'Lucky ghost child' filmed moving around Japanese home
If you can see the spectre in this video it should bring you good luck!
That's the claim of Japanese man Ito Tadashi Hiroshi who filmed the child ghost wandering around his home.
The apparition – known as a zashikiwarashi, or "parlour child" – appears to be a young girl wearing a traditional, flowing gown and around five-years-old.
A popular type of supernatural being in Japanese folklore, the spritely spirit is said to bring good fortune to the family whose home it chooses to inhabit.
“Succeeded in recording a zashikiwarashi on video! Those of you who see this will be lucky … maybe," Mr Ito wrote when he posted the video on Facebook.
While the spirits are known to be mischievous and sometimes knock things about, they are not viewed in the same frightening way as a Western poltergeist.
Spirits – or "Kami" – are said to posses all manner of objects in Japanese folklore and traditional Shinto beliefs, but they should not be visible in our realm.
Perhaps Mr Ito was just very lucky, but he's not the only one of late to capture a ghost through a camera lens.
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