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A welcome sign that there exists a limit to popular credulity over ghostly images captured on camera is shown by the flood of adverse comm­ents in the wake of press coverage of a film clip taken at a Cumbrian pub. The security camera footage was recorded at The Wolfe pub at Little Dockray, near Penrith. It shows what many believe is simply an insect crawling across the lens. Nonetheless, eschewing logic and reason, several local newspapers and one national have been happy to promote the film as evidence of ghostly activity, both at the pub and in the adjoining premises next door, a branch of Thomas Cook travel agents.