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Family completely freak out as they find 'painting of their son' inside B&B

A family were left completely freaking out after finding a painting of a child who looked exactly like their son, during a stay in a local B&B.

Mum Jennie Stevenson said the group were returning from their holiday when they stopped off at the property for the night.

The family, who relocated to Sweden from the UK two years ago, needed a pit stop on the long drive home from their first ski trip in the country, reports the Mirror.

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But it's any wonder they managed to get a good night's sleep after making the unusual discovery.

The family, who arrived at the B&B around dusk, were getting ready to sit down to dinner in the communal dining room when they noticed something wasn't quite right.

"My daughter just went, 'Mum, there's a picture of Barney on the wall,'" Jennie recalled. And when the mum-of-three took a closer look, she found a painting of a child who could be mistaken for her seven-year-old son.

Actually, the artwork by Swedish painter Carl Larsson depicts a little girl, but she looks remarkably similar to the youngster, except for her long hair.

Thankfully, Jennie and her husband weren't too spooked by the painting, 'Flowers in the Meadow', even though they were staying in an 'old-fashioned' property with 'creaky floors', and Barney found the whole thing funny.

But Jennie did come across a little freaked out when she later shared her 'disconcerting' find online.

"Just arrived at our secluded rural B&B to find a painting of our youngest child depicted as a small girl. There's absolutely no terrifying precedent for this, so it's probably fine," she quipped in a post to Twitter.

Replying to a comment, Jennie, who works as a writer, added: "Woke up at some point to a terrifying papery noise (think riffling of pages or a deck of cards) but we all survived."

Meanwhile, other social media users had their own suspicions. One person speculated the noise could be 'the child trying to escape the painting..'

A second asked: "Any witches nearby?" Jennie replied: "In Sweden, Easter is when all the witches fly to the Blue Mountain, so I'm going to assume yes?"

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