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The Buggane of Gob ny Scuit, Maughold

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Gob ny Scuit ("Point of the Jet or Spout") is a location in the parish of Maughold on the Isle of Man, said to be haunted by a buggane described as a spectre like a man with the head of a cat and great fiery eyes, believed to be the ghost of a murderer. It terrified the district with howls until it was laid by Jem-beg Kermeen of Ballure, and investigation by Kennish revealed the sounds were produced by wind entering a natural fissure in the rock.

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