HOME Friday 1 December 2000

At my sister's house, my brother-in-law told us about a recent haunting in a new housing estate in Midleton. He said that two of the houses had been vacated by the families living in them, because, they said, the houses were haunted.  I asked him, what were they said to be haunted by? He said a woman and child. I asked him what kind of clothes they were wearing, and he said the woman was all in black (so that ghost must have been seen in fairly well-lighted conditions!)  This report which I am now writing is only third-hand, at the least, so there is no telling how much detail has been lost, or how much garbled, in the transition.

Thursday 6 December 2000

Last night I got some updates on the hauntings mentioned above. My nephew told me that he had been told that the hauntings were in flats, rather than houses, that one of the families had woken up to find blood and lumps of meat on the floor. His own opinion is that they are trying to get the price of the flat lowered, although this seems an extreme way of going about it. Independently, another member of the Writers Group had also heard of the hauntings. The block of flats, where they are said to be taking place, are on the site of an old flour mill, which was partially demolished to provide the site. The block is now faced on one side with stones from the old building. This was the urban councils idea, as the old mills was of some historical importance to the area. The Writers Group member said that before the old mill, itself, was build, the area was the site of an old police barracks. If some human agency is not involved, then it would seem that a poltergeist has arrived in Midleton!