This picture of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is among the best known of all alleged ghost photos. The story goes that the spirit is that of Dorothy Walpole, a one-time resident of the manor located in Norfolk, England. The ghost was first sighted in 1835, when a house guest claimed to see a phantom wearing a brown satin dress, noting that her eyes that had been gouged out. The Brown Lady was reported on several subsequent occasions, making Raynham Hall a favorite spot for ghost hunters. Dorothy Walpole's ghost was even said to be doing double duty, haunting Norfolk's Sandringham House as her young, happy self, and appearing at Raynham Hall as an old, bitter hag.
In 1936, magazine photographers Captain Provand and Indre Shira were on a shoot at Raynham when Shira reportedly saw the ghost on a staircase. Provand then took the picture shown here. This is unlike the majority of ghost photos, in which the ghost is generally undetected by the photographer until the film has been processed.
The Brown Lady photo has been widely hailed as one of the most undeniably authentic ghost photos ever taken. But many experts, including investigative writer and photo analyst Joe Nickell, have agreed that the image was faked by compositing two images together.
St. Paul - Revenue bldg. former location at 10 River Park Plaza - Ghostly figures have been seen walking through the aisles or sitting at unoccupied data entry terminals. Tax return batches regularly flew off of the shelves and when investigated, they always had multiple returns of deceased people in the batches. Early morning noises could be heard of lockers being opened and closed. The cause was never found. We were told an electrician died while the building was being constructed.
The Ramsey County Courthouse has been the center of community activity for many years and for nearly all of them, the place has been rumored to be a place where ghostly activity can be found too. Late night cleaning crews and security guards are the most frequent witnesses to strange events here and have reported the most encounters. They claim to have heard laughing in empty rooms and have seen spirits walking up and down the corridors wearing clothing from the 1930's and 1940's. A ghostly shoeshine man has been seen still plying his trade in the building's lobby. Metal coat hangers often stir in empty closets and the tapping of women's high- heeled shoes are commonly reported in deserted hallways.
The only frightening spirit seemed to be that of a man who has been reported hanging from a noose. His is thought to be a criminal who was executed in the courthouse years ago. A workmen named Tim Mahanna was interviewed some time back by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He had been one of the workers who helped renovate the building in 1992 and he was convinced that the place was haunted. Tools and lumber moved about from place to place, things would disappear and then turn up again later and even pipes that had been sitting disconnected for weeks would suddenly have water coming out of them.
"Strange things happened there that have never happened at another job site," he was quoted in the article. "I think there are people there who died and never left."
The Ramsey County Courthouse is located near the state capitol building in St. Paul.
This is the type of ghost who haunts the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. This old opera house has long been reportedly haunted by one of it's former staff members, an usher named Richard Miller. The awkward boy was a stranger and had few friends and eked out a lonely existence at the theater in the late 1960's. He attended the University of Minnesota but was something of a loner and a misfit. His many years of loneliness and despair came to an end in 1967. On Saturday, February 5, Miller walked to a local Sears store and purchased a pistol and shells. Then, he went to his car in the parking lot, put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He died instantly but his body was not discovered until the following Monday morning.... no one had missed him.
Miller had been wearing his Guthrie Theater usher's uniform when he died and within a few weeks of his death, patrons in Miller's formerly assigned section of the theater began complaining to the management of an usher who walked constantly back and forth during the shows. The patrons described Miller right down to the large mole on his cheek.
Since then, dozens of patrons, other ushers, staff members, actors and custodians have seen Miller walking back and forth along Row 18, his assigned area. He has also been spotted in the catwalks of the theater, the section of seats called the Queen's Box and many other places.
The ghost is said to follow witnesses with his eyes or by moving his head but he has never spoken or made a sound. An exorcism was performed there in 1994 and it was said to have placated his spirit, but no one knows for sure. Apparently, the lonely and tragic young man simply had nowhere else to go.
The Guthrie Theater is located at 725 Vineland Place in Minneapolis, opposite the sculpture garden in the Loring Park area in the southwest part of the city. Richard Miller is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
The famous Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis has a long history of this haunting by the ghostly usher.
IN THE BEGINNING:
Richard Miller, born in 1951, was a shy guy from Manhattan, Kansas. His family moved to Minneapolis. At age 16 he got a job as an usher at the Guthrie Theater. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Minnesota, while continuing to work as an usher. He was always perceived as being odd by others, and didn't have many friends.
Following a ski accident, and after receiving bad grades, Miller killed himself. On February 5, 1967, he bought a Mauser rifle at the local Sears store. He went back to his car and shot himself in the head. He was buried wearing his Guthrie Theater blazer, at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
GHOSTLY SIGHTINGS AND OCCURRENCES:
1) A few weeks after the death of the young usher, a young woman came up to the usher in charge and asked him to stop the other usher from walking up and down during the play. The usher in charge was shocked, since he had been at the top of the aisle and had seen no one walk up and down. All the other ushers were busy in their respective aisles. The young lady insisted she had seen the usher walking up and down, as did other patrons in her section. Asked to describe the usher, she described Richard Miller accurately, including the mole on his cheek.
2) Dozens of people, from employees to performers to patrons have spotted Miller's apparition walking his beat up and down the aisle of row 18, in the catwalks, or in the exclusive patron section of seats called the Queen's Box. While the apparition would follow the living with his eyes or his head, he never said anything.
3) Several years later, two ushers had to spend the night in the Guthrie Theater working on the air conditioning. At 1 A.M. they heard a piano play by itself. They then saw a cloud-like form floating through the lounge door and hovering in the center of the room.
Still Haunted?
Unknown.
In 1994, an exorcism ritual was performed and supposedly calmed down this restless ghost. His spirit may have been quieted, but it is hard for disturbed ghosts like this one to leave completely and go to the other side.
The First Avenue nightclub is one of the most well known haunted spots in the Twin Cities. Before it was a nightclub, First Avenue was the site of the old Greyhound bus depot, where the homeless would spend many nights sleeping on the benches, a few of which are still used in the bar. Before that it was a livestock stable where sheep and cattle were slaughtered and before that it was a school playground, and some have even said that it was built on holy ground. But ask any of the staff who work there and they will say that it is haunted. One of the legends is that a young woman either committed suicide or died from a drug overdose in the bus station, on one of the benches that still resides in the bar. A woman in a green army jacket, long blonde hair, bell bottom jeans and bare feet walked out of the entry, smiled at the two staff, walked into the main room and then vanished before their eyes. One staff member recalls her encounter with a ghost. "I opened the door to the stall in the woman's restroom and saw a woman hanging up there. She was wearing a green army jacket, and had long hair. It wasn't anything gory but she was just hanging there with her neck to one side. I thought that someone had just hung themselves. I then looked back, and there was nothing there."
Others report, flying ash trays, changes in the air temperature and depth perception, a laughing gangster emerging from the wall, unearthly sounds in the deejay's headset, ghostly manifestations, and the sounds of baying sheep in the basement. An after hours seance revealed 257 channeled dead children claiming that "there is a bad thing in the club"
Could this all be the product of a bunch of people with overactive imaginations who had one too many late nights or too much to drink? If not who is the girl in the army jacket?
This club is open to the public with a cover charge to get in. Who knows you might even see some of the long lost party goers.
Is that the staircase from the Munster's house?
It's the Brown Lady of Raynham
This picture of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is among the best known of all alleged ghost photos. The story goes that the spirit is that of Dorothy Walpole, a one-time resident of the manor located in Norfolk, England. The ghost was first sighted in 1835, when a house guest claimed to see a phantom wearing a brown satin dress, noting that her eyes that had been gouged out. The Brown Lady was reported on several subsequent occasions, making Raynham Hall a favorite spot for ghost hunters. Dorothy Walpole's ghost was even said to be doing double duty, haunting Norfolk's Sandringham House as her young, happy self, and appearing at Raynham Hall as an old, bitter hag.
In 1936, magazine photographers Captain Provand and Indre Shira were on a shoot at Raynham when Shira reportedly saw the ghost on a staircase. Provand then took the picture shown here. This is unlike the majority of ghost photos, in which the ghost is generally undetected by the photographer until the film has been processed.
The Brown Lady photo has been widely hailed as one of the most undeniably authentic ghost photos ever taken. But many experts, including investigative writer and photo analyst Joe Nickell, have agreed that the image was faked by compositing two images together.
is that leabel's avatar??
When I first saw her avatar I thought it looked like something from the haunted mansion.
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St. Paul - Revenue bldg. former location at 10 River Park Plaza - Ghostly figures have been seen walking through the aisles or sitting at unoccupied data entry terminals. Tax return batches regularly flew off of the shelves and when investigated, they always had multiple returns of deceased people in the batches. Early morning noises could be heard of lockers being opened and closed. The cause was never found. We were told an electrician died while the building was being constructed.
The Ramsey County Courthouse has been the center of community activity for many years and for nearly all of them, the place has been rumored to be a place where ghostly activity can be found too. Late night cleaning crews and security guards are the most frequent witnesses to strange events here and have reported the most encounters. They claim to have heard laughing in empty rooms and have seen spirits walking up and down the corridors wearing clothing from the 1930's and 1940's. A ghostly shoeshine man has been seen still plying his trade in the building's lobby. Metal coat hangers often stir in empty closets and the tapping of women's high- heeled shoes are commonly reported in deserted hallways.
The only frightening spirit seemed to be that of a man who has been reported hanging from a noose. His is thought to be a criminal who was executed in the courthouse years ago. A workmen named Tim Mahanna was interviewed some time back by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He had been one of the workers who helped renovate the building in 1992 and he was convinced that the place was haunted. Tools and lumber moved about from place to place, things would disappear and then turn up again later and even pipes that had been sitting disconnected for weeks would suddenly have water coming out of them.
"Strange things happened there that have never happened at another job site," he was quoted in the article. "I think there are people there who died and never left."
The Ramsey County Courthouse is located near the state capitol building in St. Paul.
This is the type of ghost who haunts the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. This old opera house has long been reportedly haunted by one of it's former staff members, an usher named Richard Miller. The awkward boy was a stranger and had few friends and eked out a lonely existence at the theater in the late 1960's. He attended the University of Minnesota but was something of a loner and a misfit. His many years of loneliness and despair came to an end in 1967. On Saturday, February 5, Miller walked to a local Sears store and purchased a pistol and shells. Then, he went to his car in the parking lot, put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He died instantly but his body was not discovered until the following Monday morning.... no one had missed him.
Miller had been wearing his Guthrie Theater usher's uniform when he died and within a few weeks of his death, patrons in Miller's formerly assigned section of the theater began complaining to the management of an usher who walked constantly back and forth during the shows. The patrons described Miller right down to the large mole on his cheek.
Since then, dozens of patrons, other ushers, staff members, actors and custodians have seen Miller walking back and forth along Row 18, his assigned area. He has also been spotted in the catwalks of the theater, the section of seats called the Queen's Box and many other places.
The ghost is said to follow witnesses with his eyes or by moving his head but he has never spoken or made a sound. An exorcism was performed there in 1994 and it was said to have placated his spirit, but no one knows for sure. Apparently, the lonely and tragic young man simply had nowhere else to go.
The Guthrie Theater is located at 725 Vineland Place in Minneapolis, opposite the sculpture garden in the Loring Park area in the southwest part of the city. Richard Miller is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
The famous Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis has a long history of this haunting by the ghostly usher.
IN THE BEGINNING:
Richard Miller, born in 1951, was a shy guy from Manhattan, Kansas. His family moved to Minneapolis. At age 16 he got a job as an usher at the Guthrie Theater. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Minnesota, while continuing to work as an usher. He was always perceived as being odd by others, and didn't have many friends.
Following a ski accident, and after receiving bad grades, Miller killed himself. On February 5, 1967, he bought a Mauser rifle at the local Sears store. He went back to his car and shot himself in the head. He was buried wearing his Guthrie Theater blazer, at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
GHOSTLY SIGHTINGS AND OCCURRENCES:
1) A few weeks after the death of the young usher, a young woman came up to the usher in charge and asked him to stop the other usher from walking up and down during the play. The usher in charge was shocked, since he had been at the top of the aisle and had seen no one walk up and down. All the other ushers were busy in their respective aisles. The young lady insisted she had seen the usher walking up and down, as did other patrons in her section. Asked to describe the usher, she described Richard Miller accurately, including the mole on his cheek.
2) Dozens of people, from employees to performers to patrons have spotted Miller's apparition walking his beat up and down the aisle of row 18, in the catwalks, or in the exclusive patron section of seats called the Queen's Box. While the apparition would follow the living with his eyes or his head, he never said anything.
3) Several years later, two ushers had to spend the night in the Guthrie Theater working on the air conditioning. At 1 A.M. they heard a piano play by itself. They then saw a cloud-like form floating through the lounge door and hovering in the center of the room.
Still Haunted?
Unknown.
In 1994, an exorcism ritual was performed and supposedly calmed down this restless ghost. His spirit may have been quieted, but it is hard for disturbed ghosts like this one to leave completely and go to the other side.
[Edited by on Mar 6, 2005 at 12:10am.]
The First Avenue nightclub is one of the most well known haunted spots in the Twin Cities. Before it was a nightclub, First Avenue was the site of the old Greyhound bus depot, where the homeless would spend many nights sleeping on the benches, a few of which are still used in the bar. Before that it was a livestock stable where sheep and cattle were slaughtered and before that it was a school playground, and some have even said that it was built on holy ground. But ask any of the staff who work there and they will say that it is haunted. One of the legends is that a young woman either committed suicide or died from a drug overdose in the bus station, on one of the benches that still resides in the bar.
A woman in a green army jacket, long blonde hair, bell bottom jeans and bare feet walked out of the entry, smiled at the two staff, walked into the main room and then vanished before their eyes. One staff member recalls her encounter with a ghost. "I opened the door to the stall in the woman's restroom and saw a woman hanging up there. She was wearing a green army jacket, and had long hair. It wasn't anything gory but she was just hanging there with her neck to one side. I thought that someone had just hung themselves. I then looked back, and there was nothing there."
Others report, flying ash trays, changes in the air temperature and depth perception, a laughing gangster emerging from the wall, unearthly sounds in the deejay's headset, ghostly manifestations, and the sounds of baying sheep in the basement. An after hours seance revealed 257 channeled dead children claiming that "there is a bad thing in the club"
Could this all be the product of a bunch of people with overactive imaginations who had one too many late nights or too much to drink? If not who is the girl in the army jacket?
This club is open to the public with a cover charge to get in. Who knows you might even see some of the long lost party goers.
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