If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself going back through images you’ve shot hours, days, even weeks later.
Personally, I enjoy revisiting such moments regularly; after all, such photographs provide a visual window into the past that would not otherwise exist.
A group of women were startled when they discovered a chilling detail in a pair of images taken seconds apart.
We’ve all probably experienced our fair share of embarrassing photo moments when photos end up oddly blurry, with the traditional red-eye effect, or anything goes wrong and ruins an otherwise beautiful keepsake of a historical moment. I’ve seen photos that have been altered to the point where the subjects no longer resemble real individuals for whatever reason.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like this.
According to reports, a group of women on a bachelorette party in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, were so concerned by what they saw in a pair of images they had taken that they canceled what was supposed to be a fun-filled weekend and instead returned home.
The celebrations were scheduled to take place at a remote estate, and the party began by doing what any large gathering of friends would do: taking a series of photos before everything fell into chaos.
The first of their images shows the group smiling in front of a set of logs, with a gorgeous lake in the background.
However, in the group’s purported second photo, taken just seconds after the first, a small boy appears to be peeking his head above the logs.
Does this sound creepy? Well, the story is supposed to take an even stranger turn because the estate has a very tragic past that, given the photo, is impossible to ignore.
According to reports, The Blue Boy was a 1994 film about a small boy who drowned in Lock Eck. Screenwriter Paul Murton claimed that he based the plot on a story he heard from a local hotelier.
“I was talking to the hotelier about it and he mentioned the Blue Boy,” Murton said.
“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.”
Needless to say, the group of women were too uneasy to stay for the weekend and quickly packed up.
The veracity of the photo with the little boy has been called into question online, but no official ruling has been issued by the women present as of this writing.
