EXCLUSIVE Mystery over 'dead husband' curry house video is solved: Son says ... trends now

A woman who believed she spotted her dead husband in an Indian restaurant's new promotional video made a mistake, it was claimed today.

Widow Lucy Watson, 59, unwittingly cooked up a storm on the internet after posting that the footage showed late husband Harry Doherty eating with his son Alex at the Spice Cottage near her home in Emsworth, West Sussex.

The posting on the restaurant's Facebook page sparked a flood of messages from social media users as far away as Tahiti and the US Virgin Islands who bombarded the site with theories about the bizarre mystery.

But now Alex, 39, has come forward to settle the matter once and for all and confirmed he and his late father do not feature in the video.

After seeing the footage for the first time he told MailOnline: 'No-way. It's not my dad and it's not me. She's got it wrong.

'You can see from the comments that people are really intrigued about it. They really want to know the answers.

'The answer is that it's not my dad - that's it.'

Lucy had told how she was convinced she had spotted her 'instantly recognisable' husband - who was an award-winning journalist and a popular larger than life character in the local area.

She said her husband - who died aged 61 in 2014 - was 'a big, distinctive man' who had white hair and wore glasses.

She added: 'I recognised the blue sweatshirt he was wearing and he is sitting there with his son Alex.'

Lucy told how the pair would occasionally dine at the Indian restaurant when Alex came to visit his father.

She believed the restaurant had posted old footage in a drive to attract new customers.