PHOTOS: Is this a ghost captured on camera in Leeds city centre?

A photographer has captured footage of a 'ghost' near to a waterway in Leeds.

Michael Lancaster was out taking photos in the evening with some friends when he caught this unusual phenomenon on camera.

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Is this a ghost in Leeds?

The photo, taken on at the waterways between Granary Wharfe and Bridgewater Place in the city centre, appears to show a strange, silvery shape.

Mr Lancaster said he was told by a friend that the spectral shape caught on film was simply a 'lens flare' - but that he 'wants him to be wrong'.

He said "I took this shot the other night. Now someone has told me that it's a lens flare/the lens reacting to the light with it being a long exposure.

"I trust this persons input and knowledge but at the same time, I can't help but want him to be wrong.

"There are lens flares around the streetlights to the upper right.

"The shape of the thing I caught, in my mind, is too defined and the shapes are too different for it to be that.

"It appears to be a helmet and a bent arm leaning back against the railings. I believe it could be lens/light reactions but I so want it to be more. What do you think?"

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