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For best of us Halloween comes aloof already a year but, for one woman, ghouls, graveyards and adorned dress accept become a way of life.
Six years ago, Jeane Trend-Hill abdicate her job as a artifice investigator to become a alleged Headstone Hunter - and she now spends all her time ambuscade in graveyards.
The 46-year-old from Langdon Hills in Essex is a abstruse investigator whose allure with afterlife alike continued to her accepting a boom of the blackbird featured on Amy Winehouse's headstone.
Spooky: Jeane Trend-Hill with one of her favourite angels at East Sheen cemetery in London
Dressed up: Jeane, pictured actuality at Lambeth Cemetery, consistently dresses in Victorian aching garb
Tribute: Jeane's blackbird boom (left) was aggressive by an angel on asleep singer, Amy Winehouse' grave
Jeane, who has additionally accounting a cardinal of books on afterlife and cemeteries, including an A-Z adviser on the meanings of symbols begin on graves, explained:
'The blackbird is in anamnesis of Amy Winehouse whom I acclimated to see a fair bit of in Camden aback I lived there and additionally my Dad - I kept seeing blackbirds in odd places afterwards he died.
'I took abundance in acquisitive that the blackbirds were my Dad befitting an eye on me.'
["400px"]Jeane's attraction with afterlife and cemeteries began aback she was a adolescent and acclimated to appointment ancestors member's graves with her parents.
'While the adults chatted and abiding flowers, I would aberrate off and attending in admiration at the angels, doves and crosses on people's graves. I was addled by their adorableness and as I got earlier I began photographing them absolutely for my own enjoyment.'
Six years afterwards abrogation her government job, Jeane's day now involves annihilation from arch groups about apparitional locations to demography photographs of memorials and alike investigating and researching the abstruse for TV programmes.
'Sometimes I get asked to analysis out people's homes, usually aback they accept confused or if annihilation odd has been happening,' explains Jeane.
Friends: Jeane consistently saw the backward accompanist while out in Camden and is pictured abutting to her grave
Feathered friend: Jeane (left) rescued blackbird, Magic, from the ancillary of the alley afore absolution it a ceremony later. She believes he is a reincarnation of her backward father, who died 14 years ago
Spectre: Jeane tends to artist Arthur Beresford Pite's grave, while cutting Victorian aching garb. She believes his bogeyman has adored her activity on several occasions and has alike apparent him in the, er, spirit
Other projects accommodate grave apology work, and Jeanne is currently alive on artist Arthur Beresford Pite's grave, afterwards an adventure in which, she believes, Pite's bogey adored her life.
'When I started assignment at 30 Euston Square in London I was told that the architectonics was allegedly apparitional by its artist Arthur Beresford Pite,' remembers Jeane.
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'As the architectonics administrator of 30 Euston Square, I believed Arthur looked afterwards me as I looked afterwards his building.
'One of my best memorable adventures was aback Arthur chock-full me from falling headfirst bottomward a abrupt flight of stairs and out of a ample accessible window. I was accustomed a abundant box which I couldn't see over the top of and slipped off the aboriginal step.
'Suddenly I was pulled aback up by my shoulders. I angry about to acknowledge who anytime had adored my life, but there was cipher there. No one could accept anesthetized me on the access after me seeing them.'
Jeane additionally claims she saw a apparitional bogeyman akin Pite. She explains:
'Early in my analysis I was flicking through a book about architectonics and saw a account of Arthur, it was the aboriginal time I'd apparent a photo of him.
'I was afraid because he was the man I'd noticed on several occasions alfresco the office, generally accompanied by a man in an ancient railway uniform.'
Ghoulish: Jeane in her favourite best dress with the Victorian adaptation of a hearse at Lambeth Cemetery
Victoriana: Jeane's accumulating of memorabilia includes taxidermy, aching jewellery and photo albums
Tattooed: As able-bodied as a blackbird, Jeane's tattoos accommodate a affable of accord (left) and an ouroboros (right)
["400px"]Not agreeable with alive on Pite's grave, Jeane additionally apparent a canonizing applique on the 75th ceremony of the architect's afterlife while cutting a Victorian aching dress.
It wasn't the aboriginal time she's dressed up in Victorian costume, and Jeane says she generally wears it for appropriate events.
'People do a bit of a bifold booty aback they aboriginal see me but they adulation the dresses and jewellery. I adulation all things Victorian and aggregate photo albums, aching jewellery and clothes, aching cards (500 and counting) and taxidermy.'
Jeane has alike started accession Victorian aching tattoos.
'I accept a snake bitter its own tail, which is additionally accepted as an ouroboros, and is a Victorian appearance acceptation abiding life. I additionally accept a brace of basal cantankerous tattoos and a affable which is one of my favourite symbols on old graves.'
And bodies are demography notice, accouterment Jeane with addition aperture for her talents. Needless to say, she's thrilled:
'Recently I accept begin bodies are allurement if they can use my photos of memorials as the base for their boom designs, which is wonderful.
'Because of the appeal I'm now an adviser on canonizing tattoos. I advice bodies with their questions about designs and if they crave I accumulation them with my photos of angels, crosses and canonizing statues for reference.'
While Jeane's ancestors has been admiring of her abnormal new job, not anybody has been so understanding.
'Some bodies assume to acquisition what I do aberrant but others acquisition it fascinating; by photographing monuments and autograph about cemeteries, I'm giving them a glimpse to the added ancillary but in a acceptable way, not a alarming one.
People acquaint me I appearance the admirable ancillary of cemeteries and advice to accomplish afterlife a little beneath scary, which in my assessment can alone be a acceptable thing. I assumption afterlife is the aftermost taboo.'
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