Is this the real life woman in black ghost haunting a library?

Locals believe this is the ghostly figure of a lady returning to avenge the sale of their beloved building.

Campaigners had secured a six-month lease on Stafford’s Old Library to showcase the site’s potential as a public building in a bid to stop it being sold to private investors.

However during a late night gig at the grade-II listed building in January,Chris Healey noticed the shape of the apparition hovering behind musician Jonathan Watkiss.

Campaigners claiming the figure could be the one half of a pair of elderly sisters, who according to local legend refused to make way for the building in 1912 until a covenant was signed so it could stay in public hands.

“The picture does quite clearly show the fi gure of a lady stooping over us,” Johnathan said .

“Everyone is saying that it’s one of the sisters who has come back to protect the building.”