Image Of Abandoned Hospital Shows Spooky Figure In Window

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OMG YOU GUYS! Oh M GEE! You see the spooky ghost?

OK seriously…Do you? Because all I see is some image/color anomaly caused by some entry level camera. Unless I’m supposed to be looking at what appears to be the X-ray of a chest on the bottom windowpane. Don’t ask me why, but that’s what it looks like to me.

Seriously now. A group of young men visited an abandoned country asylum in search of ghosts. While snapping pictures from the outside, one of the men noticed that he had captured the image of a ghost peering out from the windows.

“A group of five or six of us went up there as we are interested in spooks and we had heard it was haunted. I took lots of pictures of the whole building, but this is the only one that shows anything.

I’m a non-believer in it all, but when I looked at my photos, this figure popped up.”

This was in the headline news on the “This Is Lincolnshire” website this morning.

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Wait. I think I figured it out. The group of men are referring to the two black blotches on the bottom windowpane as them being two big eyes of the ghost. Is that it? I think so. It makes sense since the blotches are inside an oval shaped shadow that is supposed to be the ghost’s head.

NOW I SEE IT.  Man I’m good!  Now…where’s my aspirin?

Full source: ThisIsLincolnshire

URBAN explorers got more than they bargained for after visiting the dilapidated remains of a former county asylum.

Examining some of the hundreds of photographs they took while visiting the old St John’s Hospital in Bracebridge Heath, the group discovered a ghostly figure peering out.

The photographer, an unemployed 20-year-old Lincoln man, wished to remain anonymous as he was trespassing when he took the spooky snap.

He told the Echo he had not believed in the paranormal before making the chilling discovery.

He said: “A group of five or six of us went up there as we are interested in spooks and we had heard it was haunted.

“I took lots of pictures of the whole building, but this is the only one that shows anything.

“I’m a non-believer in it all, but when I looked at my photos, this figure popped up.

“It’s not one of my friends doing it as a hoax and we’ve done nothing to the image. It has not been Photoshopped.

“We asked the security guard at the site and he said there was nobody in the building at the time. I don’t quite know what to make of it, but it’s definitely a point of interest.”

The grade two listed Victorian-era asylum was closed down in 1989 and sold to a property developer, who turned part of the site into flats.

But David Gandey, 28, duty manager at the Homestead pub in a converted asylum building on the St John’s site, said he had no doubt things were going bump in the night.

He said: “Some nights, I run out of here after I lock up. You hear noises and it just sets you off.

“I used to play round there as a youngster and it used to freak us all out.

“”here was always the old story about a grey lady who is seen to throw a child off the clock tower and then jump herself.

“A lot of it could be just the legends of the area, but I definitely think, without a shadow of a doubt, the place is haunted.”

Peter Bradley, chairman of Bracebridge Heath parish council, said he just hoped more interest in the site, even from amateur ghost hunters, might encourage someone to save the building.

He said: “We went round five or six years ago. Even then, we couldn’t go in to some parts as it was unsafe. I can’t imagine it’s become any safer since then.

“It’s becoming an eyesore. It’s a shame to let such a beautiful building go to rack and ruin.”

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