Kilbride Castle

Laura and I went to a lecture at Kilbride Castle in Baden about 15 minutes away.  It was given by a professor from Laurier University on the ghostly photographs taken by the early Victorians.  First we were able to go on a tour of the castle which was really just an old house but it was a little like Downton Abbey because it had a special area for the servants.  The castle was all decked out for Halloween and all of the tour guides were dressed up in Victorian clothes.  Each guide was in a room to themselves and we walked from room to room.  They all had ghost stories to tell us.  The tour was pretty cool.  The lecture was pretty short but the professor discussed some pretty neat stuff about some famous people.  One of the famous people who believed in ghosts was the former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.  I told Laura that I had a biography about his strange ideas and later I leant her the book.  Apparently, he had a crystal ball that he would use to talk to his dead mother to find out what to do about the Second World War.  He also had a series of dogs named Pat and would talk to them through the crystal ball after they died.  The lady also talked about this photographer who specialized in taking pictures of ghosts and took a famous picture of Abe Lincoln's wife with the ghost of Abe Lincoln behind her.  A couple of days later I saw an article in The New Yorker which was a review of a biography of that same photographer.  What are the chances????