When amateur photographer and reverend of Newby Church in North Yorkshire, Reverend
Lord, decided to photograph the interior of his church, he never thought he would capture
such a menacing figure.
This well-known image has received a lot of attention in the years following 1963.
Most speculation has concluded that the cloaked apparition resembles a 16th-century monk.
Others point out that, with a white shroud over his face, the figure may be the spirit
of a leper who was trying to conceal his disfigurement.
By examining the furniture shown in the picture, the haunting spectre would have measured 9
feet tall.
Although the photograph has received criticism, many have sought to prove its authenticity.
In the 1970s, a team from the BBC examined the photo, concluding that it was not the
result of a double exposure, as the negative had not been tampered with.
Mrs Andrews often visited the grave of her daughter, in Queensland, Australia.
In 1946, she photographed the headstone.
After developing it, she was shocked to find an infant in the picture.
The child is as clear as the headstone itself.
However, Mrs Andrews claimed that there were no children at the cemetery that day.
Her daughter, Joyce, who had died at the age of 17, did not resemble the child in the picture.
When a paranormal investigator visited the grave yard in 1995, he discovered two graves
nearby to Joyce Andrews’ which could hold the answer to the photograph’s mystery.
The graves belonged to two infant girls, aged 18 months and three years.
Could one of these girls be the ghostly figure of Mrs Andrews’ photo?
It seems too good to be true.
However, the photo is yet to be proven false.
Two-year-old Greg Sheldon Maxwell loved talking to his “Old Nanna”.
However, his great-grandmother had died years before.
When this photograph was taken, nobody noticed anything unusual in the room.
Only Greg seems certain that someone, or something, was there.
He called the white apparition his “Old Nanna”.
Her visits continued for some time.
In spite of never meeting his great-grandmother, young Greg instantly recognised her in an
old photograph which he had never seen before.
What makes this photograph all the more interesting is that Greg’s “Old Nanna” had sworn
she would return to make contact with her family after her death.
Does this picture show that she was successful?
The Amityville haunting is one of the most infamous cases of the paranormal.
In 1974, the eldest child of Ronald and Louise DeFeo, Ronald DeFeo Jr, murdered his entire
family in their sleep: his mother, father and four siblings.
At his trial, DeFeo claimed he killed his family because he had heard voices plotting
against him.
Some speculate he was possessed by a demon.
The subsequent owners of the house, the Lutz family, claimed to have been terrorised by
a violent, demonic presence.
It was so intense that it eventually drove them from their home.
This photograph was snapped in 1976, during a paranormal investigation commissioned by
George Lutz.
It appears to show a small boy in the doorway, who some claim resembles John Matthew DeFeo,
the youngest member of the DeFeo family to be killed in the house two years previous.
Although clearly a child, some have speculated that the figure is demonic.
Whilst lots of criticism surrounds this story, no one can provide definitive evidence that
this photo is a fake.
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is known as one of the "most haunted places in America".
In operation between 1910 and 1962, its main function was to treat those suffering from
Tuberculosis.
Over 8,000 people died at Waverly Hills.
During an investigation in 2005, this image of a spectral female figure was caught on
camera.
The ghostly woman is thought to be Mary Lee, a nurse who worked at the hospital.
Her story ended in tragedy, when she herself contracted the disease, whilst being pregnant
with the child of one of the doctors.
She was found dead, hanging from a light bulb wire in the infamous Room 502.
Tragically her body lay undiscovered for a long time.
Paranormal investigators still flock to the Sanatorium.
However, the most bizarre twist to this image – and others gathered over the years – is
the intention to transform the Sanatorium into a four-star hotel.
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