Haunted in Cork

LCDeelite wrote: »

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Now that was a vivid example of an over-indulgently insolent, cerebrally dense, monumentally hypocritical, infantile retort.

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

banned for what ? pointing out da truth?

Id mind your tongue if i was you or you'll get banned aswel. :eek:
She was commenting on something that had no relevance to her.

Jessica xxx wrote: »

Anyway, i think you should all give up the 'nip picking' and grow up a bit, im not interested in continuing this pointless arguement, im interested in hauntings and ghosts etc, and i have as much right to be part of this thread as any of you, whether im from 'Cork' or not....

speak for yourself

That Maldron Hotel on Shandon Street used to be called the Shandon Court Hotel before it was called The Quality Hotel and now the Maldron. The background story on the building overall is that it was once the North Infirmary Hospital/North Charitable Infirmary and theres a cemetery out the back but they moved some of the graves to build the hotel. If u look at an aerial view of the current site u can see theres an area of vacant green right at the back (western direction) of the hotel. That old Infirmary was shut down in 1987 and it used to be the only general hospital for the northside before. There was a soup kitchen set up in Shandon for starving people during the Famine n around 1846/7. The housing conditions in 19th century Shandon street,like all of Corks inner city areas, were abysmal and overcrowded. Sanitation was primitive and access to clean drinking water was limited. The streets and lanes were filthy, with human waste found along the gutters. In Feb 1847 the North Infirmary was converted to an auxiliary fever hospital because of the cholera epidemic and dysentery and other infectious diseases being rife in the city and county.

In the hotel building nowadays,the floor thats said to be most haunted is floor 2 and the numbers of the haunted rooms are 318 and 319. theres a blank door in between those two rooms but no number on it. When people have opened the door of it there was just very thick white wood nailed to the inside door. apparently it was that bad in that room that they had to bolt the door,and that the staff are nervous of the floor itself as well

corkieboyo wrote: »

Anybody checked out the abandoned mansion house at fivemilebridge? That place is supposed to be well haunted. I heard when somebody was robbing the floor out of the place they found a pentagon scratched under the floorboards and there was “something” buried underneath it :eek:

Robbing the place? I'd say the only things haunting that mansion are the dopes who are rolling on in there to fleece the place

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?

ok im a newbie here and dont know if anyone even is still on here,,i am looking to set up a ghost hunting group in the cork region and hoping to get a few people together as a team,,if you are interested please let me know ,,maybe meet up a few hopurs a week and organise future ghost hunts ,, the name i have posted somewhere here for this group is C.G.I Unit (cork ghost investigation unit) ,,my email is stemmo@gmail.com if you are seriously interested in the paranormal..thanks

holly1 wrote: »

Would love to hear some of your occurrances,please.

I'm not doubting others who never found anything spooky up there and maybe it was our imagination but here we go.

Years ago it used to be a unoccupied, practically derelict building so me and my cronies used hang out there from time to time. It was 1989 and we were in there on august evening, it was still bright and we were having a few drinks. Anyway after an hour or so we heard a noise, like a dog howling. I'm a big animal lover so I was worried in case a dog had got stuck in one of the cells (which were in bits and really unsafe).

I dragged my then boyfriend with me to find the dog. We searched for about half an hour and there was no sign of an animal but we still could hear the howling. I got this horrible feeling and felt quite claustophic (am not crazy about small spaces) and wanted to get the hell out of there so I went back to the others and Keith kept on looking for the dog. When I got back to the others they were all complaining about a really weird smell. They were wondering had Keith and I gone smoking hash. I said no. The smell did get a bit stronger and was really sickly sweet, the howling stopped and Keith came back. We went out into the main yard (which leads up to the main jail) and the smell was quite prominent.

We all went home and the next day I said it to my mum (who has lived in Sundays Well since the 30's). I omitted the smell of hash to the story etc but said there was a really weird smell. Mum said according to the staff at Radio Eireann (which used be based there back in the 40's) whenever an apparition of a female ghost used to appear you would always get a really sweet smell before hand I was totally freaked out.

There was no one else there (as we had a good search of the place while looking for the dog and to be fair we never did find the dog:D)

On the opening night of the heritage centre which is now based there my Dad went in to the male bathroom downstairs and felt the most horrible sensation. I know your going to be whatever but my Dad had no interest in supernatural etc but when he came back was quite unnerved and wanted to go home immediately. Up to this point he had really being enjoying himself.

One night we were coming home from Annies (a local bar) (it was about one o'clock) and we heard the most beautiful singing coming from there. There may be have been someone in there but this was when it was the heritage centre, there was no function on and the place was in pitch darkness.

As I say there are probably very sensible explanations but the place scares me. Out of curiousity have any of you ever gone to the Good Shepherds in Sundays Well. Its impossible to get in there now but I was just wondering in the past did any of the forum members do an investigation to it prior to it being secured.

holly1 wrote: »

That sounds very eerie,dont think I would be going there on my own,did you ever go back??

Yeah I live around the corner from the place. I was at a "do" there about a month ago.

I'm heading down to Cork week after next actually - thanks, guys, I was thinking on heading for a ghost walk of my own anyway!

Anyway the apartment block that was built over the asylum is supposed to be haunted too - I know more than a few people who say you'd have to pay them to live there.

brazilicious wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure why they were built but when we went up there we had a little stroll through them...creepy...http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?PageNbr=1&MemberId=261994743&PhotoAlbumId=9859819382&PhotoId=9889909967

they lead straight from the hospital to the church

http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?PageNbr=1&MemberId=261994743&PhotoAlbumId=9859819382&PhotoId=9889910339

so we concluded that it was a passageway built to avoid bringing patients outside...
we were then told that theres a room at the top of the building that replicates the outdoors and that that was the only glimpse of the outside that patients got during their stay...

such a creepy place though... we didnt get to spend a whole lot of time there cos there was a huge group, it was pretty impractical...mad to go back up though, really really want to explore properly...such an eerie place!
http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?PageNbr=1&MemberId=261994743&PhotoAlbumId=9859819382&PhotoId=9889909757

There's a lot of orbs in those pictures especially one huge one above a window.

FinBT wrote: »

hey guys,

apparently cobh is inhabited by a few ghosts. i live in east cork and have friends in college from cobh who all talk about a small girl that appears in the back seat of your car if you're drivin past Fota House (which is on your way into cobh). Apparently the story is that a wealthy family lived in Fota House over hundred years ago or so and that a child of the landlord was playing on the wall bordering the property and fell off, dying tragically. And so, if your driving past the entrance of the house after 12 at night, and look in your rear view mirror the girl is supposed to appear in your back seat.
I've heard of 2 or 3 people that its happened to. One guy thats about my age (21 or so) was drivin home out of cobh and saw the reflection of the girl in his mirror, pulled over and had to ring his dad to collect him cause he wouldnt get back into the car. Kinda freaky.:o

FREAKY!!! :eek:

FinBT wrote: »

hey guys,

apparently cobh is inhabited by a few ghosts. i live in east cork and have friends in college from cobh who all talk about a small girl that appears in the back seat of your car if you're drivin past Fota House (which is on your way into cobh). Apparently the story is that a wealthy family lived in Fota House over hundred years ago or so and that a child of the landlord was playing on the wall bordering the property and fell off, dying tragically. And so, if your driving past the entrance of the house after 12 at night, and look in your rear view mirror the girl is supposed to appear in your back seat.
I've heard of 2 or 3 people that its happened to. One guy thats about my age (21 or so) was drivin home out of cobh and saw the reflection of the girl in his mirror, pulled over and had to ring his dad to collect him cause he wouldnt get back into the car. Kinda freaky.:o

You're taking the piss arent ya? If it's so common (theres bound to be lots of people driving past Fota House after 12 down through the years),why hasn't it been mentioned on the news or in a newspaper? I lived in Cork for the first 22 years of my life and I never heard anything about that