Tourist snaps 'ghost' at haunted Irish mansion

A young English man holidaying in Ireland believes he may have photographed the ghost of a young girl while on a tour of a haunted mansion.

Thomas Beavis, 21, made the chilling discovery while flicking through photos on his camera with his friends after visiting Lotus Hall in Wexford.

He was shocked to discover the figure that looks like a young girl as well as the head of an older woman in a window.

"We were all feeling a little edgy from the tour but when I showed the photo to my friends we freaked," he said

"I zoomed in on all the windows to find this girl in the window. I had to take some time before I showed it to everyone just because I didn’t really understand what I was looking at."

Legend says the Tottenham family moved to the home around 1766 and a short time after the youngest child in the family, Anne, fell ill allegedly after an encounter with a demonic spirit.

The family then locked the child away in one of the mansion's many rooms until she died, according to the legend.

Mr Beavis said he initially though the figures were a reflection of women standing outside the window but dismissed the idea after closer inspection.

"I got chills, and still do. The girl could be the spirit of Anne Tottenham still walking around Loftus Hall. It could have been some strange occurrence because of a supernatural power, but I don't know," he said.

"Normally I am a guy that believes in what he sees, but with this, I still don’t understand what's going on in that photo."