Staff at the Belgrave Hall Museum, in Leicester, central England, have sent the video footage to a laboratory and contacted paranormal investigators to clear up the mystery of the two spectral shapes.
The 18th century house was once the family home of John Ellis, a Leicester MP and industrialist, whose sister Charlotte is reputed to have died there, her spirit remaining in restless occupation. Museum staff reportedly had seen her flitting about before, though never on camera.
The two ghostly shapes were filmed at 4.48 a.m on December 23. The museum's security lights were triggered by a flickering heat source. Five seconds later the cameras captured a brilliant six-foot (two-metre) high white apparation. After another five seconds, the spectre disappeared before a swirling mist came over a nearby wall.
Stuart Warburton, the museum's managing curator, said: "The images appear from nowhere. They make no entrance or exit but just appear and disappear. We do not believe it is a deliberate hoax because there were other cameras mounted nearby and they would have picked up the perpetrators. There is obviously the possibility that the figures could be something else. Plastic bags waving in the wind or a lightning bolt have been suggested."
Camera Records "Ghost" in British Stately House
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LONDON (AFP) - Security cameras outside a former country mansion in England, recorded ghostly appararitions one night last Christmas, including one that seemed to be a woman in Victorian dress, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
