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Famine related hauntings

  • 19-08-2015 3:36pm
    #1
    Crann na Beatha
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  • #2
    Alanb189
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    Overton mill is Supposedly haunted by people who died in the famine . Its on abandoned Ireland if you look it up .


  • #3
    bob1985
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    St Joseph's hospital in Dungarvan is haunted. It used to be a workhouse. I worked there when i was a student nurse and heard voices call my name when I was on my own in the staff mess on the top floor at the back of the hospital when I was up there on my own one afternoon. The floor had offices that were closed on an afternoon and there was no one else about.


  • #4
    Harryprice
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    Did the voices say anything else other than your name? Were they male or female?


  • #5
    bob1985
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    Harryprice wrote: »
    Did the voices say anything else other than your name? Were they male or female?

    Sounded like it was a female and young about 16. I was only 18 at the time myself so thought nothing of it until I was speaking to the porter a few days after and mentioned it and he said there was no one that young working in the place except myself. I still can't explain it.


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    screamer
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    I know of a farm very remote where there are 3 houses from famine times. It's a long walk from the road and down around the houses there are still drills from the famine times there. They are flatter due to weather but you can see them and feel them as you walk. Its like the place was just abandoned. I don't know much about the place and I won't give location details etc but one night a cow was missing it was late and getting dark. One of the farm workers went down to find her and when he came back he was white as a sheet and acting strange. Later he said he'd seen something sitting on the window of one of the houses. He swore it was the banshee. Well anyways no one knows what it was but he never ever went down there again even with other people there.


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  • #7
    Riamfada
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    When I worked as an archaeologist I had to survey a famine era village in the King's River Valley in Wicklow. I cant say that it had storied of being haunted but the place really gave me the creeps. I had an intense feeling of foreboding and isolation that I never got from any other place I was in.


  • #8
    Harryprice
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Harryprice


    That's an interesting story screamer. Did you get a description of of what was seen? When did this incident taken place.


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