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A camera enthusiast is convinced he has captured the ghost of a knight on horseback galloping through the courtyard of a Gloucestershire castle.

Thomas Arnold, 41, caught the amazing image of what looks like a fast-moving apparition when he took his new drone to Berkeley Castle.

And what's even more spooky is that he believes the drone captured the image when he mysteriously lost contact with the flying camera for ten seconds.

Dursley man Mr Thomas says the ghostly knight is as "clear as day" on the drone footage of the castle best known as the place were King Edward II was notoriously murdered in 1327.

Mr Arnold was flying his new drone at the 11th Century castle, where the last court jester in England died after mysteriously tumbling from a window, when he lost contact for ten seconds.

But it was only when he reviewed the video at home that he spotted the fast moving wisp of white that he is convinced was a knight riding his horse across the castle.

The TV production technical specialist, first thought was 'oh my God, what's that'.

He said: "I started zooming and rewinding and there was definitely something there.

"Where the footage was shot, the drone lost contact with the control, which was with me.

"I pressed the 'return to home' key, but it wasn't until I got home that we noticed what I would describe as an apparition going through the courtyard."

(Image: Thomas Arnold SWNS)

He added: "I have looked online and I can't find any HD footage of a ghost so I think this is really unusual.

"It's clear as day, in daylight and in HD. It's brilliant."

He had only had the drone for days when he took it to the castle and activated the function to force it to return, unaware of the footage it had captured.

When he noticed a white transparent shape gallop from the bottom to the top of the courtyard he checked through his footage for a logical explaination.

But he says the surrounding chimneys weren't producing any smoke, and the wind was blowing in the opposite direction.

"I checked the flight information and I can't find an explanation for it," he said."

And it's not the first time he has had a brush with the other side

"I'm definitely a believer," he said.

"When I was seven or eight me and my grandfather spotted to talk to a neighbour, Mrs Bramble, and I remember sitting on a bench talking to her.

"We got home and my grandma asked what had kept us, and when we told her we had been talking to Mrs Bramble she told us she'd died the night before."