I don't Know if this has been put up

the Girl in the fire

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Larger version: http://www.mysteriouspeople.com/Text.htm/images/pic8.jpg

Amateur photographer Tony O'Rahilly took the snap while photographing a blaze which destroyed Wem Town Hall in Shropshire on November 19, 1995.

After developing his film, Mr O'Rahilly claimed he had captured an image of a young girl wearing old fashioned clothes standing amid the flames staring into the camera lens.
Mr O'Rahilly, who died in 2005, always denied doctoring the photograph - nicknamed the 'Wem Ghost' - and the image made headlines around the world.

Locals even claimed it was an apparition of 14-year-old Jane Churm who accidentally set fire to the town hall in 1677.

But eagle-eyed Brian Lear, 77, has finally put an end to the mystery after he noticed a striking similarity between the spooky shot and a girl in a postcard which appeared in his local paper.

The postcard, printed in the Shropshire Star's Pictures from the Past section, shows a street view of Wem in 1922.

A young girl standing in a shop doorway on the left handside of the picture bares an uncanny resemblance to the Wem Ghost.

Mr Lear, a retired engineer and taxi driver, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said: ''It is interesting to compare the two pictures.

''I was intrigued to find that she bore a striking likeness to the little girl featured as the Wem ghost.

''Her dress and headgear appear to be identical.''

The 'Wem Ghost' led to a plaque being placed on the newly built town hall and Wem was briefly renamed 'Ghost Town' attracting hundreds of tourists every year.

Wem postcard:



Article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7736060/Ghost-picture-mystery-resolved.html

apparently its fake?

Wow, took them long to find that out then LOL

I thought it was debunked as an optical illusion from a burning rafter?

Hi All

I suposse that we will never know whether it's a fake or real there were alot of explanations for this including the ones mentioned below .

regards
ian

Its pretty spooky isn't it?

Hi
to be honest i cant see anyone could say theses girls are the same person....that old photo is hard to make out anything from the photo above even if you zoom in this little girl could be anyone form that time....but there again i could be wrong....?

This is the girl from the postcard seen next to the girl in the fire - pretty identical I'd say.


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