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Hampton Court Ghost
Submitted by Global Moderator: Evie
Security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors. In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.
The area around the man is somewhat blurred, and his face appears unnaturally white compared with his outstretched hand.
CNN (Canadian National News) had a poll on this video, nearly 50% believed this is an authentic Ghost.
The palace, built in 1525 on the River Thames 10 miles west of central London, is a popular tourist attraction and some of the guides wear costumes of the Tudor period. however, none of the regular costumes are like this cloaked figure.
The palace has been the scene of many dramatic royal events, and already is supposed to have a few ghosts. A little history....
The palace was once a prison for King Charles I, who later was beheaded, and then home to his nemesis Oliver Cromwell, who briefly ruled when Britain was for a short time a republic.
King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died there giving birth to a son, and her ghost is said to walk through one of the cobbled courtyards carrying a candle.
Her son, Edward, had a nurse called Sibell Penn who was buried in the palace grounds in 1562. In 1829 her tomb was disturbed by building work, and around the same time an odd whirring noise began to be heard in the southwest wing of the palace.
When workmen traced the strange sounds to a brick wall, they uncovered a small forgotten room containing an old spinning wheel. Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, condemned for adultery, was held at the palace under house arrest before her execution at the Tower of London. An 1897 book about the palace says she was reportedly seen, dressed in white and floating down one of the galleries uttering unearthly shrieks.
I believe the palace is haunted, but I voted that this is a deliberate hoax. It's how the doors are opened and then pulled shut. I always thought that ghosts went through walls and doors.... How about you?
