A pair of dark disembodied hands can be seen in two photos taken on June 9, 2015, at Mount Kinabalu after the 6.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Sabah.

The photos were reported on by Malaysian newspaper The Star on June 12, 2015, after being circulated widely online.

The photos show a group of donors from Persatuan Komuniti Bugis Sabah (PKBS), who visited the mountain on Tuesday to present their donations to the Mount Kinabalu earthquake fund, mountain guides and police officers from the Ranau police station who were affected by the quake.

They were posing for photographs with mountain guide Mhd Rizuan Kauhinin, who became a national hero after an image of him carrying an injured boy down the mountain went viral. On June 5, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the mountain and 18 people lost their lives.

Vice-president Samasuddin Yusop, pictured with the mysterious limbs, said neither images, taken at the base of Mount Kinabalu, were altered.

To make things even stranger, the images were taken using separate gadgets -- a mobile phone and a Nikon camera.

Both photos captured the image of the additional limbs.

The picture on the left is taken with a smartphone camera and the one on the right with a Nikon camera.

According to Samasuddin, the image taken from the mobile phone was more eerie (above left) as there are two hands resting very close to his back.

Misbahuddin Rida, the man whom the mysterious hands had chosen to lean against, said he was more amused than afraid from the encounter.

From The Star:

"At first, I wondered about it but after a while, it is ok... things are normal. We posted the photo on our WhatsApp group and a friend responded saying that he was uncomfortable with the image as there was something not right about it. Only then did we realise it," said the jovial man.

"I initially thought it could be my (right) hand, but it is strange. After looking at the position of the hands, I tried straightening my arms to emulate it but it (the position) is very difficult to do," he said.

Although he cannot remember exactly his right hand's actual position, Misbahuddin said what appeared on the photo did not look like a part of his body.

"The hand is dark, and its nails look dead. I am dark as well, but my right hand is the same colour as my left. The one in the photo is darker," he said.

Misbahuddin was wearing long-sleeves and his left hand had the sleeve buttoned at the wrist. But the mysterious right arm appeared to be bare.

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All photos via The Star

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