Haunting

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So spooky! I would love to figure out how to do this in a yard haunt!

Ghost in a Graveyard

Image via Battery Carriage House

Ghostly

Via Standing on my Head: Ghosts, Demons and Deliverance

Via Eat My Potato



Via Ghosts of Earth



Via Actual Ghosts Video Clips



Via Real Ghost Pictures



The Prescence is With Us...

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Topper

As a kid, I'd watch Tom Hatten on Channel 5. He'd have all the old classic movies, introduced me to Cary Grant and Clark Gable. I loved the old Topper movies and would watch them over and over again. I loved the ghost part, and the screwball comedy aspect of these two charming ghosts ripping Topper's safe world to shreds. (I thought it was particularly funny when they were out on a drinking binge and had to sleep in their posh car in front of the building where they were to have a very important meeting in the morning, so they wouldn't be late.)

Please rent one of these for a great laugh and a touch of class and elegance.

What To Do If Your House Is Haunted

Just in case any of you have this problem, here's some helpful insight.

Home Security: What To Do If Your House Is Haunted

Haunted Pictures

When I was a kid, around fourth grade age, we had a book program that came to the school. They would send a little catalog home with you, and you could pick out books, get a check for them from your folks, and mail the lot in. A few weeks later, your books would turn up at school.

Young ShellHawk loved ghost stories, even then. I got a book on haunted houses, complete with pictures of real ghosts. I was thrilled! (Can't for the life of me remember the name of the book, though. Probably out of print, anyway.) Real ghosts! Whoopee! This first picture was the cover shot, taken of one of the most famous ghosts ever photographed: the Tulip Staircase Ghost.

It was taken by Rev. Ralph Hardy, retired clergy, in a 1966 visit to the National Maritime museum in Greenwich, England. Intending only to get a snapshot of the staircase, Hardy was surprised by the figure on the stairs. Experts, some from Kodak, examined the negative and conclude that it hadn't been tampered with. For some reason, the image has stuck with me all these years.

Another famous photo used in the book was of the Brown Lady, taken in 1936.
The Brown Lady is thought to be the wife of 2nd Viscount of Raynham Charles Townshend of Norfolk, England in the early 1700s. He suspected Lady Dorothy Townshend of infidelity. Although records state she was buried in 1726, it was thought that Townshend merely locked her up in an out-of-the-way section of the manor until her death years later. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, isn't it?

Over the years, there have been numerous sightings of the Brown Lady (as Dorothy came to be called), from King George IV to a number of different military officers. One man claimed that he thought her eyes had been gouged out. As a child, I didn't really fully absorb Dorothy's story, though I viscerally felt the implied tragic circumstances of her demise. Even then, I knew that ghosts are still among us because of unfinished business or because their lives were cut short by foul play.

And here's a favorite of mine. For those of you who haven't heard, there's a possibility of a ghostly appearance in the 1987 movie, Three Men and a Baby. If you watch the clip, take note of the windows behind the actors as they walk past, both at the beginning of the scene, and at the end.

Creepy, huh? Well, I gotta blow the myth. The figure in the background is actually a cardboard figure of Ted Danson stuck behind the curtains. The scene with him and the figure was cut from the final edit of the movie. Would have been cool if it had been a ghost, huh?

Hmm. Cold, wet, windy day out. Pumpkins to mache. Maybe it's time to throw on a ghost movie...