Fortean Ireland Xchange examines unusual reports from across Ireland using archival research, contemporary records, witness testimony and field investigation. The aim is neither to dismiss nor sensationalise a case, but to establish what was reported, what evidence survives and what remains genuinely unresolved.
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A Coralstown Schools' Collection entry records a local belief that a black dog appeared before the death of a member of the Darcy family at Rattin Castle.
Read Case StudyA Dúchas page from Tallanstown, County Louth, records four lights moving between Lissrenny, Louth Hall and Glyde Farm, alongside a separate white-lady story.
Read Case StudyA Dúchas record from Aughagad, County Sligo, says lights were once seen around a small fort almost every night. The account is a named local folklore record, not evidence of a continuing phenomenon.
Read Case StudyA Drogheda Schools' Collection entry records a local story about a coach drawn by four silver horses travelling from Millmount Square to St Mary's Protestant Church at midnight.
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Several commercial pilots reported bright, fast-moving lights to Shannon Air Traffic Control on 9 November 2018. The surviving account is compelling as an aviation report, but it does not establish what the objects were.
Read Case StudyA 1969 Newsbeat report recorded local testimony about unusual lights near Mullinahone. The surviving film is valuable evidence of what was said at the time, not independent proof of the explanation attached to it.
Read Case StudyA continuing archive investigation into Irish government, aviation and defence records relating to unidentified aerial reports from 1962 onwards.
Read Case StudyThe story of Bridget Murphy and alleged disturbances at a farmhouse near Brookeborough survives through local memory and later retellings. FI-X separates the reported tradition from evidence that still needs to be located.
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A 1960s report by three priests and a 2001 underwater search made Lough Ree one of Ireland's recurring lake-monster stories. The archive records the claim and the search, not a confirmed animal.
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