Singer Chris de Burgh has revealed how he grew up in a haunted castle and ‘spoke’ to ghosts.
The 74-year-old musician, best known for 1986 song Lady in Red, said that ghosts and ghouls were ‘all around’ when he was a lad. The dad of former Miss World Rosanna Davison, who was brought up in a 12th century fortress called Bargy Castle in County Wexford, Ireland, said it was haunted by ‘angry spirits’.
The singer’s grandfather, Sir Eric de Burgh bought the castle in the 1960s and his parents - Maeve and Charles - turned it into a hotel, where a young Chris would sing to guests. One of the former owners, John Harvey - who died in 1880 - is entombed in a specially-made mausoleum at the entrance to the castle, and is believed to be one of the phantoms haunting the castle.
