Fog: a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface that obscures or restricts visibility.
Fog often goes together with all things scary. At Halloween, people use fog machines to enhance their haunted houses. Although you can kind of see in the fog, with the limited visibility, it is almost as bad as darkness.
In Ireland, fog is no different than anywhere else in the world. Well, unless you count the night of October 9, 1976.
A small town had a thick and eerie fog sweep in around 7:00 pm. It left the people feeling uneasy, and most went indoors and locked up their homes for the night.
When morning came, the fog had cleared and folks were able to leave their homes again. Those who had remained locked inside had no idea what had happened during the night. Those who didn’t have a different story to tell.
Police received more than 60 calls from scared citizens who had gone outdoors. They said the dead were roaming the streets. Their calls were immediately disregarded; the police assuming they were playing jokes.
However, patrolling town the next morning, police found the local graveyard had had all its graves dug up. The bodies were nowhere to be found.
“To one who, journeying through night and fog,
Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
Experience, like the rising of the dawn,
Reveals the path that he should not have gone.”
— Joel Frad Bink
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If this story isn’t just an urban legend, I’d be interested to know the name of the town, as well as if anyone who was in it after sunset on October 9, 1976 has since been interviewed about what went on there that evening.