Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. Brown Lady of Raynham Hall claimed photograph of the ghost, Captain Hubert C. First published in Countrylife magazine, 1. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a ghost which reportedly haunts Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. It became one of the most famous hauntings in Great Britain when photographers from Country Life magazine claimed to have captured its image. She was the second wife of Charles Townshend, who was notorious for his violent temper.
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The story says that when Townshend discovered that his wife had committed adultery with Lord Wharton he punished her by locking her in her rooms in the family home, Raynham Hall. According to Mary Wortley Montagu, Dorothy was in fact entrapped by the Countess of Wharton. She invited Dorothy over to stay for a few days knowing that her husband would never allow her to leave it, not even to see her children. She remained at Raynham Hall until her death in 1. Stone concerning a gathering at Raynham Hall at Christmas 1. Stone says that Lord Charles Townsend had invited various guests to the Hall, including a Colonel Loftus, to join in the Christmas festivities. Loftus and another guest named Hawkins said they had seen the .
The following evening Loftus claimed to have seen the . Loftus' sightings led to some staff permanently leaving Raynham Hall. It is said that Marryat requested that he spend the night in the haunted room at Raynham Hall to prove his theory that the haunting was caused by local smugglers anxious to keep people away from the area. Writing in 1. 91.
Florence Marryat said of her father's experience. For two days, however, he saw nothing, and the third was to be the limit of his stay. On the third night, however, two young men (nephews of the baronet), knocked at his door as he was undressing to go to bed, and asked him to step over to their room (which was at the other end of the corridor), and give them his opinion on a new gun just arrived from London. My father was in his shirt and trousers, but as the hour was late, and everybody had retired to rest except themselves, he prepared to accompany them as he was. As they were leaving the room, he caught up his revolver, . When the inspection of the gun was over, the young men in the same spirit declared they would accompany my father back again, .
The three gentlemen therefore returned in company. The corridor was long and dark, for the lights had been extinguished, but as they reached the middle of it, they saw the glimmer of a lamp coming towards them from the other end. Now the bedroom doors in that corridor faced each other, and each room had a double door with a space between, as is the case in many old- fashioned houses.
My father, as I have said, was in shirt and trousers only, and his native modesty made him feel uncomfortable, so he slipped within one of the outer doors (his friends following his example), in order to conceal himself until the lady should have passed by. I have heard him describe how he watched her approaching nearer and nearer, through the chink of the door, until, as she was close enough for him to distinguish the colors and style of her costume, he recognised the figure as the facsimile of the portrait of .
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He had his finger on the trigger of his revolver, and was about to demand it to stop and give the reason for its presence there, when the figure halted of its own accord before the door behind which he stood, and holding the lighted lamp she carried to her features, grinned in a malicious and diabolical manner at him. This act so infuriated my father, who was anything but lamb- like in disposition, that he sprang into the corridor with a bound, and discharged the revolver right in her face. The figure instantly disappeared - the figure at which for several minutes three men had been looking together . My father never attempted again to interfere with .
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Provand, a London- based photographer working for Country Life magazine, and his assistant, Indre Shira, were taking photographs of Raynham Hall for an article. They claim that they had already taken a photograph of the Hall's main staircase and were setting up to take a second when Shira saw .
Later, when the negative was developed, the famous image of the . The account of Provand and Shira's ghostly experience at Raynham Hall was published in Country Life magazine on December 2. Brown Lady. I was told a perfectly simple story: Mr. Indre Shira saw the apparition descending the stairs at the precise moment when Captain Provand. I could not shake their story, and I had no right to disbelieve them.
- Margrethe Mather, Lady in White, ca. 1917; platinum print, 9 5/16 in. 1917 Classification photograph Medium platinum print Dimensions 9 5/16 in.
- The fifth apparition, September 13, 1917 (Lady) 'Continue to pray the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our Lord will come, as well as our Lady of Dolours and Our Lady of Carmel, Saint Joseph will appear with the Child Jesus to bless the.
- Our Lady of Fatima, Plus - Her Promise of Protection with Her Protective Shield, The Great Miracle of the Sun. Sunday, August 19, 1917: Our Lady appeared to the children while they were pasturing their sheep. She urged the children to continue coming on the.
Only collusion between the two men would account for the ghost if it is a fake. The negative is entirely innocent of any faking. Others claim that the image is an accidental double exposure or that light somehow got into the camera. Booth had the magician Ron Wilson cover himself in a bed sheet and descend the grand staircase at The Magic Castle in Hollywood. The faked ghost image looked very similar to the Raynham Hall photograph. Also the head is covered and the hands appear to be together as in prayer, and the square or rectangular pedestal on which she stands is also clearly visible.
This strongly suggests that the photo is a simple superimposition of the Madonna statue onto the empty staircase. There Is No Death First published in 1. David Mc. Kay. New edition published by Cosimo, Inc (2. Country Life magazine 2.
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