Danielle McCarthy
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Can you spot what’s spooky about this picture?

A group of women who gathered by Loch Eck in Scotland, have been shocked to find an eerie sight in one of their photos.

The women were celebrating a hen’s weekend and enjoyed taking snaps of their time together by the scenic surroundings.

However, in only one of their photos there is a figure they were not expecting to see.

A young, dark-haired boy can be seen crouching on the ground behind a tree stump.

After spotting the figure, the women researched online and discovered that the area is known for its legend of the “Blue Boy”, a small child who drowned in the lake in the 19th century.

The old tale says the four-year-old haunts The Coylet Inn, a hostelry near the lake.

The mysterious story was even the subject of a 1994 movie starring Emma Thompson.

The screenwriter of the film Paul Murton previously 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."

Have you ever heard of this myth before? Let us know in the comments below.

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