Sorry, No Ghost
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poliphiloThe Queen's House at Greenwich was built by architect and stage designer Inigo Jones for James I's Queen, Anne of Austria, and her daughter-in-law, Henrietta Maria. Work was completed in 1635. It is claimed to be the earliest neo-classical building in Britain and to contain the earliest example in Britain of a spiral staircase without a central support.
TheTulip Staircase- so called because the ornamental ironwork of the banisters is believed to represent tulips (more probably fleur de lys- in tribute to Henrietta Maria's French origins)- was where in 1966 a Canadian clergyman inadvertently shot one of the most famous- and convincing- photographs of a ghost ever taken. I took several snaps, but nothing untoward turned up on any of them. Swizz!
TheTulip Staircase- so called because the ornamental ironwork of the banisters is believed to represent tulips (more probably fleur de lys- in tribute to Henrietta Maria's French origins)- was where in 1966 a Canadian clergyman inadvertently shot one of the most famous- and convincing- photographs of a ghost ever taken. I took several snaps, but nothing untoward turned up on any of them. Swizz!
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Date: 2016-11-15 07:38 pm (UTC)My wife was once working behind the counter in small shop when she saw a person who wasn't visible in the flesh on the shop's CCTV. The shop, by the way, was in the cellar of a Masonic Lodge- and so a place of "power"- where one might expect the energies to be a little freaky. It's not unusual, I think, for ghosts to show up on recording devices (especially digital ones.)
Staircases are liminal and transitional. They feature in lots of ghost stories (true and fictional)