A video, purporting to show a mysterious cowled figure sitting in the press area during a speech by Hillary Clinton as it became clear she was going to lose the vote has been uploaded to YouTube.

The video entitled "SCARY as HELL? Demonic Alien Grim Reaper At Hillary's Press Conference" was produced by YouTube conspiracy theory channel ThirdPhaseofMoon and has had more than 345,000 views.

The video narrator said: "This was coming in while people were waiting for Clinton to give her last speech - this is blowing me away.

"Do you know what this is?

"It's weird cos what I'm looking at, it almost looks like the Grim Reaper is there standing in the press room... the media are there but they seem oblivious to this.