School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)

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1. A Ghost Story

   

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   Once the was a family who had the utmost difficulty in obtaining a house. At last they secured a very old one were an old colonel had once lived. He had been dead some years but the house had remained unoccupied; and even in that English neighbourhood there were creepy tales told about the house. However it was the last straw so they took it. They all hated the house but none of them say anything about it. It was a queer, rambling ivied old pile to which odd bits of building had been added periodically in the oddest ways. The bathroom, had been built on, and part of a room on the second storey cut off to provide a passage to it. At the end of this passage were heavy dark curtains and when you lifted these you were faced with some steps that led up to the top of the house. One evening as one of the children of the house, was coming from the bathroom it was dusk and as she came out she saw an old man coming down the steps. He had on a gray suit and a red cravat showing at his neck; his sholders were bent and his face was in shadow. She was not afraid she thought it was her father and she ran to him. "Daddy Daddy"

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Cluskey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Duleek Street, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Cluskey

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   52

   Address

   Duleek Street, Co. Louth