A prolific ghost hunter believes he has captured the image of a Scottish witch who died three centuries ago.
Paranormal investigator Lenny Low, 48, took the photograph of what he claims is the ghost of a long-dead young woman inside a former jail tower, attached to a historic church.
The building, in the Scottish village of Pittenweem, Fife, was home to one of the last and most infamous witchcraft trials in the country.
The photograph captures what appears to be a woman, who it is claimed is the ghost of a 18th century witch
People accused of being witches in the 17th and 18th centuries were routinely locked up there, tortured, tried and usually sentenced to death by burning.
It is not the first time paranormal activity has been spotted in the clock tower, in March last year ghost hunters claimed to have captured footage of the supernatural beings in the building.
Lenny Low, 48, of Largs, Fife, is a prolific ghost hunter and has written a number of books about his sightings across the country
Mr Low, from Largs, Fife, and the author of The Weem Witch, is convinced it could be the ghost of a forlorn young woman spotted there on several occasions over the decades.
He said: 'I did a tour at the Pittenweem tower last week with guests, including fellow paranormal investigator Greg Stewart. We intended to go to Newark Castle at St Monans to see if we could catch an image of another ghost said to roam there.
'But before I left, I took several photos inside the Pittenweem tower and left motion sensors running on two floors.
'I used up both my infra-red camera and digital camera memory cards on the castle shoot on an amazing moonlit night.
'Because St Monans was uneventful, I erased photos to make room for more on the cameras. 'When I had erased all the castle shoot pics and was into my tower photos, I erased a few dark ones until nearly erasing this one that caught my eye.
'I had this pic on its side and thought I had nothing and was about to delete it until I dropped the camera and held it lengthways. I lightened the image and this is what I saw.'
Mr Low said he had no idea who the woman could be. As the tower, which adjoins a church, was a 17th century jail, the families of those incarcerated during the witch trials would have had the duty of bringing food. 'Could this be a wee girl bringing food for her mum?' he surmised.
But he said that one of the witches put on trial in 1704 or 1705 was a young witch called Isobel Adam and had not ruled out the image being her.
'This picture was taken on the staircase where in the past over 10 years of me doing tours in the tower a wee girl has been seen on occasion on the stairs by many witnesses. Have I finally caught her?' he asked.
The photograph was taken at the Pittenweem clock tower, which was the location of one of the last witch trials in Scotland and a former jail
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