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A Hampton Court Ghost

Kewl! That's gonna boost their ticket sales. .... Which is presumably the purpose. :rolleyes:

Hans
 
This is just words and anecdotes that mean nothing! Besides this goes against materialism and the skeptical world view so it is impossible and false and we know that as a fact! The guards were just halucinating due to their own wishful thinking that there are magical ghosts! The picture is a clear fake I can do that in photoshop in less than 6 minutes!

Debunked!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I remember someone telling me (it might have been here) that they had seen a ghost at one of these stately homes type of places. And instead of standing still and staring or running away, went over and tackled it. Upon which the ghost turned round and told him to push off as he was employed by the stately home to dress up and roam about to spook the tourists.

Something like that anyway.

I am just amused by Dr Wisemans comments.
 
Richard Wiseman is a parapsychologist (and Skeptic) who conducts many popular experiments. Although appealing to the masses the experiments are well done and to date have confirmed no supernatural activity. I suspect his comments are taken out of context along the lines of 'If you could turn that tree upside down by the power of thought alone, It could be the best paranormal event ever,' he said. 'I haven't seen anything that would match that at all
 
There is no need for further discussion I have debunked this and proven that it is bull ◊◊◊◊ like everything else considered supernatural!
 
I seem to remember Wiseman doing somesort of Hampton Court ghost study at some time or another. Probably why they asked him to comment.
 
"Australian tourists have also reported seeing the ghost..."
Well, that settles it.
Was that during the Pommie Pub Crawl Event, then?
 
From the article:
The palace, in West London, has ruled out its guides as suspects because they do not enter that part of the building.
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Ah, well, if the guides never go there then it must be a ghost, eh?
 
Oh, the guides don't enter that part.... maybe they go around and close the doors.
 
I think it's fascinating. Unlike the "ghost in the junkyard" video, which was clearly fake, we only have a still in this case - and I must admit it's a uber-cool still at that. The figure seems solid enough to be a real person, so Occam's Razor and all that.

I still think it looks cool though.
 
The film of the 'ghost' closing the doors was caught on cctv security cameras. The alarm went off but no one was there. When the tape recording was checked, the figure as you see it in the photo (on the link given further up this thread) was the cause
The film was shown on Richard and Judy prog this evening
 
"To the sceptic it may simply look like a fuzzy CCTV image of someone in a long coat walking through a doorway. "
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Shouldn't that read "to any rational thinking person it may simply look like a fuzzy CCTV image of someone in a long coat walking through a doorway. "

The mystery surfaced two months ago
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Two months ago? You mean, right around Halloween? Coincidence, I'm sure.



Security staff heard alarms ringing near an exhibition hall, indicating fire doors had been opened. But on investigation they found the doors closed
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No HUMAN could possibly open doors, then close them!


To add to the mystery, the doors also flew open at the same time the very next day. But the ghostly figure has been spotted only once
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Odd how cameras can only pick this up once, and then with a very grainy & fuzzy texture.

Yes, yes I'm aware these are security cameras and the resolution isn't the best. Still, one would think in all these years there would be at least ONE nice, crisp, clear photograph or film.....
 
Skeletor

At last, absolute and definitive proof! :)


How much attention would this attract if the person at the door was wearing a modern business suit and tie? But it looks like it's wearing an old robe. Therefore, ghost.
 
The alarm system said doors were open. The employees ran and the doors were closed. The security camera shows the doors coming open. The security camera shows the door being closed. By an entity that has power to affect this plane of existence and cares enough to close things up for us poor humans. Hm... funny how the doors popped open without help but closed by a "spector"....
 
I just read the CNN article on this. I actually find it quite intriguing, and it's a pretty cool picture. Possible non-paranormal explanations include: an altered CCTV still, an employee playing a joke, the guards playing a joke, and an employee unknowingly causing a stir by using this exit.

If they wish to prove it further, they should attach a video recorder, or just a regular high-quality camera, to a motion sensor where that CCTV camera is. When the doors begin to open, it triggers the motion sensor and the camera films the whole thing.

But they probably won't do that. It's good for tourist revenue to have a good mystery like this.
 
It's at CNN too:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/19/hampton.ghost.ap/index.html

Think someone will try to claim the million with this video?

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.
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