A fisherman has said he was shocked to find himself reeling in a dead body from lake in New York.
Luis Castoire said he was fishing in Harlem Meer, at the north-eastern corner of Central Park, when he felt something heavy on the end of his line.
"I thought I was seeing a ghost. I felt a thump, my hook had gotten stuck... When I go to lift it, I seen the leg come up, and then I saw the rest of the body," he told NBC.
Mr Castoire said he was so scared by what he saw that he dropped his catch and ran away.
"It was devastating, really devastating. I couldn't believe it with my own eyes, I just couldn't," he added.
He and other fishermen called the police. The victim, believed to be in his 30s, has yet to be identified but had suffered a head wound, officers said.
The circumstances of his death remains unclear and a police investigation is underway.
Mr Castoire, who has been fishing since the age of seven, said he would not be coming back to fish at Harlem Meer.
"I don't think I could be able to come back to this park. This is like my backyard. I don't think personally I could come back to this park and be able to fish here, knowing that I hooked up into a body," he said.
This incident is the third time this month that a body has been found in Central Park.
A man in his late fifties was found dead on September 18, and another man was found floating in a near 59th Street on September 7.
