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Street View ghost spooks Cardiff medium

Victorian spectre stalks Tiger Bay

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 27th March 2009 11:58 GMT

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A Cardiff medium has been well and truly spooked by a Victorian "ghost" captured [1] in the city's Tiger Bay by Google's all-seeing Street View:

Cardiff Victorian ghost on Street View

According to the Telegraph [2], "experts have been called in" to probe the otherworldy sighting, including 39-year-old Jane Cohen, who told the paper: "Apparitions have often been caught on film but are invisible to the naked eye. This woman is very smart - but she is dressed in clothes that you just don't see these days unless it's in a period drama on TV."

She added: "But what is really strange is that she doesn't appear as a full figure - you can't see all of her."

Well, El Reg's ghostbusting department was able - without the aid of a Ouija board - to reveal the chilling truth: What we have here [3] is a woman in fancy dress...

Street View grab showing ghost is actually woman in fancy dress

Ho hum. Our opinion of the Street View spectre sensation? Try this [4]:

Edinburgh man gives Street View a couple of fingers