What scary story is told in your area/town?

MsStote wrote: »

It can be based in fact or fiction, what is a story that tends to always make the rounds in your area. Around Schull, Cork a story that is always told is about Sophie Toscan du Plantier and how she was killed one night with a rock. That was one of the first stories about the area told to me when I moved there.
What grisly story is told in your area?

My grandmother terrorised us as kids with the story of either a British Soldier or Tan captured injured during the war of independence around the border between Roscommon and Longford as he was being taken across the Shannon on a winter night he realised he was going to be thrown from a small boat into the river and left to drown.

He screams can apparently be heard on winters night during stormy weather.