Ghost Hunters Rescued From Derry Haunted House<\/h1>\n
Written in March 2016<\/p>\n
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Two ghost-hunters had to be rescued after becoming trapped in Derry\u2019s best known haunted house.<\/p>\n
A number of ghostly tales have for many years been associated with Boom Hall which was built in 1779 on the banks of the River Foyle at Culmore.<\/p>\n
The historic building has been vacant for decades and has fallen into such a state of disrepair that the building and the area has been cordoned for a number of years because of fears that it could collapse.<\/p>\n
However, it has emerged that the fences around Boom Hall have not deterred would-be ghost-hunters from having a look around the building.<\/p>\n
Two men recently became trapped in the dilapidated building while on the lookout for ghosts in the dark of night.<\/p>\n
A fire crew was called to the scene to help the two men to safety.<\/p>\n
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that the rescue operation had taken place.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: \u201cWe received a call at 7:24pm to a report of an incident at premises at the Culmore Road area of the city on Saturday 13th February.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne fire appliance from Northland Fire Station was deployed to the scene of two men requiring rescue assistance from a property in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirefighters were able to rescue the two men using keys provided by the property\u2019s keyholder. Both men were uninjured.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NIFRS said the rescue operation lasted for around one hour.<\/p>\n
It is understood the two men told their rescuers they were interested in ghosts and that\u2019s why they were within the walls of Boom Hall.<\/p>\n
When built, the building was named after the boom which had been placed across the Foyle during the Siege of Derry in 1689.<\/p>\n
The boom was broken by ships which relieved those who had taken part in the siege within Derry\u2019s Walls.<\/p>\n
Throughout its history, Boom Hall was home to some of the local area\u2019s best known families.<\/p>\n
However, for many years, the building has been neglected although there are plans currently being discussed for its regeneration.<\/p>\n
In relation to the ghost stories associated with Boom Hall, number of them were outlined in a book by Madeline McCully called Haunted Derry<\/em> which was published last year.<\/p>\n One story involved a girl who was a relative of the family who lived at Boom Hall at the time.<\/p>\n She had been sent to Boom Hall to remove her from the attention of a young groomsman employed in her own home in England.<\/p>\n However, the young man followed her and hid out in the stables where they had secret trysts.<\/p>\n When they were discovered the girl was locked in an upstairs corner bedroom but the young man got away.<\/p>\n The girl pined and a few weeks later the bedroom went up in flames.<\/p>\n The family frantically tried to get into the room but to no avail.<\/p>\n When eventually the flames were extinguished the ashes were searched for the body of the young girl but nothing was found.<\/p>\n Legend has it that the ghost of the girl can be seen walking along the corridor at the top of the house.<\/p>\n <3 Anna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or, Ghosthunters Couldn’t Hack A Night In A Haunted House Click here to see the original article or scroll down to read the whole story. Ghost Hunters Rescued From Derry Haunted House Written in March 2016 Two ghost-hunters had to be rescued after becoming trapped in Derry\u2019s best known haunted house. A number of ghostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Paranormal Crew Rescued From Haunted House","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[73],"tags":[652,74,577],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haunted-house","tag-derry","tag-ghost","tag-haunted-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Wkl2-Lb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annaabner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Ghosts, Hauntings, & Cheap Books: Sign Up For My Monthly Newsletter<\/a> Today.<\/h5>\n
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