Amateur ghost hunter Dawn Scargill believes she has snapped a spectral stallion galloping through Lincoln.
The 37-year-old and her twin sister Tracey Poucher took the picture on Friday night.
But it was only later that they noticed the shape of a ghostly horse floating in the background. Lincoln Ghost Walk leader Margaret Green believes the apparition could be connected to an age-old city legend.
She believes it may be the shadow of a man who tried and failed to save the life of his friend.
Lincoln landowner John Knox was in dispute with a rival landowner when his rival's servant was murdered. Knox was convicted of the crime and sentenced to hang but a friend in London secured him a pardon.
The man rode as fast as he could to deliver it to Lincoln before the sentence could be carried out.
He reached Newark exhausted and stopped for a meal. After eating he fell asleep - and failed to deliver the pardon in time.
Knox was executed and the man took his own life out of guilt. Ever since then his ghost has ridden through historic Lincoln, trying endlessly in death to complete the task he could not manage in life.
Mrs Scargill and her sister took the picture at the top of Greestone Stairs, in the grounds of the cathedral, at 9.30pm.
"We have a real interest in the supernatural," she said.
"We just walk around the historic parts of the city taking pictures in the dark to see what we can find. Until Friday we'd been pretty disappointed.
"When we'd snapped this one we weren't exactly sure what it was.
"But when we put it up on the computer screen we just couldn't believe it. It really looks like the ghost of a horse galloping through the air - it's amazing."
The sisters, who both work at B&Q in Tritton Road, Lincoln, say this close encounter has inspired them to hunt for more ghosts.
Mrs Scargill, of Wickenby Crescent, Ermine West, in Lincoln, said: "We're not total believers, but this has really spurred us on - you just don't now what's out there."
And Mrs Poucher (37), from Nettleham, said she thinks the horse in their picture is the ghost of Castle Gate.
"It's a great tale and it seems to fit in with our photo. I think we might be on to something," she said.
Lincoln Ghost Walk leader Mrs Green said the spot where the picture was taken tied in with the legend of the ghostly rider.
Source: http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/dis ... erPk=87028
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