Estate residents left terrified after a ‘ghost ‘carrying a baby is spotted in abandoned house

Chilling images have surfaced that apparently show a ghost and her baby standing in a new housing estate watching a group of friends.

The spine-tingling photographs were posted on Facebook by Natasha Oliver, a mum-of-one from Wem, a historic market town in Shropshire.

They were taken five years ago and she said she and her friends are still scared out by it.

Natasha, 22, said the group had gone to a field after a World Cup game to hang out and were taking photos of themselves on a digital camera.

But when looking back over the photos someone spotted a strange apparition in one of the open windows of a new housing block behind them that was being built.

Thinking they were being watched, some of her friends went to investigate, but the building site was completely abandoned.

Natasha said: "Someone realised there was a weird figure in one of the photos and we thought it was kind of freaky. The boys decided to go and climb the scaffolding of the building but there was nothing there.

"It couldn't have been building equipment and it clearly doesn’t look like any of us. And it was an empty building that was not finished so no one was living there."

Natasha said the site is an old wood yard and she is convinced the figure in the window is a ghost of one of the former workers.

"It’s on the site of an old wood yard so there would have been people working here. It could be any one of the workers. It looks maybe like a lady holding a baby."

Wem has previously hit the headlines before for its ghostly hauntings after a photograph taken by a local resident in 1995 when the town hall burned down showed a little girl in the doorway.

There was speculation that the girl was 14-year-old Jane Churm, who accidentally started a huge fire in Wem in 1677.

The ghost of Wem Town Hall became famous, receiving international publicity and visits from teams of 'ghostbusters'.

Later on the photo was examined by the National Museum of Photography which deemed it a fake.

But Natasha is sure this ghost of Wem is genuine.

"I would love someone to investigate it. There have been photos taken in the past of ghosts in Wem that have been proved fake but I truly believe there is something there.

"Quite often it comes up and random people in the pub question me about it but I can't explain it although I wish I could."