Jessica Smith, 25, claims that she, her boyfriend Cody Rudland, and two friends of the couple were accidentally photographed with the ghost of Queen Charlotte. The spirit of Queen Victoria's grandmother allegedly peeped out the window, against which four Britons took a selfie. In the image below, you can actually see someone's eyes and nose, which seem to be floating in the air.
The photo was taken a week ago at the Bear Hotel, located in the English town of Devices. Jessica, Cody and their newlywed friends stayed here after their wedding. It is noteworthy that this hotel was once visited in 1817 by Queen Charlotte, who ruled Great Britain from 1761 to 1818. That is why Jessica Smith is convinced that this phantom face of the queen "spoiled" the photo for the vacationers. Charlotte passed away in 1818, and many believe that her ghost periodically visits the places where the wife of King George III visited before her death.
At first, Jessica and Cody were afraid to tell their friends about this picture, so as not to spoil the impression of the newlyweds about the solemn day. Nevertheless, the newly-made wife, thirty-six-year-old Kate, looked at the photographs taken at the hotel and was surprised to find a phantom in the window. After talking with friends, she allowed them to post this image on the World Wide Web, but asked to hide her face and the face of her husband. In this form, the mysterious photo made it onto the Internet.
The ghost of a queen or a gray-haired old woman?
Keith says: “I was very surprised when I saw someone's gray face in the background in this picture. At first I thought that it seemed to me, but after a few days I mentioned this detail while talking to Jessica, and she unexpectedly said that she also noticed someone's face in the photo behind us. Jessica thinks it's the ghost of Queen Charlotte, but I have other thoughts on this. The fact is that when I was little, an old woman with long gray hair came to me at night. She sat on my bed and silently watched me, and I, out of fear and some kind of numbness, could not even move and call my parents. For some reason, for the first time in thirty years, I remembered her when I looked at this image. A very eerie feeling, as if I was again in my children's bedroom, in that terrible situation."
Skeptics, by the way, are in no hurry to believe that the picture is really a ghost. In their opinion, this is a common pareidolic illusion, but in fact anything could have been outside the window, for example, an old brick wall, two holes in which turned out to be like someone's dark, sinister eyes.