New iPhone shows chilling unexplained image of 'dead woman's face' in camera app
A chilling viral video showing a photo of what appears to be a dead person on a brand new iPhone’s camera app has alarmed social media users.
The clip starts with a man holding his iPhone and launching the camera app.
The iPhone - reportedly an iPhone SE - activates the camera and a small picture of a dead person appears in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Mirror.co.uk has chosen to censor the image.
The small window is designed to give users a preview of previously-taken photos but as the man presses the thumbnail, the picture app opens in full-screen mode and reveals there are no photos stored on the phone’s internal storage.
CENBrand new phone comes with ghostly image of dead faceThe chilling image was spotted in the corner of the screen on a picture preview
According to Peruvian national broadcasting company RPP News, the bloodcurdling footage was sent to video blogger - or ‘vlogger’ - Julian Cavalero, who published the story to his many South American followers.
Cavalero said he was recently contacted by a woman named Nuvid Odeth, who claims to be a friend of the phone’s owner.
Nuvid claims her friend discovered the disturbing photo after turning on his brand-new iPhone and testing the camera function.
She messaged Cavalero on social media, saying: "He recently bought an iPhone that had clearly never been used.
CENBrand new phone comes with ghostly image of dead faceBut there are no photos to be displayed on the camera roll
"He took a few photos to test the camera but after that he saw a strange image appearing in the corner that he says he never took.
"My friend doesn’t have any social media apps on his phone, like WhatsApp which could have downloaded archive pictures."
The anonymous man reportedly went to his local phone shop where he had bought the brand-new device.
The shop’s attendant had then told him to ‘factory reset’ his phone, effectively erasing all of the data and restoring it to its factory settings.
GettyiPhone Launch at Tokyo storeThe man claims to be using an iPhone SE - which was launched earlier this year
But according to Nuvid, when the owner did as he was told, he was shocked to discover that the preview image had not been deleted from his phone.
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The man then recorded the video of himself using the phone and it eventually made its way to online vlogger Cavalero.
According to Nuvid, the phone simply states that there are no photos stored on its memory, but when her friend opens the camera app, the picture can be still seen in the lower-left corner.
The video has so far gathered more than 2 million views on video-sharing websites but despite the advice and many theories of shocked viewers, the mystery remains unsolved.