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Is this another Leeds ghost?
This amazing picture appears to show a top hat-wearing phantom sat just behind the shoulder of an audience member at Leeds City Varieties theatre.
Theatres are often said to be haunted, big old, atmospheric buildings that have seen hundreds of thousands of souls pass through.
City Varieties, a former Music Hall, is said to be home to at least two ghosts, a late night pianist and a woman who carries around a cloud of cold.
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Now, young Leeds music fan Aaron Glossop thinks he has spotted a third, caught on camera while he watched a gig with his dad.
The image, captured on a mobile phone, appears to be of a man wearing a top hat and old-style clothing, including a long coat.
"He looks a bit like Abraham Lincoln," said Aaron's dad, Mick.
The picture was taken as the pair, of Brander Drive, Gipton, were watching The Blues Band – on Hallowe'en last year.
Aaron, 13, said he snapped the band just before the interval then spotted the extra member straight away. "It was definitely a bit weird," said the John Smeaton pupil.
He decided to contact the YEP after last Friday's article about the strange sighting in the old Lewis's building, in The Headrow.
He added: "I don't need any convincing, I believe in ghosts and have always thought they are out there. I used to watch Most Haunted."
But Mick, a lecturer at Leeds College of Building, needs more convincing. He said: "I didn't believe in ghosts and I still don't, but I can't explain this. It is a strange photo with a strange image on it, there's no getting away from that."
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