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28th Aug 2014

One Spooky Snap – Tourist Believes He’s Pictured a Ghost at “Haunted” Irish Mansion

This picture might give you chills...

Rebecca McKnight

Could this chilling image show the ghost said to haunt Loftus Hall? 

The mansion, situated on Wexford’s Hook Peninsula, has long been said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died in the house after meeting the devil.

Thomas Beavis, a British tourist who recently visited the house, believes he may have snapped proof of the supernatural in one spooky shot.

Beavis, 21, told MSN: “We were all feeling a little edgy from the tour but when I showed the photo to my friends we freaked,” he said.

“I zoomed in on all the windows to find this girl in the window. I had to take some time before I showed it to everyone just because I didn’t really understand what I was looking at.”

The story goes that Anne, the youngest child in the Tottenham family who moved to the home around 1766, fell ill after an encounter with a spirit and was locked away on one of the mansion’s rooms until her death.

Beavis added: “I got chills, and still do. The girl could be the spirit of Anne Tottenham still walking around Loftus Hall. It could have been some strange occurrence because of a supernatural power, but I don’t know.”

“Normally I am a guy that believes in what he sees, but with this, I still don’t understand what’s going on in that photo.”

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