First, was it a digital or traditional camera?
Second, what you say about the image being an image may be a big clue. What if you have this backwards? You are assuming that it was the ghost of the woman you saw, but you describe her in terms of an image and she was only visible when looking through a camera. What if the ghost is not the subject of the photograph, but the photographer, or perhaps even an echo of the action of a photograph being taken? By looking through the camera lens at that spot you were both recreating the taking of a photograph from long ago and some resonance with that caused you to see what that long ago (perhaps now ghostly) photographer saw. It may have been an important and emotional moment for him/her which either became imprinted on the building or else he or she was showing a memory to you based on an affinity for cameras. Perhaps somewhere out there is a print of the original photograph!
Hey Benway,
It was a traditional camera with lens and such.
I totally love your idea too. It’s like so very exact to the situation. I find it plausible.
As for the possibility of a like original photo out there - maybe. Unlikely I’ll ever find it because after all these years I have even forgotten the name of the bed and breakfast inn. If I could recall it, I’d be inserting into Debi’s new thread about haunted travel.
Thanks for posting those inputs Benway.