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Man captures 'ghost of soldier' sat 'clear as day' on bench next to war memorial

Driving down old country lanes can be quite spooky, particularly when there's hardly anyone around and the lighting is miserably dim. This eerie feeling usually passes once you've reached your destination, but two lads couldn't shake their suspicions after driving through Northam, North Devon, as they witnessed something seriously ghostly.

Josh Newton and friend George Moore, both 21, were on route to stay with Josh's family for the week in a rented house, when they saw an old war memorial in the town.

But when Josh, from Surrey, got his phone out to film the war memorial which commemorated soldiers who had lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars, he spotted a shadowy figure of a soldier sat next to the memorial.

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