The Brown Lady of Raynham

The Brown Lady of Raynham is one of the most famous ghostly stories known.There is no proof till date to complete disapprove her existence

The Brown Lady of Raynham is the ghost of Lady Townshend who was married to Charles Townshend, a man known for his fiery temper. When Charles learned of his wife's infidelity, he punished her by imprisoning her in the family estate at Raynham Hall, located in Norfolk, England. He never allowed her to leave its premises, not even to see her children. She remained there until her death, when she was an old woman.

In the following centuries after her death many reports about sighting her ghost in Raynham Hall came out. In 19th century King George saw her when he was staying at Raynham Hall. He claimed that he saw her standing beside his bed wearing a brown dress. he also described her face was pale and her hair was untidy. In 1835 Colonel Loftus also saw her when he was at the house for Christmas holidays. He saw her when he was walking to his room late night .He saw her standing in the hall in front of him. He again saw her next week, this time he could see her more clearly. He described her as wearing a brown dress. And he said he was horrified to see her eyes gouged out. After Colonel Loftus incident more reports came out

Some years later the Colonel Loftus incident novelist Captain Federick Marryat decided to spend the night in the room where the ghost was seen but he couldn’t see her. but few days later he saw her when he was coming downstairs with his two friends. They saw her carrying a lantern and it moved past them as they were hiding behind a door. He said she grinned at them and he suddenly came out from behind of the door and shot her with his gun but the bullet passed through her.

Most notable of the incident occurred at September 1936, two photographers Captain Provand and Indre Shira were assigned at Raynham hall by “Country Life” magazine.Shira explains the incident as follows

"Captain Provand took one photograph while I flashed the light. He was focusing for another exposure; I was standing by his side just behind the camera with the flashlight pistol in my hand, looking directly up the staircase. All at once I detected an ethereal veiled form coming slowly down the stairs. Rather excitedly, I called out sharply: 'Quick, quick, there's something.' I pressed the trigger of the flashlight pistol. After the flash and on closing the shutter, Captain Provand removed the focusing cloth from his head and turning to me said: 'What's all the excitement about?”

When they developed they found the ghostly woman and the picture was published in Country Life on December 16, 1936(The picture shown alongside)

Till now there is nothing to prove that the brown lady of Raynham herself isn't real.

-Just another Mystery

Sea Monsters

Captain of "HMS Daedal us" ship Mr. Peter .M. Quhae once reported to The British Administration about sighting a 60 feet long ocean monster.

Afternoon of August 6th, 1848 the ship was traveling 300 miles away from West of Africa over the Southern Atlantic. Ship was on its journey from East Indies to Plymouth in England.Sartoris a worker in the ship saw something strange moving behind the ship.

He immediately reported it to Captain Quhae.Captain along with two other workers came to the deck. They were shocked to see a Monstrous snake like animal moving through the waters with its head raised 4 feet above the water level. It was about 60ft long. The width of the head was around 16 feet. Below the head on its back it had some sort of a hair. It was moving in a speed around 15 miles per hour. It soon passed them and disappeared. The captain reported that it was so near that they could see it very clearly with naked eyes.

This is only one of the incidents in the series of sighting sea monsters Sea monsters still remains a mystery No one is able to confirm whether they do exists or not.

Zombies

Zombification has always remained an unanswered mystery. It’s associated with Voodoo practice in Haiti.

Clairvius Narcisee died at the Albert Schweitzer hospital in haiti in 1962 .18 years after his death, he visited his sisters home and even told details about his childhood. Hospital records certified that what he was claiming was correct. He also had a scar on his cheek from a nail when it was driven in to his coffin. It was believed that the Bokor took his body from grave and spells and poison he torned him into his slave.Clairvius claimed the dispute over family land between his brothers brought his death.

Another incident is that of Felicia Felix-Mentor, of Haiti, who died and was buried in 1907; found wandering the countryside in 1937.The photograph(shown alongside) of Felicia Felix-Mentor is one of the known photographs of Zombie.

Zombification is still one of the biggest fear among many Haitians.

Haunted Cemeteries

Here are some notable reports from cemeteries of Missouri

The Bethel Campground Cemetery in Benton has been reported of ghostly activites.Many incidents of unexplained voices have been reported. Some claims to have seen blue lightings floating through the vicinity.

The Lobb Cemetery in Blue Springs also has been reported for strange lights. Also some say a ghost of little boy is haunting the area. Many claims that photographs taken here shows a globe of light when developed

In Stanberry, The Coopers Cemetery is reported for unexplained sounds of babies crying. A ghost of an old man is reported to have seen here who appear at random moments. He is reported to have carrying a lantern and when one focus on him he disappears.

In Mount Vernon, the Spanish Cemetery is known for abnormal paranormal activity .Many have claimed to have seen glowing red light in this area

A Cemetery in Owl Road in Neosho is also known for its haunting. The sounds of babies
is said to have heard from this area. Some claims if one listen carefully a faint cry of a baby can be heard from a baby grave.

In Bolivar that Catholic Cemetery a black figure is said to haunt the surroundings. At the Shiners Cemetery in Braymer blue lights have been reported to have glowing from ground. Strange yelling has been reported from Ryder Cemetery.

Wild Woman

In the middle of 18th century, some hunters from Ochamir region of Georgia ,Russia captured a ‘wild woman’. The woman had ape like features. She had a massive bossom, thick arms, legs, and fingers and was covered with hair. She was named Zana by the hunters. She was so violent so that the hunters had to keep her in a cage for some years and food tossed to her. Later she became human friendly and started doing some simple tasks like grinding corn. She had an incredible fortitude against cold and couldn’t stand in a heated room.

She enjoyed herself gorging herself on grapes from the vine and had a weakness on wines, often drinking so heavily she would sleep for hours. Colin Wilson points out in The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries, this is likely how she became mother of many children to different fathers. Her children died usually when she washed them in freezing water. She expected them to withstand the cold like her but being half homosapiens they were killed. The villagers later took her children away from her and brought them up like their own. Unlike their mother they had ability to communicate

Zana died in 1890.Her youngest child died in 1954.Later Professor Porchnev researched on her stories and interviewed many old people from trhe village .They remembered Zana and her grandchildren Her grandchildren had dark skin and one her grand children named Shalikula had powerful jaws that he could lift a chair with a man sitting on it

Monster

In 1973 several people had reported seeing a hair mud covered monster in Murphysboror, Illinois, which is a small town on banks of Big Muddy river.

This creature seems to be a living 'swamp thing’. In documented sighting reports the monster is described as a lumbering hulk, roughly 6 feet tall and wide, like a very big boned man. The creature is covered with fur that is a dirty brownish color, the fur is always covered and matted with mud and pieces of plants and leaves. The creature appears to weigh around 200 lbs. The creature’s eyes glow a pinkish-red color. It is reported to have a foul smell

Here are some encounters of the monster which is to be noted

A man who owned a junkyard near the river often smelled something very rotten or foul.
When searching for the source of the odor he sighted the creature. The creature stood there looking at the man a few seconds then turned and lumbered away towards the river. This same man, smelled the odor a couple more times, and again each time he encountered the creature.

In another encounter, two men who were coon hunting with some dogs, trailed the creature to an old barn. Standing outside the barn, the men said they heard the most horrible sounding growling imaginable. Refusing to enter the barn, one of the men threw a dog in, through an open door. No sooner was the dog thrown in, when it suddenly howled and ran back out. The dog ran into the nearby woods, with the men following.

A couple sitting in their car on June, 1973 heard strange sounds from woods nearby and then they saw a monster, 8feets tall, which has its body covered with brown hair and mud coming out of the woods and it was coming straight at them. The couple drove off and reported the incident to police

Worked of a fairground nearby saw the monster at some tethered ponies. Two teenagers claimed to have seen the monster very close and they claimed that the monster had a foul smell of river slime.

Murphysboro police chief Toby Berger ordered a search but nothing was found all they could find was some crushed grass, broken trees and some black slime

-Just another mystery

Self Burning Humans

On January 6, 1980, police and forensic specialists discovered a man’s body burned from a living room of a house in Blackwood Ebb Vales, Wales, United Kingdom. The body was almost fully burned, but the strangest factor was that armchair on which he sat was hardly damaged. Also nearby plastic objects were completely untouched by fire. Even though the fire didn’t damage the nearby objects it was so powerful that it burned almost completely the body, also as a note of the fire strength, it left a coating of vaporized flesh on the ceiling of the room. It still remains a mystery how the nearby objects were untouched by such a strong fire.

-Just Another Mystery