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of an apparition caught on film by a woman who photographed
the ghost in an Edinburgh hotel room. He recalls that the woman
was getting ready for an evening with her friends when she de-
cided to take a few photographs of her hotel room as a memen-
to. When she later looked at the processed photos, she noticed
what appeared be an image of a woman in the window. Because
the room was on the second floor, however, it would have been
impossible for someone to be standing outside the window. Rut-
ter adds,
The photographer was alone in the room and it’s not her
reflection as she is blonde and the figure is dark haired,
these are not the clothes she was wearing and her cam-
era cannot be seen. The figure is wearing a white maid’s
cap, but [the] photograph was taken just before the group
went out for the evening, so there shouldn’t have been any
maids around—particularly not outside the window of [the]
room.
The figure appears to be either reflected in the window or
on the other side of the window rather than superimposed
over it or between the photographer and the window. If
it’s a reflected person, painting or television, then these
objects would have to be very large indeed. An impressive
and intriguing picture.
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Grey Ladies
Another form of apparition is the grey lady (usually spelled
grey
rather than
gray
), the ghost of a woman who died of a broken
heart. A grey lady is said to haunt Gainsborough Old Hall, a five-
hundred-year-old manor house in Lincolnshire, a rural district of
England along the North Sea coast. Local legend suggests the
grey lady is the ghost of a young woman whose family lived in the
manor house during the Tudor era, a reign of British monarchs
that spanned from the late 1400s to early 1600s. Historians have
never been able to identify the grey lady, but it is believed she fell
