Fermanagh - Garrison - Outside of Garrison, about mile out of the town. There
this field that has a small tree in it. Some locals call it a "Fairy
Tree?. Apparitions, hearing your name called, and things seem to fly in
your face quickly.
Galway - Maam Cross - On an old dirt road going along side a large hill at
night on one of the sharp turns you can see an old man standing in the
middle of the road. If you're in a car as you drive throw the road he
stays there and passes right through your car and you if you're in the
way. If you turn around and look back after he passed through the car
and/or you he is still standing there but he's turned and looking back
at you very sadly.
Kildare - Clongowes Wood
College - There are a lot of different stories
of hauntings in this area. Many accidents on the road outside the
college have reportedly been caused by drivers swerving to avoid a
young child crossing the road. This child has always mysteriously
disappeared. People in the college who look out at the front gates at
midnight can see a coach and four horses. There have also been many
sightings of ghosts in the building, and some students have left
because of this. In the history of Clongowes, before it was a school it
was at one time owned by a family of one son and 2 daughters. When the
parents died, the son went off to war. The sisters were in a room
sewing and reading when he came in. they stood up to welcome him home
but he turned and left the room and disappeared. 2 weeks later they got
word that he had died in action on the day they had seen him.
Kinsale - Charles fort - Many years ago, a newly married woman plunged to her
death of the battlements of Charles fort after her husband (an officer)
was shot for falling asleep on duty. Her spirit now haunts the
battlements of this ruined fort and is well known around the town of
Kinsale, the people of which called her the white lady.
Leap - Leap Castle - Possibly up to 20 spirits haunt this 14th century
castle.? The "Bloody Chapel", where a warrior reportedly slaughtered
his brother over the alter, is haunted by a priest who runs past the
doorway.? The basement is said to be haunted by the "Irish Elemental",
which will attack if provoked.? It is seen throughout the castle and
the ruins outside.? The owner is not open to investigators, although he
did let TAPS in earlier this year (2006).? Their evidence included 2
EVPS.
Monaghan - Emyvale - it is known that a very old man walks up and down
Emyvale street moaning and groaning and calling for his wife which her
name is 'Mary?. She was butchered to death on Emyvale street 200 years
ago by some bandits. Some people have seen him walking at 12 midnight.
Northern Ireland - Antrim
- Mussenden temple - blood can be seen on the
floor of the library, which quickly disappears in a few minutes. Also,
a pentacle was laid out on the floor, but was removed by the National
Trust, for some unexplained reason.
Northern Ireland - Ballymoney
- main street - It is said that on certain days
of the year including Friday the 13th Halloween and the anniversary of
his death that George 'Bloody' Hutchinsons ghost has to walk to the
bottom of main street, then back to the top between 12 midnight and 1
am with a ball and chain around his ankles and if he does not do it
within the witching hour his soul will vanish off the face of the earth
forever. Spooky things have been reported at his grave as well.
Northern Ireland - Ballymena
- The White Gates - The Crebilly area in
Ballymena is well known for being haunted. Just off the Crebilly road,
is another road which will take you to The White Gates. There is an old
house situated at the bottom of a lane, on the other side of the gates.
Years ago, a horseman stole a large amount of money from the
inhabitants of the house, and started to ride off towards the gates.
When he reached the gates, some guards were waiting with wire stretched
along the gates, which, when the horseman rode through, de-capitated
his head. On Halloween night it is reported that at midnight, you can
hear the horses hoolves, and you will see the headless horseman riding
towards The White Gates.
Northern Ireland - Belfast
- Vicarage Street- June 2008 ? Has been removed.
Northern Ireland - Larne -
Ballyboley Forest - Local legend tells that this
was an ancient Druid site. There are distinctive marks (circular
trenches and stone formations) embedded into the ground towards the
north east part of the forest, long grown over, but still quite
obvious. During the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries there were supposed
disappearances of a number of people living in the area. Even today the
place sends a shiver down the spine, people are wary to venture off the
tracks (you need to find the marking sites). Reports of shadowy figures
walking among the trees or strange animal like noises have been had on
many occasions. The place was opened as a national park by the council,
with paths been laid down for walking routes, but very few people, in
fact nearly no one ever goes there now. There has been a fair few
modern events in the forest that have given the place a creepy
reputation. Back in 1994 there was an incident were a young couple
witnessed a massing of black smoke and the sounds of a screaming voices
in the near distance from their position, they quickly left the forest.
On another date (1997, this is actually in a news paper report!) two
men say that they were in the forest when they heard a loud flapping
sound. They thought nothing of it at first but as they got continued
walking they started to hear other strange sounds like a lady moaning
in pain. They thought someone was in trouble and left the track to
enter the forest to find the distressed lady. Their horror began when
they came to a place where the trees were smeared thickly with blood.
They found no lady but the strange sounds started again very close to
their position. As they fled in terror one man looked behind him and
seen four human shaped figures in the forest behind him (standing
motionless, not pursuing), where previously there had been no one
there. They were clad in brown rags and had their head covered as well.
In addition to the ground markings there are also rumored to be natural
footpaths in parts of the forest (I cannot confirm this). It is said
the forest contains a gateway to what the Celtic called "The
Otherworld". It is also said by some people that they get a feeling
that "something in the forest is watching me". There are many stories
and superstitions about the place, how many are true you can only guess
at, but something has definitely happened up there to scare local
people and give the place such a reputation.
Northern Ireland - Magherafelt
- Olivands Hill - Years gone by it was the
highest point in the town, on top of the hill was an old farm house
surrounded by 5 Large Oaks, it was here criminals were sentenced to
death by hanging. The most famous was of the hanging of a young lady
who was heavily pregnant at the time, this was different though because
she took her own life due to the shame of being pregnant before
marriage. Her ghost not only haunts the grounds but also the house
itself, many families have lived in and left the house due to the
continuous sightings, it was empty for some years when a family moved
in, the sightings got less and less but not forgotten it is said she
wanders about the grounds weeping wearing an old grey dress
Northern Ireland - Newtownards
- Newtownards War Memorial - According to my
grandfather, when was a boy walking home late one night in Summer, he
noticed a very well dressed man standing by the War Memorial. What
struck him about this gent, was his clothing as it off the Victorian
era. Thinking nothing more of this he asked his mother about this well
dressed man, and she said that he was a rich man (bank manager) waiting
on a lift home. he never made it home, but was 'mugged' beaten and left
dead. It seems that this gent waits on his lift to this day.
Northern Ireland - Sion
Mills - Co. Tyrone - A man who died at a cricket
match haunts the cricket field. He walks out every night wearing
cricket gear and disappears.
Northern Ireland - Sion
Mills - Co.Tyrone - The High Sion road - This
happened years ago. A Banshee was thought to have been heard up the
high sion road. This area is mostly countryside and trees. A man heard
the moans of the Banshee and this scared him alot and made him hang
himself from a tall tree. The rope still hangs there today.
Northern Ireland - Sion
Mills - Co. Tyrone - The old Railway bridge - This
bridge has been out of service for years and people who walk across it
have heard train sounds from behind them. When they look behind there
is nothing there. If that's not bad, people have also fallen to their
death from the bridge into the river below. A person who was walking
around that area at night with his dog, saw a white ghostly figure
emerge from the water. He said the figure stood there and walked back
into the water. His dog ran away howling. This has been seen by many
people before.
Northern Ireland - Sion
Mills - The Mourne River - People have
experienced unexplainable things here and near a large tree the sound
of chains rattling and loud footsteps.
Pirtrush - Dunluce Castle
- Dunluce Castle is perched on the edge of a
high cliff. When the castle was lived in there was a terrible accident
one night when part of the kitchens fell into the sea, taking most of
the servants with it. On certain nights you can still hear the screams
of the people as they fell.
Roscre - Black Death
Hospital - The black death hospital lies in a
padok in Roscre Ireland it is known by locals so ask for the right
location. The hospital was the children?s hospital dealing with all the
suffered of the black death. About 10 years ago they were digging some
sewer pipes and suddenly without warning the skulls and bones of 50
plus children fell into the ditch! Noone not even the locals will stay
here at night as the children?s ghosts "or as legend goes" will lure
you to your death so you can join them.
Southern Ireland- Birr -
Roscrea - Leap Castle - Reports of a presence
accompanied by a bad odor.
Southern Ireland - Dublin
- The Dublin Hellfire Club - Built in the 1700s
as a hunting lodge, it was taken over almost immediately by
aristocratic upper class members of society in Northern Ireland. They
started the "Hellfire Club" where they performed satanic rituals,
animal and human sacrifices and many other horrific things. Locals stay
away from it ant night and only a few known tourists have ever ventured
inside at night. They all report seeing dark figures and shadows
walking and running through rooms and behind stones outside. Once, two
girls went there for a visit, put their sleeping bags inside and went
for a walk around the building outside. From outside, they saw a dark
shadow cross the room where they had left their things. One of the
girls wanted desperately to return to the Inn where they were
registered as guests, but they would have had to cross the huge forests
surrounding the building, which they said they could not do. They went
back inside the club and went up to the top floor where they got to the
top landing. They reported feeling safe and relieved on that landing
and could not bring themselves to wander back anywhere else including
outside until dawn. It is rumored that when the club was active
hundreds of years ago, people would sometimes get lost at night and
accidentally wanders inside the club and be forced to participate in
rituals. Some would not survive the night, and others spent the rest of
their lives wandering in a sort of horrified blindness. The landing
where the girls found refuge had reportedly been blessed by a priest in
the area in the early 1800s and an exorcist was brought in the late
1800s. Nobody has ever visited the site at night and not reported being
scared out of their minds.
Southern Ireland - Leap
Castle - There is a devilish creature that
walking the castle. It is believed that the creature was created from
the spirits of all of the men and women who were killed there.
Tijuana - Old Agua
Caliente Casino - The old casino now houses a
High School and it is said that on rainy nights you can see the
apparition of a singer who use to perform at the casino in the 40's.
Its said that if you follow the woman you'll find 2 chests of money.
The story goes that she poisoned her lover and he chased her for the
antidote and when she wouldn't give it to him, he shot her obviously
sealing his fate and that of the money.
Tipperary - Glen of
Aherlow - There are many hauntings in the Glen,
namely that a certain area, Ballinacourty, is cursed. The story dates
back to when Massy Dawson was the English landlord, and lived in the
'Big House', Ballinacourty House. one day a tenants wife went to one of
the sheriffs asking him to make her lazy son work hard for one day. The
sheriff took him, but when the mother went to collect him for the day,
she found him hanging from the infamous 'Hanging Tree'. There and then
she cursed all those that ever lived in Ballinacourty, that at least
one member of the family would die. Although the main house burned down
years ago, the curse lives on, if one would just check the death
records for that area...
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