Case file · Haunting
The Wem Town Hall ghost girl
On 19 November 1995, as Wem Town Hall in Shropshire burned, amateur photographer Tony O'Rahilly took a picture that seemed to show a small girl in the doorway amid the flames.
1995 CE · 52.85, -2.73 · status: hoax
The account
The photo was linked to a legend of a girl who started a town fire in 1677.
The sceptical view
In 2010 the 'girl' was matched to a 1922 postcard of a Wem street; the image was a fake.