The Sun and The Daily Mail hoaxed by 59p iPhone app

Two of Britain's leading newspapers, The Sun and The Daily Mail have been bamboozled into printing page lead stories about a spooky ghost boy photograph - which was in fact the creation of a 59p iPhone app.

Last week both papers reported about a spectral boy wearing period clothes who was caught on camera in front of a part-demolished building

Here's The Sun's take on the story...

While here's the ever original - and highly unsceptical - Daily Mail version...

Both papers recount how John Ware, a 47-year old builder, took the picture of the empty building site. And how he was 'stunned' when he viewed the pictures to see the ghostly boy haunting the scene.

Ware naturally insisted he had 'not altered the pictures in any way' and the papers surmised that the image was a ghost of a boy who had once attended the school that occupied the demolished building.

Or not.

Because as you can see below the very same boy, complete with ethereal expression and period clothes, is haunting our very own homepage.

Mr Ware may not have altered the photo in any way - but the iPhone app Ghost Capture certainly did. The spectral urchin is one of a selection of ghosts that can be added to iPhone snaps by the app.

You just take a picture, open the app, place in your selected ghost and Shazam! You get yourself a haunted homepage. Now if you will excuse us, we're off to take our exclusive ghost story to the intrepid hacks at The Sun and the Mail...

Thanks to the ever vigilant Tabloid Watch for the spooky tip...