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Haunted Littlecote
Manor!
John writes, "I have
decided to send you this ghost photograph, and a
close-up taken from it. It was provided a while ago
by a semi-retired lady who teaches part-time at my
wife's school. This digital imagery is almost
certainly an authentic snapshot photograph. It was
taken at midday at the end of a weekend away during
March 3003, at the very haunted Littlecote Manor,
Berkshire UK, with her husband. She is adamant that
the doorway was empty when they took the snap. Mrs.
Levy is a reputable schoolteacher, and isn't the
hoaxing kind. She has gained little, save for
skepticism, from these images! I find them to be
hauntingly beautiful, whether genuine or not. If
they are fake, then Mrs. Levy must know that they put
her in a very dubious position professionally,
because she shows them to her classes! She and her
husband still can't believe what they downloaded
when they got home.
Some time ago, I sent these images to The Fortean
Times, an internationally renowned journal of
strange and anomalous phenomena. They published them
in their Letters section. They printed no response
in subsequent issues, however. This surprises me,
because they rank highly, in my view, against famous
ghost photographs. Also, The Society for Psychical
Research accepted them into their archives. A famous
authority on British costume, who wish to remain
anonymous, identified the style of coat as belonging
to the period 1660's to late 18th century.
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photos at full size with no water marks - Click here
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Flowing jacket in the
doorway
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This photo is interesting for the fact that the
coat is very bright and detailed, yet there is
nothing else of this person showing. We
should at least be able to see something of the
lower portion of the person, their legs or at
the very least, their shoes. Viewer
Comments:
Jamie writes, "The kind of coat seen in this
picture is usually called by the French term 'justaucorps'
and as the anonymous expert says, was developed
in the later 1600s and was used until the later
1700s. It is pretty distinctive in the photo
(though the side-pleats seem to be missing), and
the small size of the cuffs suggest a later
date, perhaps around 1750 or even a trifle
later. There is a bit of the problem with the
reconstruction of the legs, however - the
justaucorps was usually knee-length, and so if
there was an invisible person in this coat, his
feet would appear to be about a foot above the
ground. Also note the dark bit at the top of the
shoulder - it looks to me like curls from a dark
wig spilling onto the shoulder. Because it is so
clear, I would be inclined to suggest that this
was copied from a painting or a photograph and
pasted in, except that there should be a hand
coming out of the sleeve - it could be removed
in Photoshop, of course, but it is not the
easiest thing to do. For more examples of such
coats, see: http://www.marquise.de/en/index.html
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