Actors depicting the legends of ghosts living inside New York's landmark Dakota apartment building are seen inside Nightmare: New York, a haunted house for adults, in New York October 22, 2014. With Hollywood-grade stagecraft and professional actors, haun
Actors depicting the legends of ghosts living inside New York's landmark Dakota apartment building are seen inside Nightmare: New York, a haunted house for adults, in New York October 22, 2014. With Hollywood-grade stagecraft and professional actors, haunted houses are in increasingly high demand. Picture taken October 22, 2014. To match USA-HALLOWEEN/HAUNTEDHOUSE REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)
Actors depicting the legends of ghosts living inside New York's landmark Dakota apartment building are seen inside Nightmare: New York, a haunted house for adults, in New York October 22, 2014. With Hollywood-grade stagecraft and professional actors, haunted houses are in increasingly high demand. Picture taken October 22, 2014. To match USA-HALLOWEEN/HAUNTEDHOUSE REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)

Chris Leadbetter visited his very sick 76-year-old grandfather, Bob Large, at the hospital. Thinking it would be one of their last few days together, the 20-year-old took out his mobile phone and snapped a photo of his grandpa who was being administered the last rite in preparation for his imminent death.

To Chris's surprise, when he checked his phone a week later to delete some photos, he found an image of what looks like a ghost in the snapshot. The grandson believes it is the old man's guardian angel.

"When I saw it the hairs just stood up on me. I was so freaked out. I saw the picture late at night so I went and woke the rest of my family straight away," Parent Dish quoted Chris.

He recalled that when he snapped the photo, there was nothing between his grandfather and two other women in the picture such as a glass, window or anything that could reflect other objects or persons in the same room.

Although Large was given a few days to live, his health instead improved and he has already left the Countess of Chester Hospital where he was confined for bladder cancer and renal failure.

Chris showed the mobile phone image to the hospital staff but was told that other patients had seen the "ghost-looking" figure by the foot of their beds. The ward manager recounted that one patient screamed in the night when she saw the figure by the end of her bed.

Shelia, Bob's wife, said that after Chris took the photo, that night her husband slept well, his best sleep in a long time. "He thinks it was because of the angel," The Mirror quoted Shelia.

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The hospital, built in 1829, was formerly the County Lunatic Asylum, Chesire where many former mental patients died chained up, restrained by straightjackets or tied by belts on their beds.

The current hospital staff said that there had been reports by present patients that they saw mysterious figures.