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At last! Ireland’s famous Grey Lady ghost captured on film!

Ireland's Gray Lady Ghost

Local photographer captures image near Game of Thrones King’s Road

Ireland loves their Gray Lady ghost and now, we finally have a photograph of Ireland’s famous ghostly apparition! The picture, which shows a ghostlike body hovering above a tree-lined path, was shot at the Dark Hedges in Stranocum, County Antrim, a location recently made famous as King’s Road in the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones”. The “ghost” is clearly visible, so much so you’d think it was a silk towel or something like that tossed into the air…

Local photographer Gordon Watson captured the apparition on October 24, 2014, while shooting landscape photos of the Dark Hedges (an atmospheric, 300-year-old beech tree-lined path in Northern Ireland that approaches the famous Georgian mansion, Gracehill House). Kevin McAuley, a well-known local photographer, examined the original photo and insists that there’s no way the one-of-a-kind photo has been digitally enhanced.

“It looks like a dress going towards the shape of a figure and it’s at this end of the trees where the Grey Lady has been seen by a variety of people over the years. This is the only known version ever to have been recorded in any fashion.”

The legend of Ireland’s Grey Lady Ghost

The Grey Lady is said to haunt the dark road that winds beneath ancient beech trees planted by the Stuart family in the eighteenth century. Legend has it that she glides along the road and vanishes as she passes the last beech tree. Some believe the ghost to be that of a maid from a nearby house who died in mysterious circumstances hundreds of years ago. Others think she is a lost spirit from an abandoned graveyard, located in the fields nearby. On Halloween night, the forgotten graves are said to open, and the Grey Lady is joined on her walk by the tormented souls of those who were buried beside her. Yikes!

Sources: Ballymoney Times; Irish Times, Mirror UK

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Ireland's Gray Lady Ghost via Norther Ireland World by Gordon Watson with usage type - Editorial use (Fair Use)

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Ireland's Gray Lady Ghost via Norther Ireland World by Gordon Watson with usage type - Editorial use (Fair Use)

 

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