An Australian family snapped the above image while on vacation. Visiting Port Arthur‘s Trentham Cottage, the family claims to have captures the ghostly image of a man with a wide-brim hat and long coat.

The 100+ year old cottage is located in Tasmania and is surrounded by ghostly folklore.

Full source:  The Mercury

“The kids were very excited to see a ghost,” Mr Poultney said.

“They kept asking: ‘When are we going to see a ghost, dad?’, but we walked away without actually seeing one.

“But when Tarrah started going through the photos, she noticed this ghostly apparition standing behind the fly-screen at Trentham Cottage.”

Mr Poultney said the family, who live in NSW, had been through the house just moments before, and it had been empty begging the question who or what was in the photo.

Port Arthur Historic Site tour supervisor Colin Knight said the description of the ghost matched similar sightings of former Port Arthur clergyman George Eastman, who reportedly became the first ghost of Port Arthur after he died at The Parsonage in 1870.

“The ‘hat and coat’ description is one we hear a lot of down here, and we believe it to be the ghost of the Rev Eastman, who is definitely one of the most spotted ghosts in the area” Mr Knight said.

He said the site had had more than 10,000 ghost sightings reported in the past 20 years, with many images of supposed ghosts captured on film and digital cameras.

More than 10,000 ghost sightings?

Oh I get it. 9,999.9 of them are pictures of orbs. The rest is of a Marlboro Man cut out.