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Amber O'Connor & Sophie Buchan

Family spooked but left laughing over 'painting of their son' found in B&B

In our lives, certain things have happened to us that we find spooky and pretty eerie - and one family experienced just that during their stay at a bed and breakfast.

Mum, Jennie Stevenson, explained the group were on their way home from a holiday when they stayed at the 'secluded' property for the night.

And soon, they stumbled across a painting that looked like a familiar face that really spooked them out.

The family, who relocated to Sweden from the UK two years ago, needed a pit stop on the long drive home from their first ski trip in the country. But after their discovery, as reported by the Mirror, it may be no surprise that sleeping was the furthest thing from their minds.

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Arriving at their location around dusk and getting ready for dinner in the communal dining room, they noticed something wasn't quite right. Jennie recalled: "My daughter just went, Mum, there's a picture of Barney on the wall'. And when the mum-of-three took a closer look, she found a painting of a child who could be mistaken for her seven-year-old son.

The artwork, by Swedish painter Carl Larsson depicts a little girl who looks remarkably similar to the youngster, except for her long hair.

'Flowers in the Meadow', as the painting is called, was hung up in the 'old-fashioned' property with 'creaky floors' adding to the spooky vibes. Barney found the whole thing funny but Jennie did come across a little freaked out when she later shared her 'disconcerting' find online.

"Just arrived at our secluded rural B&B to find a painting of our youngest child depicted as a small girl. There's absolutely no terrifying precedent for this, so it's probably fine," she quipped in a post to Twitter.

Replying to a comment, Jennie, who works as a writer, added: "Woke up at some point to a terrifying papery noise (think riffling of pages or a deck of cards) but we all survived."

Meanwhile, other social media users had their own suspicions. One person speculated the noise could be 'the child trying to escape the painting..'

A second asked: "Any witches nearby?" Jennie replied: "In Sweden, Easter is when all the witches fly to the Blue Mountain, so I'm going to assume yes?"

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