
The Wem Town Hall Ghost photo - courtesy Fortean Picture Library
In September of 2009 I started an investigation into the Wem Town Hall ghost photo. This famous photo shows a ghostly girl in the burning wreckage of a fire that took place in the Town Hall of the British town of Wem on November 19, 1995. The photographer was a man named Tony O’Rahilly and he took several photos of the fire that night. The last photo on the reel showed a girls face in the doorway of the blazing fire and the photo caught the imagination of many. Was this girl really in the building? Fire fighter footage of the same fire showed no such girl. No body was found, and many speculated that this was a ghost. Paranormal researchers even came up with a name for the girl, calling her Jane Churm after a little girl who started a fire in Wem back in 1677.
For fifteen years the photo was a mystery which made many top-10 ghost lists. But now an elderly man in England has identified the source of the ghost girl’s image and brought closure to this case. Read on past the break to get a history of the case and see the solution.
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