It also seemed to him that her eyes had been gouged out. He saw her again a week later and described her as wearing a brown satin dress, her skin glowing with a pale luminescence. She was seen again standing in the hall in 1835 by Colonel Loftus, who was visiting for the Christmas holidays. In the early 1800s, King George IV, while staying at Raynham, saw the figure of a woman in a brown dress standing beside his bed. Although according to legal records she died and was buried in 1726, it was suspected that the funeral was a sham and that Charles had locked his wife away in a remote corner of the house until her death many years later.ĭorothy's ghost is said to haunt the oak staircase and other areas of Raynham Hall. It was rumored that Dorothy, before her marriage to Charles, had been the mistress of Lord Wharton. The ghost is thought to be that of Lady Dorothy Townshend, wife of Charles Townshend, second Viscount of Raynham, residents of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England in the early 1700s. This portrait of "The Brown Lady" ghost is arguably the most famous and well-regarded ghost photograph ever taken.
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