Hi Jean yes i love these kind of stories i can not wait to get back to Ireland , We would live there if we could ,,sylvia Mary Mizzi wrote: > Hi Jean, > A trully lovely Irish Story which I thoroughly enjoyed....and believe!! > > The part about the "haunting music" brought back my own memories of a > strange and haunting story my Irish /Welsh parents told me. > > After they were married in Tralee, Mum and Dad went to visit a relative > who had taken ill. When they visited her, she was surprisingly in good > spirits and the local priest was there giving her Holy Communion. They were > so happy to see her looking well and when they were leaving, they told her > they would return the following week but she just gave them a beautiful > smile and said that she would see them soon. Thinking that she meant she > would see them the following week, they left the house and walked back home. > > It was getting dark and as they strolled along the lane, they heard this > beautiful music. They wondered what band was playing along this deserted > lane. The music came towards them but they could not see anythng. Getting > frightened, they crouched by the side of the lane to let this "apparition" > go by..the most glorious music and voices singing amidst the cold breeze > that had just sprung up as it passed them by. > > When they were sure it had gone, they hurried home and told the relations > what had happened. The old grandmother told them that they must all kneel > and pray, as it was the soul of their relative being taken to heaven. They > did not believe her but prayed anyway. They had been very frightened by the > experience. > Can you imagine their faces, when, early the next morning, the priest came > and told them their relative had passed away not long after they had left > the house.....about the same time as they heard the music coming down the > lane. > > My brother and I used to tease my Dad in later years after my Mum had died, > saying he and Mum told some good "ghost" stories about Ireland, but to his > dying day, his face would get very serious, and he said that what happened > to him and Mum was one of the most frightening things that had ever happened > to them. Now Dad had fought in WW1 and saw the horrors and fear of war and > had been badly wounded but said nothing frightened him in the War as much as > that Apparition coming down that lane. > > So Jean, that "haunting music" certainly brought back memories. We dont know > what happened over there in Ireland and it seems incredible that there were > so many happenings that could not be explained. > > Thank you, > > Kind regards, > > Mary > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >