Category: Ghost Story
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Biddy’s Midnight Funeral
A Tale of Mystery “Ah, would you be quiet!” cried an old man with whom I was discussing such topics, “Would you believe this?“ “Would I believe what?” I asked him. “It’s as true as I’m living,” he insisted. “I heard it from the man’s own lips, may God be merciful to him! And Lord…
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Biddy’s – Tale of the Phooka
There are many strange geological formations in Ireland, the most well-known being the Giant’s Causeway in the County Antrim. The ocean battered cliffs on the west coast of Ireland present a striking spectacle of huge rocks carved by nature into great sculptures. Then, inland, the mountains rise like fabled giants that are marching to the…
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Biddy’s – Our Dead Friends
“Our dead Friends are right,” an old man told me after hearing that it was my custom to sit up late at night to read. “No, sir, that isn’t right at all,” he sighed and shook his head disapprovingly. I was curious as to his reasoning and I asked him, “Why is that? “ “Well,”…
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Biddy’s – The Demon Dog
Paddy M’Dermot was one of the most popular boys in the entire county and such was his popularity that there was hardly a fair or a festival that did not have him in the middle of it. In fact, just like a bad penny, Paddy turned up everywhere and it was exceedingly rare that his…
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Dining Belle Fey
Guest item written by Sean Carney – March 2018 This is the first guest item I have included in my blog and I present to my readers for its interest value, and in the hope it will encourage others to send in their stories. Browsing through Donegal Town’s official website recently, I came across some snippets…
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Biddy’s – Danny Burke
There are many people who have heard about the adventures, but there are only a very few who may have heard of what caused all the perils he faced, which was the error of having slept beneath the walls of the Pooka’s tower. He was a man that I was very friendly with and many…
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Biddy’s – Dance of the Dead
Fairy Lore “Don’t stay out after dark, or the bogeyman will get you!” was the warning a mother would give her children when they went out to play. But, more often than not, the children would laugh at the very idea of a bogey-man existing. Tradition in Ireland, however, does warn us that it is…
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Biddy’s – Charlie Brennan’s Ghost
“It is sinful and painful to take a pin,No matter how thick,No matter how thin,“ So, sang little Andy Smyth, in his loud and shrill voice. “Jaysus, Andy. It’s bad enough listening to your singing without hearing your efforts at poetry,” laughed Harry Crowe as he patted little Andy’s flaxen-haired head in a friendly, mocking…
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Stories of Seamus No.25
The Old Lady’s Ghost Ghosts? Sure, I know you don’t believe in them and neither did I at one time. I had read the books and heard the stories, but I would laugh at the very mention of a spectre, headless horseman, or a weeping woman in white. The Ghost of Christmas past, Christmas present,…
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Stories of Seamus No 17
Sacred Tree of Killygann The breeze of that cold March day blew harshly as I walked steadfastly across the wide windswept fields towards the old burial-ground that rested in the townland of Killygann. On reaching the remains of the ancient church, I sat down for a moment upon the grassy bank that enclosed the cemetery.…
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