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| THE BROWN LADY This is one of the best and most famous of ghost photos of all time. It is said to be of Lady Dorothy Townshend (formerly Walpole), wife of Charles Townshend in the early 1700s. Charles was 2nd Viscount of Raynham Hall in Norfolk England. Supposedly , Lady Townshend had an affair with Lord Wharton, a notorious rake, and when Charles found out about it, it is said that he faked her funeral while locking her up in a remote area of the house until her death many years later, not even allowing her to see her children. She has since been spotted in different rooms and halls in the house but mainly haunts the oak staircase, where this photo was taken 9/19/1936 by Captain Provand and Indre Shira of Country Life magazine. They were taking pictures of the interior of the house and had just photographed the oak staircase when Shira saw a misty form ascending the stairs and shouted for Provand to quickly take another photo. He did and this is the resulting picture. It was first published on 12/19/1936, after undergoing tests by chemists and experts and found to be authentic and untampered with. |
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