my surprise, I saw the figure of a soldier on my right hand. It is curious that the soldier turned out to be in black and white, although the photograph itself is in color. I am sure that at that moment there was no one except my wife and I in the cemetery. It seems to me that the soldier's uniform is similar to that worn during the First World War - with a cap and two rows of buttons on the jacket."

“I took this photo while traveling through East Texas. These three strange figures in black appeared in the photo. Who is this? Aliens? Ghosts?

“This is a photo of the Stanley Hotel. In one of the windows the translucent figure of a little boy is visible. Interestingly, people located at approximately the same distance from the camera are clearly visible. And the boy is like a shadow, although the window is open. I was so intrigued that I contacted the hotel. There I was informed that on that day only one man was registered in this room, who came to the conference.”

“This photo was taken through a mirror in the restroom of the Weslaco Hotel in Texas, which was built in 1928. There are two girls in the picture, but if you look closely, you can see a third one on the right – in a hood, with a jacket thrown over her right arm and a basket in her left hand.”

This photo was taken in 2010. “We had guests and we decided to give them a tour of George Washington’s house. On the way back we stopped at a church where Washington often prayed. There are several graves near the church, the burials date back to the late 18th century. There is also a common grave of 34 prisoners of war who died in the camps. This is where I took a photo of my friend Joe. To our collective amazement, this red head appeared in the photo floating in the air.”

“I took this photo in February or March 2008 in Spokane, Washington. I lived in the same house where I took care of an elderly woman. At that moment I was just bored, and I started clicking the camera and, to my horror, I saw this. I turned on all the lights, the TV and called my boyfriend because I was afraid to be alone with this horror.”

“I took a photo of my husband while we were fishing at one of the lakes in Wisconsin. There is no boat station on this lake, and there are no houses in the area either. I'm sure my husband and I were alone in this place. However, the photograph clearly shows the figure of a little girl in a bonnet and apron.”

“This photo was taken in the cemetery, near one of the tightly locked crypts. It clearly shows half of the man's face. This cannot be a reflection in any way, since the glass in this window is broken.”

This photo was taken in 2012, in a private apartment in Oxford, UK.

This ghost with a “wheelchair” was photographed in the basement by an employee of the Kith Haven nursing home in Flint (Michigan). She says she saw it with her own eyes: a man in a white shirt pushing a woman in a wheelchair. Her head is tilted to the right.

“I was looking through my photographs, and suddenly I noticed the shadow of a man in a hat at the end of the corridor. At first I thought it might be a damp stain - but it wasn't. Notice how this shadow falls on a large stone. In addition, even the upturned edges of the “hat” are visible.”

“I live in Ravenna, Ohio. In May 2007, my son took a photo of our house. We were all shocked to see an unknown child in one of the windows. When we bought this house, we were told that ghosts had been seen here before. At the time this picture was taken, I was the only one in the house, my husband was in the hospital - he had just undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.”

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“My daughter and friends went to San Antonio (Texas). On the way, they stopped at a place where a terrible accident once occurred - a bus with children overturned, many of them died. My daughter took several photographs at this place. When the film developed, in one of the photographs we saw this figure - it looked like a little girl with a teddy bear in her hands.”

"My nephews were fooling around, playing with tiger cubs. I took a photograph of them and found in the picture some kind of creature watching the children from the screen of a switched off TV. Dark face, the left side is shadowed. There is nothing in the room that could give such a reflection, and even "If there was, it should have been close to the TV and large enough. Later I found out that the previous owner of the house shot himself."

“We have been studying paranormal phenomena for a long time. We were recently invited to check an old hotel in Arkansas for this subject. In one of the photographs taken in the corridor, this strange figure appeared.”

"This photograph was given to me by a colleague in a photo studio. I have been printing photographs for 10 years and have never seen anything like this. I know that in the photograph there is a church located in France, and that he took it with the simplest camera. It seems as if someone walks through the doors, and that he/she is holding a bomb with a fuse. The woman who ordered the photographs was so horrified that she did not even pick up her order.”

“When my parents took a photo of my brother and me, they didn’t see anyone’s face on the screen. The TV was turned off at that moment.”

"This photo was taken several years ago. It shows my sister and a boyish face that seems to be watching her from the TV screen. The TV was turned off, you can see it - otherwise you could see the name of the channel in the corner of the screen. Alleged the boy is wearing a shirt, at least not a white collar is clearly visible on his neck - the kind choristers wear. I know that on the site of our house there once stood a monastery."

“This photograph was taken on the site where there was a hospital in Queen Victoria's time. Our family now lives there. My wife and I decided to restore some of the premises and take before and after photographs.” After we began to discover strange figures in the photographs, strange things also began to happen in the house itself. The housekeeper of the old hospital used to live in our house. Such orbs appear in many photographs and faces are clearly visible in them.”

"My eldest son took this photo. I don't even know what to think about it."

This photo was taken by the wife of the coach you see in it. "Take a closer look at the top right corner and you will notice three translucent figures. The photo was taken with a digital camera in the early evening. This place was once a bar and dance floor where sailors gathered - that's all I know."

“This photo was taken by my mother when she went to London in 1985. The store in the picture is located in the Hampstead area and it was closed. At that time, my mother had her own clothing retail business, and this facade interested her in some way. "The figure of a man is clearly visible on the glass. Note that in order to get a reflection of that size on the glass, a person must be standing directly in front of it. But there was no one on the street. By the way, this store has been gone for a long time."

“In this photo, the girl’s ghost is clearly visible, but still not as clear as the man standing next to him.”

“What could this mean? When I photographed my great-great-grandfather, my great-great-grandmother had long been gone.”

"Our music group went to an abandoned ranch to shoot a video and take some pictures for the album. No one was around - just us. But when the photographs were developed, one of them found a strange figure in the background. A few years ago, one of our members "The band died in a car accident. We were on our way to our concert, our bassist Jimmy was driving the van. We all escaped with minor injuries, but Jimmy was unlucky."

“A couple of years ago, a girl from New York named Stacy had an accident in her Volkswagen and spent a long time in the hospital. When she recovered, her boyfriend called her and said that he had fixed the car. After a while, he drove the car to Stacy’s parents’ house The girl was so delighted that she decided to take a photo of the guy next to her updated “bug”. And when the photo was developed, the girl’s mother asked how she got into the back seat of her new car (it’s behind a VW). But this is completely impossible - Stacey was standing with a camera at that time. And a reflection of such a large size could not have turned out. How can I explain this?”

“This photo of the “gray lady” was taken in Cramer, Pennsylvania in 1977 and caused a stir in the local media at the time. The photographer swears that when he took pictures, there was nothing like this in this place.”

“This photograph was taken by my sister’s friends during a tour of an old Scottish castle. The figure, which is clearly visible behind the hugging couple, does not give the impression of a ghost. It looks like a portrait of a girl that has not fully developed. But how could this happen?”

“My mother took a picture of me and my friend during Halloween 1989. We were 13 years old. And only many years later, looking at the photograph, we noticed another strange dark figure in this picture - it looked like a guy about our age.”