Ghost of former tenant spotted in home where he died

A student nurse has captured a ghostly figure sittingin her armchair – which she believes could be her home's previous tenant who DIED in the cottage.

Rebecca Keast had been hearing strange noises in her Portsmouth, Hampshire, home one night last month when suddenly her dog Gilly woke up at 2am and began staring at the chair.

When the TV also started playing up, Rebecca was compelled to take two photographs to see what she would capture.

Before she knew of the young man who passed away in her home, Rebecca could sense ghosts around the house and because of this, decided to snap what her pet Labrador was looking at.

"The night I took the photograph, I heard loud rolling noises upstairs. We have carpeted floors but it sounded like a metal ball on a wooden floor,” she explains.

"We were watching a war film and my dog was fast asleep on me. He got up suddenly and stared at the corner chair.

"I took a photo straight away and it revealed what appears to be a man sitting. It's freaky because on the live photo version, the TV said 'look at me' then the man appears on the chair."

The 24-year-old discovered her end terrace cottage was previously joined with next door through a passageway and the previous tenant enjoyed access to both properties.

Most shockingly, her neighbours confessed that they had to call in paranormal investigators because of all the ghostly goings-on.

"Ever since I've lived here, I've sensed a man watching me,” Rebecca explains.

"I feel like he tries to contact me and I only hear and see things when I'm alone.

"I spoke to my neighbours and asked them about it. They said years ago someone came over to investigate their own house and found that there were two ladies and a man present.

"The man apparently 'wanders' and the area I see the orbs is where there used to be a walkway connecting both our houses. It's now a cupboard [and the corridor is] blocked off.

"I don't know how long ago the man died but it was as if he had wandered in and sat down to watch TV with us.

"Many other times I have seen orbs when sat down watching TV. They usually cross one corner of the room to the chair area."

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Rebecca believes the spooky figure in this photo is either the deceased tenant or the ghost of her dad trying to protect her, who died aged 44 of a heart attack.

After initially being startled by her discovery, Rebecca claims she feels more settled knowing the ghost isn't causing her any harm.

“My dad passed away six years ago and sometimes I do think it might be him. Maybe he wants to look after me as my health isn't great at the moment," she says.

"But he never believed in ghosts and I know he wouldn't want to scare me.

"The man scared me at first but after a while I just thought, it isn't nasty. I wish I knew what he wanted.”

The apparition sitting in the armchair isn't the first supernatural sighting Rebecca has had, after witnessing orbs around her house, which she shares with her partner of five years, Jack Dunt.

A local ghosthunter recommended an app to help pick up on ghostly energies and Rebecca believes she picked up on something whispering her name.

"I was testing and playing around recording things, not expecting to pick anything up, but I have a recording of someone or something saying my name,” she says.

"So I do believe it is a conscious haunting and that he or she knows what is going on and who I am."

With additional reporting by Caters News.

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