A Gorey ghost?
I received this email overnight:
I live in the UK. 40 years ago we moved to a 400 year old farmhouse halfway up a Welsh mountain (we lived there with our three sons for a few years). It was on the site of a Roman cattle road. The house needed a lot of fixing. We took out the floor boards in a bedroom - you could see through to the slate floor below. One night, I heard my 4 year old son crying. I found him at the far side of the room, in the corner against the wall. He was sleep walking and had crossed the beams on his own in the dark. I had to cross them also to pick him up - no easy task. How had he done it with his little legs? When he woke he said the Gorey had taken him there. I had never heard that word before. A couple of weeks later, he pointed to his teddy bear, which he had lost in the woodpile in the yard — he said, ‘It’s the Gorey.’ A local person told me that a man named Gorey used to live in the house many years ago. The reason I’m writing is I have always been puzzled by this. I see your family is Irish — did you have any Gorey relatives in Wales in 18th century? I found your site by chance looking up something quite unrelated.
My serious response was that our Irish genealogical records fizzle out around the 1840s. However, I’m aware of name variations in Scotland and France, presumably from Scots Gaelic and Breton Celtic connections, so a Welsh equivalent would not surprise me.
On a more contemplative note, I’m not aware of any Gorey ghosts, although myself and any number of my relatives have been known to haunt public officials who get under our skin!
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Now you’ll have to haunt yourself … if you get elected that is.
Very cool.
Well. Could the ghost be a relative? Let us know.