Londonderry Ghost Picture
Submitted by Javier Ortega on November 18, 2009 – 5:57 AM3 Comments | 560 views
Ghost or light anomaly?
The above image is supposedly of a “woman holding a baby”. The image was captured by a security guard who was randomly snapping pictures of the building which was known as the Roe Valley Hospital in Londonderry, Ireland. The image was studied for a few months by the Paranormal Society Ireland.
What exactly made them think that this image is that of a ghost of a woman holding a baby, I’m not sure. The image at best looks like a light blur. Nothing conclusive can be made from that as far as I can see.
Source: Londonderry Sentinel
This is the ghostly picture taken at the former Roe Valley Hospital showing a nurse like figure holding a baby that has put paranormal sceptics in a spin, and sparked fresh supernatural investigations into the grounds.The photo, taken by a night time LCDI security guard just a few months ago, has been deemed by experts as authentic and reignited examinations into the ghoulish goings on at the former workhouse. The picture was passed onto paranormal investigators at the Paranormal Society Ireland who analysed the photo for two to three months before releasing it. LCDI manager Damien Corr, the first person to be shown the picture, says he was taken aback by the image.
“I am a sceptic but let’s just say the picture was disconcerting enough for me to advise our security guard to pass it onto the paranormal society.”
“I certainly know what it looks like; a woman holding a baby, but who knows. The sceptic in me says it could be something else.”
Damien adds that the centre’s night-time guard had been taking a photograph of the building with his digital camera and had not discovered anything untoward about the scene until flicking back through the images.
“It was an innocent photograph that he had wanted to take of the building at night. He wasn’t alarmed by anything at the time and hadn’t seen anything.”
Close inspection of the image appears to show a woman and child wearing bonnet style clothing, attire closely linked to the period the building hails from.
“But when he showed me the photograph I just thought ‘oh my God’ and told him to contact the members of the PSI, who had been here a few months before investigating for the BBC show ‘Northern Ireland’s Greatest Haunts’.”
The photo has plunged the former hospital grounds, which now plays home to numerous health and social care facilities as well as Limavady Community Development Initiative, into further mystery regarding it’s gruesome past. So much so experts plan to return to the old workhouse building in the coming months. Scary tales from the building include the regular sound of crying babies and appearances of men and women in uniform.
One of the most gruesome tales from the building includes that of a pregnant nurse who worked at the former hospital. It is believed she kept her pregnancy secret, delivered the baby herself and killed it, and sometime later, wracked with remorse, hung herself…Read more at LondonderrySentinel
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Thanks for posting this, Javier!
I lived in ‘Derry for about 4 years in college, and I’ve been to that hospital. Yes, it looks like a woman holding a baby – but in no way does it look like a ghost to me.
With Ireland being such a Catholic country (Ignoring, for a moment, that Londonderry is in Northern Ireland and the Catholic / Protestant issues that that comment raises), it looks to me like the security guard caught a picture of either a painting or some other artistic representation of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus – I don’t think those are ‘bonnets’ as much as halos.
I used to live in the bogside in Derry. heheh, neverheard of this ‘londonderry’ place
the image looks like camera blur/operator movement
“London”Derry?. Never heard of it. Say it’s one of millions of catholics slaughtered by Normans and Brits over of the centuries.