Case file · Haunting
Lord Combermere's ghost photograph
In December 1891, while the funeral of the second Viscount Combermere was taking place, Sybell Corbet took a long exposure of the library at Combermere Abbey that seems to show a figure in his chair.
1891 CE · 52.99, -2.62 · status: disputed
The account
The photograph became one of the most reproduced ghost pictures. The physicist William Barrett examined it in 1895.
The sceptical view
The exposure lasted about an hour; a servant sitting briefly in the chair would leave a faint, headless figure.