Palace Ghost!
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Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Caught on camera!</div> <span style='font-family:Impact'>LONDON, England (AP) -- Are there ghostly goings-on at Henry VIII's palace, or is that hazy image of a fellow in fancy robes just a bit of Christmas cheer?
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?
"We're baffled too -- it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it," said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. "We genuinely don't know who it is or what it is."
Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors.
In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.
The area around the man is somewhat blurred, and his face appears unnaturally white compared with his outstretched hand.
"It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human," said James Faukes, one of the palace security guards.
"My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides, but they don't own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving," Faukes said.
The palace, built in 1525 on the River Thames 10 miles west of central London, is a popular tourist attraction and some of the guides wear costumes of the Tudor period.
Wood said she was hoping people would come forward with similar stories and try to explain the figure.
The palace has been the scene of many dramatic royal events, and already is supposed to have a few ghosts.
King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died there giving birth to a son, and her ghost is said to walk through one of the cobbled courtyards carrying a candle.
Her son, Edward, had a nurse called Sibell Penn who was buried in the palace grounds in 1562. In 1829 her tomb was disturbed by building work, and around the same time an odd whirring noise began to be heard in the southwest wing of the palace.
When workmen traced the strange sounds to a brick wall, they uncovered a small forgotten room containing an old spinning wheel, just like the one Penn used to use.
Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, condemned for adultery, was held at the palace under house arrest before her execution at the Tower of London. An 1897 book about the palace says she was reportedly seen, dressed in white and floating down one of the galleries uttering unearthly shrieks.
The palace was once a prison for King Charles I, who later was beheaded, and then home to his nemesis Oliver Cromwell, who briefly ruled when Britain was for a short time a republic. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Spookeee...
And I just visited the place a month ago... <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo-->
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?
"We're baffled too -- it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it," said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. "We genuinely don't know who it is or what it is."
Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors.
In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.
The area around the man is somewhat blurred, and his face appears unnaturally white compared with his outstretched hand.
"It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human," said James Faukes, one of the palace security guards.
"My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides, but they don't own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving," Faukes said.
The palace, built in 1525 on the River Thames 10 miles west of central London, is a popular tourist attraction and some of the guides wear costumes of the Tudor period.
Wood said she was hoping people would come forward with similar stories and try to explain the figure.
The palace has been the scene of many dramatic royal events, and already is supposed to have a few ghosts.
King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died there giving birth to a son, and her ghost is said to walk through one of the cobbled courtyards carrying a candle.
Her son, Edward, had a nurse called Sibell Penn who was buried in the palace grounds in 1562. In 1829 her tomb was disturbed by building work, and around the same time an odd whirring noise began to be heard in the southwest wing of the palace.
When workmen traced the strange sounds to a brick wall, they uncovered a small forgotten room containing an old spinning wheel, just like the one Penn used to use.
Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, condemned for adultery, was held at the palace under house arrest before her execution at the Tower of London. An 1897 book about the palace says she was reportedly seen, dressed in white and floating down one of the galleries uttering unearthly shrieks.
The palace was once a prison for King Charles I, who later was beheaded, and then home to his nemesis Oliver Cromwell, who briefly ruled when Britain was for a short time a republic. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Spookeee...
And I just visited the place a month ago... <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo-->
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It's too undetailed for me to make out anything, honestly.
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Are there any better pictures thatn this one?
Lol, good call. He might just be an uncreative ghost, you never know.
Staff at the palace heard an alarm go off which told them a fire door had been opened on the grounds. When they got to the door it was closed, and this puzzled them. They reviewed the tapes to make sure. On watching the tape, the saw the door open rapidly but no one standing at the doorway. Suddenly the figure in the picture appeared and slammed the door shut.
It was found out that the same thing happened the day before and after the figure was captured on film. However on those occasions there was no figure present. That part of the palace is not used in the tours, nor was any staff officially in that area.
Hahaha
Aldaris, even creepier.
"My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides, but they don't own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving," Faukes said.
Looks like some old woman tbh
Not the least bit creepy.
That little picture of the kid lookin at you with all the dismembered hands was waaaaaay scarier.
lol thats what I said!
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That's dull.
At a party in a college dormitory in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, a college girl noticed a man dressed as a US Civil war soldier. She enticed the person to walk into the room. The soldier walks into the middle of the room, turns about and just vanishes.
Evidence against it:
30+ College kids + Alchohol. You do the math.
Evidence "for" it:
The person that communicated with the entity had just arrived at the party and was a designated driver and did not consume any alchohol.
Creepy.
Oh yea, looks like they need
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Sooner or later we will figure out how to use this to our own advantage.
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Staff at the palace heard an alarm go off which told them a fire door had been opened on the grounds. When they got to the door it was closed, and this puzzled them. They reviewed the tapes to make sure. On watching the tape, the saw the door open rapidly but no one standing at the doorway. Suddenly the figure in the picture appeared and slammed the door shut.
It was found out that the same thing happened the day before and after the figure was captured on film. However on those occasions there was no figure present. That part of the palace is not used in the tours, nor was any staff officially in that area. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
To expand on that expansion, it has apparantly been going on for some time. The fire alarm would go off, they'd check the door, and it was closed (they know it's that door from the system). Apparantly, the camera system seemed to see the doors blow open, then bang back shut (you know, as if they'd been blown open and bounce off the walls and shut).
Each time they went down there, the door was shut and no one was there. So one night when it happened they stayed still and watched the CCTV (they figured, they close anyway, so what's the point?) and saw the "ghost".
*CUE GHOSTBUSTERS THEME* <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
WHO YA GONNA CALL? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
HE-MAN, HE-MAN, HE-MAN, HE-MAN!!!!! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
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