Could it be that this past weekend we took a photograph of a ghost in an old pub?
Debbie and I took a trip out to The New Forest on Saturday, to the village of Burley in the heart of the forest, where we went for a nice walk in one of the heathland parts of the forest, then went to The Queen’s Head Pub for a bite to eat, before browsing the little shops in the village, several of which have a witchcraft theme, the village being linked to a white witch, Cybil Leek who lived in the village in the 1950’s.
I just downloaded the photographs that we took, which include several taken inside The Queen’s Head, that we thought might be useful to add to Debbie’s Squidoo page on Pub Grub.
The curious thing is that I made sure nobody was in the pictures, because Debbie wasn’t too happy about taking pictures inside the pub without asking, and in the first picture there is a woman, however she just doesn’t look right.
I took the photos to capture the chalk boards with the menu specials on, and in the first photo you can clearly see a woman, but the outline of her hair looks like it has erased part of the price of one of the menu items. Even stranger though is the fact that she isn’t in the second picture, but the price is still showing as if it has been partly erased.
Is this just a coincidence I wonder, or did we capture a ghost on film (well digital media)?
The pub is just one of a number of locations in the New Forest that is supposed to be haunted, which I did not know until I did some research this evening.
If you click on the photos below, they link to the full size originals, but BE WARNED these are 3.5mb each in size, so they might take a while to load.
Try zooming in on the woman, she just looks wrong and sort of ghostly. Unfortunately I took the photos without flash so they are a bit grainy which doesn’t help.
In the second photo from a slightly different angle the woman has gone, however the chalkboard for the White Chocolate Pistachio Cheesecake still looks as if the shadow of her head is there, and the price has been partly erased, or at least it looks like it.
So what do you think?
Is this a ghost, or just a coincidence.
Please leave a comment to let me know what you think.
11 thoughts on “Did We Take A Photograph Of A Ghost At The Weekend?”
Oh Tony, this is too weird, come on… Let’s come up with a different explanation. please…
Very strange. It looks like the corner of the chalkboard covers part of her head/face, while at the same time, her head is covering part of the chalkboard — which I believe is impossible. LOL. I don’t believe in ghosts, because the Bible teaches that no one comes back that way, except in an isolated case where God allowed it. However, I do believe in demons, and believe they will try to steer people from the Truth any way they can. Does that help, Susan, with a different explanation? Probably not. Or, maybe it has something to do with photography and how it works that people can’t understand yet — something like this happened many years ago on a film camera when my uncle took some family pictures.
I would say a ghost, for sure. Especially since you made sure there was noone in the picture before you took it. You know, I never really believed in ghosts, and then we started watching Zac Bagans Ghost Adventures, and now I am pretty confident they exist 🙂 Several weeks ago we went to the Whalehead Club in Corolla, NC. We were upstairs in an empty house, and 3 seconds after I said “it’s nice we are the only ones up here” (its an awesome house from the 1920s and I got a kick out of walking through empty rooms with vintage furniture and clothing without running into crowds of people), something behind me pulled my purse, and the handle on the purse ripped. So I have evidence now… I wish Zac would come out and do a show at Whalehead Club – they have plenty of other ghost stories there.
Well. THAT was fun! Stumbled and shared with a group of skeptic friends. 😀
On second and third look, it appears the person in the pic was a woman standing behind the sign at the moment you took the pic. What appears to be the curve of her head on the sign is an illusion.
Wow, strange picture. Actually one of the clearest “ghost” images I’ve ever seen – though part of me has to be a bit skeptical since she is so clear! Has this area ever been investigated for ghosts and has this woman shown up in other photos???
I did check with a local ghost hunting society, and also with the pub themselves. Nobody there could recognise the woman, and although clear in the photo, I don’t recall anyone being in the picture, and she just looks unnatural. I guess we will never know. The pub does apparently have a ghost though, but not matching her description, and a white witch did live in the village some 50 years ago.
It is an amazing photo. Would be interesting to call in the ghost hunters or something 🙂
2018 and I still like to refer this picture on to ghost and paranormal forums that I am a member of. I think I first saw this via the Hampshire Ghost Club.
It’s a great picture(s) but I think the curve and shape of the woman’s head lends itself to the way the price has been written on the chalkboard, and has created an optical illusion that seems to show a partial block even when the woman is gone.
It would be interesting if other people had experience of the same woman appearing, or if there were other details regards this.
Ever the realist, me 🙂
Dave H
It’s puzzled me too Dave ever since I took the picture. No matter how much I blow up the original, I can’t determine whether the woman’s head aligning with the chalkboard is a trick of the light and position when the photo was taken, or whether she was in fact a ghostly apparition.
I did contact The Queen’s Head pub a few days later to see if anyone recognised her, or if anything similar had been experienced before, but no luck either way.
We must go back and take some more photos from the same angle just to see if anything unusual shows up.
I say ghost just looks so unnatural like shes just popped up out of nowhere she blends into that sign ! And ghosts go through things so they say i will have to take pictures ! very fascinating ! Thanks for the share ive never seen a ghost as clear and just like human but ghostly like! I getcha