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times-promoter (hernando, desoto county, miss.) 1898-1970 — ghost apparition

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1909-01-01
Location: hernando, mississippi, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: times-promoter (hernando, desoto county, miss.) 1898-1970 · 1909-01-01 · page 7
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1909-01-01 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “ghost apparition”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... week. GALWAY HAS A GIANT GHOST. Apparition Eight Feet High Leaps Into the River. Dublin.—A spectral figure, gray in color and about eight feet in height, is said to have haunted the railway line near Galway for nights. The apparition, which is described as "tapering toward the top," walks from the railway viaduct across the bank of the stream and then disap pears. A number of people have visited the place toward midnight, when the apparition is due to appear. One man declares that he saw It jump from the top of the viaduct Into the Corrib, where it disappeared. It was not "drowned," however, for on the succeeding night it Was seen again by ...

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