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Derry Ghosts

Date: 28 October 2025 - 30 October 2025

Venue: Various Locations, Derry

Each Halloween, the ghost of a sea captain appears near the Guildhall, sharing eerie tales of shipwrecks and lost souls. In the shadows of Lizzie O’Farrell’s, a murdered girl returns to tell her tragic story and her strange connection to the Blue Light. Meanwhile, the ancient vampire Abhartach rises from rural Derry, stalking the city walls in search of fresh victims.

Info:

1/ Ghost 1 - Looking to the Foyle - from walls (or other area) in front of guildhall - A ghostly sailor/sea captain with tales of ships which sank and those who perished in the Foyle and the miracle of how some  survived. & He will allude to his part in the making of

2/ Ghost2 - The girl murdered in what is now Lizzie O’ Farrels. She will meet people at the back of Lizzie O’Farrels (on walls) and bewail them with the tale of her early demise and what befell those men who killed her, including Sea Captain who helped some of them escape and how in this place between worlds which she inhabits, she befriended The Blue Light  who brings her back to tell her tale every Halloween in The City Of Bones

3/ - Abhartach - The Derry Vampire (walls or elsewhere) telling how he came to be and end & how on Halloween, he escapes his tomb in Rural Derry and prowls the Walls of the city seeking new victims

Key Info
  • 28 October 2025 - 30 October 2025
  • 18:00
  • Various Locations, Derry


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