Part IV: The Ghosts of Christmas Past: In Search of Goodwin’s Ghost
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All I can think of on this particular night is that the ghosts must have had a party. Why you ask? Because they all seem to be out! Could it be the fife and drum corps? It’s quite possible; I’ve noted from several different sources, including myself, that when music is playing there is a definite draw from the other side. In other words, ghosts have an affinity for music. How do I know?
I know of an organist at the Bruton Parish Church who feels a tingling feeling on the back of the neck when practicing. Likewise I know of a piano player at the Williamsburg Inn who also gets a tingling feeling (both musicians used the word “tingling”) on the back of the neck when she plays in a certain room there. (Check out my book Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg Virginia with Breakthrough Ghost Photography for some amazing photos of some of the ghosts at the Williamsburg Inn, including a pair of ghosts that just may remind you of a Picasso painting!) I currently live in a haunted house, and I have a security camera pointed at my front entranceway that has infrared capabilities. Whenever I practice my guitar in the kitchen, I can see the monitor screen. What shows up on the screen is usually a pair of pixelated eyes—sometimes in white light and sometimes in dark light that show up on the stairway. If there is a lot going on in the house at the time, I will sometimes see the pixelated outlines of two human-like shapes appearing and sometimes walking in the hallway or on the steps. One of the ghosts (I don’t really know which one, or perhaps they both do it!) has started a new habit that rattles some of my family: He will whisper into your ear your name as if he is calling you or at least trying to get your attention, but that’s all he will say. You not only hear your name being said, but you also will feel the ghost’s breath in your ear and down your neck as the name is being spoken. So far, our ghosts have been quite innocuous other than that—if he (or they) decides to ramp up the activity to the poltergeist level, I will let you know . . . let’s hope not.
So let’s get back to the ghost party—perhaps drawn to the fife and drum music being played: The first photo is a little blurry, but you will see amongst the ghosts shown a man who definitely lived in the 18th century (the 1700s) because he is wearing breeches (pants that come down to and will button just below the knee) as well as the stockings that will pull up over the knee but underneath the buttoned breeches. The women have on floor-length dresses, and the woman to the right also has a shawl over her shoulders. Someone suggested that she might be Native American—what do you think? The second photo is really a crop from the same photo as above—you see there was a group of people in between the apparitions, and rather than black out all of their faces (because I don’t have a signed release to use their likenesses) I just made two cropped photos out of the original. This is what some would call a ghost hag; the apparition was right at the wall that surrounds the Bruton Parish Church.
Here is a group of 18th century ghosts on the street just outside the Bruton Parish Church:
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The ghost hag was near the wall that surrounds the Bruton Parish Church; note also the strange-shaped blue apparition:
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The next photo that I’m going to post is bizarre—there is just no other word to describe it! If you are able, I would suggest that you enlarge your screen so that you can see some of the detail better. Let me remind you that ghosts move much faster than humans could ever hope to move; they can blur a photo that is taken with a shutter speed that is just a fraction of a second. With that in mind, I’m going to try to describe this photo to you: The most prominent part of this many-faceted apparition is the ghost of a large black horse (What do you think—do animals have ghosts?) with its head turned towards me, and just one eye is visible. Note that the back half of the horse is just a blur—or it’s just not there. I have photographed that before—only getting half an apparition—and it’s always a catalyst to this thought: Could the ghosts be crossing through dimensions? Is part of it in one dimension that we cannot see and another in our dimension? Continuing with the description: There is ball of white light on the horse as if it has a rider, and a face that seems to indicate that a ghost is also standing between the horse and myself—otherwise the rider has a face in his chest area. Once you have taken that all in, then let me refer you to the alien-like ghost standing in the crowd to the back left side of the photo.
In my search for Dr. Goodwin’s ghost, this is one of the most bizarre photos that I have taken, just outside of the Bruton Parish Church.
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I have hesitated in the past to release photos like this, because I thought it would be more than most people could handle: Accepting an alternate reality is already difficult, a mental leap for some—but accepting something that is so bizarre and foreign to what we know as reality may be over the edge. Are you freaked out yet? To put your mind more at ease, I think we need to go back to the hypothesis that we have an electromagnetic consciousness. (Please refer back to my book, Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg Virginia with Breakthrough Ghost Photography, starting at page 12, for a complete explanation.) If I can, let me use modern movie production as an analogy: Today we have the technology to recreate anything we can imagine on the movie screen, correct? I believe that likewise ghosts have the ability to manipulate light to recreate whatever they imagine in a hologram form, and in some cases, as in this photograph, the results are truly bizarre.
The final photo I have for you is a cropped photo taken of the sidewalk right in front of the Bruton Parish Church (the full photo is at the top of this page). This is right after the last people are leaving the church after an evening concert. Right at the entrance gate you can see the outlines of four ghosts that appeared in just one of several photos taken of the brick walkway. These apparitions, like all the people, appear to be leaving the church after the concert. I would have loved to attend this concert and just take photos of the audience. I can’t tell you how many ghosts were in attendance that night, but I know there were a lot! It seemed that as I photographed people leaving the church, there were just as many ghosts streaking out the door. (I while come back to these photos in a later blog) As it was, I was told to leave the property by someone in charge that was worried about my intentions at the property. But if you think that this phenomenon is unique to the Bruton Parish Church, you are wrong. I have no doubt that if you attended a concert or program at your place of worship, you were in the company of ghosts!
Like everyone else leaving the church, these 4 ghosts are captured walking down the sidewalk after a Christmas concert:
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My journey in search of Goodwin’s ghost continues; stay tuned for the next part, with more exciting and bizarre photographs giving you a glimpse into the other side of life—death—as you’ve never seen it before . . .
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Tim Scullion is a published author, photographer, and musician. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree Cum Laude. In addition to the book mentioned above, Tim has written a novel, a series of instruction books on the guitar, a children’s book (all available on Amazon) and has a photo-essay published by the University of Virginia in the book Troubled Times Companion, Vol. III.
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