Ghost Collection

Whistle and I ll Come 2
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! The thing in Parkinss hotel room

The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall
A family sit in the dark by a blazing fire, rigid with fear while listening to a ghost story told by an aged relative

Holy Trinity. Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Minitatu
Trinity. Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. One God in three persons. Minitature of Roman de la Rose. 16th century. France

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner

Scrooge and Marley Ghost
Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner

Dickensian Party
Mrs Fezziwigs Ball - shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past

Ghost plant or Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. Monotrope a une fleur

Peppers Ghost Illusion
The Peppers Ghost illusion

Athenodorus and Ghost
The Greek Stoic philosopher Athenodorus (died 7 AD) rents a haunted house, whose ghost leads him to its improperly buried bones : regarded as the first investigated ghost story

Brunel & Broad Gauge
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL The ghost of Brunel laments the burial of the railway broad gauge he invented

M. R. JAMES
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES Biblical scholar, and author of arguably the finest ghost stories ever written

Hall at Borley Rectory
Undated photograph of the hall at Borley Rectory, into which many things were thrown from above. HPG/1/3/4 (iv)

Japan Ghost Procession
JAPANESE GHOSTS The Shozenji Temple, Fushimi, near Kyoto, is haunted by Hiyakki Yako - a gathering of a hundred ghosts

Raynham Hall Ghost (Cl)
Raynham Hall, Norfolk; This figure is not seen but is unknowingly photographed on the staircase; it may be the ghost of Dorothy Walpole, known as The Brown Lady. Date: 1936

England / Thaxted
High Street, Thaxted, Essex, with the fine spire of its Cathedral of Essex church, rising high above the ancient timbered Moot Hall

Scrooge Sees Grave
The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge his gravestone

Prices Ghost Kit
Harry Prices ghost-hunting kit

Ghost Delivers Warning
A spectral figure materialises in a candlelit room where two men are roused from their books. The older man points ahead while the ghost points upwards. A ghostly warning?

Brockley Court Ghost
THE BROCKLEY COURT GHOST [near Clevedon, Somerset] Student Spencer-Palmer photographed by his brother as a ghostly monk - photo often taken to be genuine !

The Ghost Train, travel on the thrills and laughter line
The Ghost Train, Do you feel like Nothing on Earth? Then there is an Express reason why you should see The Ghost Train with a real Bogey

Apparition / Queens Hse
Figures photographed on the Tulip Staircase of the Queens House, though photographer saw nothing; during normal opening hours of the Museum

Dickens / Haunted / Fp
THE HAUNTED MAN the unhappy haunted man of the title gazes into the fire, while his own ghost lurks behind him

The Queens House Ghost on the Tulip Staircase. In 1966, a retired Canadian Reverend and his wife visited the Queens House, Greenwich, London

Ghost on the Tulip Staircase of the Queens House
Figure photographed on the Tulip Staircase of the Queens House, though photographer saw nothing; during normal opening hours of the Museum - (a digitally restored version of image 10003710)

The Lantern Spectre by Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - The Lantern Spectre. A burning paper lamp takes on the aspect of a spectral face - one of a set of Ghosts and Goblins. Date: circa 1810

Agnes Maria Bennett
AGNES MARIA BENNETT - Popular novelist : her Vicissitudes abroad, or the Ghost of my Father, in 6 volumes, sold 2000 copies on the first day in 1806 ! Date: ? - 1808

The Blue Room at Borley Rectory
Undated photograph of the Blue Room at Borley Rectory, where many manifestations took place. HPG/1/3/4 (vii)

Borley Rectory Ghost
Borley Rectory -- a rare pictorial representation of the Borley haunting showing Borley Rectory, the phantom nun and the ghostly coach and horses

Ghost in a Brothel
Annie Joness brothel at Louisville, Kentucky, is disturbed by ghosts (say the girls) or by drunken rowdies (say the cops)

Prohibition -The vision 1920
In these days even " Spirits" have their " Ghost". Satire in a British periodical, depicting Uncle Sam thinking about when alcohol was freely available

Man and ghost
Man being followed by a hooded ghost. The figure with outstretched hands pointed at me and said: " Granby Manners, you will die in this room!" Date: 1890s

Harry Prices ghost hunting kit
Undated photograph of Harry Prices ghost hunting kit, comprising a Reflex and cine cameras, tools for sealing doors and windows, apparatus for secret electrical controls, steel tape

Shakespeare & Scenes
The writer, with scenes from twelve of his plays -including a splendid ghost of Hamlets father !

Ghostly apparition produced by reflection. Date: 19th century

Varieties of bats
Western naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peronii 1, long-tongued nectar bat, Macroglossus minimus 2, northern ghost bat, Diclidurus albus 3, and Geoffroys rousette, Rousettus amplexicaudatus 4

Sepia photograph of the interior of Borley Church, showing the Waldegrave tomb and organ, dated circa 1926. HPG/1/3/2 (ii)

British Ballad, Fair Margaret and Sweet William
FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM. British ballad telling the story of Sweet William who tells Fair Margaret that he is marrying another

Caricatured Hamlet on a music sheet
A caricatured Hamlet, probably based on Sir Henry Irving, on a music sheet entitled Hamlet Ye Dane, A Ghost Story, with music by J B Lawreen

Undated, sepia photograph of Borley Rectory from the front. HPG/1/3/3 (vii)

Sparta, Ontario, Canada
The Sterling Bank of Canada and Eakins General Store at Sparta, Ontario

The Haunted Lady, Punch
The Haunted Lady, or The Ghost in the Looking-Glass. A lady admires her new dress, but the mirror reveals the sacrifice made: the death of the wretched seamstress

Japanese Snow Ghost
JAPANESE SNOW GHOST If a Japanese dies in the snow, s/he becomes a yuki onna - a snow ghost - as in the story of Oyasu who died in a great snowstorm

Whistle and I ll Come
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! Parkinss dream of the thing on the sea-shore

Hammersmith Ghost
A mysterious figure in white terrifies the populace, so vigilantes lie in wait and shoot dead Thomas Milwood, a bricklayer whose dusty clothing led to the error

Ghost of Patroclus
Achilles tries - in vain - to seize hold of the ghost of Patroclus

GHOST SHIP
A spectral ship crossed the bows of the vessel

England / Nasty 1930S
Not so bad as the name suggests. An interesting old village with a " bad" name: Nasty in Hertfordshire

Myth / Japan / Ghost Story
A Japanese ghost story : The ghost of Yoichi appears to his friend Ichibei and asks for revenge on his misbehaving wife and her new husband

Naples Hotel, Naples, Ontario County, NY State, USA - featured in season 8 of the 'Ghost Hunters' television programme. Date: circa 1940

Shakespeare character the Ghost of Hamlet's Father hoisted through a trap door with sound effects by beaters Date: 1843

Clifton Hall, Nottingham, England. Georgian house designed by John Carr for Sir Gervase Clifton in 1778-97

A strange ghostly apparition caught on camera
A strange ghostly apparition caught in a photograph taken in a family home on Sunday, 30th March, 1986

Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The RNAS - Middle East
Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), developed in 1914 and used during the First World War as pictured here (possibly in Egypt)

The Queens House Ghost on the Tulip Staircase Date: 1966

Cabaret du Neant (Cabaret of Nothingness or Death) - a ghost show cabaret, where ghosts were shown before the amazed audience via optical trickery and special effects

Medieval knight in armour holding a swooning lady
Medieval knight in suit of armour holding a swooning lady outside a castle. His defeated opponent lies on the ground. Sir Ethelbert holds Adelaide over the prone body of Alan

Northern ghost bat and spectral bat
Northern ghost bat or white box-tailed bat, Diclidurus albus, and spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrus spectrum

Andrew Burlington ghost photograph
12 year-old Andrew Burlington holds up the photograph taken at his family home on Sunday, 30th March, 1986

A double-exposure photograph creating a ghost illusion, Victorian period

Cover design, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, pulp fiction, September 1944 Date: 1944

Inspiration of the painter, 1897, by Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929). Polish painter. Inspiration of the painter, 1897. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Spirit Photograph - Family Group
A small-format Spirit Photograph showing a Family Group, possibly mourning a dead baby, although all the figures have an air of ghostly form, especially the seated woman/Mother

The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm - 19 ?, by Bairnsfather
The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm - 19

Cartoon, The Harvest of War, WW1
Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements

DIBBINSDALE BRIDGE
Dibbinsdale Bridge, Bromborough, Cheshire, England, is allegedly haunted by a white lady'. The site of the death of a young nun who had unrequited love for a monk Date: 1960s

Hammersmith Ghost Paranormal Apparitions 1804
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SCROOGE WITH SPIRIT
Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows him his own dead body and grave. Date: First published: 1843

WIDOW REMARRIES 1950
At Campine, when a widow remarries, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

POLYXENA SACRIFICED
Priam's daughter was loved by Achilles, though an enemy : after his death, Troy fallen, his ghost demands that she be sacrificed so that he may have her in death if not in life

THE FIREFLY GHOST
The spirit of Jimpachi avenges his wrongful death by manifesting as a swarm of fireflies who settle on the evil-doer and gradually smother him to death

Human souls moving on to higher things ! Date: 1907
Human souls moving on... to higher things ! Date: 1907

Dead girld finds her friends nor=t missing her
The dead girl returns - and finds her former friends feasting with no thought for her

The ghost of a dead lover draws the bride away from her bridegroom - thou and I together, In the outcast weather Toss and howl and spin

MARRIAGE/BELGIUM 1950
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

REMARRIAGE CUSTOM
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

Leeds Library Ghost
The ghost of a former librarian of Leeds Library, Vincent Sternberg, is seen by his successor, John MacAlister, at about the time of his death 1884

Lyttelton Warning Paranormal Apparitions Lord
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The Witch of Endor conjures up the spirit of Samuel at the request of Saul

Summoning the dead: the Witch of Endor and Samuel's spirit
The Witch of Endor conjures up the spirit of Samuel at the request of Saul. Date:

Apparitions: angels & the ghost of a lover comforts woman
The spirit of a dead man, accompanied by two angels, returns to Earth to comfort his surviving lover. Date: circa 1810

GHOST OF DEAD WIFE
An old man is visited by the ghost of his dead wife (illustration to Thackeray's The cane-bottom'd chair) Date: 1894

Comic postcard, Man at the barbers Date: 20th century

Tiger crab and frog crab
Tiger crab, Orithyia sinica 1, and frog crab, Notopus dorsipes 2. Oritia mammillare, Ranina dorsipede

Slipper lobster and butterfly fan lobster
Slipper lobster, Thenus orientalis 1, and butterfly fan lobster, Ibacus peronii 2. Scillaro orientale, Ibaco di Peron

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