In 1992, a woman named Mary Kerr was driving on the M2 motorway in Belfast, close to the former site of Weaver Street. As she travelled east along the carriageway she suddenly saw a young girl, fair-haired and barefoot, wearing an older-style dress, skip directly across the road in front of her car. Instinctively she braked, expecting to hit someone—yet the child vanished the moment she looked again.

Exactly one year later, Kerr saw a newspaper article recalling the Weaver Street bombing of February 1922, when several children were killed in an attack in that very area. The article mentioned that one of the victims was a girl of similar age. Kerr later said she felt certain there was a connection between the tragedy and the figure she had seen on the motorway that night.

Today, nothing of Weaver Street survives on the Belfast map. The houses and the street have been erased by later development, leaving little physical trace of the events that took place there. Yet stories like Kerr’s suggest that, despite the disappearance of the location itself, the past may not be entirely at rest.