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Haunted in Cork

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    #32
    LCDeelite
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    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    LCD... ahem... might u have been n there? ;) Bold,bold child! What exactly happened n there when u may have been in there? :p seriously.

    I know, I know, it's obviously prohibited to go in there, but I don't think the Gardai give a damn about who climbs in there anymore; especially since the private security company employees have been removed. They were at their wits end trying to protect the once-highly-valuable (€100m, I believe :eek:) site from vandalism because the place was butchered aesthetically and structurally regardless. There's no stopping a determined vandal/graffiti artist! As for non-vandalising 'investigators' going in there? The cops must have had no idea about those types! And they probably still don't, and don't care anyway. I'd imagine they have bigger fish to fry...


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    #33
    LCDeelite
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    LCDeelite wrote: »
    ... As for non-vandalising 'investigators' going in there? The cops must have had no idea about those types! And they probably still don't, and don't care anyway. I'd imagine they have bigger fish to fry...

    The cat is out of the bag now, though... :p;)


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    #34
    MrMojoRisin
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    LCDeelite wrote: »
    By the way, I don't think it would be possible to spend an entire night (like, six or seven hours) in St. Kevin's Hospital. The most I have ever spent there (along with other people) on one particular occasion has been just under two hours. The atmosphere becomes very uncomfortably intense after a while. You don't need to be a 'believer' in any of this stuff to sense that you aren't welcome in the building. I'm not trying to be all dramatic about it - that's simply the truth. Of course, the idea of that is complete bullsh!t to people who haven't been in there.

    I sure as fcuck wouldnt like to be left inside that place at night for any length of time

    Hellsm.jpg



    This is interesting. Some very good shots there.


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    #35
    MrMojoRisin
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    I've heard she appears to lots of kids alright, kid have been left alone and their parents/nurses have heard them talking to someone and when queried replied "Oh the nun". I know someone working there and has some great stories about the place, seems to be the building on the left passed the artificial limb clinic and the the building opposite the Blood Bank, to the right of the church that have the most incidents, top floor especially. Also the tunnels underneath too.

    Cool. Whats the story with the tunnels? I mean,why were they built?


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    #36
    razorblunt
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    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    Cool. Whats the story with the tunnels? I mean,why were they built?

    Tunnels is probably the wrong word, more like passageways, I imagine that alot of old hospitals had them.


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    #37
    razorblunt
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    LCDeelite wrote: »
    The Commodore Hotel.

    Heard of a ghost spotting there once, apparently it was once, twice, three times a lady!

    I know I know thats terrible!


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    #38
    MrMojoRisin
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    Some info on St. Finbarr's

    One of Cork's major hospitals, St. Finbarr's today contains only a number of specialist units - Blood Bank, convalescence, psychiatric, alcohol / drug dependance units, etc. This was formerly the Cork Union Workhouse - a 19th century institution where those in extreme poverty would go - or could be held against their will. Many deaths here during the Great Famine of 1845-1848.

    It was also called Cork Fever Hospital before and used to take in people suffering from diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis in the early 20th century. Maybe that spirit of the nun was working in the hospital around then when she was alive to assist in givin people the last rites and all that ?

    Photos of it here for anyone who doesnt know the place

    Btw, that whole Our Lady's complex had 941 patients in 1986. Outside of a prison situation thats a lot of people to have locked up n one building at one time. In 1995, there was only one psychologist, 2 occupational therapists and 1 social worker employed in the whole place. Thats fcuck all. Not a good place to be in, no doubt


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    #39
    MrMojoRisin
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    Heard of a ghost spotting there once, apparently it was once, twice, three times a lady!

    I know I know thats terrible!

    heh, heh, Id be bricking it if this yoke a_69722_1195330519.jpg appeared at the end of my bed n the hotel some night

    :D


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    #40
    razorblunt
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    What could you say but...."Hello!!"


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    #41
    Riamfada
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    What could you say but...."Hello!!"

    did he Wana keep you up all night?


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    #42
    AI
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    St Kevins is still the worse place I've been in Ireland.
    I agree with everything said by LCD.
    Really awful atmosphere in there

    Here's a new one for ya -

    Sing Sing Prison
    http://www.abandonedireland.com/Knockraha_IRA4.html


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    #43
    MrMojoRisin
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    Grimes wrote: »
    did he Wana keep you up all night?

    lol :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AK4jgQbPUM




    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74


    hello?? Is it a blind-woman-stalking moron youre looking for??


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    #44
    MrMojoRisin
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    Tunnels is probably the wrong word, more like passageways, I imagine that alot of old hospitals had them.

    id say they had the tunnels/passageways originally because they needed them to cart out bodies more easily when fever epidemics were happening in the county years ago. Like,if they were to take those diseased bodies out the normal exits that patients and visitors and staff used, theyd have made a right mess of things.


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    #45
    Riamfada
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    Did he float around on the ceiling?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlR_aqCBaE


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    #46
    MrMojoRisin
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    now this is scaryyyyyyyyy :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQrDEYT9JwY


    :p


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    #47
    MrMojoRisin
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    Grimes wrote: »
    Did he float around on the ceiling?

    hello? sure he was at it all night long,the c*unt!


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    #48
    MrMojoRisin
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    LCDeelite wrote: »
    Mojo, a bit of an investigation was done up there last year and I caught some bizarre sounds (not attributable to our crew) on my audio recording. There's about a minute's worth of the sound of clicking heels pounding on the floor inside the place, despite nobody obviously wearing heels.

    LCD would u mind sendin that on 2 me please? Id like to hear it. Send it on to my usual email add if u dont mind. ;)


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    #49
    Oryx
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    Less noise, more signal please Grimes and MrMojoRisin


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    #50
    LCDeelite
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    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    id say they had the tunnels/passageways originally because they needed them to cart out bodies more easily when fever epidemics were happening in the county years ago. Like,if they were to take those diseased bodies out the normal exits that patients and visitors and staff used, theyd have made a right mess of things.

    Yeah, that could be true. It also might have been a case of entry to the different units being rendered easier via the underground passageways. Why they didn't just build them overground instead makes me wonder.. I recently read in a local history book on Cork that St. Finbarr's also used to accommodate psychiatric patients waaaaay back in the day (circa 19th century, I think).
    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    Btw, that whole Our Lady's complex had 941 patients in 1986. Outside of a prison situation thats a lot of people to have locked up n one building at one time. In 1995, there was only one psychologist, 2 occupational therapists and 1 social worker employed in the whole place. Thats fcuck all. Not a good place to be in, no doubt

    If you think that's bad :rolleyes:... Fairfield State Hospital (est. 1933) in Connecticut (which is no longer in operation, and which was used for the filming of the movie 'Sleepers'), housed almost 4,000 patients at its peak era of operation.

    Obviously, the population of Connecticut (3,336,685 in 1996) would be far greater than miniscule Cork (420,510 in 1996), but I don't know why so many people would be worthy of being institutionalised anywhere at any time, tbh. :confused: :rolleyes:


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    #51
    Jessica xxx
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Jessica xxx


    Andrew_M wrote: »
    Ive been on boards now for awhile but didnt see this forum at all, its great!!! Spent the last hour reading through the posts, I've always had a huge fasination with the paranormal, and recently my buddy got a 'Ghost Hunting' kit, so were going to have a go and see what happens..:eek:

    Any sujestions, where to go(locally) or what to do?
    You could always check out the Asylum in cork?!!


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    #52
    Jessica xxx
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Jessica xxx


    LCDeelite wrote: »
    Check out Carr's Hill old famine cemetery on the Cork-Carrigaline road, on your left approx. two miles before you hit Carrigaline town. Literally thousands of famine victims were lobbed into huge mass graves on the site.

    Everyone is always talking about Cork City Gaol (old women's jail) being haunted. I've been in there several times - at night and during the daytime - over the years and I never saw or felt anything in the place. I don't know what all the brouhaha is about, tbh.

    On the other hand, St. Kevin's Hospital also in the Sunday's Well area is haunted. It's that huge, red-brick building to the right of those Atkins Hall apartments (which used to be the infamous Our Lady's Hospital/Eglinton Asylum/Cork County Asylum).

    If you can manage to actually get inside St. Kevin's Hospital (which is prohibited, I'll point out), I guarantee that you'll experience something unpleasant of an 'otherwordly' nature within about 40 minutes - 1 hour.

    There are several other places in Cork that have a haunted reputation as well, but I'm looking into those places more thoroughly to come to a definitive conclusion..
    I suppose its a matter of opinion on that place..... A friend of mine went through the
    whole place at St. Kevins from top to bottom photographing it for his Web Site and saw or felt nothing, he admitted thats its not a nice place at all, long, dark errie corridors that go on for ever and that but nothing strange happened while he was there, and he was there ALONE in the day and night!!!


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    #53
    Jessica xxx
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Jessica xxx


    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    I sure as fcuck wouldnt like to be left inside that place at night for any length of time

    Hellsm.jpg



    This is interesting. Some very good shots there.
    Id stay the night at St Kevins if there were enough people there, bit of moral support as such ha ;O


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    #54
    Jessica xxx
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Jessica xxx


    What kind of nasty stories have you heard about the place.....curious :)


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    #55
    razorblunt
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    LCDeelite wrote: »
    I recently read in a local history book on Cork that St. Finbarr's also used to accommodate psychiatric patients waaaaay back in the day (circa 19th century, I think).



    They still dothe first building on your right going in the gate is a Psychriatic Hospital still, although not in the old sense of the word, most patients are on day leave AFAIK.


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    #56
    MrMojoRisin
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    Jessica xxx wrote: »
    I suppose its a matter of opinion on that place..... A friend of mine went through the
    whole place at St. Kevins from top to bottom photographing it for his Web Site and saw or felt nothing, he admitted thats its not a nice place at all, long, dark errie corridors that go on for ever and that but nothing strange happened while he was there

    Well i suppose if someone is only goin into there to photograph it for artistic purposes,they arent gonna be too fussed about any 'ghosts' popping out. depends on whether they 'believe' in spirits and all that as well, and if they knew much or gave a crap about the buildings history and the stories about it. If i was in there and i was concentrating on gettin decent photos at good angles i know wouldnt take much notice of weird ghostly sensations and the like

    ive read that spirits need the earthly energies of living people for them to appear and cause a ruckus but that the 'best conditions' of all is for a group of young people (esp. kids or teenagers,or near enough) being present. I think its supposed to be because theyre more 'open' to all that and have much more uncontrolled energy and hormones (except the kids,like) coursing thru them. i know that most of my own paranormal experiences happened when I was a kid and a teenager myself. Same for a lot of other people i know who have talked about their experiences. The only thing that would be flat out against this theory is someone being a full-on medium or psychic throughout their lives, but for da average Joe,there are less and less consecutive and notable paranormal experiences from approx. mid-20s onwards
    and he was there ALONE in the day and night!!!

    why was he photographing the place at night?? :confused: Youd get fairly sh!t photos at night and itd prob be dangerous walkin around w/ equipment n a rickety old building at night as well


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    #57
    MrMojoRisin
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    They still do, the first building on your right going in the gate is a Psychriatic Hospital still, although not in the old sense of the word, most patients are on day leave AFAIK.

    hah, really ? :D i wonder where they go when theyre left out for the day? ! god help the 'outside world'.

    floor G7,i think, n CUH is another psychiatric place. also Sarsfields Court n Glanmire. have u ever heard of 'dancing dave'? He goes there but hes usually out on day release. Outpatients programme i suppose! :pac:


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    #58
    MrMojoRisin
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    Jessica xxx wrote: »
    Id stay the night at St Kevins if there were enough people there, bit of moral support as such ha ;O

    Right folks! A night at St Kevins!! Any takers ??

    :pac: :pac:


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    MrMojoRisin
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    Jessica xxx wrote: »
    What kind of nasty stories have you heard about the place.....curious :)

    that they locked patients up in tiny rooms for hours at a time against their will and pumped them full of drugs that they didnt need. No working toilets in the place and no curtains on the windows,rubbish strewn around the place,staff ignoring patients and sometimes beating them if they didnt keep quiet. no soap or toilet paper in the toilets. soiled bed linen and clothes that werent changed. The usual sh!t that went on n sh!tty mental hospitals really.


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    #60
    MrMojoRisin
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    The Maldron hotel n Cork is supposed 2 be haunted too. it was called The Quality Hotel when I lived n Cork tho. Remember hearin a few stories bout it. Has anybody ever stayed there overnight? theres supposed 2 be one floor in particular (either the 3rd or 4th one) that are supposed 2 b deadly and ive heard the gym is a freak of a place wit all the equipment breaking constantly and mirrors smashing by themselves.

    any former guests of The Maldron/Quality Hotel who can confirm any of that? ?


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    razorblunt
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    MrMojoRisin wrote: »
    The Maldron hotel n Cork is supposed 2 be haunted too. it was called The Quality Hotel when I lived n Cork tho. Remember hearin a few stories bout it. Has anybody ever stayed there overnight? theres supposed 2 be one floor in particular (either the 3rd or 4th one) that are supposed 2 b deadly and ive heard the gym is a freak of a place wit all the equipment breaking constantly and mirrors smashing by themselves.

    any former guests of The Maldron/Quality Hotel who can confirm any of that? ?

    First point: The psychiatric ward in St Finbarre's, I think the people left out are harmless, one guy hops on the bus and begs cap in hand outside The English Market, sad case really.

    Second Point: The Maldron I was talking to one of the managers, briefly a few months back and he confirmed it, said the cleaning ladies can tell some stories alright about the place.


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