PRANKSTERS dressed up in creepy 'plague doctor' costumes have been spotted across the UK. Cops in Gloucester are investigating one of the sinister figures seen scaring children near a duck pond.

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Police have identified a plague doctor prankster who terrified children by walking the streets of Norwich dressed as a 17th century medic as a teenager boy.

A person dressed as a 17th century plague doctor has been alarming residents in one U.K. town, by stalking around his local neighbourhood complete with haunting black cloak and beaked mask.