My influence that has given me the idea to choose ghosts as a fear is a program called Paranormal Witness. I only recently got into the program and was hooked within minutes. The show is documenting eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity happening to them and some of the videos within the show are recreated and personal photographs are used.
The show uses eerie soundtracks, intense music that builds to a halt and text used to sum up what has happened.
For other inspiration and help I have been reading some books about ghosts. I borrowed a book from the library called "Yorkshire stories of the supernatural". I wanted to do some research on poltergeist activity and this book only had one story in it called ''Poltergeist: The Invisible Intruder''. The story is about the ASSAP (the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) One of their aims was to train people as investigators so that cases could be researched, evidence would be recorded, people would be interviewed and new knowledge about the paranormal was exist. The story takes place in The Bed Shop after much poltergeist activity was experienced there regularly. A man names Colin was assigned to the case after hearing about the activity that happened to some customers. They were in the shop wanting to buy a bed when coins came flying at them from out of nowhere. More accounts like this happen but to the staff who work there and in their offices with lights switching on and off, pens, key and staplers flying through the air.
The ASSAP state what poltergeist means. It has German origin made of two words 'Polter' meaning noisy and 'Geist' meaning ghost or spirit.
Another book I studied was ''The World's Greatest Ghosts'' which was given to me by Ceri as they had more scary stories compared to the other book. Different stories gave me different ideas for my project for example the 'Torment of Calvados' "a candlestick on the mantelpiece was lifted by an unseen hand" This lead me to film a vase on top of the television being thrown off the TV and rolling on the floor. Also "The Spinster's Grave" a saucepan, scissors and a newspaper flew into the air. My idea was to have objects flying through the air as I have read many stories and seen documentaries with objects being thrown at people or flying through the air.
I wanted to research some photographers who try and capture ghosts but I didn't find many people apart from olden day photographers who used film cameras and when the photographs were developed the ghost appeared.
Here are some I found:
The Brown Lady - Captain Provland and Indre Shira
This is one of the most famous ghost photographs taken in September 1936 when Indre Shira and Captain Provand were asked to take photographs of the Raynham Hall for a magazine called Country Life.
The ghost is thought to be the wife of Charles Townshend, Lady Dorothy Townshend who died and was buried in 1726 according to legal records but rumour was heard that the funeral was fake and her husband had locked his wife away in the house until she died.
Lord Combermere - Sybell Corbet
This photograph was taken in 1891 in the Combermere abbey library. The ghost photographed has been believed to be Lord Combermere. In the early 1800's Lord Combermere was a British Cavalry Commander who was also part of many military campaigns. Lord Combermere died in 1891 after being hit by a horse drawn carriage. When the photograph was being taken it was Lord Combermere's funeral 4 miles away from the Combermere Abbey in Cheshire. As the photograph's exposure was set to one hour some are thought to believe that a servant came to sit in the armchair creating the ghostly figure but they were all attending the funeral.
Madonna of Bachelors Grove - Mari Hoff
This photograph was taking during an investigation to the Bachelors Grove graveyard on 10th August 1991. The graveyard is reported to be one of the most haunted graveyards in America where lots of reports of strange occurrences happen. Mari Huff was taking pictures on her black and white infrared camera of the tombstones where her and her group had experienced ghost activity although the cemetery appeared to be empty apart from them. When her picture was developed a woman was captured sitting on a tombstone.
I found these ghost photographs on a website called 'The best ghost pictures ever taken' http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/Best-Ghost-Photos/
In the book 'The worlds greatest ghosts' there is a picture that a French photographer called Gerrard Lestienne took of poltergeist activity in 1955 in the village of St Jean-De-Maurienne on the French Italian Border. He prepared his photographs very well after waiting an hour and a half the poltergeist threw a saucepan, newspaper and scissors into the air where Teresa Costa covers her child.
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