Boy photographs ghost walking down stairs in ancient British castle

[Blackleaf]

Teenager Connor Bond photographed a staircase inside an ancient British castle - and captured what looks like a spook walking down (or maybe up) them.

Tulloch Castle, in the Scottish Highlands, was built by Norsemen in the 1100s. Over the years, it has served as a family home for members of the Bayne and Davidson clans, as a hospital after the evacuation of Dunkirk, and as a hostel for the local education authority. It is currently used as a hotel and conference centre.

The castle has been known to be haunted for many years. One ghost is the Green Lady, who has been seen so many times the castle's bar is named after her.


Teen snaps eerie ghost


By CHRIS SEMPLE
Published: 28 May 2008
The Sun

Spooky ... family snap shows ghostly figure on Scottish castle's staircase


THIS is the sensational picture which proves ghosts exist, a teenager claims.

The spectral vision was captured by 14-year-old Connor Bond at an ancient castle in the Scottish highlands famed for its ghostly residents.

The ghoulish apparition was snapped by accident while the youngster and his family were attending a wedding at the castle.

Haunted ... Tulloch Castle


The family only noticed what they had captured when they downloaded the image on to their computer and saw the ghostly hand and a swirl of mist around it.

The ghost was captured at Tulloch Castle in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands - a historic pile well known for its supernatural residents.

Despite describing themselves as ‘sceptics’, Connor and dad Mike are now convinced the ghost they snapped is real and are hoping experts will examine it and prove them correct.

Mystery


Mike, 52, from Inverness said: "We were at this wedding and Connor was walking around taking loads of photos. I think he took about 200 in total.

"After we loaded them up on to the computer we were looking through them and were just stopped in our tracks by this one shot.

"You can clearly see this ghostly figure on the staircase.

"You can see a hand on the banister and what appears to be a white mist around it.

"Being a sceptical person I thought Connor had done something to the picture but he says not and I believe him."

He added: "Even other members of the family can’t believe what they’ve seen and are all checking their own photos now."

Tulloch Castle dates back to the 1100s and has a long history of ghostly activity.

The most famous of them is the Green Lady who has been seen by dozens of people, and even has the castle’s bar named after her.

She is believed to be the ghost of Elizabeth Davidson, whose family once owned the castle where her portrait hangs in the Great Hall.

Mike added: "I just don’t see what else it could be - it’s a digital camera so you can’t accidentally double expose the shot and Connor swears there was no one around at the time.

"It’s a mystery."

TULLOCH CASTLE'S GHOSTIES AND GHOULIES

There have been several claims over the years that Tulloch Castle is haunted. Visitors and hotel staff have reported witnessing apparitions in the form of a young girl and a middle aged lady. These supernatural claims were explored in the Grampian Television series Beyond Explanation in 2005.

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[Just the Facts]

It's just the light shining in. Look at the floor downstairs, the light is coming in in the same pattern.

 

[FUBAR]

If the ghost had bigger boobs the Sun would have tracked it down by now.

 

[quandary121]

My friends girlfriend has been seeing Ghosts for many years she did not speak of it to her friends and family as she felt that she would be seen as crazy or worse later when she was older she was able to let people know that this was the case without repercussion's she says that she is not scared by them or that they do not threaten her in any way my friend did not believe her until one day not long after one of his friends had died from a heroin overdose and this girl said to him that she kept seeing this guy waving his finger at my friend she described who she had seen to my m8 and he informed her that this was the same friend who had died Ghosts exist whether you believe in them or not

 

[Just the Facts]

I don't believe in ghosts, you don't believe in punctuation. We'll call it even.

 

[quandary121]

I don't believe in ghosts, you don't believe in punctuation. We'll call it even.

so you would condemn me for my dyslexia i condemn you for your ignorance

 

[scratch]

so you would condemn me for my dyslexia i condemn you for your ignorance

Short fuse.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Have you been officially diagnosed as dyslexic? Poor punctuation isn't usually one of the signs of dyslexia. Bad spelling, transposed letters, phonetic writing, like "shud" for "should," are the more common signs, and you don't seem to be making mistakes like those. You just write run-on sentences, which a lot of people who are not dyslexic do. You're being a little harsh too. JTF wasn't condemning you, that was just an observation of fact: you don't use punctuation. Neither was JTF displaying ignorance. There's no good evidence that ghosts exist, no good reason to think they do, and plenty of more prosaic explanations for what people perceive as ghosts. Read this for instance.

 

[Scott Free]

I have had a couple of experiences with the paranormal which leave me uncertain. I fully understand someones skepticism and think it is wise, however, my own experiences have left me with little doubt that there is more to this world than meets the eye. Unless someone has had personal experiences with this sort of thing I can completely understand why it would be so hard (impossible) to believe.

I an in a funny position, in that, I don't want to believe but my experiences don't give me much choice. I don't like such things so much in fact that if my primary experiences hadn't been witnessed I would be more than happy to say I had a psychotic episode (normal people have at least one in their lifetime), however unfortunate though, that isn't possible either.

As a result I have been attempting to explain the paranormal without a god. The assumption is that one must include the other, however, I do not think this is true.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I have had a couple of experiences with the paranormal which leave me uncertain. I fully understand someones skepticism and think it is wise, however, my own experiences have left me with little doubt that there is more to this world than meets the eye.

I've had experiences I could have interpreted as paranormal too, and I did for a while. I think probably most of us have had such experiences, and most of us lack the knowledge and critical thinking skills to figure them out. I'm well into my fifties, and it's only in the last decade that I've really begun to understand the lamentably many ways we fool ourselves into believing things that aren't true simply because we don't have the skills and knowledge to really come to grips with them.

You're also entirely and provably right, there is more to this world than meets the eye. The discoveries of modern science make that perfectly clear: reality, whatever it is, isn't remotely what your unaided senses would tell you it is, and personally I find the partial (at best) vision of reality that science has given us to be infinitely more interesting and challenging than anything any mystic ever dreamed up. Every major religion, for instance, has a version of cosmology and biology that, compared to what science has shown us, seems lame, parochial, ignorant, and stupid to me.

 

[Scott Free]

I've had experiences I could have interpreted as paranormal too, and I did for a while. I think probably most of us have had such experiences, and most of us lack the knowledge and critical thinking skills to figure them out. I'm well into my fifties, and it's only in the last decade that I've really begun to understand the lamentably many ways we fool ourselves into believing things that aren't true simply because we don't have the skills and knowledge to really come to grips with them.

As I said: I understand completely why someone would doubt my experiences. I never meant to attribute them to something supernatural but paranormal; that is, out of the ordinary.

You're also entirely and provably right, there is more to this world than meets the eye. The discoveries of modern science make that perfectly clear: reality, whatever it is, isn't remotely what your unaided senses would tell you it is, and personally I find the partial (at best) vision of reality that science has given us to be infinitely more interesting and challenging than anything any mystic ever dreamed up. Every major religion, for instance, has a version of cosmology and biology that, compared to what science has shown us, seems lame, parochial, ignorant, and stupid to me.

Of coarse I agree. I hope this doesn't mean you've missed my meaning?

I don't think the universe is only a little different than science or metaphysics would have us believe; I think it is entirely different.

 

[quandary121]

Short fuse.

no bud i just dont think you should take the piss until you know all the facts thats all :smile: