{"id":104367,"date":"2018-07-24T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=104367"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:15:11","slug":"watch-is-this-a-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-is-this-a-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Is this a ghost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A mother takes a video of her son riding his bike around a mansion. When she goes home and checks the video, she finds an <\/span><b>eerie figure watching her son from one of the windows of the mansion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. By zooming in, it looks like the ghost of a woman dressed in the Victorian era. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No, this isn\u2019t the plot of a movie about curses and ghosts, but rather what happened to Louise Lenton when she went to visit <\/span><b>Oldway Mansion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Paignton, England), with her husband and 5-year-old son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the <\/span><b>ghostly encounter <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on camera:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PsXX0cAkFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oldway Mansion was built in the late 19th century by Isaac Singer, the founder of the famous Singer sewing machine company. He died shortly before the construction was completed. His third son, Paris Eugene Singer, renovated the house to resemble the <\/span><b>Palace of Versailles and the Place de la Concorde.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Access to the mansion\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has been restricted to the public for years, but its beautiful gardens keep attracting tourists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Due to its current state at the time of recording, there were <\/span><b>only security guards inside Oldway Mansion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. So we can throw out the idea of a woman making a joke or an actress performing a period piece. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Louise Lenton sent a copy of the video to the <\/span><b>local authorities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to investigate what happened. After all, we\u2019re talking about a physical or ghostly intrusion into a private building. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Do you believe it\u2019s a ghost? Or just a strange optical illusion?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Or, despite what we\u2019ve mentioned, do you think it\u2019s somebody making a joke? 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