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and charm, oh and the paranormal. Welcome to Scary Era,
Mark Manning. You know, as I come to you from
the studio here on the east coast of Ireland, it's
lashing rain, the wind is howling, and we are definitely
my friends in the midst of winter time. So it's
great to hear from you again. Sorry if I haven't
been around as much as I could have been, but
I couldn't have been because I was away what with
New York and Edinburgh. I was a busy globe trotting boy.
I would just say, in relation to Edinburgh, what a
fantastic place. So atmospheric. Apparently it's built on I think
seven old dormant volcano sites, so consequently the stone has
a kind of sheen offered. It's a grayish yellow, very
hogwarts vibe to it. We were in the area of
I think it was Carlton place called Carlton, and you
could just beyond us the castle of course, Edinburgh Castle,
where every year the new year is seen in and
the old one seen out. And I've spent about two
hours up there. I'm sure there must be some ghostly
goings on over the years. It's been occupied for several
hundred years, I believe a long time anyway, just doused
in history and of course all the military aspect of it,
which I'd be very very interested in. And as you're
on the top of it, you're looking right out over
that whole panoramic landscape right down to the Firth of Fourth.
I think that's what it's called, looking out over it
and just amazing. But in respect of what we're doing here,
Tara Moore who's over in Ramsgate in the UK but
originally hails from Ireland. She's an author, and have to
be honest, she's my sister, my big sis, and I'm
very very proud of her. She's a great storyteller in
her own right. Otherwise she would be an author, would she?
Speaking of writing and things such Kiran Fanning. You might
remember last year we had him in for Haunted Ireland. Well,
he's got a new book on release and a man
to get my hands literally on it in the bookshop,
and he'll be telling you all about it and it's beautiful.
I mean, I'm not into promoting stuff, but I will
always promote quality literature and just to hold that book
so beautifully illustrated as well. I'm not on commission. I'm
just telling telling you like it is. I think it's
all about mystical tales etc. He can tell you himself.
We're going to say hello to Eugene and his good
lady and welcome them into the fold as well. Right
here on Scary Era, he represents after Life Paranormal and
he's been investigating for many years himself. And I think
it's Valerie. He's good lady and yeah, I can let
him tell you all about that shortly in the show
as well. Likes animals, does our Eugene picks up an
animal goings on? He does? What else I might be
able to fit in PJ from Pook of Oak's been
up to I just might have got some audio from him.
I've been with Jenny's audio, but it still hasn't arrived
as a Friday, and that's today is today. I'm putting
it all together, so I might have to put that
on ice until next time. I was looking for views
on pari unity as it's known. What do you think?
Good thing, bad thing? Get in touch Paranormal Ireland at
ProtonMail dot com. My own view is a very layman's
one because I think what pariunity is, and you can
correct me, is where everybody's opinion and insight is appreciated,
between both amateur and professional alike. So here's where I
stand now. Don't let me upset anybody. If anybody is
interested in the paranormal, that's great, but I'm not saying
it's the preserve of any particular group. But what I
will say is there are many groups that are long
established by virtue of their sheer passion for the paranormal,
and consequently they've become very, very professional now when I
talk to them, a lot of them feature on this show.
I tend to be an awe a bit and feel
a bit of an imposture syndrome because I really only
had the one paranormal experience. But as you'll be hearing soon.
I've had some kind of weird ones as well, but
I stay out of their way in kind of reverence
because I know how professional they are, be it ghost
Era with Anthony or Pukovogue or Emerald Dial, paranormal Matthew
in Supernatural. Oh, we'd be hearing from Matthew as well
to talk about orbs from Cork Supernatural Society. These people
are in a different how do I put a league?
So you know, people will always you know, tag along
perhaps to investigations, but they will be in a different mindset.
I think, you know, they might be a bit more
susceptible as opposed to receptive to the paranormal, so you
know their expectations will be heightened. This is just my opinion.
I could be totally wrong. So I'm not sure it's
a great thing because I feel the professionals work gets
dilute it by people's expectations and also possibly of an
over skepticism. And I think, if nothing else, you've got
to have an open mind when it comes to the paranormal.
Now pay attention because this is relevant to the next
show we're going to do. Have you ever heard a
strange noise, footsteps, knocking, music, or voices that had no
identifiable calls or source. Have you ever seen a flash
of light, a fleeting image or person, an orb geometric
shape and when you investigated where the experience came from,
there was no explanation. The experience came from nowhere. Twenty
five percent of people in the general population report unusual
and unexplained experiences like these, and currently governments such as
American are drafting legislation to investigate unusual sightings of unidentified
flying objects reported by the public. Unusual and Unexplained Experiences
is the first survey of its kind carried out in Ireland.
This important and anonymous survey has been created at a
School of Psychology, University of Galway by Margaret mcgrogan. She's
an academic and I've been talking to her in the
last week or two and she's going to be on
the next episode of Scary Era GIRDLD. This survey she's
conducting is raising awareness and gaining insight into unusual and
unexplained experiences in Ireland. We are known worldwide for our
rich Irish folklore, healers, psychics, shamans, spiritual and paranormal locations,
from Biddy, Early County Claire eighteen hundred, an Irish spiritualist, healer, herbalist,
Pianfasta or wise woman to lepp Castle, where people have
reported hearing unusual sounds, ghostly figures, smelt foul odors, or
their hell Fire Club Dublin, where eerie experiences such as
feeling cold spots and sensing presences are reported, or the
supernatural spiritual sighting of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph
by fifteen people at Knock in eighteen seventy nine, reported
as brighter than the moon. Many people in Ireland report
hearing a voice, a noise, or seeing a fleeting image
a vibrant light of person and when they looked at
the image was gone, or sensing a presence when nothing
was there, or having a dream that was so real
it felt like living real life events. You were invited
to share your personal experiences and thoughts synonymously on any
unusual and unexplained experiences you have had. The survey should
take approximately fifteen to twenty minutes to complete, and if
you've never had this type of experience, this survey should
take three minutes complete the survey. I can assure you
because I've done it myself. They even switch off the
IP address folks is anonymous and open to participants eighteen
years of age and over. I didn't write that. The
aforementioned Margaret mcgrogan did, and I really look forward to
talking to her about the kind of oddities of life,
the stranger things aspect. So I listed a few of
my own. I'm going to share them right here, just
so they're on the record. So last year, myself and
my wife were walking outside UCD. We tend to do
our ten thousand steps most days, and this flapping, fluttering
noise went right by courier because she was on the left.
Shame on me. She was out towards the road. I
should have been protecting her, shouldn't I. But I heard
it as well. It was a cross between a flapping
bird and perhaps a flapping piece of plastic sacking. But
you know what, we couldn't see anything. It just went
past our ears. We looked for it all around three
point sixty could see nothing, nothing even disappearing in the
wind like a bird or as I said, piece of
plastic bag whatever. That was weird. Also, and this is
where I lose a lot of you speaking of my
lovely wife. She's lucky, you see, she has me because
I'm an outdoormat at times, and I especially on Sundays,
I often make her a fry up right, so I
give her breakfast in bed. And I was downstairs about
two or three years ago, and you know, it is
routine for me, as I said, but we've because we're postiously,
I've one of these four, I joke, of course I've
got one of these four. You know. The toaster takes
four slices, and I had them in ready to go,
had the thing pressed down, and I went up to
give my wife her breakfast, and I said, Darling, I
shall be up in a minute with the toast. And
I went downstairs to get the toast to butter it.
It wasn't there, folks, it wasn't there. There were no
slices of toast there, and I could have sworn they
were there. You could just say, well, it's built into
your routine, and so do I to a degree, because
I want to be fair here. But I just you know,
when you just kind of know, I just don't think.
So we're not in the kind of area where like
I don't know, a tramp somebody passing by cot run
in and grab our toast. The back garden is just
terraces gardens on either side. You know, you don'tant to
jump over fence to get out our toast. So I
can't explain that. The other thing I had happened to
me was because I've really kind of cast the net
here of my memory. I said, have anything else for Margaret,
have anything else. I lost an uncle about fifteen years ago.
He was quite elderly, and he was what has known
he was a religious order here called the Christian Brothers,
so he was my father's brother. I went up to
see him sent out of the monastery type place he
was in, and he passed, okay, so just to be
wheeled out. And I did see him go. And it
was really odd, guys, because on either side, as the
coffin was being pushed through, there were these old, decrepit
Christian Brothers blessing themselves and one foot in the grave themselves.
And by the way, I don't say that in any
kind of smart way. I mean, we're all unfortunately, I've
got some bad news for you at the end of
this show. We're all subject to We do not know
the day nor the hour. Yeah, we will be talking
about that towards the end, if you can hang on.
But anyway, he was wheeled out of the monastery. I
keep calling it that, but I know it was a home.
It was a home for old Christian brothers. To his
grave in a play, a very simple grave in a
place called bal Doyle in North County Dublin. I thought
no more of it. Came home. I old remember it
was a Saturday. I came home, was gone about my
business and I went up stairs in our house. Nobody
else was in. I always remember there was no one
else in the house. Kids were out, my wife was out.
And just as I passed by the foot of our
bed to change my shoes, I think it was I
got this waft of roses. Oh, literally microsecond of it,
but intense, and it was the last thing on my
mind was psych rosis. And finally, I'll just say, in
terms of unusual or unexplained experiences as well, I think
it's all a bandwidth and some of us are more
receptive to seeing things or hearing things than others. Now.
Margaret mcgrogan as well investigates the whole link perhaps between
I don't know, psychosis or conditions like schizophrenia. These people
may be on a different bandwidth. But I'm being very
lay man about it. I'm just saying my own thing,
and I feel intuition is part of that. So when
I was in business for many years, I was in
computer sales, in the whole corporate world thing. I remember
if I thought of a customer or a prospect, the
minute I thought about them, I would phone them. And
I'm not joking you. Eight out of ten times the
reception on the other end was positive. Mark. I was
just thinking about you. Mark. We're only talking about you here.
We're looking for fifteen or or maybe twenty five laptops,
and you know, obey your instincts, you know. So if
you've experienced anything like that in life, if you're listening
to me on say YouTube, go down to the bottom
and you'll find a link. I'll put the link out
elsewhere as well. So look down to the bottom and
you'll see that survey, a link to the survey, and
if you don't, just email me Paranormal Ireland at ProtonMail
dot com and I shall send you the link. It's
totally confidential. But Margaret's trying to build up a picture
and an analysis of this weird and wonderful and on
exp world. Now shall we listen to Taramore and the
Story of the Little Child.
Speaker 2: When my children were small, back in the late eighties,
we moved into an old Victorian house in Tooting Broadway.
We had the basement flat there. It had two bedrooms,
one at the front of the house and the other one,
the back bedroom, was down quite a long, narrow corridor
at the back of the house. It was winter when
we moved in, and so the evenings got dark very quickly.
On the first night, I was carrying my youngest son
down that long passageway to the back bedroom when suddenly
the lights went out, leaving us in complete darkness. I
continued sort of stumbling up along because I still wasn't
very familiar with the place. When suddenly I had the
sensation of what felt like birds wings beating around my face.
The sensation only lasted for seconds and then it was over.
I pretty much put it out of my mind and
put him to bed. But that was just the start
of a whole raft of things that happened in that house.
A few days in, my youngest son began to complain
of what he called the handy tickling his foot at
night and keeping him awake. At first I put it
down to childish imagination, but he was insistent that that
was happening. Then things began to disappear in the house.
Some things showed up again, others never did. Once I
remember coming back from the shops and unpacking my shopping
I was called out of the kitchen for a moment
to deal with something, and when I returned, I couldn't
find a two liter bottle of orange juice that I
knew I had bought because I remembered on packing it.
Later on, I opened the microwave, which was set high
up on a shelf, way out of reach of the children,
and the bottle of juice fell out on my head
Lights would switch on and off for no reason. One evening,
we had been out somewhere, and when we came back
there was an enormous pool of water on the carpet
in the living room. We never discovered the source, and
it never happened again. Gradually I began to feel like
these were childish pranks that were being played on us.
I became friendly with a neighbor opposite, an old Irish
man who liked to come and visit in the evening,
sit and have a cup of tea. There was a
glazed door in the living room which looked out onto
the corridor. We began to notice that about six o'clock
every evening, a small shadow would wander past the door,
going in the direction of the back bedroom. I began
to suspect we had the ghost of child, which is
why the tricks that were being played were so childlike.
I thought it might also explain why toys were moved
about the place and why my son's foot was being tickled.
There was no sense that it was a dark or
evil presence. Then one day something happened that shook me
to the core and made me feel very sad. I
was going shopping and I had my little son in
a carrier in front of me and my other son
by the hand. As we left the house, I felt
an icy, cold, small hand slip into my free hand.
It seemed the little ghost was coming with us again.
That sensation lasted fleeting second, but it filled me with
sadness that here was probably a little lost soul. Shortly after,
my elderly neighbor didn't appear over for his usual cup
of tea, and the next morning, concerned for him, I
went to his house, where I found him ill, and
unfortunately he passed away a couple of days later. The
night he died, I was sitting in the living room,
looking at the chair where he liked to sit, and
feeling very sad, when suddenly the curtain tie on the
left hand side untied itself and slowly began to swing
backwards and forwards. I was mesmerized looking at it, and
I got the impression that it was my neighbor telling
me he was okay. Strangely, after that, the house became quiet,
and I never came across any evidence of the little
lost child anymore. I like to think that my neighbor,
Old Dan had come and taken him across to the
other side.
Speaker 1: Not paranormal, mum Manning is real. Now, that's a scary
sort now. I don't know how you feel about the
subject of orbs. You know, those tiny little bulls of
light you sometimes see on paranormal footage. But in my case,
when I do what's called a piece to camera sometimes
for a YouTube or whatever, the odd time I do
see these little spots in the background dancing around. Now
the realistic. Part in my brain goes mark, that's some
kind of dust being picked up. And indeed, opinions always differ.
For instance, Ronda Hale Rondahele dot com Lovely Lady, we've
had her on the show. Ronda says to me that
they are spirit essentially the little orbs we see now.
When I look at them on camera, as I said,
I can't make them out, and it's always it tends
to be one camera in particular, it seems to pick
them up. It is an expensive camera, I have to say.
But there they are bobbing about in the background, sometimes
in a playful manner, and as I said, I tend
to push it out of my mind. But hold on, guys,
revelation time. Recently, I was making a video and I
noticed on the playback there was an ORB and it
was behaving on ORB like it was doing the straight
up vertical thing you often see in UFO or UAP
whatever they call it these days footage. You know, they're
shooting up vertically, and then it would go at right
angles like an inverted l. You know you've got left
right in a right angle. Down again it would go.
And I thought that just as not how dust behaves AnyWho.
It's time now to reach out to Matthew Clarke down
in Cork Supernatural Society, who was initially very very skeptical
on the subject of orbs, but if you listen on
on you'll see his skepticism eventually was swayed.
Speaker 3: Marks for having me back on this is Messu Clerk
from the Cork Supernatural Society. When you want to me recently,
you were talking about as types of phenomena that we
may have experienced, and one thing that jumped to mind
you asked me about orbs. Now, for years I didn't
have any belief in orbs, particularly in photographs or even
in video, because that can be caused by so many things.
Typically like an orban or photo is caused by dust,
moisture in the air or something. But I wanted to
talk about when my opinions started to change a little
bit on them when we investigated a castle called Carrigfuka
Castle in mccroom. It's a towerhouse built between fourteen thirty
and fourteen fifty and it's one of the more active
castles that we've experienced in Ireland, as typically we don't
find buildings that old to be that active, but anyway
to get on with it. We were one knife and
it was for us in a small side room and
motion light on the staircase went off. Kim was on
the corner looking down so she could see the motion
light had gone off on the stairs. We didn't think
too much of death because it could.
Speaker 4: Be a bird or a bat or whatever.
Speaker 3: But Kim, Kim would be quite sensitive, and she said
that someone was close to what was close to us,
and I'll never forget it. About a minute later, big
ball of light kind of flew into the room. Now
me and Kim did see it, so me, I think
it was me and done that sort It kind of
went over Kim's head and just a massive ball of
white light and I start for two or three seconds
before disappeared into the wall. And it was just amazing.
It was like such a bright light, a true light genomenally,
I suppose. And over the years we've noticed when we've
got EVPs, particularly the ones on camera, when we've got
EVPs on camera, we've often noticed small balls of light
in those videos in the build up to evpiece and
as a one when it comes to like a light
anomaly or an orb was a nice in the former
Medaline Laundry in Cork City, the Good Shepherd's Convent, but
it was the sight of our former Meddalan Lundry. Me
and Paul win learned. We'd had a really quiet night.
But I remember seeing very similar to Carragfuka, this white
ball of light go across the door in front of us.
And we actually managed to catch this one on camera
and I said it to Paul. He didn't see it,
but I said it that I'd seen it, and about
a few seconds later we started to get a load
of the most extreme activity we've ever experienced. We heard
a door slam upstairs and then it's interesting, after that
door slams, I saw and there's a white ball of
light with my eyes now not through the camera, come
across the other side of the door, and that was
also caught on camera, and that led on to that
was the only time we've fled a building in Ireland
because of activity, because a few minutes later it sounded
like an extremely heavy bit of furniture got picked up
and flung across the room above us up stairs. Now
this was a completely empty building. Me and Paul were
the only two in there. We've been in there for
Ireis and we didn't you know, it was definitely just
a tue of a finger. And after that second sound
we got an ather a door slam and a few
minutes later and as an even closer slaming door close
to us, and the atmosphere is the only time I've
ever really I'm not really someone that picks up on
atmospheres or vibes, to be honest, but that's the only
time I've ever been in a place where the atmosphere
just completely changed and we were gay newly scared because
of the power. If whatever was moving around, if it
could do that big heavy objects, what could it do
to us? Yeah, I just found that interesting when you
brought up ARBs to me, because, as I said, always
skeptical of them. But as the years have gone on,
I have seen these balls of light with my eyes,
now without the ones that are usually seen in photographs
because they are dust. There's are so many things that
could cause them. But in terms of actually seen them
with my eyes, I have seen them on those two occasions,
and both times it's as a lad.
Speaker 4: Up to activity.
Speaker 3: What happens just after activity, So yeah, something just a
bit different and something I've experienced.
Speaker 4: Thanks again.
Speaker 5: Now, then, partners, you probably knows that we got a
guy called p J and Pooka Vogue Paranormal, one of
the best investigators in the business. No bag, just fact.
Then recently he took a tour at Stateside, visited places
like I who are penitentiary. Yeah, and he took a
trip down to Tennessee as well. He's one crazy guy.
He's got views on pari unity as well. So if
you hang around, you'll be able to a listen to
what he did in the States, be what he's been
doing in Ireland. And see he's got damn views on
perry Unity. So get around the campfire and easy on
the beans.
Speaker 6: Why it's Pja here from Pukavog Paranormal. So Pokovog Paranormal
is an Irish paranormal investigation team. We're actually two generations.
My son Leo and his partner Eve are involved on
the team as well as the members. We've had a
very busy few months and most importantly, I suppose is
Ia just came back from a trip in the USA.
So we actually did a place called the historical Village
of Rugby. It was an eighteen hundredth British American village
in Tennessee, USA. On the night we got to investigate
the Thomas Hughes Library. For me, this was the big
one of the investigation.
Speaker 4: There was over.
Speaker 6: Seven thousand books in the collection. To this day it
is only six books missing from that collection. When you're
in the room, you can actually smell the history, you
can smell the books. It is just phenomenal to see
this preserved. And of course like this has been founded
back in the eighteen hundreds, and it was actually german
Man that actually looked after the library. So even on
the investigation, I actually spoke a bit of German and
we did get EVPs back to it. Now we also
had the schoolhouse, so we had motion trip where and
we got EVPs from the schoolhouse. Then of course there
was the Uffington House, so motion sensor devices were activated
upstairs on the rocking chair.
Speaker 4: We un explained bangs, EVPs, motion.
Speaker 6: Activated torch and of course these are all our social
media but of course at Kingston Live, so this was
Thomas Hughes's house.
Speaker 4: So again on the.
Speaker 6: Night we had EVPs, we had unexplained experiences. The rimpad
was activating at the stairs right inside the door, and
it just made a phenomenal investigation and finally we had
the teether.
Speaker 4: The teether was a bit lower, there was less activity.
Speaker 6: There was torch EVP sessions carried out by the ATSs
pinormal team who were gracious enough to let me joine
on the night. But it was a phenomenal location. And
actually coming back to the Uffington House, Thomas's daughter and
mother actually lived in the house. And if you look
back at one of the videos in our socials, you
can actually hear the EVPs of a mice of a man,
and I was the only male in the building, so
very interesting capture. The library was built in in eighteen
eighty two and as I said, there's only six books
on accounted for. The Uffington House was the home of
Madame Margaret Hughes and her granddaughter Emily, Margaret's mother to
Thomas Hughes. She moved to rub at the age of
eighty three and lived there until her death. Some for
personal effects are still on displaying the house. The Kingsington
Isle was built in eighteen eighty three. This was originally
built for the founder, which was Thomas Hughes, though he
didn't stay long in this home. Thomas Hughes was English gintry,
and of course he was an alma matter in England.
What he wanted to conceive in this village was a
class free agricultural community. But it is amazing to go
and see it, and when you're there and it's nighttime
and you hear the crickets activating around you and they're
making their noise, You're going around these five areas and
especially in the houses. It is a location that is phenomenal.
And I would say to anyone go there. And as
I say, if it wasn't for ATSs par Normal, I
wouldn't have had the pleasure of being there. The next
investigation in Iowa was actually historical Scott County Jail. Now
Miranda Young of the Ghost Biker is part of the
team that leads investigations there for access and of course
I was there again with ATSs Paranormal. The jail itself
was actually one of the oldest buildings in Scott County.
It was built in nineteen or four using large sandstone
from the local area. The walls are made of five
by four by three foot blocks. The jailers quarters around
the first floor and on the third floor was edged
in nineteen twenty two. It was the house maximum security prisoners.
It housed about fifty inmates. For a short period of time.
In the sixties, inmates were housed at a new facility nearby. However,
an escape in the original jail was reopened. The jail
was closed for good in two thousand and eight, but
you can still go there today and investigate it again.
The clips and the investigation we have online. But I
will say, when you're going around the jail, it is
just phenomenal the amount of activity we got downstairs from
motion activated devices again EVPs upstairs around the cells.
Speaker 4: When you turn the lights out in this jail, it
just comes to life.
Speaker 6: So I have to say, when I was up in
Knoxville and with ATS Paranormala and going around these two investigation,
I did so much to the trip.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: Previous to these two I had also been down in
the Idaho State Penute Injury. So in old Idaho State
penitt Injury, the building itself, you can actually feel the
energy as you walk around. So when you walk up
towards the gallows windows especially, and you go down to
the drop, you can feel the energy blow out the drop.
Raymond Snowden Sells Marcus. He was the last person that
executes there at October eighteenth, nineteen fifty seven. The buildings
are so vast, the area is so huge, you would
really need a full day there. Again, I've shared a
clip of some of the cells and you can go
through every character's there, and of course typically there was
an Irish man that was in there as well. He
was in there for fraud, so trust one Irish person
ended up in the state penitententry, but maximum security. It
is so eerie and even as you go towards the
door out into their own special exercise.
Speaker 4: Yard, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 6: So all in all, in the American trip, what I
took in was the Old Ida, the host state penitent Try.
Then I flew up to Knoxville where again with at
SS Paranormal, I did the Scott County Historical Scott County
Jail and then from there the following night did the.
Speaker 4: Historical village of Rugby.
Speaker 6: But it has been a full on a couple of
months because of course when we returned we had Halloween,
so we had a two night lockdown in Redwood Castle
up in Laurna, An Tipperary, so we had of course
guests and our team with us for a Saturday night
and a Sunday night. It was the week the bank
called the weekend before Halloween very active nights. We're actually
still reviewing footage from the two nights because as you
can imagine, we now have over.
Speaker 4: One hundred hours worth of footage.
Speaker 6: And recently then last weekend, we just completed our public
investigations for the year with Tarbot Bridewell Courthouse in jail.
Now again we're still sharing our captures from those investigations.
But in Bridewell in tarbart On a previous investigation we'd
actually captured a child laughing and as we know, of
course we don't bring children on investigations. We also had
a band to the back upstairs and this night all
so delivered.
Speaker 4: From the minute we got there.
Speaker 6: From the minute we got there till the moment we left,
it was happening with energy. I was even doing the
live for TikTok and as I walked through one area
to the other and at the back of the building,
emotion ball that activating was going off. We also heard
the bangs as we went around. There was also a
case of EVPs were captured on the night, electroviceed phenomena
and of course people had felt the touch. There was
a dark shadows scene and we're still interesting to see
exactly everything we've captured. There was also a triple arm
that was activated upstairs in the kitchen area.
Speaker 4: So it has been quite a busy, busy time for us.
Speaker 6: And as you know, of course our Facebook collectiy to
launch a new one. So we've just launched our podcast
that's been in production for months now. So now we
have Let's Talk Paranormal with Pook of Ogue, so that's
now just gone out into Spotify. And yeah, it has
just been crazy. It's been a crazy in the year
for us. So where are we at now. Where we're
at now is we're reviewing in total nearly one hundred
and fifty hours worth of footage. As I say, we've
got the new podcast out there, so that's Let's Talk
Paranormal with Book of Ogue. So we still have a
lot to share for people over the coming two months,
because we do stop this time of year, take a
break and get ready for the year head. We have
our first public investigation booked for Februar of next year.
Speaker 4: And I suppose something else.
Speaker 6: You were talking mark about is power unity, and I
always say it's a word that can be overused.
Speaker 4: There can be a word that can use for tagline.
Speaker 6: I'm very lucky within the paranormal world as you of course,
I'm an investigative over twenty years, myself and our team,
we're in the space together.
Speaker 4: As a family unit.
Speaker 6: I suppose for well over five years now, five to six,
so like that's a long time to be in the
paranormal field. I do find people are very quick to
cut you down. Whereas what I do say I'm very
lucky with is there is some great, fantastic teams that.
Speaker 4: I work with quite a lot.
Speaker 6: We do a lot of things online together, we do
shows together, our podcasts and again, all this is about
raising the profile of paranormal for to open more doors,
more locations for everyone. So my biggest thing is I
always feel if you can help another paranormal team get
into a location, because we all need new locations, you
are helping them to research because we are paranormal investigators,
paranormal researchers. You will never come across me or any
of my team talking in of anyone because I don't
believe in that. That's not how we do it. I
always say, anything we share, we let it up to
people to decide. We are nonprofits so we can send
over everything we do is everything comes out.
Speaker 4: Of our pocket.
Speaker 6: The diesel to the locations, our equipment is bottle of
our pocket. We pay for the locations. So for that reason,
that's why I say we're not perfect, because you know,
we have nothing to gain. Everything we do is for passion.
This is passion for the paranormal, for investigating, researching. It
does what it says in the team. So I always say,
like power, unity you can apply to any word you
want to select people when they say ghost, spurts and different.
But at the end of the day, be you do,
you do what you like to do, don' let anyone
guide you. Take away the word para and just call
it unity. In life, people to build each other up,
encourage each other, help where they can help, not tear
each other down.
Speaker 4: So that's my belief in it.
Speaker 6: And I think for anyone that goes down those roads,
they're very insecure and what they do, they obviously have
an issue that they have to do this, which would
raise more questions with me as in Okay, why do
you have to tear someone down with you something yourself you.
Speaker 4: Need to look at. So that's the question I would ask.
Speaker 6: So for me, it's unity, unity in people, and let's
just help each other.
Speaker 4: We don't have to tear down what people do. We don't.
Speaker 6: All we have to do is if there's a team
and you like them, go work with them. If somebody
else is talking about them, just ignore them because that
says a lot more about that person. It's like a
keyboard warrior. Life is too sharp for that, and that's
what I say. So for me, what I would say
with in the paranormal community is help each other to open, locate,
share the locations. I don't own paranormal. My team doesn't
own paranormal. We don't own the locations. We don't own
evp's guests, ghosts, anything, got spirit, man, woman, child, whatever
taglines you want to put on it. Nobody has a copyright,
nobody owns it. So do you do what works for you,
but just be honest in what you do. That would
be my word on it.
Speaker 1: Good old PJ. He's one of the best, isn't. But
I thought as well that we should get the female perspective.
And of course, look, no further than Jenny from Emerald
Dial Paranormal. I asked her about what she's been up to,
but of course as well her views on para unity.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 8: My name is Jenny and I am founder of Emerald
Isle Paranormal Researchers, started in twenty sixteen and still going
fantastic and strong. Just a little bit about places I've
been to. Seventh and the eighth of November would have
seen us house up and Derry. What a fantastic location,
What a fantastic place. The audio has always never let
us down. I did what I love to do, is
the ICT and it was just an amazing piece of audio.
I will send on over to mark what's next for
Emerald Island. December the thirteenth, we will be back at
Redwood Castle. This will be the end of the year investigation,
so it'll be you know, meeting up with friends before Christmas,
doing a you know a bit of a Christmas kindle
and doing an investigation in Redwood. Absolutely love Redwood, been
doing it for many, many, many years. I will be
hosting that with Kieran from Paranormal Resident, very good friend
of mine. Love love working together with just Vibe on
locations and investigations and the energy with us just works amazing.
We work hard and we play herd.
Speaker 4: What else do we have coming up?
Speaker 8: I have on the sixth of December and my podcast
Shadow What's Was in the Night? I have Deca Stoker
joining me. He is the great grand nephew ofker And
if you don't know who Bram Stoker is, he is
a popular Irish author and the most famous book of Dracula.
So that's fantastic. I'm looking forward to that. And then
on the twenty eighth of December, I have EVP Expert
and we know we don't like that word sometimes, but
EVP Expert Todd Bates will be joining me on the
twentieth of December. What my thoughts on per unity is
it's a great word. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
You know, people use it as a badge of honor,
but don't honor it. Really. You will get some people
who work fantastic together, and I've worked with some amazing people,
and you will get some people who uses the word
very loosely but really genuinely become the bullies of the
paranormal world. And that's unfortunate to say. I've experienced it myself.
You know, I think it's it's a word that people
use for popularity and so on and so on, and
as I said, it's not executed in that style of manners.
I think sometimes it's a smoke screen, and again that's unfortunate,
but it does work. In some cases, it does work,
and that's a good thing to to see and to
experience as well. The bottom line of it is parunity
is not a shield. It is not a practice. It's
shown respect, shown support, holding myself to a higher standard.
Anything less than that is just words. It's not para
unity at all. But hope to see it getting better
in the future. That's all we can hope for. Work together,
share location, share audio, and so on and so on.
You know, it's good. Hopefully, like I said, hopefully we'll
get better. But yes, that is my intake of what
I'm doing this year, where I have been, where I
am going, and who knows what twenty twenty six holes
for Emerald paranormal researchers. So I want to wish everyone
a very very happy Christmas. Hope to see you all
in the new year.
Speaker 9: Mark Manning, Hi, my name is Kieren Fanning, and my
new book is called Enchanted Ireland.
Speaker 10: It's a sequel to Haunted Ireland, which was a ghost
story from every in Ireland. Enchanted Ireland is a magical
tale from every county in Ireland, with many of the
tales include the supernatural. For example, the story from Limerick
is called Sean O'Hay and the Fairy Ball, and it's
about an encounter that a piper called Sean O'Hay has
with the fairy queen called Augna. The County Galway story
also features another fairy theft, but this time the bride
of a new marriage is stolen and kept underground. The
County Cork story is a familiar one. It's the story
of the Leprechawn in the field of Ragwort. County downstory
features a changelingk so a changeling was child that the
fairies left in the place of a human child. The
County Dairy story is a very well known story. It's
called the Banshee and the Gem.
Speaker 1: Of the Row.
Speaker 10: The story from County Kildare features a pooka, which was
a kind of a supernatural fairy that could turn into
a an animal, often a horse and sometimes a donkey,
and they were often afraid of iron and played tricks
on humans, like taking them on wild rides across the countryside.
So that's just a brief outline of some of the
supernatural elements of my new book, Enchanted Ireland, which is
fully illustrated and a beautifully produced hardback. I hope you
enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, A couple of things over the years. But I've learned,
well I don't. I suppose it's not learned. I've just
become accustomed to it. And I think it's kind of
it's maybe it's another sense or something. But often when
you go into places, you will get a feeling for
the place, and you'll get a feeling of whether or
not it's comfortable. And whatever cause is that. Who knows
what causes that. But we have an intuition. We have
an inbuilt intuition. I can't describe what it is or where
it comes from, or the physics of it or the
chemistry of it.
Speaker 4: But it's there.
Speaker 11: And anybody will will tell you to stick with your intuition.
If you think something doesn't feel right, then don't hang around.
Speaker 12: Superb advice from regular contributor to Scary Era, David McGlynn
aka the Squire and don't hang around either.
Speaker 1: If you've got an Irish.
Speaker 12: Paranormal tale to tell, simply email Paranormal Ireland at ProtonMail
dot com and it'll be read out for you before
you get to telet on air yourself. That's Paranormal Ireland
at ProtonMail dot com.
Speaker 1: So now you know our email address if you want
to get us for anything whatsoever. Always great to hear
from new people, and today I'd like to introduce you
to Eugene who fronts up after Life Paranormal. Here he
is himself to tell you what he's been.
Speaker 13: Up to him Mark is hiding from Afterlife Paranormal Ireland.
Speaker 7: Just like thank you for getting in touch with Uss Ferdy.
Speaker 13: Coin of you and it's Misel and Val Afterlife Paranormal
at Val as my wife. We're both interested in the
paranormal and in the afterlife. We both have the different
ideas on the afterlife, so that makes it good for
us because going into any investigations we have two separate
ideas of maybe what's going on or we both get
different results and it walks out really well. So we've
investigated a lot of places like lead Castle at least
seven times Red World Castle on several occasions, and one
of the biggest ones you are at an investigation was
Sharon Rectory in Donegaual. We've been to Limit Vadi Workhouse
in norn Orland, Ross Castle in Cavan and fairly should
allow uscasions a couple of home investigations. Probably one of
the biggest things we was was Sharon Rectory. Really really
good investigate a lot of activity there. Actually it was
a bit probably the spookiest place I've ever been. And
in fact I was kind of when I was there
or I wouldn't let anybody be on their own. That's
how kind of we're that was there and it is
a really good place of being to the Titanic pump
House and Droi Doc. We were there with another group
friends of ours, part event from Claudie. So what we
did is we go there everywhere, all these different locations
and what we tried today is find out is there
residual energy there from people that lived there before. I
pick up a lot on animals which was pretty unbelievable.
Went to Ross Castle in cabin New noting about the castle,
kept getting the presence of a dog and later on
the torned out that the young girl, a young girl
had died there, but.
Speaker 7: She actually had a dog.
Speaker 13: We went into wonder rooms and on the wall was
the picture of the young child and the dog.
Speaker 7: So I don't know how much small about us, It's
just something we love.
Speaker 13: Then I've done an interview with Anthony Kerrigan from Goustre.
I've done that interview about three four years ago and
it was about the after life people's perception on paranormal
investigators and also on visitation and dreams. So I've actually
that's actually covers exactly what we do.
Speaker 7: So the interview was really good.
Speaker 13: It was nervous with Anthony at the start, but over
the last couple of years I've spoken the Anthony a
few times and he's actually someone would lie to me
actually as decided the flesh and some guy helped to
me personally. I'm not sure what else information in need
for us. If there's anything, you can just let me know. Yeah,
I could talk on know he once I start, I
can't stop because the interview with Antony was supposed to
be something like forty forty five minutes, and I think
I had him on for about an hour and a half.
I think of drought mad. But yeah, that's a love
of the unity. That's what it's all about. We have
a team, as we said, part event. We've been on
many of an investigation with them. We met up lots
of times. I don't have many times countless. I've met
a lady medium, Kate Uston, she's from O Brawn don'y
gall there.
Speaker 7: I've been with Meto a few times. So we've met
a lot of people.
Speaker 13: We like to keep in touch with everyone and we all,
as I said, all we say to them, we're all
heading towards the saying goal.
Speaker 7: We're just taking different paths. So that's about it. I'll
leave it with it, and thanks very much for contacting me.
Speaker 1: Wow, Eugene and Afterlife Paranormal seem to have quite a
lot going on. Just one second, though, if you are
listening to me, Eugene, that bloody dog was getting on
my tits. I'm joking. I'm Joe kingh of an animal lover.
I've got two cats, absolutely mad about them. Eugene brought
something new to the party, Sharon Rectory. I'd never heard
of the place. Here's a little background. Sharon Rectory in Manor,
Cunningham County, Dunnegoll, one of Ireland's most haunted houses, came
under the microscope in a compelling TV series in twenty
twenty one. The chilling story of Sharon Rectory in Manor, Cunningham,
County Dunneegal was the subject of the first episode of
BBC's Ulster Scott's program Afeared, where historian David Hume and
writer Darren Gibson investigates some of Ulster's most haunted dwellings.
Using original newspaper archives and witness testimony from current residents,
Hume and Gibson attempted to unravel the terrifying mysteries surrounding
the eighteenth century house, built in seventeen seventy five as
a Church of Ireland rectory. Sharon Rectory was the site
of a gruesome double murder in seventeen ninety seven, when
the Reverend William Hamilton and his wife Sarah Waller were
ruthlessly murdered by the United Irish Men on the eve
of the seventeen ninety eight Rebellion. The ancient mansion is
said to be haunted by lost souls and of malevolent
spirit that gives the house a demonic presence. Sharon Rectory
fell into disrepair following years of this use, but was
bought by Vincent and Lisa Tully in the nineteen nineties.
The couple renovated the dilapidated property and moved in with
their two daughters, Emiluise and Victoria. They almost immediately began
reporting sightings of a Blue Lady, while Emmelouise, who still
lives on the property, claims that she has been bitten, scratched,
and terrorized by demonic ghosts. Emiluise has published a book,
The Haunting of Sharon Rectory, detailing her terrifying experiences in
the house, while she also runs a Facebook page to
give regular updates about the haunted mansion. Now, Emma Luise
will definitely be on my list of possible guests for
There you go.
Speaker 14: Bertie Brasen here recently did the Scary Era podcast with
Mark and I really enjoyed it. Hopefully you can listen
to that podcast as well. But I'm a filmmaker, author
and video producer. For anyone that doesn't know me, you
can get all my information all my links at ww
dot Bertie brasenfilms dot com, including my recent book The
Forgotten Prince and novella detailing Brian Brew the Battle of Clontarf,
his son Donagha and Brodier of.
Speaker 7: Man, the villain of the piece.
Speaker 14: This is a part of a trilogy and I'm writing
the sequel at the moment. You can get it via
my shot about ww dot Bertie brasinfilms dot com, or
just go on to Amazon and type in the Forgotten
Prince Bertie Brosnan and it should come up.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Mark Manning. Now they say we
know not the day nor the hour, and sadly I
have some bad news to report to you, and that
is the passing of a very recent guest on this show.
I only had him on the one time, but I
thought to myself, this is going to be a regular contributor.
His name was PJ. Doug and he was taken too
suddenly and too young from us on October the ninth.
As I spoke with him, we had about an hour
or so's conversation. I got lots of audio from him.
I kept thinking to myself, guys, this fella I'd love
to go for a drink with, or a pint as
we say in Ireland. He just was so entertaining, but
in very humble kind of way. He had this amazing voice,
a real country kind of accent, and he reminded me
of cousins that I have down in Kildare and tippery,
you know, just a no nonsense, down to earth guy.
He told us the story as to how he was
run out of his house, himself and his wife when
he was a young man because of some kind of
entity or poltergeist. The place was built on a famine grave,
I think, and you know the paranormal community were shocked.
I was shocked because a man, as I said, so
young and looking very healthy. It was tragic. Now I
have been in touch with his wife, Anne, who of
course has devastated, as are the family, but she has
kindly allowed me use those recordings on the next show.
She was happy I could do it on this show,
but I thought things are a bit raw just now,
and out of respect, I would hold back a few weeks.
So on the next show, I've got a great recording
of PJ regaling me with his story of being a
security man in Kilkenny on a dark night when things
really went bump. So what can I say except Anne
and family, our condolences go out to you. At the
loss of such a fine person, such a fine man.
Oh yes day Goau and Anam. That's it from Scary era.
See you next time. Take care because I care.