A series of chilling century-old photographs which appear to show haunting images of people beyond the grave have been discovered.

The collection of four “spirit photograph” slides are understood to have been taken by ghost photographers in the 1920s or 1930s.

Spirit or ghost photography, beginning in the 19th century, aimed to capture images of ghosts and other spiritual entities, often around people called sitters who posed in the hope apparitions of their departed loved ones would be caught…