Anybody that knows me will know that I am a horror fanatic.My ideal night is a takeaway and a good scary movie,no vampires,no zombies and no aliens just simple scary movies.Paranormal activity,Blair witch project and the Strangers,all my kind of horror's but tell me you have seen a spirit and you can expect a patronising smile.I just don't believe in that kind of stuff which is probably why I love scary movie's so much,well,that was until recently.
2 years ago my brother came home for a short holiday from New York where he now lives.He is like me in a lot of ways and one thing we have in common are late night drives around Dublin City.Late one night we decided to go for a drive up around Howth and stopped at Deer park castle.Along the side of the castle is a narrow road which leads by the transport museum and up to the golf course.At 2am this road is pitch black and blocked half way up by a gate where I decided to stop the car and have a cigarette.My window was rolled down and I listened to one of Colin's story's as I flicked ash from the car.
As the story went on I began to hear something in the distance but paid little attention until I heard it gradually getting louder,I asked Colin to listen as the sound of high heels in the distance suddenly became gradually louder and louder.What started off as something of amusement it became a little frightening when the sound of somebody wearing high heels came walking up and stopped right by my open window,it was dark and visibility was zero.I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck as I looked at Colin and rolled up the window,that right there was the longest 4 seconds of my life.I put the car in reverse and got out of there.
That story has come up several times when chatting with Colin and it never changed my opinion on spirits maybe because I think at the time I felt a nervous excitement more then anything else however there was to be another incident just a few weeks ago that was terrifying on a whole new level.I had arranged to meet up with a friend who was going through a rough time and again ended up in Deer park castle only this time we parked up in the car park at a viewing point which overlooks Dublin Bay and is one of my favourite places in the city.
It was 1.30am and the rain was torrential,my window was halfway down as I smoked a cigarette.Coincidentally I was telling Sean about the the previous time I had been here with Colin,I had heard a noise a few times but had put it down to the rain.Just as I finished the story something caught my eye just behind my door,I looked around and saw a young lady standing right beside my window,she was around 28/29 had blonde hair and was wearing a long white dress.I froze for a few seconds and turned to tell Sean,as I turned around I hesitated on telling him but it was too late.Sean had seen the figure just before me in my rear mirror and had turned a pale white,'you seen that,didn't you' he said.That confirmed that I hadn't imagined what I saw.
I tried to play it down and make a joke of it but Sean's face had an expression of pure fear,he angrily told me to bring him home to get his car.He was serious and genuinely terrified so I agreed and quickly turned the engine on.In order to leave the car park I had to drive in a circle shape to get out and as we left we took once last glance over,she was still standing there looking at us.We were both lost for words.After a few seconds I composed my self and with a very nervous laugh I asked what the hell was that? Sean did not want to talk about it and we drove home in silence.I tried to quiz him on what exactly he had seen but he would not talk about it.
It was only about a week afterwards when we were at a friends apartment for dinner that it came up again,I had already told the friend what I had seen and asked Sean to describe his version of it.He described a young lady with blonde hair wearing a white dress,my heart stopped.We have not spoke about that night since.
