Rainham Hall
Rainham Hall - this patrimony Marquises Townsend. The estate is located in the county of Norfolk, England. It was here that made one of the most famous photos of ghosts on the steps. This ghost lady in brown. It is believed that a ghost Dorothy Townshend, wife of the Marquis of Townsend.
About a hundred years in this manor is nothing strange happened and unusual, but in 1117 killed in unknown circumstances spouse Charles Townsend. Charles married a second time on Dorothy. According to some rumors, before the wedding, she was quite famous mistress of Lord Philip Wharton. Charles learns of this and decides to punish his wife, imprisoning her in a room in Rainham Hall. Dorothy spends in prison for about ten years and dies. There are different versions of the girl's death: Dorothy smallpox killed, she died of a broken heart, and there is a version according to which Dorothy rasshiblas, falling down the stairs. Anyway, but today you can see her ghost wandering around the castle. Were witnesses who confirmed that they had seen a ghost "brown lady".
In the early 19th century, Rainham Hall stayed George IV. Once he woke up in the bedchamber for important guests and saw a woman in the next brown dress with deathly pale haggard face. He screamed and swore that his legs would not be in this damn house. Documentary evidence that there is a ghost in the house, owned by Stone and refers to 1835. He wrote that on Christmas Day in Rainham Hall had a lot of guests. Among them - a Hawkins and Colonel Loftus. Both claimed to have seen the stately lady in a brown dress with a dark empty eye sockets.
Later here gosteval and friend Charles Dickens - Captain Frederick Marryat. At night he faced in the hallway with a "brown lady". Then he told me that in her hands was a lighted lamp, and on her face - a devilish grin. Not a loss, he shot him. But the bullet went right through, and later found a bullet in the door, in the place where there was a ghost.
About the ghost did not hear until 1920, when the lady in brown reappeared. In 1936, photographers were invited to photograph the decoration of this palace. One photographer from London Provand Hubert and his assistant shared photos with a flash of magnesium. When they removed the ladder, assistant Hubert saw a vague silhouette that resembled the figure of a woman in white. Ghost descended the stairs and headed straight for them. Assistant was a little scared, but pulled himself together and asked Provanda rotate the camera in the direction indicated. Provand not believe that his assistant had seen a ghost, but "brown lady" was displayed on the photos as a silhouette in wedding dress. This photo was published December 26, 1936 in the magazine "Country Life". After numerous studies, experts have not been able to find at least some sign of fraud.
