WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:05.000 You're listening to the Paranormal UK Radio Network, the best 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.960 in paranormal talk radio in the UK and around the world. 3 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.000 Era is the Irish or Gaelic word for Ireland. So 4 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:26.839 take it easy or as we say in Gaelic, lig 5 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.120 the ski, and listen to all things concerning the paranormal 6 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:37.159 in Ireland and indeed beyond. Welcome to Scary Era. 7 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:41.320 All views are Mark Manning's own, but you can express 8 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.399 them too if you want to be right about everything 9 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:44.039 like he is. 10 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:57.439 Mark Manning. 11 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.039 Oh I tis me. Indeed, sit down there now and 12 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.879 take the weight off your face and welcome to twenty 13 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.000 twenty six two K two six if I'm being cool 14 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.000 and hanging out with the kids. So, I hope you've 15 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.879 had a fantastic Christmas time and holiday time and you're 16 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.680 looking forward to the new year. I suppose as I 17 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.799 speak to you, the resolutions have already been broken, but 18 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:21.680 I have good news for you. 19 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:22.959 Don't worry about such things. 20 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.640 Rather seek out progress in the new year, poko or poco, 21 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:29.920 bit by bit. That's how you do it. You see, 22 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.079 if you make these massive, big resolutions and they don't 23 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.040 happen really quickly, when you just give up on them 24 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.599 and you go, I don't really do resolutions anymore, en 25 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.239 off lecturing. I've loads to tell you about. But first 26 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:43.640 of all, let's get into it, right into the heart 27 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.439 of the matter, the matter Hospital in Dublin, to be 28 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.000 quite precise. Did you see what I did there? Right 29 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.280 to the heart of the matter, or the matter of 30 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.879 the heart, as told by the squire, a good friend 31 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:00.000 of this show, David McGlynn, David mcglyn, David mcgen David McGlynn, 32 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.079 David McGlenn. Oh, please yourselves, it was only a bit 33 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.239 of fun, David. Would you ever be a good boy 34 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.080 and shake your funky growth thing? 35 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.560 Have you ever had your heart broken? Has your heart 36 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.680 been in a broken state? My full valve prolapse is 37 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.639 a condition where one of the valves in your heart 38 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.199 doesn't open and shut the way it should. So I 39 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.840 was diagnosed with this condition in two thousand and six 40 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.520 and had open heart surgery to repair it. I was 41 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:26.439 in England at the time, and the NHS sent me 42 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.479 to a private hospital. Southampton Hospital was a very modern, 43 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.800 state of the art facility with the best of everything. 44 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.400 They had me opened, repaired and out of bed walking 45 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.680 on the third day and sent home on day five. 46 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:41.039 In twenty eleven, I was diagnosed with endocarditis, which only 47 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:45.360 a few years beforehand was a death sentence. Endocarditis means 48 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:48.919 basically that bacteria have colonized your heart and are stopping 49 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.639 the same valve from working. My surgeon said that I 50 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.400 probably had two days maximum if I had not gone 51 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:56.759 to A and E. I was coughing with blood at 52 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:59.039 the time. I was rushed to the Matter Hospital in 53 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:03.000 Dublin that day immediate surgery. The Matter is a Victorian hospital, 54 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.639 now much expanded and modernized. I had spent a lot 55 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.360 of time there previously when I was being treated for cancer, 56 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.280 but that's a story for another time. The old part 57 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.759 of the hospital is still in use and very tired. 58 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.280 You can easily imagine the scene as it might have 59 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.159 been one hundred and more years ago, and the corridors 60 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.879 held echoes. Nothing audible. But it's just not an easy feeling. 61 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.919 It's as if others are looking at you and empathizing. 62 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.479 Maybe that's the word I imagined, people slowly shaking their 63 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.080 heads and feeling sorry for me. It's a sad place. 64 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.520 If you've ever had general anesthetic, you'll know that once 65 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:39.639 you've been stitched back together by the surgeon. You're wheeled 66 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.840 out into a recovery room where you were monitored by 67 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.800 a nurse. I awoke to find a nurse sat astride 68 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:48.000 my torso applying pressure to a pad that was covering 69 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.599 the wound site, which was still bleeding. She smiled and said, 70 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.960 they are We're just hidying up. Don't worry about the blood. 71 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:57.599 I woke again. I must have fallen back under the 72 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.639 influence of the anesthetic, and I was in another different room. 73 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.000 Mine was the only bed and the walls had shiny 74 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.479 Victorian tiles up to chair rail height. That was what 75 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.120 struck me, the tiles and the age of the room. 76 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.240 It was pristine, but it was dated, not quite what 77 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.800 I would have expected. A nurse entered the room from 78 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.000 a door beside the foot of my bed and asked 79 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.720 if I needed anything, and I said I was fine. Thanks. 80 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.279 She left, and I heard another door open from my 81 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.759 right hand side and behind me. A man entered and 82 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.439 walked down the side of the room. He picked up 83 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.480 my chart and sat in a chair beside the bed. 84 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.560 He was facing the end of the bed. He said nothing. 85 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.279 His clothes seemed to me to be very old, fashioned 86 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:38.160 nineteen thirties in style. He wore a Gabardine type coat 87 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:42.759 and pinstriped suit with immaculately polished brogue shoes. His glasses 88 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.199 were those circular ones that we called young lenon glasses. 89 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.959 He took a clipboard from his briefcase. Who carries leather 90 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.839 satchel type briefcases any more? I asked him who he was, 91 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.120 and he simply said, I'm a dentist. I'm here to 92 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.680 check that your teeth at olk okay, because it could 93 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.600 be a real problem if something was to go round 94 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.920 during hard surgery. I said, it's a bit late for that, 95 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.519 now they've done it. He glanced sideways and said, well, 96 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:08.240 it's a good thing. Le Chet took his glasses off, 97 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.199 folded them, placed him in the case, put the case 98 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:13.480 in his satchel, and walked out through the same door 99 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:15.720 that he had entered. I woke again later and there 100 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:17.360 was a nurse sitting at the foot of my bed. 101 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.720 She said that she was there to monitor me. I 102 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.480 asked if she'd been there all the time, and she 103 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.360 said that she had gone to the toilet once, but 104 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.720 otherwise she hadn't left since I'd arrived from theater. I 105 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.079 told her what had happened, and she pointed out that 106 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.199 there was only one door in the room, the one 107 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.800 at the foot of my bed. It is normal practice 108 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.439 to check patients for dentures and loose teeth, but that 109 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:37.720 isn't done by a dentist. 110 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:46.319 How strange, oh lucky man. Indeed, not only from the 111 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.120 health end of things, but imagine waking up and finding 112 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:52.600 a nurse and I quote astride my Torso that certainly 113 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.800 hasn't happened to me in a long time, probably since 114 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.199 my twenties. You have the story for you, and it's 115 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:02.759 kind of para normal, I suppose. And well it's an 116 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.959 alien story. You see, back in the late eighties early nineties, 117 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.519 when I was footloose and fancy free, myself and a 118 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.360 friend of mine we saw this notice and it was 119 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.519 for the nurses up in Saint Vincent's Hospital, which is 120 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.279 only up the road for me now, and they were 121 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.519 having a dance. So myself and this guy, Diggy was 122 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:23.240 his name, I remember, so we went because we wanted 123 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.720 a cup off with a nurse essentially, and we didn't 124 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.639 realize it was a fancy dress night. So all these 125 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:33.639 beautiful newbile nurses turned up in period costumes and you know, 126 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.040 Dracula outfits. But I ended up with the alien and 127 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.879 she had all this kind of black makeup all over 128 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.839 her face, with these little stars and stuff. And now 129 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.040 we didn't do anything nasty like a you know, the 130 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.199 horizontal mambo or anything like that. I was far too callow, 131 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.120 but we had we had a snog, you know, a kiss. 132 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.759 And I distinctly recall waking up the next morning in 133 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.319 my little grief hole of a flat and I looked 134 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.560 in the mirror and I got an awful fright because 135 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.879 it was because Myra was all black with little bits 136 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.439 of glitter all over it. Anyway, yes, ah, yes, dams 137 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.079 A did times. So anyway, a dentist happened, as you 138 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.560 heard in the Squire's story there. What was all that 139 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.959 about a time slip? I suppose what else is coming 140 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:18.639 up on today's podcast? Well, before I say anything else, 141 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.160 I'd like to say hello to the folks dan in 142 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:26.000 Pooka Vogue Paranormal Investigators in Killarney County, Kerry, for they 143 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:31.120 have their own podcast now called Let's Talk Paranormal, available 144 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.920 on Spotify and other platforms. Good luck to PJ and 145 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.680 the Team Good. You might remember last time around I 146 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.759 spoke about Margaret mcgrogan, who's an academic in one of 147 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.199 the universities here and she's putting together a survey on 148 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.600 all things strange and unusual. Did speak to her since 149 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.399 the new year, her and her family were still recovering 150 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:53.639 from an awful bout of flu, so I didn't push 151 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:57.079 her on it. But if you check out last month's podcast, 152 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:04.000 all the details are there, Mark Manning. Later on we'll 153 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.759 be listening to a new EVP from Jenny from Emerald 154 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.360 Dial Paranormal. She was kind enough to share one that 155 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.279 she recently recorded in cumber House in County Derry and 156 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.399 angry Birds. What's that got to do with Ireland? Well, 157 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.360 hang around and you'll find out. And always listen to 158 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:25.319 your Irish Mammy. I'd be talking about that as well. 159 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.920 But now an Irish woman living in England for many years, 160 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:30.839 and the tale of a time she spent in London 161 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:35.440 concerning the Vanishing Lady author Tara Moore. 162 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.039 The next one I want to tell you about is 163 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:42.879 more interesting, I think than scary, and it was something 164 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.519 that happened several years ago. I was sitting in rush 165 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:52.360 hour traffic going nowhere fast outside Tooting beckstation. It was winter, 166 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.000 and I remember it was quite rainy. You could see 167 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.279 the reflections of the street lights and shop lights on 168 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.639 the pavement, and I was sort of sitting there idly, 169 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:06.240 and don like me, seemed to have not too much 170 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.240 on my mind, which is when I tend to be 171 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:13.840 more receptive to any supernatural type experience. Anyway, I was 172 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.879 watching people coming out of Tooting back tube station and 173 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.799 thronging the pavement. There were so many, and suddenly I 174 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.879 just saw a young woman and my eyes were drawn 175 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.240 to her for no apparent reason, because there really wasn't 176 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.559 anything that would have singled her out. I never saw 177 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.240 her face. I just assumed she was young from the 178 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.200 clothes she was wearing, and I can see those perfectly 179 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:40.080 even now. 180 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:40.399 You know. 181 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.600 She had a trench coat on, jeans and boots. Her 182 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:48.039 back was to me, and her hair was long and 183 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.960 smooth and dark, and for some reason I just couldn't 184 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:55.799 take my eyes off her. And suddenly I realized that 185 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.440 I couldn't see her feet anymore, and she was disappearing 186 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.759 from the feet up into the ether. As I said, 187 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:07.399 it wasn't remotely scary. I remember thinking, oh, I've just 188 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.600 seen a ghost. But it made me think about something 189 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:14.080 a shaman once told me, and he said, in every 190 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.799 crowd of people, you see amongst those people, although you 191 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.240 don't realize it, are ghosts, and that, of course ghosts 192 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.879 are not always a misty ethereal apparition type things, but 193 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:30.279 that many of them are look certainly as solid as 194 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.840 you or I. Anyway, I just thought that was quite 195 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.960 an interesting experience. 196 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:42.440 Not paranormal. Mark Manning is real. Now that's a scary sort. 197 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.240 Bertie Brazen here recently did the Scary Era. 198 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.480 Podcast with Mark and I really enjoyed it. 199 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.200 Hopefully you can listen to that podcast as well. But 200 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:59.200 I'm a filmmaker, author and video producer. For anyone that 201 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.799 doesn't know me, you can get all my information all 202 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:06.759 my links at ww dot bertiebrasinfilms dot com, including my 203 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:10.639 recent book The Forgotten Prince and novella detailing Brian Bru 204 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.360 the Battle of Clontarff, his son Donaga and Broader of Man, 205 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.200 the villain of the piece. This is a part of 206 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.679 a trilogy and I'm writing the sequel. 207 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:20.879 At the moment. 208 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.799 You can get it via my shot about ww do 209 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.919 bertiebrasiinfilms dot Com, or just go on to Amazon and 210 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.240 type in the Forgotten Prince Bertie Brosnan and it. 211 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:30.879 Should come up. 212 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.240 Thank you so much, Take care and enjoy the. 213 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:33.840 Rest of the show. 214 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.759 Of course, those of you who know all about the 215 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:44.000 paranormal know about evp's electronic voice phenomena. Now, these are 216 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.480 the kind of auditory artifacts that are picked up on 217 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:54.399 microphones during investigations by paranormal investigators around various historic places 218 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.840 or areas of note, Jenny Sullivan, who we've had on 219 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:00.799 the show before, was good enough to sh one from 220 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.240 cumber House in County Derry. Jenny has headed up Emerald 221 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:10.039 Isle Paranormal Investigator since twenty sixteen and it's still going strong. 222 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.720 I just want to give a background to cumber House 223 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.720 first of all, before we listen to aforementioned EVP. This 224 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:19.480 is a little piece from a site called Spirited Isle 225 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.840 dot i E, which I highly recommend for all things 226 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:27.440 Irish and haunting. Let's talk about cumber House, its distinguished 227 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:32.200 Georgian era estate with a deeply layered past. Constructed around 228 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:35.320 seventeen eighty, it was the ancestral seat of the Brown 229 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.519 Lecky family, an influential land owning lineage in Ulster. The 230 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:44.960 house showcases the refined elegance of late eighteenth century architecture, 231 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.320 marked by symmetrical proportions, large sash windows, and sweeping grounds 232 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.879 typical of estates belonging to the landed gentry of the time. 233 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.120 The Brown Leckey family held considerable social and political sway 234 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.759 in the region. As major lando owners, they managed extensive 235 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:07.039 agricultural lands and contributed significantly to the local rural economy. 236 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.200 Historical records suggest that the estate included farmland, forests, and 237 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.200 numerous outbuildings, supporting a small community of workers, tenants, and 238 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:24.279 domestic staff. Cumber House's historical footprint widened in the twentieth century, 239 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.879 particularly during World War II, when it was requisitioned to 240 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:32.559 house Allied troops. This wartime chapter left an enduring impression 241 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.679 physically on the estate and culturally through stories of interactions 242 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.120 between local residents and soldiers that have been passed down 243 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:44.519 through generations. Though the house experienced periods of decline in 244 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:48.440 later years, it remained a landmark of local heritage and 245 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:51.799 a focal point of ghostly legend. One of the most 246 00:13:51.879 --> 00:13:55.720 chilling legends tied to cumber house centers on the patriarch 247 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.799 of the Brown family. After his death, a local priest 248 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:04.480 reportedly declared that the elder Brown was burning in the 249 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:09.399 fires of hell. Outraged by the claim, Brown's son confronted 250 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.559 the priest and demanded proof. Pressured by the confrontation, the 251 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.480 priest knelt, drew a circle on the floor and began 252 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:21.080 to pray. To the shock of onlookers, the elder Brown 253 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.600 is said to have appeared within the circle, engulfed in 254 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:31.799 flames shhh. Overcome with fear, the priest fled the estate 255 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:36.360 and never returned. In the aftermath, another clergyman was summoned 256 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:41.120 to perform an exorcism. According to legend, he successfully confined 257 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.960 the restless spirit to a tree on the property. Even now, 258 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:50.000 strange phenomena such as scratching sounds and low moans are 259 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.720 said to echo from the area around the tree. Further 260 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:57.919 references to paranormal activity at the property have included sightings 261 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:04.720 of dark figures and shadowy apparitions, disembodied footsteps, and moaning sounds. 262 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.799 Hang on, oh sorry, just had to do that. Don't 263 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.639 know why. Objects moving of their own accord. A vacuum 264 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:17.720 cleaner switching itself on and musical instruments being played by 265 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:23.600 unseen forces. Now, then, dear listener, what you're about to 266 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:28.799 hear is an EVP from cumber House. It was recorded 267 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.200 on a recent investigation and the setup was essentially two 268 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.240 or three investigators on the property. Now, one of these 269 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:42.080 investigators starts to sing an old Irish song called Grace. 270 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.840 It's all about an Irish patriot from the nineteen sixteen 271 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:50.080 Rising called Joseph Mary Plunkett, and just before he was 272 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:53.519 executed by the British in Kilmainham jail, he was married 273 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.879 to a lady called Grace, and hence the song. It 274 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.080 was a song made famous by the late Irish singer 275 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:05.080 Jim McCann and later on Old Tight Trousers himself Rod 276 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.559 Stewart butchered it. So let's listen to the song. And 277 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.840 just at the very end of it, a male voice 278 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:16.559 comes in and says goodbye. Now make of it what 279 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.559 you will, but I do know Jenny Sullivan from Emerald 280 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:25.039 Dial Paranormal and the most honorable and honest lady she is. 281 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.120 You'll hear it, And then I play the EVP twice 282 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:33.679 more so you can listen to it forensically. Here we go. 283 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:42.000 On the old fingers thereon. 284 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:43.759 To share. 285 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:58.720 Lucy bye bye bye. Yeah, yeah, A couple of things 286 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.639 over the years. But I've learned, well I don't. I 287 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.160 suppose it's not learned. I've just become accustomed to it. 288 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.839 And I think it's kind of it's it's maybe it's 289 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.359 another sense or something. But often when you go into places, 290 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:11.000 you will get a feeling for the place, and you'll 291 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:13.720 get a feeling of whether or not it's comfortable. And 292 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.720 whatever cause is that. Who knows what causes that. But 293 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.920 we have an intuition. We have an inbuilt intuition. I 294 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.720 can't describe what it is or where it comes from, 295 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.119 or the physics of it or the chemistry of it, 296 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.960 but it's there. And anybody will will tell you to 297 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.079 stick with your intuition. If you think something doesn't feel right, 298 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:32.680 then don't hang around. 299 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.200 Superb advice from regular contributor to Scary Era, David McGlynn 300 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:42.599 aka the Squire, and don't hang around either. If you've 301 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.839 got an Irish paranormal tale to tell, simply email Paranormal 302 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.119 Ireland at Proton Male dot com and it'll be read 303 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.440 out for you before you get to tell it on air. Yourself. 304 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:05.759 That's Paranormal Ireland at proton male dot com, Mark Manning. 305 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.359 Oh, and I would just echo, you know, get in 306 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.240 touch with us by email because that way I can 307 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.200 gauge basically our listenership, which I'm told by the good 308 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:23.279 people at Paranormal Radio UK is pretty good. We are 309 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:27.519 the second most we aim to please the second most 310 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.319 downloaded podcast on the platform, so that's what I was 311 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:35.920 told recently. So that's good news. But you can boss 312 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.599 that for me by contacting me if you do listen 313 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.440 to this show, you know, reach out get me at 314 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:49.119 the email address which is Paranormal Ireland at ProtonMail dot com. 315 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.519 Will you do that for me? Surprise me and I'll 316 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.599 make sure that we give you a nod next time 317 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.920 we're on. So yeah, sometimes stuff just comes into your mind. 318 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:04.000 And in my case, I vaguely remember a documentary I 319 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:08.480 heard on radio back sometime in either the late seventies 320 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:12.319 or early eighties. It stuck in my mind because it 321 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:17.079 concerned an unusual natural event in Ireland and this was, 322 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:21.759 believe it or not, a battle of the birds. Oh yeah, 323 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.440 angry birds were talking about an actual battle took place 324 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.480 and blood and feathers were spilled. So I did a 325 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.119 little bit of research and I discovered just over ten 326 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.720 years ago there was an article in the Irish Independent, 327 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.200 a newspaper of note here, and it concerns exactly what 328 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.160 I've been talking about. So basically the breed of bird 329 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.759 was a starling's I believe. Here we go. The starling 330 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:53.400 phenomenon was remarkable. Two great Mermatians, there's a word to 331 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.160 conjure with of the birds separately gathered over cork for 332 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:03.200 several days, sending small emissary regroups back and forth until negotiations, 333 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.839 having obviously broken down, all held broke loose over the 334 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:12.200 lee on October twelfth, sixteen twenty one. It was a 335 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:17.039 gruesome affair that trembling fear and terror brought to all 336 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:20.839 who saw the battle fault with loud and chattering cries, 337 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:25.839 each company gainst the other flies with bloody beaks, remorseless 338 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:31.720 still their feathered foes to maim or kill. Where whilst 339 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:37.480 this battle did remain, their bodies fell like drops of rain. 340 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.720 Now I know. The renowned diarist Samuel Peeps documented all this, 341 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:46.119 as well as a richer Channey, who produced another diary 342 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:50.359 of events seven months later, on May thirty first sixteen 343 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.039 twenty two followed what was described as the lamentable burning 344 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.799 of Cork with fire from heaven, and the citizens overwhelmed 345 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.720 with woe, for no one knew where to run or go. 346 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.240 The starling battle was seen as a portent, one pamphleteer 347 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.799 writing reprovingly cork was first warned and then destroyed for 348 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:16.000 her sins. Scientific sources point out that animal and bird 349 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:22.759 fights usually occur over territory, food, shelter, and mates. Introspective aggression, 350 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.799 in which animals or birds attack members of their own species, 351 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:31.559 is widespread across the animal kingdom, from ragworms, salmon and 352 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:36.559 lobsters to songbirds, rats and chimps. There's an amusing story 353 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:41.279 of one chimpanzee famous through the work of behavioral scientists 354 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.440 the late Jane Goodall, that intimidated rivals by banging two 355 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:50.720 oil cans together. Starling numbers have fallen considerably in recent years, 356 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:55.799 but annual mermatians, especially over the Midlands, are welcomed by 357 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:59.319 the public with a mixture of awe and admiration for 358 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:03.480 their peace for aerial wafting, as if to the strains 359 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:08.599 of a celestial waltz being played only for them as 360 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:10.160 perhaps it may well be. 361 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.319 Hello Scary Era listeners. My name is Anthony Kerrigan and 362 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.599 I'm a member of a paranormal psychical research team called Ghosttereer. 363 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.319 You can catch up on where we have been also 364 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.079 see what we've got up in the future by logging 365 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:29.240 into our website ww dot ghostereo dot net. You can 366 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:32.359 also watch shows of the Ghosteroid Channel, where we interview 367 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.960 numerous people in the field of the paranormal and FOURTEENA. 368 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.799 You can also check us on our social media pages 369 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.319 on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube by just typing in Ghostterer 370 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:47.240 or Ghostereer Paranormal. You can also watch our new show 371 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.839 Phantasm Collective on channels such as Prime UK and also 372 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.920 Paraflex and other streaming services to be announced. 373 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.839 I just got to deal with this ghost now, who. 374 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:03.200 Get out to talk? 375 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:07.079 Ah? 376 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:11.400 Yes, Anthony Old paranormal pants himself. I call him that 377 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:16.240 because he wears these amazing kind of spangled trousers that 378 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:19.599 would do the edge out of you two proud, and 379 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.960 then his fingers are like Elvis. They glisten with things 380 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:28.559 like sovereigns and jewelry and skulls and all that kind 381 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:32.359 of stuff. And he's absolutely brilliant and a total mine 382 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.079 of information when it comes to the paranormal, So do 383 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:40.160 check out ghost Era. Earlier, I was saying to always 384 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:43.480 listen to your Irish mammy, mammy being a word for 385 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:46.480 mother or mum, as you might say in the States. 386 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:48.720 And my mother grew up in a place called the 387 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:53.400 Courra in County Kildare. It's very flat, green and it's 388 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:56.519 famous for its Cora Racecourse. So I have a history 389 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:01.400 going back there because her sister, my Auntie, was secretary 390 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:05.160 of the Cora race Course way way back. AnyWho, my 391 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:07.599 mother used to regale me with these stories when I 392 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.279 was a kid about what she'd get up to. I 393 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:13.599 might have mentioned this one before, but it's relevant today 394 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:16.559 because of a little bit more research. So she told 395 00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:19.920 me that her and her friends used to go to 396 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:25.720 an old English estate in the region of Killaire and 397 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:28.599 she she used to say it was blackherds or blackherds. 398 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:31.319 I used to pick it up like blackherds. And she 399 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:34.599 would intrigue me with these stories about they'd mosey on up, 400 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:37.279 they'd hide behind a hedge and they'd look in and 401 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:40.079