# Spooky. Ghost photographed in England. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084 "2003-12-20T00:51:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/1 "2003-12-20T00:51:43Z")
Don’t know if this has been posted yet or not… [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/19/hampton.ghost.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/19/hampton.ghost.ap/index.html) Worth a look. Wonder if there is a easily explainable answer for this? I’d like to know 'cause I don’t believe in them… ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/2 "2003-12-20T00:55:51Z")
Cool, ghosts. I wonder if I can bother him and he has to stand there not moving? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/3 "2003-12-20T01:02:18Z")
I bet if those ghosts had to pay the heating bill they’d close the doors. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/4 "2003-12-20T01:03:32Z")
I’d have thought the easiest explainable answer is that it is a living human person, identity unknown, wearing clothes of some sort and equipped with a face and one or more hands. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/5 "2003-12-20T01:03:38Z")
Ghosts. Bah. Humbug. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/6 "2003-12-20T01:05:09Z")
[This site](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8268114?source=Metro) offers a bigger picture. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/7 "2003-12-20T01:26:21Z")
The CNN story made a big deal about how the face looked so much whiter than the hand… but it just looks like the hand is more in the shadow of the doorway. “Robes?” Looks like a coat _I_ have (thick collar and sleeves rolled back). Maybe a staff remember had a guest pop by. Nothing supernatural-looking to me. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/8 "2003-12-20T01:28:59Z")
“staff remember?” Ugh! “Member!” Geez, I’ve been scatterbrained today! ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/9 "2003-12-20T01:31:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\* > “Robes?” Looks like a coat _I_ have (thick collar and sleeves rolled back). > \*\* _looks suspitiously_ Can you please prove that you are _not_ the ghost in this picture? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/10 "2003-12-20T01:40:30Z")
Of course it wasn’t me! Nope, not me! Not me at all! I was at the Louvre in Pa- no! the Great Wall of - no! the Taj Mahaaaaal! Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket! I was at the Taj Mahal… no where near that building I was walking through. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/11 "2003-12-20T02:04:15Z")
I hope its a ghost. Ghosts are good for tourism. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/12 "2003-12-20T02:50:59Z")
But do they have to call me - er, _him_ - “Skeletor”? That is just _so_ _He-Man and the Masters of the Universe_. Probably just a naughty employee with a skeleton key. “Skeleton key” \ I slay me! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/13 "2003-12-20T03:38:18Z")
I don’t know if it’s a ghost, but just to be safe we’re sending the Mystery Machine over to England along with Velma, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and of course Scooby Doo. It’s probably going to turn out to be some guy in a rubber mask who has a plan for making money off of the property by scaring off the rightful owners. ---
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/14 "2003-12-20T03:51:49Z")
The photo looks like it is just a prank of some sort…now, if they had some of the CCTV video, not just the stills… If they are only willing to releaseon single still from the CCTV camera, then chances are someone is just looking to drum up some tourist revenue. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/15 "2003-12-20T03:55:22Z")
Pffft. That’s obviously Scrappy Doo in a mechanical skeleton suit. Probably trying to scare away the staff so he can make off with the valuable antiques. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/16 "2003-12-20T03:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*I don’t know if it’s a ghost, but just to be safe we’re sending the Mystery Machine over to England along with Velma, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and of course Scooby Doo. It’s probably going to turn out to be some guy in a rubber mask who has a plan for making money off of the property by scaring off the rightful owners. \*\* And he prolly would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for…something. Hmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/17 "2003-12-20T04:03:27Z")
I don’t know if it’s a ghost, but just to be safe we’re sending the Mystery Machine over to England along with Velma, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and of course Scooby Doo. It’s probably going to turn out to be some guy in a rubber mask who has a plan for making money off of the property by scaring off the rightful owners. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/18 "2003-12-20T05:17:02Z")
It’s England. You get ghosts in the mail with samples of Tide. They’re issued. I’d be disappointed if they DIDN’T have ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/19 "2003-12-20T05:31:32Z")
I went to England a few years back and toured the Tower of London, which RAWKED hardcore! I did not feel a presence or anything but I felt the “age” of the place. Westminster, too. I touched some of the tombs (a big no-no but oh well) but no ghosts lingering near. It’s hard to say what the picture really is, fun to speculate on though. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084/20 "2003-12-20T05:35:39Z")
I think it’s an extra from ROTK. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spooky-ghost-photographed-in-england/220084.md?page=2)