The Raynham Hall in Norfolk England is best known to be considered of having one of the most famous classic ghost's of all time which is "The Brown Lady". Her ghost is described of having a strange light illuminating her features and also revealing dark hollows of her eye sockets in her skull. She was also describe as wearing a brown brocade dress that gave her name, "The Brown Lady", and she also worn her hair in a coif.

When the Brown Lady was alive she was thought to be the sister of England's famous first Prime-minister in 1722, Sir Robert Walpole, and her name was Dorothy Walpole born in 1686.

Dorothy Walpole born in 1686 and died in 1726 known as the Brown Lady

Dorothy Walpole was married to Lord Charles Townshend in later years. He was Dorothy's first love that her father refused consent and he married Elizabeth Pelham which she died of unknown circumstances. When he was married to Elizabeth stories said Dorothy started a depressions and an affair. There are a few different versions of how she died. In one of the stories they said her husband was very outraged, and jealous when he discovered she was having an affair with a dissolute, Lord Wharton, that he prison Dorothy in her quarters at the hall. She wasted away to her death without any contact with any family and friends in 1726 which her death was officially reported being of smallpox. In another version of the story some people believed she was found dead at the bottom of the grand staircase with her neck broken perhaps she was pushed by someone.

Throughout the years there have been many sightings and stories to follow about the Brown Lady ghost appearences. Many people thought that her ghost sightings of her walking the halls and the stairways that she might have been looking for her five children which she was also parted from after her husband found out about the affair.

At one point there was even a story about policemen disguised as servants at Raynham Hall to see if there was a practical joker at work but they were unable to prove anything.

In 1926 Lady Townshend had never heard of the ghost sightings but she reportedly seen the ghost and said it resembled the portrait of Dorothy.

Raynham Hall

In another sighting in 1936 the Brown lady was seen by a novelist name Captain Maryatt. Apparently he was staying at the house, and he asked to stay in the room where the Brown Lady was said to appear. On that night he was joking around with two other guests about their guns for protection against the Brown lady. They seen her carrying a lamp and coming towards them and she glanced at Maryatt in a diabolical manner. They became frightened that Maryatt fired his pistol and the bullet passed right through her as the bullet embedded itself in a door.

Then on December 26, 1936, the most amazing and the most examined photograph of the Brown Lady was taken by Photographer Captain Provand and his assistant Indre Shira in the late afternoon. Apparently the original photograph that he took was examined by seven experts who found no evidence of forgery and declared that it's genuine. Captain Provand took the picture when he was on his assignment at the house for Country Life Magazine.

Before he took the photo he asked permission to photograph the exterior of the house and he was immediately fascinated by the rays of light where the photo was taken, and he was amazed with the stories he had read previously about the Brown Lady.

In the photo you can see the rays of light illuminating the Brown Lady's ghostly features as she descends the staircase. I have seen this picture so many times in book, and it makes you wonder if the existence of ghosts could really exist.