LOL - Have to laugh, because that Cumberland Spaceman photo was so puzzling for years, and you're right, when it was actually shown to be the mother with her back to the camera, that's all I could see after that.
Amazing!
Harsh.
He’s got a thing about crucifixion apparently.
Well the white lady in 1971 has dark trousers on.
She was ahead of her time wasn't she? (
) ... and not forgetting the woman the church is named after who gave to birth to Jesus a virgin plus the woman who grew a beard over night to repel a pagan man with God's help. That's some pretty miraculous women attached to the history of this church right there. I can't wait to find out who's bodies are in that crypt.
I'm not saying it's aliens...
Can't ghosts wear clothes?
So, God could help her grow a beard to repel potential suitors, but couldn't manage a minor miracle to get the poor woman off the cross? Blimey, He's picky with His working in a mysterious way, isn't he?She was ahead of her time wasn't she? (
So it was. Thank you for the correction Floyd.
Cheers for that @Swifty - it led me down an internet rabbithole of learning who St. Uncumber (also known as Wilgefortis) actually was. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know) a "fictitious female folk saint venerated by Catholics whose legend arose in the 14th century,[1] and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard".
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I think the phrase THE white lady can be misleading. Maybe people are not all seeing the same thing, but because the location comes loaded with a story of a white lady, then any anomalous occurences get lumped in with The White Lady. Maybe there are many White Ladies.
Jesus was transgender?Cheers for that @Swifty - it led me down an internet rabbithole of learning who St. Uncumber (also known as Wilgefortis) actually was. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know) a "fictitious female folk saint venerated by Catholics whose legend arose in the 14th century,[1] and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard".
The Wikipedia entry here says that she came about because of a tunic wearing, bearded representation of Christ:
"Art historians have argued that the origins of the art can be found with Eastern-style representations of the crucified Christ, and in particular the Holy Face of Lucca, a large 11th-century carved wooden figure of Christ on the Cross (now replaced by a 13th-century copy), bearded like a man, but dressed in a full-length tunic that might have appeared to be like that of a woman instead of the loin cloth familiar and by the Late Middle Ages normal in depictions in the West.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgefortis#cite_note-6
The theory is that when the composition was copied and brought north of the Alps over the next 150 years, in small copies by pilgrims and dealers, this unfamiliar image led Northerners to create a narrative to explain the androgynous icon.[6] Some older images of the crucified Christ were repurposed as Wilgefortis, and new images clearly intended to represent the saint created, many with female clothes and breasts."
I still like to learn something new every day!
ETA: [I also learned that 'uncumber' (rather than unencomber) is actually a word (although archaic)]
ETA2: I can understand the confusion
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The LGBT community are fond of St Encumber .. this from an EDP link:
They are generally seen with clothing all of which projects "ghost", in this case "glowing white". The trousers do not. And a ghost in trousers in 1971 is not the white lady of prior centuries. If you're going to comment on a "ghost" picture then you have to expect analyses of the picture.
Didn't the guy who took the photo get a visit from the MIB ?
That's what Jim Templeton claimed, he was the man who took that photo of his daughter in 1964.
I'm a white lady. All kinds of people could claim to have seen me.
My understanding is that it is some sort of short lived apparition/spirit, menace, etc
Now I see why 'You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!' LOL
