A mysterious ghostlike image has been spotted over an eight foot gate and shortly afterwards disappearing over the adjacent eight foot railings, at King’s Island Community Centre, St Mary’s Park..
Images have been captured on CCTV. Now, Garda John Delaney, supervisor in charge of the Garda Workshops Dept, is to be called in to investigate.
This writer witnessed the CCTV footage and can confirm that what appears initially to be a white beam, immediately transforms into a green shape that scales the high gate and crosses the Centre’s car park, in the direction of a side door.
As it draws nearer, what appear to be the features and shape of a head are clearly evident.
PRO, Paddy Mason, and supervisor, Valerie Finucane, confirm that the image appeared on the CCTV at 4.50am, on June 15.
"We did not spot it immediately but when local people asked us to check the camera, following some anti social incidents that occurred a few days later, we were very startled when we saw this strange image that is definitely ghostlike,” Mr Mason told the Limerick Post.
"We told some city priests about it but they didn’t want to know - they referred to moving statues and were definitely sceptical, but a Ban Garda from Henry Street Station, who saw it, said it was "very weird” and that she had never seen anything like it on CCTV before”.
Both Mr Mason and Ms Finucane say that the more staff view it, the more they are convinced that it is "not normal,” and they discount claims that it could have been a reflection from an aircraft flying overhead.
"A time span of one minute, 45 seconds elapses between its first sighting coming into the car park over the gate and leaving,” says Ms Finucane who, with Mr Mason,is anxious to obtain a professional view from an expert.
What the Limerick Post saw on the screen was a green beam surrounding a white shape that displays facial features heading in the direction of a side door to the building. It is off screen for 30 seconds and then reappears, changing shape as it heads back towards the gate and railings, which it drifts over and disappears.
"If it was a person that got into the building it would have been picked up by the inside cameras. The image will only appear on the CCTV camera for one month, which is why we’ve copied it onto a DVD,” says Mason who, with Ms Finucane, say that local people are not so much scared as startled.
"We’re not ruling out a ghost or something paranormal - lots of people have heard unexplained noises and footsteps in this building - I have, and so has Valerie, and there’s been a feeling for some time that it’s haunted.
"Now some of the local people are saying a ghost has appeared because it’s disturbed that this centre will be demolished to cater for a new state of the art building under the Regeneration scheme”.
Speaking to the Limerick Post from his holiday destination, Garda John Delaney, said he has never before come across any "paranormal” activity on CCTV footage.
"There’s always a rational explanation but I will definitely look into this as soon as I get back in a week’s time,” he said.
(Original headline: Ghostly images ‘haunt’ centre )
