FORT GEORGE - PAGE 6

FORT GEORGE - Page Six

The pictures on this page are still pictures that came from a video that Margaret took on May 2, 2004. We went back over some old stuff and found these.

The pictures below are extremely interesting. This is when Kyle is talking by the cottage. In the video, a "mystery building" and "mystery lights" keep appearing and then disappearing. The first three stills below show the building in various stages of appearing. The second-to-last picture is cropped to show a structure of some sort just to the left of the mystery building. The last picture is one that I took from the TV screen when watching the video, and it seems to show the forms people in front of the building, toward the bottom. Just a thought: could this be the original 1796 building, which stood in front of where the guard house stands now? That building was two-story, had a portico and a widow's walk, and housed the courthouse, the guard house, and the jail. I've been told that the original building has been seen on occasion, in place of the guardhouse that stands there today. To see the video clip, visit the video page.

The still pictures below came from the same video. They came from Blockhouse One. In the first picture, you can see a light in the upper window (which is also the window in which a figure was found on Sept. 26/04, appearing to be wearing the helmet of the 1st King's Dragoons Guards). The second and third pictures show a little blonde-haired girl in the bottom window (the third picture is a negative of the second). The fourth picture is the original from which the close-up of the little girl came.
The fifth picture shows an adult figure in the bottom window, which seems to be wearing dark glasses. We thought the dark glasses were unusual and unlikely for that time, but upon doing some research, Margaret found the following information: Around the year 1752, eyeglass designer James Ayscough, introduced his spectacles with double-hinged side pieces. The lenses were made of tinted glass as well as clear. Ayscough felt that white glass created an offensive glaring light that was bad for the eyes and he advised the use of green and blue glasses. Ayscough glasses were the first sunglass-like eyeglasses, but they were not initially made for the purpose of protection from the sun.