PHOTOGRAPH OF GHOST

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 15

PHOTOGRAPH OF GHOST

CONAN DOYLE MISLED. INCIDENT AT LECTURE. A photograph of a “ghost” was the occasion of an unexpected and dramatic incident at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s lecture on “Ghosts and Fairies” at Nairobi, East Africa. Sir Arthur was showing on the screen a picture of a “ghost” which, he said, he believed was taken in a. house at Nottingham. A Nairobi man, Mr. A. S. Palmer, a dentist, stood up in the audience and declared “It was that ghost.” Invited to explain, Mr. Palmer said that 20 years ago he and a party searched a Nottingham house for two weeks for a ghost. As no success attended their efforts after a week, he and his brother arranged to play a trick upon the other members of the party. Accordingly, Mr. Palmer stated, he dressed himself up in a white nightgown, grimaced before his brother’s camera, and by a manipulation of exposures a ghostly apparition was produced on the plate. Six* Arthur Conan Doyle said he accepted Mr. Palmer's explanation and stated that lie would never show that photograph again.