By Tim Binnall
A peculiar photo taken by a woman in Ireland shows what she believes to be the ghost of a little girl who looked at her from the window of a 15th-century castle before vanishing from sight. The spooky incident reportedly occurred earlier this month as Gail Newport and her partner were on vacation in the county of Kerry. As part of their excursion, the pair made a stop at Ross Castle, which was constructed over 500 years ago. While strolling around the property, they suddenly were taken aback when they spotted what appeared to be a little girl in the uppermost window of the medieval building. "I remember thinking 'did we really just see that?,'" Newport later recalled, marveling that "in a blink, she was gone."
As luck would have it, she happened to be taking pictures of the castle when the strange sighting occurred and so she checked her phone to see if it might have captured the curious observer that she thought she had noticed. To Newport's profound surprise, one of the pictures (seen below) actually features an eerie anomaly in that specific castle window and it bears a striking resemblance to a small child. Strengthening her suspicions that she may have seen some kind of spirit, the vacationer noted that "at the time, the tours weren't open; that's why we were hanging around outside. Someone said after they didn't even think the top floor of the building was open to tourists."
While it is up for debate as to whether or not Newport witnessed and subsequently photographed a ghost girl during his visit to Ross Castle, she expressed no doubt over the experience. "We both saw it, which was literally a glimpse," she said, "it looked like she had a little teddy bear tucked under her arm. She was glancing out the window." Although some might ascribe an unsettling feeling to what had occurred that day, Newport had the opposite perspective, musing that "we kind of felt a peacefulness" from the fleeting possible connection between the world of the living and that of the 'other side.' What do you think she photographed at the centuries-old castle? Weigh in with your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.