Mystery man-beast, frightening an Irish castle

This mysterious story about a hairy monster that pursued the inhabitants of the ancient castle in Ireland, became known in the 1930-ies. According to two researchers of ghosts, this story took place in the second half of the 19th century and was described in detail Mod Ffolkes in her book "True Ghost Stories", released in 1937.

As it is written in the book of Ffoulkes "For the veracity of this story was ready to guarantee sir Reginald span, a priest of the Anglican Church from Arizona, as it happened with his friends who were vacationing in a rented for the summer a picturesque castle in the South of Ireland."

It all started with the fact that a certain Mrs. A. late in the evening sitting in one of the rooms of the castle (the castle's name is nowhere mentioned) in anticipation of the return of her husband. Suddenly she heard a knock at the door outside, and then there was a loud strange steps. Someone or something was walking up behind the walls of her room in the hallway or on the street near the entrance from the staircase. The woman took a candle and left the room. To her horror, she saw on the stairs a dark figure that climbed the stairs up to her room. Perhaps the creature sensed that it was noticed and it raised its head and looked at the woman at close range, forcing a woman to freeze from fear. This creature had a strong and a hairy body like a monkey, but the head he was as a person, but also covered with long hair. A few moments of it with a rather evil expression looked at the woman, and then suddenly disappeared, as if vanished into thin air. But the story is not over.

A few days later a mysterious hairy monster seen the woman's husband. It was inside the castle. First, he heard an awful laughter that carry an echo through the old halls of the building, and then saw in the shadows in an alcove a large hairy monkey with a human head, exactly as previously told to him by his wife. Obviously the man could get a better look at the mysterious creature, as described later in more detail. He said that the hair/fur of the creature was reddish-brown and meeting him was like a nightmare from a dream. After seeing the man with horror, ran to her bedroom. In the next few days all was fairly quiet, but then the creature (or Ghost) is back

. Mrs. A. at this time was in the living room and decorated the table with flowers. Suddenly she felt two pairs of hands rested on her shoulders. Mrs. A. thought it was her daughter and turned around and this time saw her towering over the creature, rising to at least 6 feet (180 cm). It made a strange cackling sound, and Mrs. A. immediately screamed in horror. When her scream ran to her friend, the creature disappeared as suddenly and wonder where, as in previous times. After this incident, all the guests quickly gathered her things and returned back to the US.

Researcher of anomalous phenomena Ronan kolan in connection with the study of this story notes that there is an old Irish word "gruagach", which can be translated as "Ogre", "wizard" or "giant", but most often it is used in relation to a large hairy creature. And mention of this creature can be found even in the Norwegian text of the 13th century about Ireland. It is mentioned that in Ireland, people grabbed one hairy wild man whose mane was growing along the back.

In one ancient Irish text describes the wild men by the name of "gelt" (Gelt) and how they appear. These creatures are men that are losing their minds from fear in battles between clans. They fled in fear into the forest and live there like wild beasts, avoiding communication with people. According to the stories of the people, after 20 years in such forests on the bodies of these creatures grow feathers and they protect them from the frost. These creatures can run fast through the trees like monkeys or squirrels. Geltm for life needed only water to drink, water plants, to feed and litter to sleep. That's all they cared about and didn't care. Since the actual modern encounters with Meltemi in Ireland is long gone, researcher, Quant asks the question, is it possible that the castle guests frightened Ghost a creature, and not it itself?

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