Sisters photobombed by 18th century ghost

An 18th century ghost photobombed two unaware tourists in Edinburgh, it has been reported.

Two sisters, Emma and Lauren Surgenor got the fright of their lives when they saw a ghost dubbed 'the Watcher' posing behind them in their photographs.

Emma, 32, a support worker from Blackpool, said that she was sure, at the time, nobody had been standing behind her in the pitch black vaults.

Unfortunately, the eerie photographs appear to tell a different story. 

She said: "We took loads of pictures and some of them came up pitch black and some came through. We went through all the photos on my digital camera that evening and lightened up the pictures that came back black. To our shock this figure which looks like a man appeared in one of them. We got a chill sensation and just screamed 'oh my god'.

"It was a creepy moment. My sister was petrified. She was going on about how he was standing right behind her. Then she thought it was pretty cool. It's pretty scary stuff. There was no one else there.There are a lot of stories about a man down there who wears big boots and a coat and another called "The Watcher" with long hair and 18th century clothing. It's weird that my sister was standing there behind him.. She was pretty creeped out at first."

The Edinburgh Vaults or South Bridge Vaults are a series of chambers formed in the 19 arches of the South Bridge in Edinburgh, which were completed in the late 1700s.

They were originally used to house tradesmen and illicit material.

However, by the 1800s, businesses had stopped using the vaults and some of the city's poorest people had moved in.

However, the vaults were walled up with people alive inside when the bubonic plague spread, and were only rediscovered in the 1970s by a student. The vaults were once featured in Living TV's Most Haunted and on another programme known as Ghost Adventures.

Legend has it that many spooky activities and goings ons have taken place in the vaults.