Ghosts: Are our beliefs manifesting them?

This is a photograph of The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall -  considerably the most famous ghost picture taken to date. I remember seeing it all throughout my childhood while perusing around the internet.
About a year ago I found out these are my ancestors.
 I’m directly related to  Charles Townshend, the Secretary of State for the British foreign policy during the early 1700′s.
My great, great grandma on my dad’s side shares the same last name.
The lineage goes back through thousands of people, so who knows you could be related too! It’s not entirely inconceivable, I mean at some point we all come from the same source, right?
This picture was taken in Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England in 1936 by photographers from Country Life magazine.
The Brown Lady of Raynham is the ghost of Lady Townshend who’s maiden name was Dorothy Walpole before marrying Charles Townshend. Supposedly, he was well known for having a horribly fiery temper.
When Charles learned that his wife was cheating on him, he punished her by imprisoning her in the family estate. He never allowed her to leave its premises, not even to see her children. She remained there until her death in 1726 from smallpox.
Over the next two centuries Lady Townshend’s ghost was repeatedly sighted wandering through Raynham Hall, suggesting that she never left its premises even after her death.


Indre Shira and Captain Provand, the photographers who snapped the infamous shot accounted for their experience:
“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 the picture they found that they had captured the image of a ghostly woman drifting down the stairs.
There have been so many attempts over the years to debunk this phenomena. Many say this picture was faked with a double exposure.
That makes perfect sense if these photographers just wanted to have some content to publish in their magazine.
It also makes sense that they were able to catch a moment of our dimensional veils thinning!

Take into account back then, and centuries before this, people were much more superstitious and had open minds to paranormal experiences.
When we realize our realities are projections of what we allow into our belief systems, back then, peoples beliefs systems were much broader.
There have been countless  spirit encounters that people truly believed happened, and thats maybe why they did. They believed in these experiences so much that they were able to see into the next.
To view this from source perspective, the idea of a ghost is not strange or impossible, it’s just energy manifested in a form of what we’ve labelled as ‘ghosts.’
We’ve entered what is called the era of disbelief. There are SO many fake ghost, UFO and alien pictures. But there’s also many, many real ones.
We’ve been bombarded with false photos and videos – just don’t know what to believe anymore. Discerning the real from the fake takes time and trusting your inner feelings.
If we are all infinite beings of light having a physical experience, the existence of ghosts is simply not a hoax. When our belief systems open up, we understand nothing is impossible.
The intention behind this article is to not necessarily to make you question if all this is real or not – but rather open a discussion on what you think and where your beliefs lead you.
What’s your gut feeling on this?  If you’re skeptical about it – really ask yourself why. You might be surprised where those questions lead you.
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Lexie