

This famous ghost photo of a young girl looking out from a raging fire was taken during a 1995 structure fire at Wem town hall in Shropshire, England. Shot from across the street by a local photographer, nothing unusual was seen at the time but once the negative was developed he noticed what appeared to be a young girl standing in the doorway of the burning building. Though at first thought she appears to be a very alive person caught in the flames, firemen found no bodies in the building afterwards. Interestingly, however, there is a bit of local folklore which claims that a young girl named Jane Churm accidentally burned the town hall to the ground in 1677 by dropping a candle, and her ghost has been reputed to haunt Wem town hall ever since. Once a firebug, always a firebug it seems.







