Bogota  - A family in the Colombian town of Malambo told local media Thursday that they saw the ghost of the late pop superstar Michael Jackson while they were watching the music video of Jackson's hit Thriller.

The alleged ghost of the King of Pop first appeared as a chemical odour and then in a shadow of the singer.

"I told one of my children to turn off that video, and my son did not want to do it. I told him again to turn it off, because I could feel Michael Jackson's presence here with a smell of formaldehyde," Rocio Salazar told the RCN news.

The woman's children reportedly used a cellphone to record video of a shadow that the family believes was Jackson's apparition.

"One of my children told me he saw a shadow behind me, which you can see in the recording," the woman said. (dpa)