Call it a close encounter of the furred kind.
A couple from England were left wondering if their dream home is haunted after a “ghost” spooked a visiting dog during the early hours of a recent morning — with the whole, otherworldly episode caught on camera.
Victoria Hepworth, 35, was dog sitting Kiwi, her sister’s one-year-old black Labrador last week, when she decided to set up a motion sensor security camera in the living room, just to make sure their four-legged houseguest was okay during the night.
But what she and her fiancé, Joe Shard, 29, saw the next morning shocked the pooch-sitting pair — the camera had captured Kiwi leaping around the room in an attempt to get away from a tall ‘floating’ ghost-like figure, dressed in white.
“It was really weird,” Hepworth told Kennedy News and Media. “I wouldn’t say either of us particularly believes in ghosts but it looks like it’s floating or hovering.”
“It felt very odd because it made us think, ‘What has been there?’” she continued. “We were a bit unsettled.”
Hepworth’s camera caught the dog leaping away from the “weird” figure, as it floated above the door frame. The spectre appeared to have a clearly defined head and shoulders, which cast a shadow on the wall.
“Kiwi didn’t bark in the night but, thinking back, maybe we heard whimpering,” Hepworth admitted. “She slept most of the night in her bed, but here she’s obviously running away.”
Stranger still, this wasn’t the first time a family pet has been spooked by unexplained activity in the 135 year-old home.
Last year, when they were moving into the space, their young nephew and his puppy had a strange reaction to something that the adults couldn’t see.
“I remember on the day we moved in my nephew, who was two years old at the time, and their family puppy were sitting about halfway up the stairs and both of them burst into tears at the exact same time,” Hepworth claimed.
“The dog started whimpering and the baby started crying,” she continued. “They say kids and animals pick up on things, and I thought ‘Oh brilliant, we’ve got a haunted house.’”
Since the strange night with Kiwi, the two are trying to figure out exactly what the dog camera captured, and have decided to conduct some research on the history of their house.
“We know the property was built in 1888 and we know who lived in it, so we’re trying to see who could possibly have lived here who wouldn’t be very happy,” she explained.
Hepworth explained that this experience was “out of the blue” for them, because they hadn’t done any building work or anything that could cause a stir in the house.
No one else has a key, either, she claimed.
But despite all of the creepiness, the 35-year-old admitted that she’s not too scared, as she’s always been a big fan of ghosts.
“It’s pretty cool more than anything else,” she said. “I’ve never had a bad experience – and I don’t feel negatively towards the house at all.”
Hepworth even posted the story on Facebook, asking for suggestions from others about what to do — one user even wondered if the fearsome figure might not actually be a ghost, but a burglar.
“First of all I would check your Ring doorbell…to see if this figure has been seen walking along the street or trying to get into all the houses,” the user wrote. “It’s reflecting a shadow off the wall which I didn’t think ghosts or spirits do, so my guess is you were burgled.”
Others, however, chalked it up to paranormal activity.
“Amazing pic and creepy at the same time!” one person typed. “It looks like the figure is walking away and since it’s on a different plane of existence, it makes it appear very tall or floating.”
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