Great Moments in Spookitude. 1649

blackjax23
Jan 8
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County Clare, Ireland. While on the run from Cromwell's roundheads and staying in Lady Honora O'Brien (1638 - 1718)'s castle, Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666) and his wife, Ann aka Lady Fanshawe (1625-1680) is called from her bed to the window in the middle of the night by a voice calling 'Ahone, Ahone, Ahone' and drawing back the curtain she sees a moonlit white clad red-haired woman with a 'ghastly complexion' leaning in the window casement from outside, then dissolving into 'more like a thick cloud than substance.'

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