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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Wem Town Ghost Identified

There are lots of pictures of (what is supossed to be) ghosts. But when you look carefully at them, almost all (if not all) are fakes (at very different levels of professionality, let's say).

But some of them, independently that we believe or not that what appears in them is a ghost, have something special, maybe weird, maybe it's just what the good photographs have.

This could be the case of the famous photo of the fire of Wem Town Hall (story here). Taken by Tony O'Rahilly on 19th November, 1995 when this building, at Shropshire, was totally destroyed.

Neither the author of any of the of the witnesses recall seeing anybody in the buildig in flames, and specially when the photo was taken.

But here it is, a girl whit a white dress (maybe the "Woman in white" of Wilkie Collins), staring at us with a severe look.




But in May of 2010, a postcard was published from the 1920s, that had been taken in Wem, Shropshire, by M. Audin-Wood. [telegraph.co.uk]

As you can notice, the girl that appears in the down left side of the postcard has a suspicious similarity with the girl standing on the threshold, surrounded by raging flames.