Wallis believed that there must be some rational explanation for what was going on. She had no one to turn to so when some spiritualists heard about the events surrounding Mary it was the Wallis family who tried to protect her and would not admit the spiritualists to the house. Terrified of being sacked she pleaded with the Wallis family ‘Please don’t send me away.’Īs Mary had just arrived from Ireland she was totally alone in America.
Mary herself could offer no explanation and actually became hysterical. Banging and rapping started on the walls and windows, always close to the room where Mary was working. Then the ringing got worse more violent throughout the day and night. Strange phenomena surrounding Mary Carrick The Wallis family decided to disconnect the bells but they continued to ring but only if Mary was in the room or the room next door.
They rang at different intervals throughout the day even though no one was pulling the cords and they were three meters high up on the walls. She quickly found work with the Wallis family and things went well for the first six weeks but then the bells in the kitchen began ringing. Not much is known about Mary Carrick other than she was a bright but illiterate healthy young woman who immigrated to America from Ireland in May 1867. He entitled it ‘A Remarkable Case of Physical Phenomena.’ Mary Carrick moves to America H.A Willis, himself a witness to the following baffling yet sad events surrounding Mary Carrick. This story was told to Atlantic Monthly in August 1868 by Mr. We decided this ghost story was worth including. Not strictly an Irish folklore tale but as Mary Carrick did emigrate to America from Ireland.
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