{"id":2051,"date":"2003-12-22T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/22\/tower-ghost-filmed\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:57:20","slug":"tower-ghost-filmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/22\/tower-ghost-filmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower ghost filmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12600,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/europe\\\/12\\\/19\\\/hampton.ghost.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/europe\\\/12\\\/19\\\/hampton.ghost.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"story.ghost.ap.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/12\/graphics\/story.ghost.ap.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This may seem a bit off, this time of year &#8212; more appropriate for Halloween, perhaps &#8212; but the story fascinated me&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/europe\/12\/19\/hampton.ghost.ap\/index.html\" title=\"Palace 'ghost' caught on camera\">Could it be a ghost?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We&#8217;re baffled too &#8212; it&#8217;s not a joke, we haven&#8217;t manufactured it,&#8221; said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. &#8220;We genuinely don&#8217;t know who it is or what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace&#8217;s fire doors.<\/p>\n<p>  In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.<\/p>\n<p>  The area around the man is somewhat blurred, and his face appears unnaturally white compared with his outstretched hand.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn&#8217;t look human,&#8221; said James Faukes, one of the palace security guards.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;My first reaction was that someone was having a laugh, so I asked my colleagues to take a look. We spoke to our costumed guides, but they don&#8217;t own a costume like that worn by the figure. It is actually quite unnerving,&#8221; Faukes said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}