And people still dont beleave in ghosts, after evidence like this;
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Spooky! Haunting Photo Baffles Ghost Busters
An eerie image of a figure in period costume has spooked experts investigating apparent photographic evidence of ghosts.
The picture, taken in May 2008, appears to show a man or woman in a ruff peering out of a barred window at Tantallon Castle.
No mannequins or costumed guides are employed at the castle, and three photographic experts have confirmed that no digital trickery was used on the photo.
Even confirmed ghost sceptic Professor Richard Wiseman, who led the study, admitted being puzzled.
"It is certainly very curious," he said. "We ran it by three photographic experts and they said it hadn't been Photoshopped at all.
"The figure appears to be in period costume, but we know 100% that Tantallon Castle is not the sort of place that has dummies or costumed guides - they just don't go in for that sort of thing."
Tantallon Castle, a ruined fortress dating back to the 14th Century, stands on a remote rocky headland near North Berwick on the Scottish east coast.
It was badly damaged in an attack by Oliver Cromwell's forces in 1651.
Christopher Aitchison, who took the photo, said: "I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture, only noticing the anomaly when I got home.
"Staff have verified that there were no sinister dummies in period costume or historical re-enactments going on that day at the castle.
"I did not notice any nice old ladies wearing ruffs walking around the stairs! Some people have suggested its just light reflecting on rocks and one person suggested it may be King James V of Scotland."
Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who has made many studies of the supernatural, launched the investigation a month ago.
credit - sky news 27th March 2009 12.40am - SEE THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR A MORE DETAILED PICTURE
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omg thats mad ghost are real! lol x
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whoever that is dosn't look happy at all!! is it a man or woman looks like my mother-in-law
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oh my god really is that true! thats really spooky... i'd die if i saw that! :)))
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The ghost in the water. Taken in Saltburn Woods (UK), the photographs appears to show a young boy dressed in grey shorts and t-shirt washing his feet. Skeptics argue that it might be people seeing a pattern created by a vertical stick in the water.
Photographer: Jamie Whitehead.
WANTED... GHOSTLY SIGHTS
Tuesday March 10,2009
By John Ingham, Environment Editor.
THE Queen claims to have seen one, as did Winston Churchill.
Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has supposedly met one, as has Robbie Williams.
But yesterday scientists announced the launch of a study to solve of the great eternal mysteries: Do ghosts exist?
Researchers led by psychologist, Professor Richard Wiseman of Hertfordshire University asked for members of the public to send in their sightings and photographs of ghosts, ghouls and gremlins.
And next month, at The Edinburgh International Science Festival, the experts will reveal whether they believe any genuine ghosts have been uncovered - or whether there is a perfectly logical explanation.
Professor Wiseman said: "Around 10 per cent of the population reports experiencing a ghost.
"They are in good company - famous ghost encounters include the Queen who has allegedly seen the ghost of John Brown, Queen Victoria’s servant. Liam Gallagher, Sting, Robbie Williams, Mick Jagger’s daughter Elizabeth, Hugh Grant and Daniel Day Lewis all claim to have seen ghosts.
"We know very little about what they have seen and felt, and what lies behind these strange phenomena.
He added: "Are ghosts translucent wailing things with chains or, as I suspect, seen as solid figures which suddenly do something impossible, like walking through a wall?"
He added:“About once a month I get sent a fairly good ghost photo where it’s not immediately obvious what’s going on.
“Often you might see what looks like a face in semi-darkness but its just a trick of the light. The human brain is hard-wired to see faces, for instance in clouds. That’s because faces are the most important thing we ßcan see around us.
“I’m pretty sceptical, and usually there’s a rational explanation, but it could be that someone out there is sitting on something really interesting.”
Celebrities said to have met ghosts include Sir Winston Churchill who "met" Abraham Lincoln at the White House, Liam Gallagher who was "visited" by the ghost of John Lennon and Robbie Williams who saw the ghost of an old woman while staying at Ringo Starr's Los Angeles home.
Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day Lewis supposedly saw the ghost of his father while playing Hamlet on stage and the poet Lord Byron saw the ghost of a Black Friar at his family home.
Despite 15 years of studying the paranormal Professor Wiseman needs more convincing.
He said: "I am pretty sceptical about ghosts. Most of these phenomena have interesting but normal explanations
"People who are bereaved or particularly stressed or who have been watching TV programmes about the paranormal can be prone to seeing ghosts.
"Credible reports are very few and far between. Where you get more than one person seeing the same ghost, it can be puzzling.
"And at Hampton Court Palace there are various rooms associated with hauntings. We have had people come into these rooms, without knowing their reputation, and report feeling strange."
Among Professor Wiseman's favourite explanations for things that go bump in the night are :
* Infrasound. Low frequency sound waves caused by wind coming in through a window can vibrate people's bodies
* Electro-magnetic fields. Scientists have created a helmet that induces an EMF in the brain and reports of ghostly experiences including a sense of a presence.
* Neuroscience. Psychologists argue that people who believe in the paranormal become hyper-vigilant when afraid and then detect small anomalies that make them even more afraid and vigilant.
* Vibrations. "Haunted" houses are likely to sit on fault lines or underground streams
* Fraud. Some high profile cases of hauntings and poltergeists have turned out to be due to fakery motivated by a need for attention, or financial gain.
There will be particular interest in ghostly photographs to see whether they have been tampered with - or reveal evidence of the afterlife.
Event co-organiser and photographer Gordon Rutter said: “These remarkable photographs show a variety of strange figures, blobs and faces, and we hope to discover whether any of these really represent evidence for a spirit world.
* To send in sightings or photographs, go to www.scienceofghosts.com
Family flee £3.6m haunted house
21/09/2008
A millionaire businessman told today how ghosts forced him and his family to flee their mansion.
Anwar Rashid and his wife Nabila spent £3.6 million on Clifton Hall in Nottinghamshire but a year later were so desperate to get rid of it that they handed the 17-bedroom property back to their bank.
The couple moved in with their three daughters aged seven, five and three, and baby son in January 2007, and it was not long before they were spooked by the sound of screams from the mansion's corridors.
During their eight months in the 52-room hall the couple also saw mysterious figures which often took the form of their children.
But it was when unexplained blood spots appeared on their 18-month-old son's bed clothes that Mr Rashid and his 25-year-old wife decided to flee the house.
Mr Rashid, 32, who is worth £25 million and made his money through a chain of nursing homes, a hotel in Dubai and has 26 properties, compared his experience to the 2001 film The Others.
In the film, which stars Nicole Kidman, a family is forced out of their home by ghosts.
Mr Rashid said: "Clifton Hall is a beautiful property. I fell for its beauty but behind the facade it is haunted.
"We were like the family in The Others. The ghosts didn't want us to be there and we could not fight them because we couldn't see them.
"The day we moved in we had our first experience. We sat down in the evening to relax and there was a knock on the wall. We heard this, "Hello, is anyone there"?
"We ignored it the first time but two minutes later we heard the man's voice again. I got up to have a look but the doors were locked and the windows were closed.
"On another occasion my wife went downstairs to make milk for the baby at 5am and she saw our eldest daughter watching television.
"She said her name but she wouldn't respond. My wife realised something was up, so she went back upstairs to check on her and found her fast asleep in her bed.
"When we found red blood spots on the baby's quilt, that was the day my wife said she'd had enough. We didn't even stay that night. It was the last straw, we felt that they had come to attack us. It was really emotional."
As well as having 17 bedrooms, Clifton Hall, which dates back to the Norman conquest, also has ten reception rooms, ten bathrooms, a gym and a cinema.
Mr Rashid, who also shared the house with his parents and brother, said his decision to stop paying the mortgage was the last resort.
In an effort to drive the spirits from the mansion, he had previously called in the Ashfield Paranormal Investigation Network.
Lee Roberts, team leader of the network, told the Nottingham Evening Post: "Clifton Hall is the only place where I've ever really been scared, even in the light. It's just got a really eerie feeling about it."
But they were unable to rid the mansion of its ghosts and Mr Rashid moved his family out in August last year before he stopped paying the mortgage on the property to the Yorkshire Bank in January. The bank finally reclaimed the hall on Thursday.
Mr Rashid now lives in the Wollaton area of Nottingham. He said: "When people used to tell me about ghosts, I would never believe them and would say 'whatever'.
"But I would have to tell any new owner that it was haunted having experienced it. I couldn't sleep knowing that I have kept something so serious from them.
"Every time I went back there I felt this feeling. It got to the stage when my nieces and nephews wouldn't like to come round and if we invited friends over for dinner they would suggest going to a restaurant or us going over to theirs.
"It's not a life when your friends and family stop coming round. I got priests in and they were saying that they could see things so my only option was to give it back to the bank. I just had to let it go because it was becoming such a burden.
"I am now looking at a new property in Nottingham. I don't think I will ever buy an old building again because of what has happened."
TRUE SPIRIT OF THE LAW.
Sunday November 2,2008
By David Jarvis
Ghostly sightings at a remote police training college have left officers baffled – and a little spooked.
So far they have reported a white lady, a ghostly gardener and an apparition known as the little boy on the terrace.
The college trains senior officers, including commanders and chief inspectors. But despite boasting the best police minds in the country, the mystery cases remain firmly in the “unsolved” file.
The sightings at 17th century Bramshill House near Hook, Hampshire, have made the old country mansion one of Britain’s most haunted.
When it was taken over by the Home Office in the Fifties the department set up a file of supernatural occurrences.
According to the documents the spirit of a woman who suffocated in a chest while playing hide and seek with her husband still wanders the college’s corridors.
Sightings of a green man, with no legs who hovers by the lake in the mansion’s grounds, have also been reported. Locals say their dogs refuse to go near the lake and become agitated if they get too close to the water.
Lindsey Kerr, curator at the college, said that with 13 regular apparitions, the college is the third most haunted place in Britain.
But all the ghosts, apart from the gardener, who has a sinister presence, are friendly, she added.
She said: “After I started in 2006, I was on my own on the first floor when there was suddenly a very strong smell of flowers, but there were none near me.
“It was as if I had walked into a florist. It was not scary, but I knew it was not right.
“People have reported singing when there is nobody nearby, and others have felt children holding their hands.”
The college performance manager Jane George added: “There have been many times when I have left a door open only to return to find it not just closed but firmly locked. I’ve been here four years and the place is definitely haunted. You just can’t explain it.”
This July a visitor to Bramshill tried to take a picture but accidentally recorded a video instead. When he played it back, he found he had also recorded a voice saying the words “help me”.
Bramshill is one of four residential police training colleges in Britain and Tulliallan Castle, home of the Scottish Police Training College in Kincardine, Fife, is also said to be haunted.
Visitors have reported hearing the sound of children laughing, while some have witnessed a chair in an empty room being moved across the floor.
Chief Inspector George Barnsley, head of quality and standards at Tulliallan, said: “There is supposed to be a grey lady who wanders around the corridors, going into the bedrooms, but I have never seen her.
“It is one of those myths that grow over the years.”
Britain’s most haunted house is Borley Rectory in Essex, which is supposedly home to the ghosts of a Benedictine monk, a nun and a coachman.
The monk was hanged when his plans to elope with the nun were discovered, the coachman was beheaded and the nun was bricked up alive within the rectory’s vaults.
In second place is Blickling Hall in Norfolk where Anne Boleyn’s headless ghost is said to appear holding her head.
i do and i dont believe in ghosts i knw people who have seen thm but i havent seen but would like to see a ghost