Poll: Newby ghost photo - ever proved a fake?

Do you think the Newby Ghost photo is real or fake?

  • Real

  • Fake

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I lived opposite a graveyard for over 5 years as a kid.

I saw no ghosts.

I've explored many abandoned mental asylums, hospitals and prisons around the UK, France and Belgium, places where people have died and/or been buried throughout the ages.

I saw no ghosts.

Conclusion = Ghosts are really good hide and seek players.
 
Cameras everywhere these days, if ghosts could be caught on camera surely there'd be looads more pictures about even up to modern times that cant be disproved.

Funny how its always an old photo using methods that could easily have accidentally or intentionally created that effect.
 
mrk said:
I lived opposite a graveyard for over 5 years as a kid.

I saw no ghosts.

I've explored many abandoned mental asylums, hospitals and prisons around the UK, France and Belgium, places where people have died and/or been buried throughout the ages.

I saw no ghosts.
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"I don't see dead people"

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
 
I know people who have seen the Newby Ghost! I realise this is an old thread but I couldn't read and not reply. I used to live close to Newby Hall and still visit often. I also have family who have worked for the estate. I can also verify that the churchyard has one of the most spookiest atmospheres I have ever come across having visited to check it out for a potential wedding venue. It seriously creeped me out to the point that me and my Mum didn't even go inside the church. I have known vaguely of the photograph but used to personally know a couple who lived close to the church who were walking in the fields nearby one day only to see in impossibly tall figure in a black cloak ahead of them. The woman immediately knew it wasnt "normal" and started to run for home screaming at her partner (a gruff no-nonsense, tough kind of guy) to stop, after he ran towards it; determined to find out what it was. She reached home terrified (and stayed that way for some weeks) and he arrived a short time later explaining that no matter how fast he ran or how close he seemed - he couldn't catch up with the figure. I can see no reason why they would make this story up and as far as I know they only told very few people). I also know of other people who have seen a similar figure on the estate. You can do all the questioning, theorising etc in the world but we cannot gain certainty on whether it is a ghost on the photo or not. What I will say is that there are things that happen that cannot be rationally explained and I think it would be a very ignorant person to not accept that there is a magical/spiritual realm that as yet - if ever - we can't understand. Going with the theory of ghosts there are some tragedies associated with the church. Firstly it was built with the ransom money raised to release one of the family sons kidnapped in Greece but unfortunately he was killed by his kidnappers. Only a short time later a second family member was drowned along with other men and horses in a hunting accident on the estate. I also think i remember being told of a religious order nearby in times gone by and leprosy or plague victims which would explain the face covering on the figure. Newby is beautiful and a favourite place of mine but it definitely has some darker energies there too.
 
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Nyxie Jo said:
I know people who have seen the Newby Ghost! I realise this is an old thread but I couldn't read and not reply. I used to live close to Newby Hall and still visit often. I also have family who have worked for the estate. I can also verify that the churchyard has one of the most spookiest atmospheres I have ever come across having visited to check it out for a potential wedding venue. It seriously creeped me out to the point that me and my Mum didn't even go inside the church. I have known vaguely of the photograph but used to personally know a couple who lived close to the church who were walking in the fields nearby one day only to see in impossibly tall figure in a black cloak ahead of them. The woman immediately knew it wasnt "normal" and started to run for home screaming at her partner (a gruff no-nonsense, tough kind of guy) to stop, after he ran towards it; determined to find out what it was. She reached home terrified (and stayed that way for some weeks) and he arrived a short time later explaining that no matter how fast he ran or how close he seemed - he couldn't catch up with the figure. I can see no reason why they would make this story up and as far as I know they only told very few people). I also know of other people who have seen a similar figure on the estate. You can do all the questioning, theorising etc in the world but we cannot gain certainty on whether it is a ghost on the photo or not. What I will say is that there are things that happen that cannot be rationally explained and I think it would be a very ignorant person to not accept that there is a magical/spiritual realm that as yet - if ever - we can't understand. Going with the theory of ghosts there are some tragedies associated with the church. Firstly it was built with the ransom money raised to release one of the family sons kidnapped in Greece but unfortunately he was killed by his kidnappers. Only a short time later a second family member was drowned along with other men and horses in a hunting accident on the estate. I also think i remember being told of a religious order nearby in times gone by and leprosy or plague victims which would explain the face covering on the figure. Newby is beautiful and a favourite place of mine but it definitely has some darker energies there too.
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So a relative saw a tall dark figure. Definitely a ghost then, no doubt about it.
 
Pretty hard to get confused in a field in broad daylight. Not really sure what they would gain from lying either as it certainly wasn't publicised. The ghost pic may be fake or an anomaly but I wonder why you seem so closed minded to anything "woo woo". It suggests some own inner fear or inability to accept uncertainty. However I respect that you are entitled to your own opinion so I'll leave it at that.
 
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