Ghost of future child

Laura Cisse, 38. spotted the spooky figure standing behind her now 15-year-old daughter, Ayesha, for the first time since the photo was taken over a decade ago.

At first glance mum-of-two Laura mistook the ghost for her younger daughter, Sophie. That was until she realised Sophie had not been born at the time the snap was taken – and there was no one else in the room. Now Laura believes the “unexplainable” image could reveal an “echo from the future” of her then unborn child.

Laura, from Scarborough, North Yorks, said: "The girl looks like Sophie. It does have a look of her. It's very strange.

“When I first looked at the picture when I saw it again my eyes went straight to the face and I thought 'what's Sophie doing there? I've never seen her in that picture before'.

"But then I realised Sophie wasn't even born when the photo was taken. It can't have been her.

"Maybe it's an echo of the future or something like that. You don't know."

The creepy snapshot shows Ayesha aged five posing in a blue dress at the family’s former home, which they moved out of a year later.

Laura, who works at a printers, told how she only noticed the little girl in the background when it popped up on Facebook ‘memories’.

"I remember taking the picture. It was a Saturday, it was raining and I was washing up and Ayesha had been nagging me to try on the dress as it was new.

"When she put it on I said she looked lovely and that I would take a photograph of her. I took the photo and then carried on washing up.

"I remember we were alone and there were no other children there.”

Laura insisted the photo was “unexplainable”, adding: “It is too high for it to be something on the table.

“I remember the ornament that I had on the table and it is not that.

"Someone at work suggested it could be a doll's head on the table, but it couldn't be because Ayesha didn't have any dolls as there were none with afros, so she didn't want one."

"It looks like a little girl with blonde hair but there is no one who would have been at the house who it could have been.

"I can't believe I've never noticed it before.”

And she admitted the photograph had left her “freaked out”.