County Sligo Ghosts, Folklore and Paranormal Places
Just William
Location: Ballinfull - Lissadell House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Another building haunted by W B Yeats, Yeats himself saw the ghost of one of his friends on the staircase. The site is also reported to be the home of two phantom women who walk through the garden carrying flowers and paints.
Pair of Dadharchu
Location: Lake Glenade - Waters of the Lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Translated their name means 'Hound of the Deep'; two Dadharchu lived in this lake until one of the beasts killed and ate a young bride. Her husband exacted revenge by shooting one of the creatures and taking a sword to the other. Regardless whether this is myth or legend, there have been reports in the twentieth century of four metre long creatures seen swimming in the lake.
Egyptian Curse
Location: Sligo - Seaforth House
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Early twentieth century?
Further Comments: Poltergeist activity broke out in the house shortly after it was filled with Egyptian and Syrian artefacts brought back from the Middle East by Owen Phibbs. Servants were driven away, while the house sometimes shook to the very foundations. Eventually the family moved away and left the house to rot.
Sound of Firearms
Location: Streedagh - Somewhere along the Sligo/Bundoran road
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: Ten years after an ambush occurred on the site, a witness returning home reported hearing gunfire and seeing misty shapes in wearing peaked caps.
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