Speaker 1: Scary Era Era is the Irish or Gaelic word for Ireland.
Paranormal means all the things that are impossible to explain
by non natural forces or by science, and Ireland is
steep and lower ghosts, blood, sweat, tears, sacrifice, hunger, desperation
and charm. Oh and the paranormal. Welcome to Scary Era,
Mark Manning Well, Hello strangers, it's been a while, and
welcome back indeed to the aforementioned scary Era. Yeah, it's
been a bit of an extended break. After I came
back from New York. Well, things got a little bit
wiry and neglect came into play. There's a reason for it,
and I'm going to tell you all about it, But
first I believe in getting stuck right in. PJ Doug
is one of many pjs who are in the paranormal community.
He is the founder of Beyond Ireland Paranormal. He's an
expert at investigating the county he fell in love with
many years ago. Carlo So was it an angry spirit,
a poltergeist or the dead from a famine pit that
made him and his beloved wife and child flee from
their home? Listen in let's just explore. So what happened
in the house that made you like really kind of
scratch your head at the easiest and at the worst
really worried that you had to seek help with the church?
What was going right?
Speaker 2: Okay? And just put it right. About four weeks in, okay,
and I had this five five system in the sitting
room and it was record okay and cape at the
time to show you the year. And realistically, you know,
I was big into guns and roses. So this night
into three in the morning, the high five system came
on and banging out of it was Welcome to the jungle, right,
and the white jumps up in the bed and she says,
hung that off? How did you leave the aunt? She
went up to bed before me thought I fell asleep,
came off the bed and left the high five system
blasting now. But and I started looking at her, gone, no,
I I had that turned off. So here I would
bed down the stairs into the sitting room and started
looking at hours under it's blasting out, so I'll go
over switch it off. So about two nights later or
the same thing happens at the same time. So I
said to myself, the hell that's going on? Here. So
that was grand powered it off again. Maybe there's a slight.
Speaker 3: Fault with the wiring. Maybe yeah, the wiring, because there
was only serves. I had it roughly about five weeks.
So what I did was went back down to the shop,
brought it down to the shop and says, hey, lads,
I have a warranty here. This is turning itself on
and I mustn't taking anything paranormal. I was just thinking
the obvious. It might be a fault, it might be
a wiring issue.
Speaker 2: Who knows. After two days, the contact me and said,
so there's no issue with that. We can't find anything
wrong with that, and went down, collected it, placed it
back into the sitting room, and about or five nights
later it came back on, and I said that these
didn't do their job. They must have just said he oh,
that he's done, and he must be dreaming that it's
coming on or something because so on. So this time
I said right, I went down plugged it out. I
never thought I plugging it back in. And the next
night the high five system comes on and I run
run down the stairs forgot I had it plugged out
from the main I could see the power on went
over and went to plug it out and went, how
is that possible?
Speaker 1: Wow? And can I ask you know, when I was
playing kind of was it all the time Welcome to
the Jungle? Or was it just random?
Speaker 2: No? No, basically, believe me. I took the record out
of the deck and everything else, and it would be
the radio that had come on and whatever channel were
sort of fixed that at the time, it just be blairing.
But the volume was allwas It was very high on it,
so literally you would have to earned the dial on it,
which I had the dial turned down even yes, And
I was like and I was still not say anything
power or because actually, Mark, I had no relief in
it whatsoever? Thing about what was? I literally booked the
whole five five system out of the sitting room, took
it apart, booked the speakers off, everything else, and put
it under the stairs because I wanted a good nice
to see. I didn't want to try it disturbed anymore.
And see I didn't want the wife go on that.
If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally was it. Was it waking the coal at
the time, Yes.
Speaker 2: It was, you know as a six month old.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, It's bad enough, you know without anything, you know,
disturbing them because they just do themselves. But when they're
being working, I could see you know yourself. Sleep deprivation
is used as as a major form of torture. That
would be driving you mad. And of course you could
put it down to a short circuit or a loose
wire or a socket or something. But when you went
and you literally stripped it back to its components, plugged
it out of the wall, and it's gone off again.
So that's like a real ring a radio station time
nearly However, there must have been other events that that's
kind of sis.
Speaker 2: That was what I called the light stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was pretty must be more right, go for it.
Speaker 2: There is more. And the thing about it was that
my brother at the time he came down, he says, say, piece,
it's a nice or crash with you for a few weeks.
I want to get away from the parents and I
need a relationship with female from Carolo as well. I went, okay,
that's not crude or anything else. Okay, you can lodge
in the back room, seeing that it's a four bedroom house,
no problem whatsoever. When you go out, make sure you
come back at a reasonable time. Because of the young
in the houses. Right after a couple of weeks, he
knocked on the bedroom door at two, knocking the marrow right.
I said, yeah, come in, wifers looking at me, going
so for him and I said no. So it comes in,
says page. It says, why did you wake me up?
I says, what do you mean? You were standing in
the doorway and you were sort of making a laugh
at me. I said, no, it wasn't and he says, no, Peach, worry.
You had a leather jacket, the white jeans are When
I looked at I went, uh, not doing some ship
or what you know? You you turn around and starting
it's going on here? He says, I haven't been there
with this dead weekend to better half living and you
actually walked me up knocking on the door and no, peature,
you're in my doorway so making a laugh at me. Yes,
why let me tell him to go into the room now. Yeah,
I said, look, and you just go into the back
room there and just leave it alone, you know, because
I says, I have no explanation for this, and sorry.
The next morning got up and you were he was
our insulty form and you sort of gone. He has
to humpy with the youngest in the family. I saw
a pro him. I said, looking, I never came in
your room. I never knocked on the door. I said,
I has not to do it. So he says, look,
we will agree to disagree, and I says no, because
I says I didn't come into the room. So the
following night, here we hear this massive bank down on
the stairs. Right, what the hell? So jump out of
the bed and here he is at the bottom the stairs.
Speaker 1: Right, hang on, he's at the top of the stairs
or at the bottom of the stairs.
Speaker 2: No, it's at the bottom of the stairs, right, okay.
And I said to myself, oh my gosh, he's dead,
you know, because who was literally mangled the oftner the stairs.
So I run down the stairs. The hell, he says, Page,
I'm getting out of this house. I looked at and
he says, why, what what did you do? Did you
miss a step and just fall down the stairs? He said, no, Pug,
I was pushed, he says. I was coming down, ready
to walk down the stairs, and he says, that's it.
Somebody pushed me from behind. I looked at and he says,
I have enough of this now, you know, it's still
that person. It was a paranormal situation. So the next
day he got his bag and let's I thought, wow,
we'll have a bit of piece now I think literally,
you know, it could have been too much drink or
something like that. A few days after that, I was
in the kitchen doing something. I got a fierce pain
in my arm and I had short sweeps on at
the time, and the wife says, look at the bruise
and have your arm. It was like somebody had grabbed me.
Speaker 1: Oh, p J, I want to do a little dance
after here. And now that's really like it'd be freaky. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was the impression of somebody's hand had pressed into
my sort of arm and it left it all bruised.
Said the hell it's going on here? And still I
wasn't saying nineteen parormal.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, but it's getting personal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at this point it was getting personal, and I
was still not sort of showing the paranormal character, okay.
And I started went to bed that night and I
remember sort of, you know, sometimes I have to think
myself asleep. I responded to mull and through certain things
in the day, and this that and the other, and
I was gone, and then I woke up and not
being able to breathe, like I was being choked in
the bed, and like something that was literally there on
my chest, and I started jumped out of the bed
and I was all panicky and faureful, went down the
stairs something, and the wife came down the stairs because
she's seen how distressed I got, because I was really scared.
I want to hide back and say it wasn't I
really was. And she could see the march around my
trot and she said, what's going on? Says something was
trying to chock me in the bed, And I didn't
really want to say it, but I have to say
it because there was the iding I could say. She
said this, you know at this point, first time I
actually said it was this house. And this was coming
from a guy that had no belief in the paranormal whatsoever.
I said, I really what, I'll inquire off the landlord
and see did any previous tenants because I think the
previous tenants were students. So I ring up the landlord
next time. I said, I still didn't want to sound stupid,
said to a masters, look around, was there anything odd? Reported?
He says, what do you mean. I said, no, just
odd like things happening in the house that you couldn't explain.
And he said, the only thing I know is that
people don't really stay a long in it.
Speaker 1: I went, okay, said.
Speaker 2: The match that anybody said in the house, it was
roughly about two four months okay, And he says, I
just took it that they wanted to move on, and
that was it, because he really sort of was easy going.
He wasn't one of these that was sort of hard
pressed or anything else that if you could stay or
twelve months on the contract or go before that, but
you lose your down deposits, so you know, you depat
that straight off. So I like, okay, he actually has
no knowledge of this. I start left alone, and about
three four days there was the White said to me,
I'll tell you what I go out with. She was
friends with a girl called Samanta. She got to know
her because of being from Newbridge and everything, you were
still sort of finding where to making friendships in Caroliva
so on. And I said, go ahead of to yourself.
Was mind Nicole here? And she says, would you make
up the bottles for tonight? So it will be no
problem so here I was. After she went, I says,
I'll tell you what I do. I'll go on hindo
and now I'll make up the bottles for you know,
child like in the game system. Here I was making
up the bottles the next one of the bous. First
right from the box I saw our first thought there
must have been a fast ender. And then when I
turned it around, I said, how's that awesible? And it
was like, the only way I can describe it is
if you've got a red hot walker and step it
up with the bottom, it will burn upwards it And.
Speaker 1: That's might sound a stupid question. Was it a plastic
bottle or yes, plastic back So you're back in the
nineties sometime or any nineties that are we talking?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking roughie about ninety three. Okay, you know
so and now you talk my So that's strength. That's impossible.
I was expecting to see a crack on the you know,
totally yeah, hopefully because of the porn in the hot
war and and mixing the formula. And next minute you
see it's.
Speaker 1: Burnt upwards, yes, like I got it poked into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And I said, how is that possible? And
still at the same time, I kept looking at it
and I went, okay, I'll just discarded. I can't explain it,
and you know, right and still logic or was telling
me that's not possible because I'd have to have something
hot shoved up the way the plastic could go upwards
inside the bottle. I started left alone, insidnything to the life.
And about three nights later after that, I woke up
with burning sensation all across my back and chest. And
when I jumped out of the bed, I says like
a was on fire for a bart world, and I
turned on the light. I looked straight at the mayror,
and the wife went, there were scrapes all the way
down my back, all across my chest. And I had
no explanation for I didn't do it to myself. Obviously,
I can't reach behind my own back and scrape it
from the base of my neck right down to the
base in my back. And I said, okay, there there's
I'm I'm just I don't know what to do. So
I said to the wife, I said, I'll tell you
what we're gonna do. We're going to sleep down in
the same room. And at that point I for a
bart word got a punt in the arm. I couldn't
see what punched me or anything else. Well, it was physical.
I could feel the impact. And she looked at me
and she's and she's seen the way. I sort of
went down, and she said, what's going on? And next
minute she got a bunch that she said, that's it.
She ran down the stairs into the sitting room. I
came down, pulled the mattress off the dead and that's
where we started to sleep all but with the child
and everything else. We want to sleep upstairs because sometimes
the way we think, we think we protect ourselves from
we're in groups, or if we go into a certain
room that's not really going on while the activity is
going on upstairs, it might leave us alone. So I
said to know, if I said, look, I'm going to
go to a priest, so I went down to I
won't say what your kid is because I don't want
to embarrass them.
Speaker 1: And so you're at your wits end today. Are you
a religious man or are you're like a lot of
as a general belief or no.
Speaker 2: I would't be considering myself religious at that point. I
would have been just general belief, you know, and what
you are into Now I would say I am a
religious man, but think about it was that went in
and remember waiting on this priest finishes compression.
Speaker 1: Hold the priest. Let's just resume here. So you're in
a house, you're a young man, it's circa nineteen ninety three,
You're in County Carlow. You are getting on with your life.
One night, and it's not the first time it happens.
Your stereo takes up and starts playing by itself. So
nothing too odd about that until you plug it out,
and even after that it still starts playing by itself.
We move on in time in your younger brother he
comes to stay. He accuses you of acting the maggot
by leaning in his doorway in a leather jacket, and
an insult in them. That goes on. Then we have
the situation where it really gets like physical and also
there's a an anomaly with the milk bottle. You must
have been at your wits end by the time you
arrived at the priests, so take it from there.
Speaker 2: I was because I'm sort of a very stubborn individual
and I was sort of trying to write it out.
But I knew at this stage that that wasn't possible,
you know, of.
Speaker 1: Course, especially with a child in the house as well.
This is this has sounded like a poltergeist now at
this point.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, and what I was dealing with here
was harmful, okay, And I didn't know what extended will
go to. And the way I looked at it was okay,
if I went to a priest explained it to him,
he would come over and do something about it, you know,
because you get these thoughts in your head that, okay,
priests can do everything and get rid of things that
you can't explain. And the priest looked at me like
I was stonewall Matt okay, and he wouldn't touch on it.
So I said, okay, that went very well, and went
down different avenues to sort of dealing with this problem.
Every time I went down sort of two other charismatic
groups and Christian groups and so on, I was sort
of coming up against a wall because this or there
was just this weird fear about it was like taboo
we don't want to talk about. I just was at
my wits end. Sleep was non existent, and you were
just thinking about the whole time you were dreading or
roughly from a clock onwards in the evening. The only
thing you could think of was how to get through
the night, you know, And that was the reality in it.
And you couldn't part of get any validation from anybody
that at the time that there's something about this house.
But somebody to come up and say, hey, lod if
I was you with the house, we had an experience
or whatever. It was not under the above, seemingly anybody
that lived in the house, but very quickly and didn't
really want to sort of explain why at the time.
And as I said, it wasn't until I knocked on
the door of that lecture and he was sort of
putting text on that I've begun within three months and
he couldn't believe how long I sort of lasted out.
Now I didn't win anything. I I just he confirmed,
but I feared that. He says, anybody that was their
previous to yourself left the house, and the landlord had
knowledge that there was something going on, because he said
people were telling him, and obviously they were telling the
landlord that they couldn't explain rightly was happening to them,
and the only way to sort of deal with it
was yeah. And the thing about the thing about it
was that when he went about the owner, which died
ten years previous, been in the house or I sort
of got the sense that we had an angry spirit
here and if okay, if you sort of died in
your own I was more found for a week. And
you know, maybe how that situation, this aggressive haunt happened, okay,
But what was interesting about it was that years after
I was hearing reports about other people going into students
going into it. Literally they were beginning device that the
house was haunted. Then couples will go into it and
they would have the same experience. And then up to
about a year ago, I remembered out for a drink,
I started knew this man, you know, and he started
came out to me and he says, look, he says,
just looking for your advice. On fure says, what's that?
And the land's name was man and he says, my, uh,
some needs a thousan yours off because he want to
get out of the house he's living. And I said, okay,
all right, and I says, what's the problem. He says,
and you see, it's still start with some people. It's
a stigma to say. It's hard, of course, Yes, he
said that the house is haunted. I think he's trying
to get an easy touse in yours out And I
don't know why I turn it out or anything. And
I says, where is he living? And he says he's
living here, say the Air of Vicinity. I went oh.
And then I said to him, I said, does he
live at number search and Search? And he says, how
do you know the name? I said the name stayed
to him, and he goes and he's start look at me.
He says, I'll tell you what now, you you'll give
yours on that thousand yours very quickly, because what that
chapter ten he is to do. And he looked at
me and I said, I'm not joking. You believe me.
I lived in it in the nineties and I know
exactly now what his career is he I don't know.
Did he ever give his something the morning or anything else?
Speaker 1: No, but it was further validation for you. Tell me,
how long did you did you stick it out in there?
Speaker 2: Eight months? Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Got you?
Speaker 1: You should have got a medal for it, because I
think I would have been gone within a day or two.
Speaker 2: Actually, to be quite honest, I would have been if
I had to have the finances. Yes I did at
the time.
Speaker 1: You can I because sorry, can I I get it?
First of all, how old was this house?
Speaker 2: This house was said the build on this house or
was roughly about twenty five years old.
Speaker 1: So it was contemporary you know, yeah, fifties or sixties
or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was, oh sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it wasn't that old at all. And was
it remote for any other houses? It was in a
state at.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you know, to look at it now you
think it was a very peaceful estate and everything else,
But realistically inside it there was a personal help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned now and now is an interesting time
because you can probably go back on the internet and
research the history of the land. At least it was on.
Speaker 2: Did research the history of the land, and there was
an interesting point on it, and there was I met
Chippy one day, okay, Carpenter, Now he worked on those houses,
and he sort of said to me that the house,
the houses themselves were harshly buised on faman.
Speaker 1: Land to a degree on what land sorry of course, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And he said that when they were digging up ground,
they came across variational skeletons, and it took time and process.
Before this it was all sort of laid to rest.
They was cleared out and everything else. But realistically, what
the builders really had done was disturbed radiar.
Speaker 1: They they desecrated it. Yeah, they desecrated the famine pit.
Probably there was a commercial imperative to get things done,
so I'm sure it wasn't. Probably any dissenteering that went
on was probably done with very little respect.
Speaker 2: Might say more likely. And you see that sort of
validated for me then that what we're dealing with here
now wasn't just one individual passing away inside the house,
but there was multiple things that behind it all that
literally contributed this ought. Well, it wasn't the only years there.
I found out there was another house in the estate
that was having problems. Now I don't know exactly by
extent or anything else, but I know certain people were
talking about having issues and it was always going up
for sale as well. So it's obvious that whatever the
barrier was, literally this house would have been sitting on
it and when it got cleared away, whatever stead behind,
like an attachment, it's sort of follyed on in the
land that's where it was going.
Speaker 1: Of course. Yeah, like it's I think what happens at times,
is something traumatic or horrific happens in an area at
certain times. Yeah, maybe certain atmospherics can bring it back
into play. The only thing I'd say in respect of yours,
as we touched on earlier, as it got personal, so
that would sound like an individual entity or spirit of
some kind, and and you know, maybe it was their
way of saying move on as well. You know, get out.
I know it's a classic, we use it there all
the time, get out, get out, there you go. So
that was the end of that, or was sir, anything else?
What happened then in Pj's life to pursue paranormal Oh
we'll be finding out in the coming weeks. Sorry, folks,
I had to cut it there just for reasons of time. PJ, Doug,
thank you so much. I will be using the hour
and probably hour and a half of audio that we had,
As I said, come on soon now after this we
need to talk.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 6: Jenny Sullivan here. I am the creator and founder of
Emerald Isle Paranormal Researchers. You can find our latest investigation
of the Beautiful and infamous lep Castle. You can find
that on our YouTube page and our Facebook.
Speaker 4: Page, Mark.
Speaker 7: Manning.
Speaker 1: So here we are gathered together, dear brethren, in our
cozy mutual interest of all things paranormal in Ireland and beyond.
And we are in season two, episode seven, So that
means we've come seventeen episodes since we started Scary Era
in October of last year. And this has been the
biggest break that we've had since those episodes because they're
normally bi weekly and I'll tell you why you're waiting
bi monthly until this one. But with the proviso, it
won't happen again. So basically I was I think I
uploaded in was it early June or late May? The
last episode. Then we went to New York. I have
fallen in love with Brooklyn Heights over there. That's not
a person, it's a place. It's just amazing. And I
spent my time over there with my wife and daughters.
And we came home. I contacted Paranormal UK Radio, who
are great people and they distribute the show and I
said to Mark there, I said, Mark, listen, I've been away,
so I'm going to be uploading a show fairly soon.
Mark was nonplus and he said to me, you've grad
He said, no problem whatsoever. I've been on vacation myself.
Mark is based in the States, and he said, look,
just uploaded when you get a chance. So prior to this,
you know, I've always felt the impetus to upload every
two weeks because Paranormal Radio UK are super as I said,
they sling shot the show around all the major platforms
that Spotify's, the Amazons, the Audibles, you name it. So
I think you see, it was city season. The weather
was amazing here Mark as well, I think, and Paranormal
Radio UK they were also kind of caught in the
doll drums of holiday seasons, so they didn't apply They're
a pleasure to deal with and I'm not in any
way suggesting they're to blame, but they didn't apply any
pressure on me, so I kept saying, oh yeah, I'll
get to it next week. Meanwhile, back on the ranch,
my poor missus fell ill with a bug which really
lasted about three weeks. That took up time at disturbed things.
I subsequently came down with it. Now I wouldn't let
myself take to the bed, but it's a nasty thing,
and then I got caught in voiceovers, which is what
I do for a living, and it just got neglected
and neglected and neglected. And I did about two or
three weeks ago. To be fair, as you've just heard PJ.
Doug from Beyond Ireland Paranormal, we did this big in
you and you will be hearing the rest of it.
And he was great. And I'm going to give him
a call in the next day or two and just say, listen,
that wasn't a waste of time. I just needed to
get my act together. I got the bug. I was
only back from New Yorker. I had awful toothache. I
know this sounds like the dog ate my homework. I'm
just telling you what happened, folks. I ended up in
the dentist. He said, I'm not going to pull that tooth.
He said, I'm convinced it's an infection. Now. Toothache is
so painful, as you all know, and he said, look,
I'm going to give you antibiotics. You know you have
little enough teeth as it is without me pulling more.
It did pass eventually, but I can tell you now, guys,
in the last week it's come back with a vengeance.
As a matter of fact, I only go at two
hours sleep last night, so I'm on pain killers. They're
working just now. They will fade again. It's like three
teeth this time, but it's kind of Joe and only
be sounding like what I am say, two year old
man giving you my aches and pains, but it's sore,
so tonight have more painkillers on standby. So look, that's
what happened. It's not going to happen again. My plan
for this is I'm going into fifty episodes. I will
guarantee you, you know, I will be hoisted on my
petard if I don't do these fifty episodes. Can I
ask if this sparks you in some way what we
do here on Scary Era, you know, please contribute. There's
a fine email there. Write it down Paranormal Island at
ProtonMail dot com. Paranormal Island at ProtonMail dot com. Just
write it down, you know, contribute as well as that
if you'd like to read for the show. You know,
if you've got a relatively good voice, don't be worrying
if you have a passion more important than a voice. Okay,
it's on paid, but you know, I'll get your story
out there. If you just want to talk to me
over the phone like Pjdoug or the other interviewees we've
had in the last few months, that's not a problem
as well. But I need you to make it happen.
It helps me to get the content. You know, Paranormal
Ireland at ProtonMail dot com. I won't say it again
because it'll only sound desperate. It's what makes the world
go round is you and your stories. Now I have
two small but personal ones for you. I was only
back from New York when I was invited to a
film premier cows Shed Media. Of all people, Jerry Johnson
down there, who's a legend in the actual film industry
in Ireland and beyond. He's worked with everybody, Pierce Brosnan,
Sean Connery, who else did he he gave I know
Colin Farrell his initial break. He's just a great guy.
So I walked into don Leary and you might remember
we had an episode about a gay murder in Ireland,
unsolved of a gentleman called Charles Self who worked for
the National broadcaster RTE.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It took place in a place called Annesley Muse and
I had always thought I knew where it was. But
after I did the Peace, and some weeks had expired,
I came back from the States. I'm walking back from
this walking to don Leary Farewell walk, beautiful day. I
just can't explain to you what happened, dear listener, But
I felt drawn too. I said, I'd say it's around there,
and sure enough I found myself within a minute standing
outside Annesley mused, now, please, if you are Dublin Baks,
don't be going there. People live there now, and I'm
sure no one know what went on. Luden them don't
know what went on. But I found myself right outside
the gate and it was in the vicinity of where
I thought it used to be for years. But it
was only after I did the show. It was like
a calling. It might sound fanciful, but that happened. So
rip Charles self and the other thing. Again. You'll think
I'm crazy, But you know when you have one of
these vivid, vivid dreams, and I I dreamt I was
talking to my late mother about something I had done
in my twenties that she wasn't very impressed with. Now,
by the way, anyone who's muckrake and it wasn't anything
major at all. It's just you know, when a mother
disagrees with her son, you know, on principle about something,
and of course at that age, no one's going to
tell you. And of course, with the benefit of hindsight,
she was one hundred and ten percent correct. And I
think it kind of lay in the dormant in the
back of my conscious for some time consciousness. And so
I'm having this dream and in it I'm with her
and I'm sorry. I'm telling her, I'm so sorry you
were right about that and I was wrong, and I'm
crying in the dream now in the cold light of day.
I don't know why, you know, but obviously at the
time she wasn't happy. I disobeyed her, basically did my
own thing, as I think you have to kids anywhere.
You have to let people in their twenties find their
own way. I'm a father myself, and you have to.
But she wasn't happy at the time. She was proved right,
and I was crying and said, I'm sorry, you were
right about that, you were so right about that, and
I was wrong. You know what, guys, I felt as
if my mother touched like rub touched gave me a
gentle rub to the back of the head as much
as to say it's okay. It was so real. I
woke up with a jolt. I could feel a hand
at the back of my head, and I wasn't missus
manning because she was snoring in the way and the
land even of Nod, so that happened as well. Right,
So look, so I'm on board. Please help out, That's
all I'm asking. If you're enjoying the show, I need
you in scary Era's corner. Now, what we're gonna listen
to next is some goings on in Lizmore Heritage Center
read by the Squire, aided and a betted by the
voice actress and radio personality Sarah Campbell. Go google her.
She's based up around Ross Trevor and Uri. Let's listen
to that. Then I'm going again in the vicinity of
the kind of affluent, leafy suburbs of Dublin south to
an area called Vesey Place. It's to do really with
Poltergeist's and I have made every effort to contact the
lady responsible for what you're going to hear. Her name
is Helena Byrne. I've tried to contact her in various ways.
Do check her out at Helenaburn dot com because by
all accounts she's not only a very talented singer but
actress as well. Helenaburn dot com. The piece was recorded
about four or five twenty twenty, so what five years
ago it was recorded, and it's short piece, but I
found it quite atmospheric and you just don't know what
is behind people's doors, so listen for that. Also, I'm
going to whizz you back in time to nineteen eighty
five again for a piece of audio that is in
the public domain and it concerns a family who were
a bit down at heel in County Longford. It's a
recording of them. They ended up moving themselves and their
children to a four berth caravan out of their council
house where they were driven by strange and ghostly and
haunting and noisy boulter Geist type events. They're very I'm
sure they won't mind me saying this, very ordinary people.
It was tough times. It was a council house and
it wasn't you know, the usual roll in your eye suspicious.
Oh they wanted an upgrade, I don't believe. So they
were apparently up to date with their rent and they
wouldn't take that house. Of course here in little oh
Penny Pinch in Ireland. I don't think they got much help.
I don't know what happened in the end. The piece
hails from nineteen eighty five and you will be hearing
it shortly. Okay, we've come this far, let's go to Lismore.
Speaker 8: An Irish paranormal research group Paranormal Supernatural Investigations Ireland PSI
has reported unusual phenomena at the Lismore Heritage Center in
County Waterford following an overnight investigation of the site's historic
courtroom on the second of August twenty twenty five. The
team described witnessing a truly strange optical phenomenon during their visit,
suggesting it may be linked to the building's past judicial role.
Last night at the Lismore Heritage Site, we captured a
truly strange optical phenomenon in the old courtroom. Is it
possible that we've stumbled upon a portal to another dimension?
The group posted on their Facebook page. The energy in
this room was strong, especially considering its history. The courtroom
formerly used for criminal sentencing in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries is within the Heritage Center, which was part of
the broader Lismore Castle estate. Historical accounts indicate that individual's
sentence there were sometimes taken to Gallows Hill, roughly one
kilometer away, for execution. This is where individuals learn their
fate after sentencing, with some tragically sent to Gallows Hill
to be hanged not far from here. The post continued.
PSII suggested that the emotional weight of the courtroom's past
may have left a lasting impression on the site.
Speaker 9: The history of this location adds layers of intrigue to
what we witnessed. Imagine the souls that once filled this
room here in the gavel fall and facing that ultimate judgment.
The weight of the stories hangs in the air, and
it makes you wonder could there be something more than
just memories lingering here? And that's not all. We also
have an incredible image of our seven foot translucent, entirely
capture near this very spot. What does it mean? Are
we witnessing echoes of the past or is there something else?
Speaker 2: And play?
Speaker 8: The figure, said to be approximately two point one three
meters in height, reportedly appeared near the former judges bench.
While PSII has not yet released the image publicly, they
have indicated it will form part of their ongoing documentation.
At the time of writing, we have not seen the
reported image, but remain interested in reviewing any materials made available.
While Lismore is known for its deep historical roots, including
its ecclesiastical and legal past, there is limited officially released
documentation of paranormal activity at the site.
Speaker 10: Hi, it's Pja here from Kukovogue Paranormal. We've just completed
our latest investigation in Lebcastle. Our next two upcoming investigations
will be Redwood Castle and Lebcastle The Return. We can
be found on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and of course
our team is Pukovogue.
Speaker 1: Paranof Oh and just a little note as well, I
believe book a Vogue Paranormal's Facebook page was down recently.
I think it may have even been hacked, so good
luck to the team with restoring that. Now let's see
what Bertie Broslin is up to, followed by possible poulter
Geist goings on in Leafy suburb ves Place, Dublin South.
Speaker 11: 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 Berru, the Battle of Clontarf,
his son Donagha and Broader of Man, the villain of
the piece. 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 do Bertie brasifilms dot com,
or just go on to Amazon and type in the
Forgotten Prince Bertie Brasnan and it should come up. Thank
you so much, take care of and enjoy the rest
of the show.
Speaker 12: We are here in Vesey Place. Just over in that
direction you'll find dun Leary. Over to the side here
you'll find Monkstown. This is a really really beautiful part
of South Dublin and the Dunleary roth Down County Council area.
But these houses behind me here actually have a very
dark history and you wouldn't think it. With the birds
singing the trees here, the seagulls overhead. We've had plenty
of children cycling by. It's the lovely area. But houses one,
three and five are said to have been tormented by
a poltergeist for many years. Collectors of this story there
were two collectors, Desmond O'Connor who was from black Rock
and a gentleman from Monkstown Farm called Edward Noble Coffee,
and they continue to repeat over and over in their
account that these accounts of poultrygeist activity can be proven
by various witnesses. It's also said that in house number
three there was an old woman living there and at
about eleven thirty at night, she heard a voice telling
her to stop rushing her hair and that she was
going to die alone in an asylum. And four years later,
allegedly that is exactly what happened. But in all three houses,
like I said, there was poultrygeist activity, and the people
living there would hear dressers jumping up from the floor
and smashing back down again. They would also see black
cats making their way underneath the doors, even though the
doors were seal shut and locked in some cases.
Speaker 5: Theirs.
Speaker 12: What I would absolutely love to do is go and
knock on some of these doors and ask them if
they've experienced any poltrgeist activity. But I'm not quite sure
or what sort of response I would guess, so maybe
I should leave it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, 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 it's maybe it's another sense or something.
But often when you go into places, you'll 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, but it's there. 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 7: Superb advice from regular contributor to scary Er David McGlynn
aka the Squire, and don't hang around either. If you've
got an Irish paranormal tale to tell, simply email Paranormal
Ireland at proton male dot com. It'll be read out
for you before you get to teletone yourself. That's Paranormal
Island at ProtonMail dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, so happy Friday. I'm recording this at eight twenty
four am on the twenty second of August, which is
a day or two since I'd spoke to you on this.
Because I've been editing away. A couple of things have happened.
Toothache has got worse. I mean I was up at
four am this morning with it, so I'm battling as on.
But Mark Johnson from Paranormal Radio UK was in touch
just yesterday saying what's the story. We haven't had a
show from you in younks and I said great Mark,
I was wondering where you guys were, So I'm on board.
Mark said thumbs up. Do it? So, yeah, I intend to.
Now before I go, here is a little historical piece
you're going to listen to. Date it from nineteen eighty five.
I mentioned it earlier. It concerns a family who were
in a council house in County Longford in nineteen eighty five.
Now it's in the public domain, but if anybody has
an issue with it and they want to come forward,
I'm happy to credit them. You're going to listen to it.
It's a little bit of old dear landa encapsulated whatever
happened to the Courtney family, whatever happened to father Bland
and his box of sand? Who knows what? Listen on.
Speaker 5: I heard a cracking care there to the forge, there
to the beds, and it's heavy fluck and just like
an animal chains. So I got to price down on
snow good.
Speaker 14: The church has been able to do very little to
help Patrick and Mary Courtney. For a family who's always
had problems materially, it now seems the spiritual world is
against them too. They've been living without a toilet or
running water for more than four months. But for the Courtney's,
an old four birth caravan is heaven compared to the
hell they suffered in their council house.
Speaker 5: I've been hearing this the whole live long time, from
the third night I went into that house up to
last summer that would pull it out. I a husband
and a kids, has only heard it for about three
weeks to a month before deal left it. I would
not believe it in anywhere but when they heard it
themselves they did believe it. I was telling them the truth.
There was an ance there.
Speaker 14: The Courtneys were very disappointed in the way the church
handled their problem. They got no comfort at all from
the parish priest, Father Blant, who, when we called to
see him, refused to talk to us. This is the
house the Courtneys fled from number thirteen, Saint Matthew's Terrace.
The family have lived here since the house was first
built in nineteen seventy four. It's a county council house
for which the Courtneys paid twelve pounds a week. When
the pounding noise became unbearable, they approached the priests of
the parish.
Speaker 5: The tall at ain was nothing to harm, as are anything,
but still I couldn't call but with it. It was
just getting the better of my mind the whole time,
praying in my mind the whole time is this flack
on and tump and and knock on, and then the
lights going on and off on one thing another. You know,
I couldn't seek any longer.
Speaker 14: So Patrick, Father Bland recommended that you put sand.
Speaker 2: Outside the door. What was that about?
Speaker 5: He told?
Speaker 15: He told me that he got a bag of stand
just to watch that for building and say the back
door of the bag and not a step if you
wanted to be He said he wanted to go out
they jump jump, but he didn't do it because he
partly guess what he wanted for he want and he
wanted to settle it like that because people to take
san and doy.
Speaker 14: What about the lights? The lights were going on and
off as well, on and off.
Speaker 5: In the back room. Now I couldn't keep the light
but off. Father was for off the light himself. And
still he denied that Father bland. He did put it
every pot and at all.
Speaker 4: I heard it about three weeks after a Mommy.
Speaker 2: And Daddy heard it.
Speaker 14: And what was your reaction with you've frightened by it?
Speaker 2: I was right.
Speaker 14: And had you been skeptical all along that your mother
was hearing this noise in the first place here? And
what did it sound like?
Speaker 4: Founder and tramping our feet and knocking on the doors
and the delphone in the beds and beside it.
Speaker 14: The Courtney's neighbors in Saint Matthew's Terrace are now expecting
a new family to move into number thirteen. They're due
to arrive this week.
Speaker 16: I think there is something in it because the parish
Christ came down several times to pray in the house,
and when the priests were there was no sound at all,
and when he was fune the sound was there.
Speaker 2: And they lived.
Speaker 16: And I had shed for three weeks out of the water
in the cold at night and nexting, and I still
said there is some Christ will comment on it.
Speaker 5: Have you been in the house?
Speaker 2: No, I have. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: A lot of people were saying that they left the
house because of the rent, and as far as I know,
the rent was paid up to day m.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't live in the house, so that not.
Speaker 14: So what do you want the counselor to do for
you now?
Speaker 5: Well, if they supply me were to mobile home or
a large caravan myself, my husband and two children, I'd
agree to check it from them. But if they don't,
well I checked my house. I have to hold my
brother's caravan.
Speaker 14: So you're prepared to stay here if they If they don't,
have they objected to you parking the caravan.
Speaker 5: Here, Well, I've heard nothing so far from them. Now.
I've got no letters now to move or anything, but
if to do, i'd know.
Speaker 14: What to move Longford County Council have so far not
approached the Courtney's about the site of their caravan, which
was loaned to them by Mary's brother, but their position
on number three Dean Say Matthew's terrace is very clear.
Speaker 17: We did provide a house for the Courtneys, they left
it voluntarily and as such I think we will consider
that for the foreseeable future. Anyway, we wouldn't see them
as being eligible for rehousing.
Speaker 18: One of the suggestions they make themselves is that the
councilor should provide them with a mobile home or some
kind of a caravan in which they could live in permanently,
because they've said they will not go into any house again.
Speaker 14: Is that feasible from your point of view at all?
Speaker 17: No, I don't think it is, because this would be
a retrograde step in the sense that we endeavor as
far as possible to provide permanent accommodation for people who
need houses, and tis only as a last resort that
we would ever or even in an emergency case, that
we would ever dream of providing a mobile home or
caravan or such accommodation. We believe as a council in
providing permanent accommodation for those who need it.
Speaker 14: Meanwhile, the Courtneys are staying put without a house, without
running water, and without very much home.
Speaker 5: I'd never go through the same again in anyhouse as
I went through.
Speaker 1: Down from Mark Manning and Scary Era. See you down
the road, remember Get in touch Paranormal Island at ProtonMail
dot com.