A paranormal investigator claims to have captured an evil monk peering at him through the window of a haunted pub.
The footage shows a shadowy figure stares down at Sean Reynolds as he speaks to the camera, he claims.
The 34-year-old was editing clips from his trip to Abbey House Museum in Leeds, Yorkshire, last month when he spotted the ‘strange’ face lurking behind him.
The footage shows a shadowy figure(circled) stares down at Sean Reynolds as he speaks to the camera, he claims
The face is peeking out from a pub on a Victorian street preserved within the museum that the monk would have strolled down during his life at Kirkstall Abbey.
Video from just moments earlier of the same house, which is locked to the public, shows a clear window which Mr Reynolds believes suggests that the spirit turned up specifically to watch him.
The Liverpool-based ghost expert said: ‘While I was investigating the museum I kept hearing these ghostly moans and groans and I was getting fantastic results on all my equipment.
‘Every time I heard a nose it would send shivers down my spine as I was completely alone and to get back to safety I would have had to navigate the labyrinth of Victorian streets in the dark.
‘But it wasn’t until I came to edit the footage that I noticed something very unusual on camera. As I was doing my piece to camera to open the show in the first floor window of a pub behind.
‘Before I jumped to any paranormal conclusions, I wanted to check the other footage and see if it was pareidolia – a random pattern – but to my surprise in earlier shots there was no one there.
The 34-year-old was editing clips from his trip to Abbey House Museum in Leeds, Yorkshire, last month when he spotted the ‘strange’ face lurking behind him
‘It’s like this strange figure had turned up just to watch what I was doing.. I knew it couldn’t be a person because the pub is locked to the public.
‘As I went through the footage frame by frame, I actually saw the figure move as well. I was stunned. I kept rewatching it to make sure I wasn’t imagining things.
The presenter was at the museum filming for his latest season of his paranormal investigation series Ghost Dimension.
The father-of-three was invited to Abbey House as the museum has been at the centre of ghostly goings on since as early as 1929 when a live in caretaker heard a locked and bolted door open and close.
And in more recent years staff have felt their hair being pulled and heard children’s voices, according to the museum’s events organiser Mark Kilvington.
Originally a sceptic, 48-year-old Mark said he cannot deny the existence of the paranormal after working in the museum for 20 years.
The face is peeking out from a pub on a Victorian street preserved within the museum that the monk would have strolled down during his life at Kirkstall Abbey(pictured)
Mr Kilvington said: ‘I have experience a few things over the years. It started when I was locking up with a colleague and we both heard a child’s voice as ‘are you going now?’
‘There’s also this area in the streets. For about eight years you could step into this one spot and you would be overwhelmed by the smell of pipe tobacco and the smell would go as soon as you moved.
‘At first, being alone in the museum and hearing these voices was really quite frightening but I am just so used to it now.
‘You tell yourself that you’re just imagining things. I’ve always been someone who needs things proving to me.
‘But a few years ago, we had the first ghost hunt here and they picked up loads of paranormal activity.
‘It was after that that the staff started openly speaking to each other about what we had all experienced, it really validates it. So many people having different encounters can’t be coincidence.’