The Stone Girl Of Eyeworth

Looks like Queen Elizabeth either playing a mouth organ or eating a bacon sandwich.

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Just been looking, again, at the photo in post #543. The clothing seems to me to be 17th-century and therefore I'd expect to see a dress that is wider in appearance than the wearer's body...but why is it only 'flared' on one side (the left-hand side, as we look at the photo)?

EDIT: Or maybe I'm mistaken, and the 'flaring' is equal on both sides.
 
Steven said:
Just been looking, again, at the photo in post #543. The clothing seems to me to be 17th-century and therefore I'd expect to see a dress that is wider in appearance than the wearer's body...but why is it only 'flared' on one side (the left-hand side, as we look at the photo)?

EDIT: Or maybe I'm mistaken, and the 'flaring' is equal on both sides.
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Because it's not a dress, it's a rag blowing around on a bush.
 
Steven said:
Just been looking, again, at the photo in post #543. The clothing seems to me to be 17th-century and therefore I'd expect to see a dress that is wider in appearance than the wearer's body...but why is it only 'flared' on one side (the left-hand side, as we look at the photo)?

EDIT: Or maybe I'm mistaken, and the 'flaring' is equal on both sides.
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But she looks like she's wearing trousers, not a dress.
What you see as the "flared" side of a dress looks more like two planks on the ground or seat of a bench.
 
Steven said:
Having consulted Google, it appears that there are lots of ghosts in Bedfordshire but hardly any of the accounts/stories/legends fit the profile of the Eyeworth figure.
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I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong county - I believe this photo was taken in Hampshire in the New Forest.
 
Paul_Exeter said:
I thought the photograph was interesting enough to take it to the local paper and they printed a story with the pictures which lead to an approach from an independent photographer who asked if he could buy the negatives from us. I suggested that we let him exploit the photographs, as he had the expertise, and we go 50%/ 50% on anything he made out of the story. He agreed to this and over the course of the next year a double page spread appeared in the Sunday Mirror, the National Examiner in the States ran a big story on it and a glossy Japanese magazine also picked it up – and that is but a few. I was sure we were going to enhance hunt funds by thousands of pounds and be able to do some much needed repairs to our property- if not a total rebuild! Alas, when I tried to get some of our 50%, the man had turned to straw – or maybe to a ghost!!”

https://weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2021/11/20/the-mysterious-stone-ghost-girl-of-eyeworth

It would be good to find this as it will help pin down when and where the enlarged and potentially enhanced third image originated
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The comment that the photo was handed over to a photographer who "had the expertise" to exploit the photo for monetary gain tells me that it is a manipulated photo.

For those of you who may not know, The National Examiner is a rag mag.:chuckle: The photo and the story that magazine would have used would have embellishments added.

I also agree with @blessmycottonsocks regarding the straight "planks". The straight lines do not look like they belong with the rag.

I also don't think that the photos were taken only seconds apart, simply because of the positioning of the animals in the first (horses several metres away from bridge) and the second showing them at the bridge. More time has passed than a few seconds.

The streetview added by @Paul_Exeter also gave me another thing to ponder. It shows the change in grade right where the person was standing to take the picture. It is very possible that, even though both pictures in the original comparison seem to be taken from the same viewpoint, it may not be so.

The person may have taken one photo standing at the lower grade and then step up to get a better picture. She wouldn't remember this when viewing the photos later and so we have the assumption that the photographer stood still. She could still take a similar photo because she is keeping the bridge and horses in the same frame, but stepping up could put a rag (yea team @catseye) into the frame which she had not noticed.
 
Just to add, I don't believe the story itself to be a hoax ie an intentional set up to fool people. I do think it was a story that someone believed (as in "Oh I didn't see that at first") and then the photo and story were used (with the ghost angle) to raise funds.
 
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I knew our favourite Stone Girl reminded me of something. I have only just realised what it was... the Nemesis living statue (which was actually a weapon of mass destruction) which featured in the 1988 Doctor Who serial "Silver Nemesis", as pictured below....

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<ticks @brownmane 's name off on the register>
CharmerKamelion said:
I knew our favourite Stone Girl reminded me of something. I have only just realised what it was... the Nemesis living statue (which was actually a weapon of mass destruction) which featured in the 1988 Doctor Who serial "Silver Nemesis", as pictured below....

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Pretty much anything in a long dress would look similar. Fabric hanging down falls along similar lines whatever it is.
 
Sorry if I've forgotten something that may have been posted earlier in the thread, but have witnesses connected the Stone Girl with the local story of 'the lady of Eyeworth Pond'? I think somebody or some people did but I can't remember for definite.
 
kesavaross said:
If those are planks of wood, be it a part of a bench or whatever, why would they be there?
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I don't think they are planks. If you look at the height and distance, they'd have to be half way up a bush. The far side of the stream (or whatever the bridge goes over) would be too far away and on a slope. I think the 'planks' are just lines formed by the rag/dress, but the eye tries to see them as horizontal rather than vertical. The perspective is all over the place on this one!
 
Steven said:
Sorry if I've forgotten something that may have been posted earlier in the thread, but have witnesses connected the Stone Girl with the local story of 'the lady of Eyeworth Pond'? I think somebody or some people did but I can't remember for definite.
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Good shout and Yes:

He told me that they’d both been standing on the track (that leads to the car park) with their cameras and tripods, when he saw a woman walk across the path to the water – from right to left – but she never re-appeared. She was some way away, but it was a clear and cold night, so he could see well enough to know that it was definitely a woman.

Still thinking it was a wind-up, I questioned him. “You do know about the Eyeworth Pond ghost lady, don’t you?” I told him what I’d been told all those years ago, but it was clear from his reaction that he genuinely didn’t know because he thought I was winding him up! It took quite some time to convince him that I was being serious

Full details at:

https://weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2021/11/20/the-mysterious-stone-ghost-girl-of-eyeworth-pond/
 
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