Oxford tourist captures historical ghost?

A tourist on a ghost tour in the beautiful university city of Oxford, UK, has captured what she thinks may be the ghost of a woman in period dress strolling along New College Lane. “I thought it looked so beautiful glowing with All Soul’s College in the background I had to take a photo,” Sue Tomlinson told the Oxford Mail. “When I first saw [the photo] I thought it looked strange and wanted to get home and put it on the computer so I could see it bigger.

You can see the image here: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8427740.Tourist_captures_spooky_image_on_camera/

Looking at the photo, I can make out what appears to be a woman in a skirt (and perhaps a bustle?) Peer a bit closer and she might be wearing a hat and cape and carrying something in her hand. Set your imagination free and she even looks to be in something of a hurry … Then again, I’m ever wary of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of a random image being perceived as significant, like seeing patterns in clouds, or deities stamped onto toast …. What else this could be? Well, as the owner of a very sub-standard point-and-click digital camera, I’ll have to reserve judgment, but I’d welcome your thoughts.