I once read a book called "Stranger Than Science". One of the many unexplained events was about people having their photograph taken while they were standing at a window watching an electric storm. Their image remained on the glass. Has a case like this ever been fully documented?

zbeckabee

Documented or proven? One of the more bizarre sights anywhere is the face on the courtroom window -- aka, the Lightning Portrait of Henry Wells. Wells, a former slave, was accused of burning the original Pickens County Courthouse in 1876. He was finally arrested two years later. As there was no jail, Wells was placed in the garret of the new courthouse. A mob of locals gathered outside to lynch him. As Wells peered out the garret window, a bolt of lightning struck nearby and permanently etched his terrified expression into the windowpane. Wells died less than two months later "of wounds received while attempting to escape." The lightning photo is still visible today, and only from the outside. Up on the third floor, an arrow painted on the outside directs you to the miraculous face. According to one RA tipster: "Through all the years, in spite of hail and storm, which has destroyed all the windows in the courthouse, this one pane has remained intact. It has been scrubbed with soap and rubbed with gasoline by those who doubt its permanence, but it has met every test and the face remains unchanged. At close range the pane looks clear and flawless, but viewed from the ground where once gathered an angry mob, the fear-distorted face of Henry Wells can be clearly seen!" http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2012 A couple of other claims: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11461 Aug 03 09, 5:00 PM

unclerick

Thanks Zb, fascinating stuff. Here is a more detailed picture of the courthouse window. If any of you out there in cyberland can find some other images I would like to see them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Face_in_the_courthouse.jpg Aug 04 09, 11:37 AM