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'Ghost' on Clevedon pier snapped by UK student Matthew Hales, 17

Updated: 17 Feb 2012

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Spooky ... image appears to show ghostly figure on pier

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

33 comments 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.

"The technique I was using captures everything which happens for 30 seconds, so he must have been stood there for at least that long to appear in the picture.

"However, when I checked the frames before and after there was no sign of him or of the figure walking to or away from the location where I saw him."

Matthew, with two friends, never left the pier as the time-lapse camera took photographs of the Victorian landmark every 30 seconds over a 15-minute period.

It was not until Matthew, of Yate, near Bristol, checked the individual frames from his Nikon D3000 camera that he spotted the male figure staring back at him from the pier.

Matthew, a student at Brimpton Green and Chipping Sodbury Link Sixth Form, was puzzled until he saw a local newspaper story about early morning anglers seeing ghosts on the pier.

A mystery figure has been reported by several anglers as they cast off from the pier.

Matthew added: "It did freak me out a bit when I saw the figure appear on the pictures.

"I then checked the pier opening times and saw that it wasn't due to open until 10am so there would have been no one on the pier at that time in the morning.

"It was only when I saw the story in the newspaper that I thought I may have caught the ghost on camera."

The area of the estuary around Clevedon has been dubbed the "ghost coast" because of the number of unexplained sightings.

SOURCE: thesun.co.uk

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Chesspawn Commented on 17 Feb 2012

Wonder if his story would help convince the skeptics that there are indeed other beings around us-whether you want to call them ghosts, spirits, demons, angels, the point is that we're not alone.