A bridal shower photo has gone viral, with people flocking to weigh in on how creepy the sighting in the background could be.

There are quite a few things you wouldn’t want to see in the background of a photograph of your bachelorette party party – your ex, your grandmother, your future partner spying on whether or not there was a stripper – but that’s not what gave a party the shock of their lives after they saw a picture of their night out and a figure looming in the back.

The hen party in Argyll and Bute in Scotland (Twitter/ @hollydca)

A group were celebrating that their friend was about to get married in Argyll and Bute in ScotlandUnited Kingdom, and decided to take some photographs to commemorate the occasion.

In images shared online, the first image shows the group standing in front of and on top of a pile of cut tree stumps, smiling at the camera, some holding masks down.

In the second image, many are now posing with their arms raised in the air and some are holding their masks higher.

However, crouching behind one of the tree stumps is what appears to be a small child, even though the images were supposedly taken seconds apart and the first image shows no sign of him.

It was also reported that the group did not see any small children around them before or after taking the image.

And it didn’t take long for the photos to appear. viral and for social networks users to comment with their theories.

Social media users have several theories (Twitter/ @hollydca)

One theory that has been put forward is based on a story known to locals in the area about a boy, who became known as ‘The Blue Boy’, who was supposedly staying at an inn overlooking the lake with his parents, who It is believed to have been haunted. The young man is said to have sleepwalked to the lake and drowned, The Mirror reports.

The images were also shared to reddit r/Ghosts thread by u/marcusps1, who described the images as: “Ghost boy seen in background of photo, taken at a bachelorette party.”

One user said: “It’s not a ghost. The boy saw a group of cute girls and somehow ended up there.”

“It looks a lot like the cropped face in the second picture. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s the same cropped one since it’s not being held by that girl in the ghost picture,” another added.

However, a third argued: “He doesn’t look like a little boy to me. He looks like a tiny adult. He has no childlike features. What are those cardboard cutout heads they’re holding? Could the little person be one of those maybe “I just wonder because the more I look at him, the LESS he looks like a child.”

Others questioned whether the photo had been edited.

And a fourth simply resolved: “If this is real, it’s pretty creepy.”

So what do you think?