Peter Jackson has claimed that he and his wife once saw a ghost.

The director of The Lovely Bones told The Daily Telegraph that he incorporated a reference to their shared vision in the movie.

Jackson said: "It was about 20 years ago in New Zealand in an apartment that Fran, my wife, had. One night I woke up and there was a figure in the room.

"She was really scary - her face was like a silent scream. She glided across the room and disappeared into the wall."

He revealed that he told his wife in the morning, adding: "She said, 'Was it the woman with a screaming face?'. We had never spoken about it.

"She had seen the same ghost two years earlier. So I do believe in some energy, a spirit or a soul, and there's a version of it in our latest film."

/Digital Spy/