Yet in the group’s purported second photo, taken just seconds after the first, a little boy appears to be poking his head above the logs.

Sounds creepy? Well, the tale is said to take an even weirder turn as the estate has a rather grim backstory that – in light of the photo – is impossible to ignore.

Reportedly, there was a film made in 1994 named The Blue Boy, about a young boy who drowned in Lock Eck. Screenwriter Paul Murton revealed that he had based the tale on a story he heard from a local hotelier.

“I was talking to the hotelier about it and he mentioned the Blue Boy,” Murton said.

“This, he said, was a young child who had been on holiday with his parents in the hotel and he had been sleepwalking during the night. He had strayed outside, fallen into the loch, and drowned.

“When they found his body it was blue with the cold. Hotel staff had noticed that things like cutlery and plates were often out of place for no apparent reason – perhaps more sinister than that was the fact that they sometimes found wet footprints upstairs in the corridor.”

Needless to say, the group of women were too unsettled to remain on their weekend, and packed up their things in short order.

The legitimacy of the photo with the little boy has been called into question online, though at the time of writing there’s been no official verdict given from the women present.