Parks and gardens occupy an odd position in the landscape of haunted places. They are managed, maintained, and often open to the public - yet something about them resists the ordinary. St. Stephen's Green was a place of public execution. The walled gardens of great houses stand long after the houses themselves have gone, tended by nobody, visited by few.
Ireland's green spaces carry their history quietly. The reports that come from them tend to be quieter too - a figure on a path that wasn't there a moment ago, a sound that doesn't belong to any bird or animal, an unease that settles without explanation and lifts just as suddenly. These are not places that announce themselves as haunted. They rarely need to.
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