Mystery ghost train is driving us loco.
A GHOST train is driving residents in a rural parish round the bend, waking up sleepers with its constant rumbling along the rails.
And the really scary thing is, the nearest railway line is 15km away in Killarney.
Now frustrated locals in rural Beaufort, Co Kerry, are pleading with the Government to station investigators in the area in a bid to track down the source of the sound.
Tradesman Barry Lynch, 43, said: "The first time we heard it was in April 2011 and it has been there 24/7 ever since.
"We are nearly gone out of our minds because we can't get a decent night of sleep.
"It is very hard to describe what exactly we are hearing.
"It is as if an old ghost train is passing through the parish all day and every day.
"It is a real haunting noise and we are baffled
"There are no mobile phone masts, windmills or generators in the area and the ESB has
assured us that the problem is not due to high-tension wires.
"We thought it might be coming from water pumps installed by Kerry County Council
but an engineer switched the pumps off for a trial period and the noise was still there."
Mr Lynch said more than a dozen neighbours in a 7km radius had complained about the
noise and said his own house sometimes vibrates.
The low-pitched hum sent one neighbour to the doc's fearing a problem with his
hearing.
Mr Lynch continued: "It is placing a huge strain on my own partner who can't sleep at
night, even when she wears earplugs, "We are pleading with the Department of the
Environment or some other organisation to help us before we are driven out of our
homes.
"Not everybody in the parish has heard the noise but just because they can't hear it doesn't
mean it isn't there.
"Our neighbours and ourselves can hear it the minute we step out of our cars and it's there
all the time until we drive off again."
But the Beaufort residents are not alone in being haunted by ghostly grumblings.
Mr Lynch has researched mystery noises on the internet and found similar sounds have been
reported around the globe.
The most recent was in a parish in Durham in north eastern England which has become
known as 'The Hum'.
But nasty noises described as 'a persistent and invasive low-frequency hum' have also cropped
up in New Mexico, New Zealand and Indiana.
Research into possible causes in universities in Florida, Oklahoma and Auckland has
proved inconclusive.
Mr Lynch said: "The way it's being described on the internet is exactly what we are
hearing.
"It's absolutely wearing us down and we are crying out for a good night's sleep before our
health starts to give."
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