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Ghost From My Army Days

 

To tell this story I will have to tell you a few things about where I was based during my 9 years Irish army service. First of all I was based in a military camp in Donegal Ireland. The accommodation was long wooden cabins divided in the middle by a partition and another door at the partition leading to the next dorm. So basically two dorms to each cabin. Now all the military installations in Ireland were built by the English military during British occupation here and handed over when Ireland became a republic.

One night myself and one of my fellow soldiers had just arrived back from a weeks patrol leave and we were sleeping in the back part of the cabin we were the only ones left there as the rest was cleared out due to everyone moving into the new accommodation that had just been finished. After chatting for a while we both went to bed and he fell asleep fairly quickly. I on the other hand was feeling a bit restless so I sat up and lit a cigarette after a few minutes I heard the door open in the first half of the cabin. I heard someone walk in and then silence then I could here the beds being dragged around and thrown about. I woke my mate and just told him to listen and he heard it too then the door flew open violently something walked right through opened the back door and all just went silent. When we both looked into the first dorm every bed had been thrown about the room turned over and some even piled on top of the other. I can tell you we were both scared out of our wits, I was a sergeant at this stage of my army career had been on overseas duty and had a lot of ghostly experiences in my life but never anything as scary as this but for what happened to me in the graveyard in Dublin when I was younger.

Anyone got any ideas on what it might have been...

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zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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6 years ago (2018-08-20)
Awe, moonshadow! It's been eight long years since we've heard from you. I wish you would somehow find your way back. I just want to know that you're okay.
aussiedaz (19 stories) (1565 posts)
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9 years ago (2015-03-18)
Wouldn't that be great Granny, we have our own bus driver and tour guide to drive the loonie aroundπŸ˜† πŸ˜†... I'm sure we would have a blast, let's make it happen. 😊
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
 
9 years ago (2015-03-17)
No Aussie, it's hard to believe. So many things we've shared these last 5 years LOL It's been an awesome journey, and it looks like we're all in for the long haul πŸ˜†. Someday, my friend, the Land of Oz will be invaded by American and British Loonies! Wouldn't that be great?
aussiedaz (19 stories) (1565 posts)
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9 years ago (2015-03-17)
[at] Granny, wow!... Can you believe 5 years has past since we all met here on YGS and I'll second your thoughts on our mate moonshadow... I do wish him all the best where ever he may be!
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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9 years ago (2015-03-17)
Happy St. Paddy's Day to my favorite Irishman! Moonshadow, we miss you. ❀ 😒
DARKNESS (3 stories) (2022 posts)
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12 years ago (2012-01-23)
Damn straight Moonshadow where are you hiding mate we miss you over here! Hope all is well looking forward to hearing from you!

Granny did any of us ever have his email at all? πŸ˜•
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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12 years ago (2012-01-23)
moonshadow: It's been a year and a half since we've heard from you... I hope you eventually work your way back to the site and let us know you're okay... We miss you! ❀ 😒
aussiedaz (19 stories) (1565 posts)
 
13 years ago (2011-04-01)
Me too Moonshadow... Where are you old mate... I am drinking some Irish whiskey at the moment reminiscing over two little boys...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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13 years ago (2011-02-01)
DARKNESS: I'm really getting worried about our mate!... I hope it's just computer problems... 😒
DARKNESS (3 stories) (2022 posts)
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13 years ago (2011-02-01)
Indeed Granny! Yeh Moonshadow where areya buddy? You must be a very busy man over there hope to hear from you soon champ hope your doing well! 😊
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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13 years ago (2011-02-01)
MOONSHADOW: Haven't heard from Ireland in over 7 months! 😒...Hope all is well... Get a new computer and come back, soon! 😊 ❀
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
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14 years ago (2010-07-27)
DARKNESS: We're all doing okay... Hope to see you soon in the Loonie bin! ❀
EmeraldAngel (4 stories) (319 posts)
 
14 years ago (2010-07-27)
haha your hilarious zzgranny you remind me of my late grandmother who died four years ago. 😒 😊 I miss her but she's in a better place.
DARKNESS (3 stories) (2022 posts)
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14 years ago (2010-07-26)
Granny my good friend how are you I'm sorry I have not forgotton about my asylum friends just having few dramas with the home life at this present time. I miss you all heaps and can't wait to get time to speak to you all again. Coming to YGS is the easy part as the work computer allows me to go here LOL. I hope all is going well with you and the rest of my loonie friends. Speak soon.

😁 ❀

Dan
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
 
14 years ago (2010-07-26)
moonshadow: we miss you!...DARKNESS has lost track of chuckie, aussie's teddy has grown wings, whitebuffalo needs more than meds, miracles has kids watching her take a bath, FRAWIN shaved down to the bone, my ghosties left me and went with my boys, and sssooooomuch more!...WHERE ARE YOU? πŸ˜† πŸ˜† ❀
keltlass (2 stories) (4 posts)
 
14 years ago (2010-01-27)
hi, I think somewhat along the lines of torabla. It may be a deceased soldier. Perhaps he's angry because his belongings were discarded and perhaps he had something dear to him in the barracks. Sounds like he was whipping the beds around looking for something. Only a suggestion, but it didn't reveal itself to you or harm you. I'm sure I would have tucked tail and hiked it off to the new barracks, after my paralysis left me! (I was born in Donegal, Ireland).
moonshadow (3 stories) (146 posts)
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14 years ago (2009-12-10)
staris: yea it was scarey allright I can still see it happining when I think about it or talk on it. My story shadows in the graveyard is published on this site have a read of it and see what you think.

Zzsgranny: yea that was the only experience I had in that dorm but I did have other experiances in other parts of the base and a lot of soldiers based there had experiances around the base too it was a spookey place all the old cabins were pulled down after all the new accommadation was fineshed we did move to another cabin that night soon after I moved into my own appartment in a town near the base haven't been up that way in along time now since I left the army...
michellelovesghosts (5 stories) (50 posts)
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14 years ago (2009-12-09)
That is scary! My dad was in the Air Force so we moved around a lot to different homes and bases. We were always nervous about what sort of home we'd get next!
Staris (11 posts)
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14 years ago (2009-12-09)
Yeah, scary stuff... What happened to you in the graveyard in Dublin? Do tell? 😲
zzsgranny (18 stories) (3329 posts) mod
 
14 years ago (2009-12-09)
That, my friend, is scary!...Did you have other experiences in this particular dorm, or was that the only one?...Has the building been demolished, since the new ones were built?...Some one was definately pi**ed off! πŸ˜†...I think I would've gone to the new dorms THAT night!...
Great story...
torabla (1 stories) (9 posts)
 
14 years ago (2009-12-09)
There is a lot of negative energy in that area. The spirit was a mad spirit some how he was expressing his anger by moving the beds around or as you discribed it throwing the beds around. Maybe it was a soldier who passed away in that cabin and it continues to haunt it. How scary...
Hanbobs (20 stories) (119 posts)
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14 years ago (2009-12-09)
Wow that sounds really creepy... The way you described it was as though someone or something was having a tantrum about something. And used your dorm as an exit and stormed out.
For a spirit to throw a mattress must mean it could be some kind of poltergiest?
Have none of the other soldiers seen or heard things while you were there?
Hanbobs

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