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This image of the "The Brown Lady" ghost is one of the best known ghost photographs ever shot. The apparition is thought to be that of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount of Raynham, of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England in the early 1700s. The photograph was taken in September, 1936 by Captain Provand and Indre Shira, two photographers who were taking pictures of Raynham Hall for Country Life magazine. This is your quintessential ghost photo!
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The camera-strap effect: Many ghost photographers report strange glowing shapes in their images, even when there was nothing unusual in the room when they took the photo. In some cameras, the viewfinder does not look directly through the actual lens of the camera, so a camera strap can fall across the lens unnoticed by the photographer. A bright flash and lack of focus can make the strap look strange.
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[One] kind of ghost photography is thoughtography. In these cases the photographer is key. It appears to be the photographer's ability to affect unexposed film - consciously or unconsciously - which creates these startling visual images.
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The photograph known as 'The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall' is probably the most famous picture of a ghost ever taken. Captured on 19 September 1936 by two photographers, the picture shows a curious transparent image, suggestive of a hooded figure, apparently descending a wooden staircase in Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
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