“True Story”- The Death Warning

Below are two eerie stories passed down by local Irishmen .

Death Warning By Gerard Bopkins

It was in August 1928. We were sitting around a bright coal fire and my sister was very ill but we did not expect her to die. It was about mid-night and my father was on night-work. He always used to come about this time for a cup of tea. It was very quiet outside the house. We were all surprised to hear a knock on the window where the child was ill. We listened and another knock came. Mother said, "Is that you Jack," which is my father's name, but she got no answer. The third knock came. Then we looked at the child and she was dead. So we knew it was a warning of death.

A warning of death By denis doherity ( Tipperary) 

Once upon a time there was a man who was in the habit of going out to card playing at night. When returning home at a certain part of the road a man used suddenly appear and walk by his side until he turned in his own gate.

In the end he became frightened and would not go home unless some member of the family came for him. The night anyone would go for him he would see no man. This particular man's father died when he was an infant and by the descriptions he used to give his mother of this man she said it was his father. Some time later this boy got into trouble and was arrested and put into prison and his mother