Could this chilling image show the ghost said to haunt Loftus Hall?
The mansion, situated on Wexford’s Hook Peninsula, has long been said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died in the house after meeting the devil.
Thomas Beavis, a British tourist who recently visited the house, believes he may have snapped proof of the supernatural in one spooky shot.
Beavis, 21, told MSN: “We were all feeling a little edgy from the tour but when I showed the photo to my friends we freaked,” he said.
“I zoomed in on all the windows to find this girl in the window. I had to take some time before I showed it to everyone just because I didn’t really understand what I was looking at.”
The story goes that Anne, the youngest child in the Tottenham family who moved to the home around 1766, fell ill after an encounter with a spirit and was locked away on one of the mansion’s rooms until her death.
Beavis added: “I got chills, and still do. The girl could be the spirit of Anne Tottenham still walking around Loftus Hall. It could have been some strange occurrence because of a supernatural power, but I don’t know.”
“Normally I am a guy that believes in what he sees, but with this, I still don’t understand what’s going on in that photo.”