Old Timey Crimey #85: The Brown Lady of Raynham - ”Can’t Unsee the Virgin Mary”

Amber, Scott, and Kristy look at perhaps the most famous phantasmagoric photograph, and a talking mongoose appears along the way. 

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Sources:

Randolph Churchill. Women’s Illustrated 1952. “Raynham Hall.” http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/raynham.htm

Rebecca Northfield. Engineering and Technology. “Explaining the unexplained: 10 famous mysteries solved.” https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/10/explaining-the-unexplained-10-famous-mysteries-solved/

Townshend Family Website. Bio of Charles Townshend. http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/turnipbio1.htm

Townshend Family Website. Tony Ellis. “Ghosts of East Anglia.” http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/dorothywalpole.htm

Jonathan Thompson. “The spectre of the Brown Lady will haunt us no more.” The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-spectre-of-the-brown-lady-will-haunt-us-no-more-419176.html

Miss Jessel. Haunted Palace Blog. “Part one: The Mysterious Brown Lady of Raynham Hall – who was she?” https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/part-one-the-mysterious-brown-lady-of-raynham-hall-who-was-she/

Edd Smith. BBC. “The vast history of Raynham Hall.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8058000/8058145.stm

Hoaxes.org. http://hoaxes.org/raynham.html

LOC. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085421/1906-06-04/ed-1/seq-2/

https://the-line-up.com/raynham-hall-brown-lady by Jessica Ferri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Lady_of_Raynham_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price#Gef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynham_Hall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Townshend

http://www.whistlingshade.com/1302/The_Brown_Lady.htm

https://hyperallergic.com/411197/uncanny-images-from-an-investigation-into-the-case-of-gef-a-talking-mongoose/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71816/strange-story-gef-talking-mongoose

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Katdevitt.com

Whistlingshade.com by Joel Van Valin

Music: 
Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
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Breaktime by Kevin MacLeod
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