Six-county police barracks “haunted.”
Ghost noises are causing an extraordinary mystery to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, stationed at Letter, Co. Fermanagh, near the Donegal border. “The Impartial Reporter,” Enniskillen, records that the barracks was originally the residence of a local landlord, and for over a quarter of a century mysterious noises have been heard periodically. They seem to have reached their zenith about the 1920s, when the dwelling was occupied by the “A” Specials during the troubled times. Shortly afterwards the house became the regular police barracks and since then, until lately, the noises were only infrequently heard, but within the past few weeks the “ghost of Letter” seems to have recommenced its activities, with renewed vigour.
The noises take various forms. Sounds of footsteps, accompanied by the realistic creaking of floorboards, is the most common; a barrel being rolled across the floors of upper rooms, and a crash as if some heavy object had been thrown with great force on the floor, or other forms the noises take. [sic] Basins and delph seem to crash against the floors, suitcases are thrown against the walls, yet, on investigation, Sergt. McNeill and the three constables who form the garrison have never found any thing disturbed.
Leinster Leader, 29th December 1945.