DOG'S GHOST
SAID TO HAUNT DUBLIN CATHEDRAL.
The congregation in -St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, recently got a shock when they wero informed bv tbo precentor, (be Kcv. H. ,1. Lawler, D.D., that the cathedral was haunted by the ghost of a dog. There is in the cathedral a-.statue to Gaptain J. 51‘Neil Boyd, R.N., who was drowned off Kingstown in an attempt to. rescue. the crow of the wrecked brig Neptune in 1861. Captain Boyd's dog, said the precentor, followed his master's coffin, and lay for some days on his grave. “Now,” said Dr Lawler,- “if one were in the cathedral between 12 midnight and 1 a.m., be might hear the patter of (he dog’s footsteps on the floor." Ho went on to say that a former organist who was sitting late one night at the organ heard the noisa and was terrorised by seeing two glaring eyes in the darkness. ,He said he saw the form of a dog, and was so affected by. his .experience that he remained in a place" of safety in the cathedral throughout the night.
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Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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181DOG'S GHOST Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 10
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