The Year Mirrors Lied
Something shifted in the veil over Ireland in 2025.
The disturbances began in Waterford at the Irish Wake Museum. This unique institution stands in a 15th-century almshouse on Cathedral Square. Death rituals once unfolded in its shadowed rooms. Staff and visitors started noticing reflections that did not belong. Pale children in Victorian mourning clothes stared out from glass display cabinets. These cabinets held hair jewellery and commemorative locks from long-dead infants. When anyone turned to look, no one stood there. Only empty air remained, along with a sudden drop in temperature.
Curator Cliona Purcell faced multiple reports. Tour guides spotted the figures alone while opening the museum. Even skeptics fainted from the intensity. She called in GhostÉire investigators. This Irish paranormal team uses scientific and traditional methods.
"The electronics go a bit funny at times. Some of the stories come from visitors who would have considered themselves skeptics. We have even had a couple of people faint."
– Cliona Purcell, Curator of the Irish Wake Museum
EVP sessions captured faint whispers in Irish Gaelic. Childlike giggles echoed. Unexplained cold spots formed near the mirrors. Electronics glitched and lights flickered without cause.
The phenomena spread beyond Waterford. Similar accounts emerged at other historic sites across Ireland. Mirrors in old castles and museums showed fleeting apparitions. Faceless ladies appeared. Soldiers in outdated uniforms materialized. These vanished when anyone approached. The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin reported shadowy forms in reflective surfaces during quiet hours.
Then the skies joined in. Throughout 2025, UFO reports increased sharply. Witnesses saw three orange lights forming a perfect triangle over Armagh. Silent objects hovered above airports and docks. Bright orbs remained motionless before darting away. PSNI logged multiple calls. Former UK Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope noted underreporting due to stigma.
"While these figures are very low, it doesn't mean people in Northern Ireland aren't seeing strange things in the skies."
– Nick Pope, former MoD UFO investigator
Believers speak of thin places. These ancient Celtic portals allow the Otherworld to bleed through. They question if the reflection surge aligns with UAP activity. Some suggest mirrors serve as gateways, amplified by visitors from above.
Skeptics offer other explanations. Viral stories fuel pareidolia in old glass. UFO sightings stem from drones or rockets.
Yet visitors to the Wake Museum still leave unsettled. They swear they felt watched by something just behind the glass.
The GhostÉire Investigation
GhostÉire conducted a months-long probe into the Wake Museum reports. Medium Derek Whelan and investigator Anthony Kerrigan led the effort. They documented reflections of children in mourning attire. Cold spots and EVPs reinforced the claims. The team noted the building's history as an almshouse added to the charged atmosphere.
UFO Reports Across the Island
PSNI received three official UFO reports in 2025. One described three orange lights in a perfect triangle over Abbey Park in Armagh. The lights moved then dispersed. Other calls mentioned objects above airports or docks. Experts believe actual sightings far exceed official numbers due to reporting reluctance.
Thin Places and Portal Theories
Ireland's landscape holds many thin places in folklore. Mirrors have long served as scrying tools or spirit gateways. The 2025 alignment of mirror apparitions and sky anomalies sparks debate. Some see interdimensional bleed-through. Others view coincidence amplified by suggestion in death-themed spaces.
Location / Anomalies:
- Primary site: Irish Wake Museum, Cathedral Square, Waterford, Ireland (Coords: 52.2608° N, 7.1114° W)
- Secondary reports: Various historic sites across Ireland, including castles, museums, and Northern Ireland hotspots like Armagh all reported increased events throughout 2025.
- Anomalies reported included: Ghostly reflections of children and adults in mirrors/glass (no direct sighting), cold spots, EVP child voices in Gaelic, electronics malfunctions, flickering lights.
- Concurrent UAPs: orange triangle formations, silent orbs, perfect geometric movements.
Sources / Balance:
Irish Examiner (2025 Wake Museum investigation)
Unexplained Mysteries forums and reports
GhostÉire investigation findings
PSNI FOI data on 2025 UFO calls (including Armagh triangle)
RTE News coverage of orange lights
Press Association reports on Northern Ireland sightings
Final Verdict
THE MIRRORS THAT SAW TOO MUCH. In 2025 Ireland became ground zero for a rare double phenomenon. Ghosts appeared only in reflections across ancient sites while structured orange lights performed impossible maneuvers overhead. Two separate strangeness events unfolded in the same year on an island famous for its thin places. Coincidence feels too neat. Mass suggestion fails to explain the precise timing and geographic spread. Something opened briefly, and mirrors caught glimpses the naked eye could not.
Visitors still avoid lingering too long in front of glass at the Wake Museum. They ask the same questions you might be asking now: If mirrors can show what is not physically there, what else are they quietly reflecting? And when the next surge comes, will we finally turn around fast enough to see it directly?