Hen do revellers spooked after noticing something very eerie in photograph

05 December 2023 , 09:00

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The women were celebrating a hen do when the pictures were taken (Image: @hollydca/Twitter)

Spooked revellers reportedly fled a hen do after noticing something very eerie in one of their photographs. The women, who celebrated a pal's upcoming wedding on a remote estate in Scotland, were left horrified after snapping a burst of pictures just seconds apart in Argyll and Bute.

In one of the images, in which the friends are seen posing with their arms in the air with some armed with masks, a small boy can be seen crouching behind a wooden stump. The women reportedly fled the after they researched a property and discovered a story about a child who slept-walked into the lake and drowned.

It appears the story may be that of the The Blue Boy, a television film broadcast on the BBC in 1994, about a four-year-old who drowned in Loch Eck. The film, which starred Oscar winner Emma Thompson, was said to have been filmed in the same location where the photographs were taken.

The boy's image sparked a frenzied debate online (@hollydca/Twitter)

The story is a dramatisation of a tale involving The Coylet Inn, a 17th century inn overlooking the loch that is said to be haunted. The images first emerged in 2017 and sparked a frenzied online debate about the boy's presence with some questioning its authenticity. One Reddit user said: "Welp..not going to be sleeping tonight". In an interview with The Herald in 1994, The Blue Boy screenwriter Paul Murton 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."

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