Snapper spooked by ghost picture

A STUDENT photographer was left seriously spooked after he inadvertently snapped this ghostly image looking out to sea from the end of a pier. 

Matthew Hales, 17, was on the deserted pier at 6:30am to catch the incoming tide for his A-level coursework using time-lapse techniques.

He knew the pier at Clevedon, Somerset, was deserted because it does not open until 10am and he had to ask permission to be allowed on early.

But he captured the ghostly apparition as one moment the pier, is empty, but in the next image a figure appears before vanishing again.

Matthew said: "When I went through the pictures I was surprised to see the figure of a man standing on the pier — it was almost like he was looking straight at me.     More