The ghost of assassinated gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk is apparently haunting the set of the new biopic based on his life.

Director Gus Van Sant claimed that Milk's spirit turned up at the set recreation of his Castro Camera Shop, where a gift store now stands.

"The gift store owners were very into the legacy of the store and willing to let us close their shop down and move our set in. They had a mural of Harvey Milk,” Van Sant said. "During a shot at night there was a take where we were using most of the room and there were three or four actors in the scene. Some people were sitting on the sofa which was outside of the shot and during one of the takes somebody walked in from outside and sat down on the sofa during the shot.”

“After the shot was over, he apparently got up and walked out. The actors were like, 'Did you see that guy?' I didn't see anybody, but they kept describing Harvey, so I figure it was the ghost of Harvey walking into the store for a brief second," he added.