Questions around the supernatural continue to pique our curiosity even now, and one group of women on a hen party certainly had a surprise.
In fact, the party was so spooked by what they saw that they ended up cancelling the entire trip and fleeing. They had been staying for a weekend at a remote estate in Argyll and Bute in Scotland.
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And I know what you're already thinking: the sentence 'a hen party at a remote estate in Scotland' could easily be the opening 15 minutes of a horror movie which sees members of the hen party being picked off one by one by the vengeful ghost of a jilted Victorian lady.
Someone get Hollywood on the phone!
All the same, you can hardly blame the hen party for getting a bit nervous.
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The group had been posing for some pictures at their picturesque retreat. They had taken a series of snaps, but were left terrified when they noticed that something had appeared in one of them.
The first picture shows the group all posing for the weekend.
But in the second picture, taken just moments later, the distinct image of a young boy can be seen popping up behind a set of logs.
That's already spooky enough in and of itself, but surely not enough to persuade an entire group to pack up and go home?
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Well, the problem is that it's not just the spooky face. There's also something of a story at the estate, because of course there is.
It transpires that there is a story of 'The Blue Boy', which was made into a film in 1994. The film is about a boy who drowned in Loch Eck.
And in an interview with The Herald in 1994, The Blue Boy screenwriter Paul Murton revealed that he had based the story on a tale he had heard from a hotelier.
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He said: "I was talking to the hotelier about it and he mentioned the Blue Boy. This, he said, was a young child who had been on holiday with his parents in the hotel and he had been sleepwalking during the night. He had strayed outside, fallen into the loch, and drowned.
"When they found his body it was blue with the cold. Hotel staff had noticed that things like cutlery and plates were often out of place for no apparent reason - perhaps more sinister than that was the fact that they sometimes found wet footprints upstairs in the corridor."
Whelp!
While there were people who doubted the authenticity of the photo, which is fair, between that and the Blue Boy, that's certainly enough to give anyone the creeps.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to pitch a studio a horror movie about a hen party being killed off by a vengeful Victorian ghost...
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