The Wem Town Hall fire photograph

A photograph of Wem Town Hall burning on 19 November 1995 appears to show a girl in the doorway.

Wem Town Hall, in Shropshire, was gutted by fire on 19 November 1995. Local man Tony O'Rahilly, a sewage farm worker and amateur photographer, was first stopped by police from going near the burning building. He took a black-and-white picture of the blaze from the opposite side of the street with a long lens. BBC Shropshire records that he and the other onlookers saw no girl in the doorway at the time. The photograph appeared to show a young girl standing there.

The picture became widely known as a photograph of the Wem Town Hall ghost, and BBC News Shropshire used that framing in 2009. In that report, a person who examined the print and the negative found no sign of doctoring on either.

Wikipedia gives a different finding: that the image was later shown to be fake, because the source of the girl figure was found to be a postcard from 1922.