THE Adelaide Central Market has a new customer — but this one only comes at night.

Security footage shown to The Advertiser featuring an unexplained ghost-like figure raises the question: Is the market haunted?

Site supervisor Johnny Carbone, 25, made the spooky discovery during an early-morning shift.

“I came in early on a Wednesday morning about 3am,” he said. “As I was doing my normal patrols of unlocking the market, I felt like something went past and touched me, so I looked behind me and there was no one there.

“I was like, ‘You know what, I’m just going to check the camera’, and as I checked the camera I saw that light.

“I couldn’t believe what I was watching ... I was just rewinding the footage and thinking, ‘Is that really what I saw?’

“I actually ran back downstairs to see with my own eyes if anything was there, but obviously there wasn’t.

“I’m not a believer, but then it makes you think twice ... sometimes I think maybe there is something out there but you just don’t know.”

Mr Carbone, who re-recorded the security footage with his phone, said the illuminated figure seemed to be moving between the Market Plaza and Adelaide Central Market.

While the incident happened more than a year ago, the market’s chief executive officer, Gavin Webster, said they felt Halloween was a good time to share the story.

Although he can’t deny something strange transpired, Mr Webster is also unconvinced that the precinct has a ghostly resident.

“I’m quite pragmatic about these things and I don’t really believe in a lot of ghost-type stories but I looked at the footage, played it back a couple of times, and it is hard to say what it is,” he said.

“I think the fact that it is not very clear either way — whether it is a light, whether it is something supernatural — is just one of those things that is great for people to have a think about and have a discussion about.