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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 18 May 2009 22:02


Ghostly museum image caught on film

A ghostly image has been snapped at a museum prompting speculation that the spirit of the English scientist Edward Jenner could be haunting his former home.

A photograph seems to have captured a hazy image of a man sitting on a chair in the attic of the Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, Gloucestershire.

The picture was taken by BBC photographer Chris Sandys, who said: "I don't believe in ghosts myself, but this is strange."

Mr Sandys, who was taking images for a story on the museum's new Ghosts In The Attic exhibition, added: "As soon as I'd taken a panoramic photo, I reviewed the image on the camera and straight away noticed this strange formation of light, shaped like a figure, through the doorway in the next room.

"Without moving I did a few takes to try and work out what had caused it but couldn't see anything. It was so weird."

Jenner was the pioneer of smallpox vaccination and the father of immunology. He was born in Berkeley in 1749 where he spent most of his career as a doctor in the town before he died in 1823.

Museum director Sarah Parker said: "There have always been stories of ghosts at the Edward Jenner Museum. We usually take them with a large pinch of salt. We are truly flabbergasted by the image.

"You can basically see through a doorway what looks like a figure reclining in a chair, only there is no chair there. Who knows whether it is Jenner himself?

"We have graffiti from soldiers previously billeted in the attic rooms from the late 19th century and perhaps this is one of them or even one of Jenner's servants


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090518/tuk-ghostly-museum-image-caught-on-film-6323e80.html

me

me Report 18 May 2009 22:15

BOO

Kay????

Kay???? Report 18 May 2009 22:24


I can hear him laughing his head off now........:}

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 18 May 2009 22:43

I think the information tells us all we need to know....

'Mr Sandys, who was taking images for a story on the museum's new Ghosts In The Attic exhibition'

And just happens to snatch a photo of a ghost....:-)

Nothing more to be said, really!

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 18 May 2009 22:46

:-) just a coincidence surely? ;-)

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 18 May 2009 22:48

Yep, just a coincidence. For sure.

Anyway, it can't be Edward Jenner. He's dead.

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 19 May 2009 11:24

I am pretty open minded about all this sort of thing but the same sentence jumped out at me as it did Eldrick when I read the article .....and I thought *yeah right.......nice publicity stunt Mr Sandy* lol ....I stopped reading it at that point xx

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