Web Cam Ghost Watch

Web Camera Ghostwatch was set up in response to reports of ghostly activity in a former linen mill. It has attracted media coverage worldwide.

windows of linen mill in Belfast

Visitors to the site joined the Ghostwatch by day and by night; many have reported accounts which defy rational explanation, others witnessed nothing unusual.

We monitor 24 hours a day, on web cam. The ghost of Helena Blunden is said to walk in the linen mill where she once worked, the haunting cry of her last moments echoing off its walls. This is no mere Hallowe'en phantom, or traditional spook, but the tragic tale of a gifted young woman, her life cut short in the early years of this century.

Ghost stories are no longer the preserve of the past - the supernatural and mundane combine. Ask the printing manager or the designer who late at night listened to quick, light footsteps on the stairs and in the corridor. Modern technology has been brought in to prove the existence of this phantom named Helena - another of Ireland's restless spirits. The long-dead mill worker is, it seems, still around to be captured on live web cam.

Superstition and fact are not usually comfortable bedfellows. While the headless horseman and the Werewolves of Ossory may be incredible tales, Helen Blunden is a modern example of the sorrows and pain which are the lot of many of our Irish ghosts