The Ghaist Hole, known as the Comber Ghost Hole, is a stretch of the Comber River at Cherryvalley with an unsettling legend attached. A beggar with no legs used to be carried from house to house along the old mill row. One night a man, fed up with having to carry him a long way, threw him into the river. Ever since, the beggar's ghost is said to haunt the water's edge, and some say they have seen him struggling to haul himself out.
The tellings add that in the 19th century smugglers used the river to bring in silk, wine and brandy and encouraged the ghost stories to scare off curious locals.
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