'We fled hen do after spotting eerie figure in photo - then we read up on location'
17.02.2024 - 04:03
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Hen party revellers were creeped out after they saw something spooky in a photo from their trip. The group had been getting in some celebrations at a quiet estate in Argyll and Bute ahead of their pal's wedding.
Posing in front of Loch Eck, the women took a series of cheery snaps - but then they realised something was amiss. In one picture, the friends are all cheering with their arms up and some are holding masks with the face of the groom.
But that is not the only extra face in the image, as a little boy can be seen hiding behind a wooden stump close by. The group then reportedly fled the location after reviewing the pictures and reading up on the location, The Mirror reports.
During their research, the girls stumbled upon the tale of a child who sleepwalked into the loch and drowned. It is thought that they had found out about the legend of The Blue Boy, a movie shown on the BBC in 1994, about a four-year-old who drowned in Loch Eck.
The film is based on a legend surrounding The Coylet Inn, a lochside pub that dates back to the 1600s and is said to be haunted. Oscar-winner Emma Thompson starred in the movie, which is believed to have been filmed right where the hen party's photos were taken in the summer of 2017.
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After the images resurfaced on Reddit, they sparked some spooky discussions. One person wrote: "Welp... not going to be sleeping tonight".
Paul Murton, who wrote The Blue Boy, told The Herald in 1994: "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