The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

8. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. The Raynham Hall Ghost popularly known as The Brown Lady, is perhaps the most famous ghosts ever captured on camera. This photograph of her on the staircase was taken in 1936 at Raynman Hall, Norfolk, England. and is in fact the most authentic paranormal photographs of all time. The Brown lady, named so because she appears in a brown brocade dress, is widely believed to be the ghost of Lady Dorothy Walpole who married Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend in 1713 (residents of Raynman Hall). It was rumored that Dorothy had been a mistress of Lord Wharton, before she married Charles. Dorothy was thus suspected of infidelity by Charles. Although legal records say that she was buried in 1726, it was suspected that the funeral was just a hoax and that Charles had locked his wife away in a remote corner of the house until her death many years later. Whatever be the reason of her death, it was all too mysterious and if that wasn’t enough, people started reporting sighting of her ghost shortly after her death, which were fairly unauthentic and couldn’t be proved. But one account of sighting by a man named Major Loftus, who was staying at Raynham Hall in 1849, has been regarded as a authentic source. Retiring to bed one night, Major Loftus and his friend observed a woman in brown brocade on the staircase. She immediately vanished as Major Loftus tried to approach her. Determined to confront the apparition, he returned to the same spot the following night and saw her again. He was horrified to see however, that when he looked into her face he saw only two black sockets where her eyes should have been. Creepy and unsettling to say the least!