This ghostly figure was snapped by a holidaymaker on the moors of North Yorkshire – and experts think the eerie photo is genuine.

Unsuspecting Colin Foster, 34, aimed his new digital camera at the winter scenery during a trip earlier this year, not spotting anything unusual until he returned home from his backpacking tour and began checking the photos he had taken.

Colin said: “My girlfriend and I were looking through them when she grabbed my hand and said, ‘Stop’.

“She insisted I zoom in on one particular picture. At first I didn’t see it — but, as we zoomed in, we just turned to each other with our mouths agape.”

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Colin, of Wordsley, West Mids, added: “At the time I took the photo I did feel like I was being watched, but I just put that down to how remote and lonely the place was.

“All my friends and family are scratching their heads in awe.”

TV medium Craig Hamilton-Parker said: “I have checked it over for cheating, but it has none of the tell-tale signs of photo manipulating.

“The exact human shape leads me to say, ‘Yes, this is a real supernatural snap’. The Yorkshire Moors are renowned for their ghosts.”

Nick Thurston, of the UK British Paranormal Association, said: “This image is extremely clear and is certainly that of a spirit manifestation of a full human figure.”

UKBPA vice chairman Clint Symonds said: “This is one of those pictures that makes you sit up and say wow. But obviously it is also a picture that needs deep examination.

“It is so easy these days to fool the public with paranormal phenomena due to modern software.”

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