(foreboding music) - Spirits, ghosts, and things
that exist in a dimension beyond our own
have frightened people for hundreds of years.
Could it be possible that when we die,
our spirits move on to another place?
While some believe that, it would appear
that some spirits are not ready
to move on to another plane,
and instead have unfinished business.
And sometimes those spirits are caught in photographs.
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Here are the 10 scariest photographs of ghosts.
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Number 10 is Major Leverson.
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(metal scraping) Spirit photography
has produced a large volume of unexplained photographs,
many of them involve simple portrait photographs of people,
which later reveal a creeping spectral figure
in the background.
One of the most chilling examples
of spirit photography is the ghost of Major Leverson.
This photograph was taken in 1931.
It's subject was a woman called Hortense Leverson.
While most examples of spirit photography
show an indistinct or unfamiliar figure,
in this photograph we can see the face
of her dead husband burned into the negative.
The hovering, bodiless head
is surrounded by a strange substance
which some have identified as ectoplasm.
Whether the ghost burned the image
into the negative directly,
or the spirit manifested itself over its wife's shoulder
at the moment the picture was taken is not known.
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Number nine is the uninvited dinner guest.
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(metal scraping) When taking a photograph
of our friends and family at a special occasion,
we often take more than one at a time,
just to make sure that we capture the moment.
In one particular case, this practice
provided an eerie record of the moment
a ghostly apparition manifested.
Both photographs were taken in 1988 at a hotel in Austria.
A group of friends had their pictures taken
on the last night of their vacation.
As they crowded around the dinner table
posing for the camera, something horrifying happened.
In the first picture you can see the friends
smiling at the camera.
However, in the second, the head and shoulders
of a mysterious grinning woman appears at the table.
Its face is slightly blurred, and its head
larger than the others there,
suggesting that it's closer to the camera,
hovering in the center of the table.
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Number eight is the Greencastle watcher.
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there's a mansion which is associated
with ghostly apparitions
and frightening paranormal phenomena.
Many have investigated this place,
recording disembodied voices
and witnessing unexplained ghostly lights.
One investigator by the name of Guy Winters
took some photographs of the mansion's exterior.
When the investigation ended,
Guy looked over the photographs
and was shocked by what he found.
In a handful of pictures, a ghostly,
floating apparition of a woman
can clearly be seen looking down at them
from a darkened window.
The watcher was not seen at the time,
but an analysis of the photo negatives
suggests that they had not been tampered with.
This lends credence to the theory
that spirits walk among us regularly,
unseen by the naked eye, watching us.
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Number seven is the glowing girl.
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(metal scraping) Photographer Neil Sandbach
was photographing a farm in England in 2008.
He was planning on using the images
of the classic English farmhouse
as well as the countryside for a wedding stationery project.
Instead, he captured one of the eeriest spirit photographs
of all time.
The image was taken on a digital camera,
and when Neil looked at it,
he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Peering from around the corner of the house
was a spectral figure.
In the photo, it glowed with a phosphorous light
and hovered over the ground.
Neil was convinced that he had photographed
the spirit of a small child
wandering the grounds of the farmhouse.
When staff at the farm were asked
if they'd ever seen anything strange there,
several mentioned the apparition of a young boy,
which supported Neil's theory
that the ghost-child was real.
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Number six is a spectral pilot.
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(metal scraping) In 1987, a group of friends
visited a Fleet Air Arm Station in Somerset, England.
It was there that they were shown several naval aircraft
which the Royal Navy maintains,
should they ever be needed to assist in sea operations.
One of the friends was even allowed
to sit in the passenger seat of an old helicopter
and have her picture taken.
At the time, there was no one in the helicopter with her,
but when the photograph was developed,
it told a different story.
Sitting next to the woman was the distinct
transparent figure of a helicopter pilot.
Many have suggested this apparition
is a ghost of a dead pilot who haunts the base.
Interestingly, the woman in the picture
did complain at the time of feeling cold
sitting in the helicopter,
even though it was a warm sunny day.
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Number five is the grip. (static crackling)
(metal scraping) While the exact date
of the next photograph I'm about to show you
has yet to be verified, it was reportedly taken
in the City of Manila in the Philippines.
Giving the chilling content that it contains,
it's understandable why those in the picture
might want to remain anonymous.
In one of the most harrowing examples
of ghost photography ever captured,
the picture shows two women posing for the camera
in a street at night.
Close to them, the blurred misshapen figure
of a man stands there.
He's reaching out with his hand
and actually grabbing the arm of one of the women.
Many believe this picture has captured the image
of a vengeful spirit who claws at the living
out of bitterness for being condemned
to the immaterial world for the dead.
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Number four is the Coventry Monk.
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(metal scraping) During the convention
gathering in 1985, at St. Mary's Guildhall
in Coventry, England, a picture was taken
of the evening dinner.
In the photograph we can see those attending
dressed in their dinner apparel,
bowing their heads as grace is said.
However, at the end of one of the tables
there's someone or something
which is completely out of place.
Standing next to the guests is a hooded figure
which looks like a monk.
Unlike everyone else, who's bowing their head
as a prayer is said, the faceless apparition
stares from within its dark cowl
at the proceedings.
Some have suggested the fact that the figure
is not praying at all, but instead that it indicates
that it may be a demonic monk of some kind,
a twisted representation of the Christian faith.
No one there that night saw the figure,
and yet it still made its disapproving presence known
in the image.
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Number three is the unseen hand.
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(metal scraping) Some of the most convincing
ghost photographs appear when they are least expected.
It's this ever-present phenomenon
which is the most terrifying of all,
as the spirits of the dead seem to be able
to reveal themselves when and wherever they choose.
That's the case of the unseen hand photograph.
A highly respected photographer took a picture
in 1903 of an old bureau for an antiques dealer
in the United Kingdom.
When the image was developed,
the bureau could be seen in all of its glory,
but so, too, could a mysterious ghostly hand.
The hand was not attached to a body,
and touched the bureau as if it were its own.
Some argue that the hand belongs to a previous owner
of the bureau who couldn't bear to relinquish ownership
of its prized possession.
Wherever the bureau would go, so, too,
would it's former owner.
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Number two is the Bachelor's Grove resident.
(metal scraping) In August of 1991,
a group of paranormal investigators
entered Bachelor's Grove Cemetery in Chicago,
in search of evidence for the existence
of the supernatural.
The cemetery was already long-abandoned by that point,
with a nearby woods slowly consuming it.
But, between the still standing gravestones
and overhanging branches of invading trees above,
the paranormal investigators captured
an incredible photograph.
Sitting on a tombstone was an image of a woman.
Her body was part fully manifested,
while other sections such as her neck
were completely transparent,
her head hovering above her body.
She sat there motionless,
looking at the crumbling cemetery.
The investigators claim there was no one in the cemetery
other than themselves, and this ghostly woman
only appeared when the negatives were developed.
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And number one is the electric chair apparition.
(metal scraping) The electric chair has been
used to execute countless prisoners.
While debate rages about the morality of such executions,
what can't be debated is that the chair
is most certainly an instrument of death.
Being purely constructed for such purposes,
it's no surprise that one such chair
produced a frightening ghostly image.
When an engineer took one such chair
to his Tennessee home to make alterations to it,
he took photographs to record his progress.
In one of the photographs,
a number of strange light anomalies appeared.
But most terrifying of all was the ghostly image
of a face which appeared on the back of the chair,
and the transparent hand which drooped over the armrest,
a lifeless appendage of one of the chair's many victims.
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