A proud homeowner was left terrified after taking a photo of her new house only to notice a ghost staring out from the window.
Michelle
Midwinter, 30, had gone outside to take a picture of her new home in
North Bradley, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, to share with friends on her
Facebook page.
But it was only when she took another look at the image that she noticed the spooky apparition of a man peering out her window.
Michelle Midwinter was taking a picture of her new home when she noticed a man's face in the window
The mother-of-one, who was at home with her two-year-old daughter, ran inside to discover that no one was there.
Miss
Midwinter, who moved into the house last month, believes the sighting
could be the spirit of Samuel Kent - a former factory inspector who
worked in the area.
She
said: 'I decided to take a picture of the front of our house and post it
on Facebook to show how well we were all settling in.
'I went outside and took a picture but after initially admiring the brickwork the face just sort of jumped out at me.
Miss Midwinter believes the apparition was spirit of factory inspector Samuel Kent who died in 1872
'I
ran into the house to make sure no one was in there because I knew
everyone else was at work, but it was just me and my two-year-old
daughter.
'I
studied the photo for a while and then put it on Facebook to see if
anyone else could come up with an explanation as to how the face could
have got there.'
Miss
Midwinter, a mobile phone case designer, added: 'The photo caused quite
a stir on Facebook, but no one could really come up with any plausible
explanation.
'Most people thought it was a reflection of the flowers below the window but the angles are all wrong.'
'It's hard to believe but it clearly looks like the face of an old man.'
She
denies claims the image has been doctored and after witnessing a number
of ghostly goings on - including a clock falling off a wall - believes
the house is haunted.
'I'm
a self-confessed non-believer of ghosts but the picture coupled with a
clock randomly falling off the wall and smashing to pieces that morning
did creep me out,' she said.
'The clock was there when we moved in, so it hadn't fallen off due to a dodgy fixture we had put up.
'Another
weird thing was that my friend saw a door handle move down and the door
opened in the same room the face in the window was in.
'I
was just so surprised because I thought someone was in the house. We
also checked the attic to make sure no one was living up there.
Miss Midwinter moved into the house in
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, last month and had wanted to share pictures of
her new home with friends on Facebook when she discovered the chilling
image
The room where the spirit was peering out the window when Miss Midwinter went outside to take a picture
'I can't really say what I think the face in the window is as I honestly don't know.
'I
would like to say an odd reflection but it doesn't make sense, I am a
very logical person but I cannot come up with a logical explanation for
this photo, it's just spooky.
'And
to be honest, I would rather not think about it as we already hear
strange scratches in the walls, noises from upstairs and the lights
flicker on and off to.
Michelle Midwinter with her two-year-old daughter who was at home when she spotted the 'ghost'
'You end up scaring yourself if you think about it too much.'
Local
historian Andrew Jones, 50, has done extensive research into Samuel
Kent, the father of Constance Kent, who brutally murdered her
three-year-old brother when she was 16 in the nearby village of Rode in
1860.
He
thinks the photograph of the shadowy ghoul, dubbed Old Man Kent, bears a
striking resemblance to Samuel Kent, who died in 1872.
Mr
Jones, who is a caretaker at John of Gaunt School in Trowbridge, said:
'From looking at the photograph, to me it looks like Samuel Kent, father
of Constance Kent, who committed an infamous murder in the area.
'There are a number of reported ghost sightings in Trowbridge but I have not come across any in North Bradley.
'I know Samuel lived and worked as a factory inspector in the area, so there's every chance it could be him.'
Mr
Kent was originally a suspect in the 1860 Rode Hill House murder, but
his daughter, Constance, was arrested and eventually convicted of
murdering his three-year-old son.
The
Rode Hill House murder case found fame again in recent years thanks to
Kate Summerscale's award-winning book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
The
sighting comes after a spate of reports that ghosts have been popping
up in photographs across the nation, most recently at Cannock Chase in
the Midlands, where a black-eyed ghost child was caught on camera.
Some of the legal
documents that came with the house, which she now believes is haunted
after a series of spooky goings on, including a clock falling off the
wall and a door handle movin
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