The woman was rather creeped out when she looked at the picture of the child a few hours later, but people said there’s a simple explanation to the freakiness…

Taking photos of your little ones can be a good way to capture those precious family moments. Whether it’s a day out or just going to the supermarket, it’s all quite special.

One grandmother decided to hold onto a moment with her grandson, but wasn’t quite prepared for what happened next. A little while later after taking the photos, the woman noticed something rather unsettling about the youngster’s reflection. In a post on Reddit, the caption explained: “Mum took my son to the store and took a pic in the mirror. The picture does not match reality.”

While the accompanying text said: “My mum took my two-year-old son to the store on Thursday and walked into the mirror aisle. As she walked with him, my son was playfully messing with his water cup so she decided to take multiple photos of him in the mirror.

“As it was with an iPhone, 2 of the 3 photos were ‘live’ photos and show my son thrashing the cup around and speaking gibberish.”

The mother later revealed how her parent was confused when reviewing the snaps.

She continued: “One of the photos, however, was not live and when my mum reviewed it, she noticed my son’s reflection did not match his exact pose and cup positioning in reality.

“Is this just a glitch in timing of the photo or am I making this out to be more than it is? She is freaked out about it.”

The post, which garnered 4,700 upvotes, sparked a flurry of comments. One user declared: “He is a wizard.” Another quipped: “It’s just that the boy in the mirror is thirstier than your son.”

A third shared: “Oh dang. That freaked me out a bit. Must be a rolling shutter thing.” Another commented: “Nah it’s a demon ghost.”

Some attributed the freaky detail to the iPhone’s live photo feature. One individual elucidated: “Yeah when you take a picture on iOS like that, it doesn’t take just one picture, it takes several frames from before.

“And after you hit the shutter button, splits those into subframes like foreground, subject, and background then automatically merges them together into the final franken-image which combines the best parts of each frame.

“So probably something like he moved the cup very fast as the photo was taken so the clearest image for the mirror area without cup movement motion blur was before it began moving and was on his mouth while the clearest foreground subframe of the actual kid was after the movement.

“The image processing doesn’t realise that’s a mirror image of the kid in the foreground and should match up with him it just looks for quality. Or you captured an image of his djinn companion.”