Lee Brickley, a leading paranormal investigator, has launched an investigation after a woman revealed she had encountered The Black Eyed Child in Staffordshire.

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The ghostly child, which was last spotted 30 years ago, is said to have coal-black pits for eye sockets - and was last spotted in the 1980s.

According to the Birmingham Mail, Lee was left stunned when he received a new eyewitness account of the Black Eyed Child.

Alerted by what sounded like a child's screams, a terrified woman came across the spooky spectre while walking in Cannock Chase.

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She said: “We instantly started running towards the noise. We couldn’t find the child anywhere and so stopped to catch our breath.

“That’s when I turned round and saw a girl stood behind me, no more than 10 years old, with her hands over her eyes.

“It was as if she was waiting for a birthday cake.

“I asked if she was OK and if she had been the one screaming. She put her arms down by her side and opened her eyes.

“That’s when I saw they were completely black, no iris, no white, nothing.

“I jumped back and grabbed my daughter. When I looked again, the child was gone. It was so strange.”

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Lee revealed that his aunt had a similar experience in 1982, saying: "She heard a little girl frantically shouting for help. Rushing to locate the sound, she stumbled upon a dirt track and caught sight of the girl, about six years old running in the opposite direction.

“When my aunt caught up, the girl turned around and looked her in the eyes, and then ran off into the dark woodland. Her eyes had been completely black with no trace of white.

“There was a police search but to no avail. At the time, no-one had any reason to believe anything paranormal was going on. The girl certainly appeared to be of flesh and blood.”

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He added: Only on Cannock Chase do the sightings consistently happen during the daytime."

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