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Subj: Strange Occurences in the Clogher Valley....................
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Strange occurrences at Cavanaklirk In the Clogher Valley
THE farmhouse in the townland of Cavanakirk in the Clogher Valley, that George Wilson shared with his sister, has been demolished.
It was widely-known that ill-feeling between a younger brother, a wastrel, and his sister had prompted him to emigrate to Canada.
On a still evening in late summer, George Wilson sat by the kitchen window and watched his sister milking in the byre. He thought he saw a shadowy figure flirt across the farmyard. Moments later, George heard his sister utter a loud scream.
He rushed out and ran toward the byre. The sounds of a struggle grew louder. Reaching the byre door, he saw his sister slumped against the wall, her face black and her eyes filled with fear. Her hands were tearing at her throat as if trying to fight off an invisible attacker.
George dashed into the byre, and the assailant's grip seemed to slacken. He carried his sister back to the house, where almost an
hour passed before she could give a coherent account of her ordeal.
While milking, she looked up and saw her brother who had emigrated come round a corner of the house. She thought he had returned home. But the figure, now dim and shadowy, rushed at her, seized her by the throat, and tried to strangle her.
She could feel his grip around her throat. She could see the vague outline of his arms, but when she tried to tear them away, she could feel nothing solid.
When her brother came into the byre, the figure relaxed its hold and floated away. Before vanishing, it turned and gave her a withering look. She was sure it was the face of her absent brother.
Badly shaken, she refused to go to bed, so brother and sister sat by the fire until dawn. When she did agree to lie down, she insisted that George remained with her.
Hardly had she gone to bed that night when an alarming racket started up in the kitchen. George rose and lit a candle. The noise
stopped, but no sooner had he returned to bed than it started up again. And so it continued throughout the night.
Neighbours Neighbours volunteered to keep them company on the following night. They sat in the kitchen and everything was quiet. George suggested that they blow out the candle and move into the room.
Almost immediately, they heard a crashing sound in the kitchen, as if all the delft and pewter on the dresser had been flung to the floor. Candle in hand, a neighbour sprang into the kitchen, but nothing had been disturbed.
No sooner had he returned to the room than something crashed against the wall, as if a chair had been thrown violently across the kitchen.
Night after night the noises continued and the unfortunate Wilsons were obliged to sleep in a neighbour's house.
Finally, they sought the services of Richard Robinson, a deeply religious man with a
reputation for driving out ghosts.
He spent a night in the bedroom with the brother and sister, insisting that they lie down while he sat on a chair. For a time, all was quiet.
Then the girl screamed, and Robinson saw that her bed was moving, as if someone beneath it was forcing it upwards.
A chair on the opposite side of the room was thrown down, followed by a rattling noise in the kitchen. Another scream from the sister brought him to her bedside.
He found her in a highly agitated state, claiming that a shadowy figure had jumped on the bed and tried to grab her by the throat.
Life in the Clogher Valley had become unbearable for the Wilsons. In the autumn, they sold their farm and emigrated to America.
Before leaving, they learnt that their brother in Canada had died - on the very day that his shadowy form had first attacked his sister.
73 - Kenny, GI4RSI @ GI4RSI
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