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entire Island of Ireland is home to hundreds of "true" ghost
stories. As well as legend passed down by word of mouth, many
books of Irish Ghost Stories have been written. If you were
to believe everything that has been written, reported and passed
down through the years, there isn't a square mile of Ireland
where ghosts, spectres and apparitions aren't jostling with
each other to put the wind up us mortals.
Mary Ferris of "Your Place and Mine" spoke to a man who told
of how, many years before, he was walking in a dark alley
when he was met with an apparition of a seven foot tall man.
The man seemed to be illuminated from within. He decribed
it to be just like a neon light in the shape of a human being.
The apparition had no visible features such as a face or fingers
and was levitating about 8 inches off the ground.
The "Neon" Man
(Artist's impression)
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'Celtic Goddess'
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This same man also described how he and 5 other people all saw
the vision of a "little brown lady", not even three feet tall,
who was dancing in the street. The woman had no eyes and was
moving in a way that he decribed as being "electrically charged".
Our man had no doubt at all that this being was evil. In later
years he discovered that what they had all seen that night was
most probably a Banshee or a "Celtic Goddess".
Our interviewee also talks of how as a teenager in the 1920s,
he went out to try to track down a local ghost known as "The
Black Sergeant".
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