School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 357
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- At one time there was a man and his father died. As he was going home from the town one evening in his car he saw a dog and then he saw a man beside the car. He asked the man to get up. The man never answered but he got up. When the owner of the car got home he asked his passenger was he getting down. The passenger did not answer. The man went in and the stranger followed him and sat down at the fire. After a while the man went down and saw it was his father. He asked him what was he doing. His father said "I'm Lost". The next morning he went down and no-one was there. That night the father was there again. The man said nothing but told the other people of the house. Some could see the father more could not. The son told the priest, who went to the house and said some prayers. The father disappeared in a ball of fire.
- Collector
- Philomena Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Richard Bulmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
