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From: ConnorsGenealogy <>
Subject: Ghost of Tullamore, Co. Wexford
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:20:07 -0700

another Irish Halloween tale from George of the Irish Heritage
Newsletter....

Tullamore, Wexford, Co Wexford

In the 1880's Lord Dufferin, who was later to become British
Ambassador to Paris, was on holiday at Tullamore when he saw an
apparition that was later to save his life.
One night, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, he woke up suddenly after
being startled from a deep sleep. Getting out of bed and going to the
window he saw, in the moonlight, a hunchbacked figure on the lawn
staggering with the weight of a coffin-shaped object. Lord Dufferin
raced downstairs, out onto the lawn, and asked the figure what he was
doing, what he was carrying and what he wanted. As the man lifted his
head Lord Dufferin saw that he had an extremely ugly-looking face that
utterly repelled him. The figure then disappeared before his eyes. The
following morning he told his host of his experience but his friend was
at a complete loss to explain the strange man. Certainly there had been
no reports of a ghost at Tullamore.
A few years later, Lord Dufferin, by this time British Ambassador, was
to attend a diplomatic function at the Grand Hotel in Paris. He waited
at the lift with his secretary and the hotel manager. Just as they were
about to enter the lift Lord Dufferin drew back in horror and flatly
refused to enter the cage. The lift operator was the same man he had
seen carrying the coffin on the lawn at his friend's house in Wexford
several years previously. The lift doors closed and the cage moved up to
the fifth floor. At this point the cable snapped and the cage crashed to
the bottom of the shaft, killing all it's occupants.
The accident was fully investigated but there was nobody who knew who
the strange lift operator was.

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