ITV This Morning's Josie Gibson shares terrifying encounter that left her with chills

Josie Gibson left her This Morning co-stars spooked on Thursday as she recalled a terrifying encounter that left her late for work.

During the latest instalment, which was a spooky Halloween special, Josie, 39, decided to open up about a scary encounter she had twice in her life.

As the stars spoke about sleep paralysis and ghostly encounters, Josie revealed her own scary encounter saying: "I've had it twice in my life, okay, the first one was at home and this creature came into my room, really long fingers and a really long face.

"It was really skinny and grey, it just started going like [mimicked the creature] that across all my wardrobe and clothes, looking at me while I was in bed but I was fully awake.

"With that, I woke up at 1pm in the afternoon, I don't know where the morning's gone, I rang in work like: 'I'm so sorry, I don't know what's happened!' I was awake and the next thing you know it's 1pm!

"Then I had it again when I was in Lapland, I was in Lapland on a frozen lake and I heard the door go. This creature comes in my room, starts stroking my face like that, I was fully awake and the next thing you know, Janice, our producer, came and knocked on the door: 'Are you awake Josie?' It's the same creature, I've had it twice!"

Josie's This Morning co-stars were left spooked with host exclaiming: "I think that is sleep paralysis, are you serious?" adding: "That is so !"

Elsewhere on the show, .

During the latest instalment, the chat show got off to a spooky start as part of a Halloween special with Dermot, 51, Alison, as well as other stars Gyles Brandreth and , undergoing costume transformations.

And it was Dermot's Halloween makeover that left viewers doing a double take as he transformed into Frankenstein for the spooky special. The presenter was covered in green paint and donned a black wig, prosthetics and a spooky outfit.

Taking to , now X, one person said: "Took me a while to realise that was Dermot #ThisMorning", a different account wrote: "Dermot looks brilliant #thismorning", another penned: "Dermot looks fantastic! #thismorning" while a different fan commented: "I didn’t realise that was Dermot to begin with! #ThisMorning".

This Morning continues on weekdays at 10am on both ITV and ITV X.