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The Staircase Ghost Rev. Ralph Hardy, a retired clergyman from White Rock, British Columbia, took this now-famous photograph in 1966. He intended merely to photograph the elegant spiral staircase (known as the "Tulip Staircase") in the Queen's House section of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. Upon development, however, the photo revealed a shrouded figure climbing the stairs, seeming to hold the railing with both hands. Experts, including some from Kodak, who examined the original negative concluded that it had not been tampered with. It's been said that unexplained figures have been seen on occasion in the vicinity of the staircase, and unexplained footsteps have also been heard.
This photo isn't the only evidence of ghostly activity at the Queen's
House. The 400-year-old building is credited with several other
apparitions and phantom footsteps even today. Recently, a Gallery
Assistant was discussing a tea break with two colleagues when he saw one
of the doors to the Bridge Room close by itself. At first he thought it
was one of the lecturers. "Then I saw a woman glide across the balcony,
and pass through the wall on the west balcony," he said. "I couldn't
believe what I saw. I went very cold and the hair on my arms and my neck
stood on end. We all dashed through to the Queen's Presents Room and
looked down towards the Queen's Bedroom. Something passed through the
ante-room and out through the wall. Then my colleagues all froze too. The
lady was dressed in a white-grey color crinoline type dress."
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