The O'Hare Mansion in Greencastle, Indiana, now demolished to make way for a corn field, leaves behind a creepy memento as Guy Winters captures these shots before the buildings destruction. The apparitions were not visible at the time, yet appear in Guy's photos. A descendant of the O'Hare family noticed a strong ancestral resemblance to the apparitions in the photographs.

'Spooking'

Guy Winters is a man who had had few paranormal experiences in his life. That is until one fateful evening when a few of his friends rocked up at his house and convinced him to go 'spooking'.

His friends had just been to the ruin of the O'Hare Mansion in Greencastle, Indiana, and had had several unexplainable experiences. Guy, upon reflecting on his own experience, decided it sounded like a intriguing way to spend an evening.

Guy Winters and his friends descended upon the old mansion. Built in the 1800's the triple bricked multi story home was built by the O'Hare family and several generations of their descendants had called it home.

The building, out of use for several decades, is surrounded by a unkempt tree hedge line and is only accessible via a gated driveway. Permission was sought from the owners as Guys friends had spent several occasions on the property searching out the resident spirits.

An Eerie evening

That night all present had experiences of a potentially paranormal kind. Many had seen a apparition pass through a hallway and 'ghostly mist/vapour' was recorded on video camera.

Guy took many photos of the building that night including the upstairs floors where he was the only one game enough to venture. Guy remembers a eerie, almost sick feeling as he took several of the shots and a strange pulsing in his head.

After Guy had his photos developed he was shocked to find several ghostly images. The apparitions were not visible at the time the photos were taken but are clear to see.

A gold lady was visible in the lower floor bay window.

A heavily translucent figure in pink is seen in the back doorway.

But most impressive is 'The Pink Lady' who was captured on three consecutive frames in one of the second floor bedroom windows. Between each photo the figure has moved and three different poses are caught.

On analysis the images are in fact present on the negatives and no evidence of tampering has been found.

The window the image was captured in was her mothers bedroom window. She also believed the lady in pink seen in the back door to be her aunty Vera O'Hare. No one is sure who the gold apparition is but a mystery is always something good to preserve. Guy and his photos appeared on several television shows and documentaries including 'Worlds Scariest Ghosts Caught on Tape' and 'My Ghost Story'. Although the O'Hare Mansion was demolished by the owner of the land it was built on (for another corn field or to keep out ghost hunters and thrill seekers) Guy believes he can still feel the presence of Irene O'Hare every time he drives past the area.

The O'Hare Mansion

For years, friends Guy Winters and Terry Lambert had heard stories of supernatural activity at the decaying O’Hare mansion. Located on the outskirts of town, the abandoned house was reputedly the home of a female spirit. Both paranormal enthusiasts, Winters and Lambert traveled to the mansion themselves, searching for verifiable proof of visitors from the other side. They documented their trip with a video camera, producing footage of the crumbling interior which lay beyond a haunting message scribbled across the front door: “This is Hell.” Was it a mere joke or a genuine warning?

While Lambert went back out to photograph the exterior, Winters remained inside and continued investigating. He soon smelled a bizarre, sulfur-like odor. Then came the eerie echoes of another beating heart. Both men fled in fear. When the photos were developed, a startling figure was plainly visible. Bathed in pink light, the disembodied form hovered in a window, seeming to stare out at the world of the flesh and blood. Was this Irene O’Hare herself, the woman who lived and died at the mansion? Was she the infamous Pink Lady?

When a computer expert analyzed the amazing photos, he discovered the figure was present within the negatives, meaning it was not a camera malfunction. Although tampering with photographic negatives is not impossible, to do so convincingly is a difficult task even for the most experienced professionals. Incredibly, a digitally enhanced version (shown below) seemed to indicate the presence of a ghastly skull within the ethereal visage. A digital enhancement produces the chilling, skull-like face of the infamous "Pink Lady"

A digital enhancement produces a chilling, skull-like face. A cornfield now occupies the land where the O’Hare mansion once stood. With the house demolished, it seems unlikely we will ever know what was truly happening within those forgotten walls. Perhaps one day, someone will be driving past that lonely cornfield and, for the briefest of moments, they’ll catch a glimpse of the mysterious Pink Lady.

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The photo above was taken by Guy Winters during a paranormal investigation in O’Hare Mansion in Greencastle, Indiana. It came to be called “The Pink Lady of Greencastle,” owing its name to the ghostly figure of a lady seemingly lit by a pinkish glow. A friend told Winters that he and his girlfriend had a scary encounter with a ghostly entity during an attempt to have a tryst in the abandoned property. So, Winters, along with another friend Terry and a team of paranormal investigators, explored the O’Hare Mansion upon being granted permission by the property’s owner.

Armed with VHS video cameras and simple flash cameras, Winters and his group began documenting their search for several days. Finally, the group began to feel something spooky during one of their night visits. While some of his companions covered the interior of the ruined mansion, Winters started taking photos of the windows and doorways outside. He did not recall seeing anything, but when the film was developed, there it was: the vapory but also visible figure of a lady staring out from one of the windows. She is believed to be the ghost of Irene O’Hare.

The fourth frame on the lower right shows a screenshot from the analysis done on one of the photos snapped by Winters, showing something distinctly skull-like. The verdict of the photographic expert? The figure of the Pink Lady was registered on the film and was not caused by a camera malfunction or questionable activity.

Winters and his team of investigators had the chance to return to the mansion, but they never felt, saw, or photographed the Pink Lady again. The four-story brick mansion was said to be built in the early 1800s. Perhaps to steer ghost hunters away from his property, the current owner unfortunately had it demolished. A cornfield replaced the spot where the spooky mansion once stood.