[November] 15th. – A letter was this day written to Derry by a gentleman in the county of Donegal, of which the following is an extract:-
“Every body in this part of the country, man, woman and child, is kept in constant terror by the fear of a ghost that has taken possession of a house near Ramelton. He is a stout man, indeed, who ventures abroad after sunset in this part of the country now. Besides making prodigious noises, by violent knockings, this invisible visitor frequents sets the tables, chairs, pots, candlesticks, &c., all dancing through each other in the most antic manner: and if any persons presume to ask it whence, how, or for what purpose it came, it never fails to make them feel its displeasure, by a smart thump on the back with a brick or a stone.
Some days ago the rector of the parish is said to have charitably endeavoured to settle this turbulent ghost, but in vain, as he soon found it was in very bad humour with him, and he gave up the design.
The Presbyterian minister next boldly essayed and peremptorily ordered this burster of the cerements of a sepulchre either to desist from its mischievous pranks or give a reason for continuing them. The only answer which this gentleman received was a blow on the side of his head with a large hard black sod of turf, which nearly knocked him down.
This ‘unbidden guest’ paid much more respect to the Roman Catholic priest; for, after he had been in the haunted house, and said something there in the Latin language, it ceased its noisy tricks, and behavied with tolerable propriety for some time; but on its being insinuated that his reverence and the ghost had been upon too intimate a footing, he went back to the house, and unsaid what he had said before, and then the ghost became as mischievous as it had been, but threw neither turf, brick or stone at its reprover.”
Londonderry Standard, 18th October 1843.
same thing as fanad ghost?
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