I'm trying to stay rational about this.
@bog_remembers posted at exactly midnight on St. Patrick's Day. A video. Drone footage of a bog — mist rolling across water, moonlight catching on the surface, and behind it all, you can hear the song. Not a recording of a recording. The actual melody, like someone or something is singing it from the center of the bog itself.
It's beautiful and deeply unsettling at the same time.
But here's the thing that's got me bothered:
The GPS coordinates were embedded in the video metadata. I checked them. They don't correspond to any known location in Ireland. I've triple-checked this. Used multiple mapping tools. Asked other people to verify.
The coordinates point to a location roughly in County Clare, somewhere south of Ennis, but when you actually try to navigate there using Google Maps or any conventional mapping service, there's nothing there. Just bog. Unmarked bog that doesn't appear on any records I can find.
Someone commented on the TikTok: "that's not a real place."
Another comment: "I've been there in a dream."
I'm trying very hard not to read too much into this. I'm trying very hard to be the rational, skeptical version of myself that doesn't believe in mysteries and coincidences and things that don't have explanations.
But I live in County Clare. I know the bogs around here. Some of them are old. Some of them are very old. And there are parts of the landscape that genuinely don't appear on modern maps — places that are registered one way but exist differently on the ground.
@bog_remembers has been leaving breadcrumbs this whole time. Little hints. Things that seemed random when I wasn't paying attention.
Now I'm paying attention.
And I'm starting to wonder if someone is trying to tell me something.
Or if I'm just going mad.
Probably the latter.
But the coordinates keep coming back to the same location.
—Seamus