Spookey

[Stonewall123]

This is a Civil War ghost story, but it’s the Irish Civil War. Please indulge me. My Grandfather fought in this conflict which was a very bitter one. Old comrades killing each other only days after removing the British. My grandfather fought with the "Free State Army" led by Michael Collins against their former comrades in the IRA, who became known as the "Irregulars". He was involved in some of the bitterest fighting in Cork and Kerry where both sides were guilty of many atrocities. Old scores were being settled and personnel grievances avenged, by the local units on both sides.
My grandfathers unit was from Dublin and had no axe to grind with the locals. They came upon the aftermath of a nasty little firefight around a small farmhouse one evening where 9 of the irregulars had been killed. The Dublin officer offered to keep any prisoners or wounded with him and return them to HQ. The local officer indicated that they never had a problem with either prisoners or wounded. He said "There are some faces we'll make sure don't show up when this is all over". The local troops moved on and my grandfather was given guard duty that night, and while the rest of his company slept he patrolled the general area. The weather turned nasty with heavy rain and thunder and lightning. He came to a gate with a small road beyond and there laid out in the roadside ditch were the 9 dead Irregulars. He had seen dead before but he said there was something different about this. The wind had blown the groundsheets off the bodies and the faces were wet and shiny from the rain. He walked closer his curiosity getting the better of him when there was a vibrant flash of lightning which made him look skyward. Now he was not a religious man, but this is what he saw. The lightning was in the form of a cross and hung directly over the dead for many seconds before it was gone, and when it was the road and ditch were still bright and when he looked at the bodies the were glowing like Saint Elmo's Fire with an eerie green light. He turned tail and ran back to his comrades but never told a soul about this until he told me 60 or so years later.

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[wilber6150]

Now that is definitely spooky!!!