LOCATION FILE

County Clare — the woods near home

County Clare, County Clare

ENTITY / DEMONICClaimed date: not given (witness about 15)Woods near the witness's home, County Clare The source names only the county, so the pin sits at its centre: it is not the place of the encounter.PUBLICUNVETTEDLEGEND

OVERVIEW

A reported black-eyed-children encounter: youths, usually two or three, with eyes described as entirely black, who ask to be let into a car or house. The legend's earliest dated text is Brian Bethel's post of 27 August 1997 about Abilene, Texas.

HISTORY

Phantoms & Monsters, 5 September 2019.

REPORTED ACTIVITY

HEARSAY. Secondary (anonymous email via blog). No police report, photograph or independent witness has been found for this or any black-eyed-children encounter. Collected for ODPSI white paper ODPSI-WP-LR-2026-002 (research notes, 14 Nov 2026).

VISITING

A public place; the report itself left nothing to see.

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EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Phantoms & Monsters, 'Was the black-eyed kid actually fae?', 5 Sep 2019 (Goodreads copy) ↗

INVESTIGATION RECORD

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