A routine photo at an ancient cemetery in the driest place on earth captured something

the workers never expected to see.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is Weird Dark News.

A surveying crew showed up for work one day in Northern Chile, took what should have been

a completely forgettable photograph of their team standing together, and uploaded it to

their company's website as part of their normal documentation process. Days later, they were still

fielding questions about what it appeared in the background of that image, something none

of them remembered seeing when the photo was taken, and something that has since ignited fierce

arguments across Chilean social media and caught the attention of paranormal investigators throughout the country.

The image itself was captured at an old cemetery in Kiagua, which is a small, remote settlement

tucked into Chile's Antifagasta region. The topography crew had been out there conducting survey

work at the graveyard, the kind of routine assignment that usually produces nothing

more exciting than measurements and coordinates.

The photograph they took shows three workers posing together for the camera standing among the

graves in the desert sun.

There on the right side of the frame, positioned slightly behind the men, stands what

appears to be a small child.

The figure is dressed in clothing that looks distinctly old-fashioned, specifically the kind

of garments typically of the Pampinos, which is what they call the Salt Peter mining workers

and their families who lived in northern Chile's desert communities throughout the mid-20th

century.

The child in the photograph appears to be wearing clothes consistent with that era, a detail

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