Woodlawn House - most haunted house in Ireland

BeeKally

Guys I need to talk to somebody

We saw the spooky Woodlawn house video on youtube and decided to go and check it out for ourselves. We were up there on Friday evening and got very freaked out by the whole thing. Woodlawn is a scary old ruined mansion house out in the middle of nowhere 40 odd miles or something from Galway, nobody has lived there since the last owner shot himself in 1978.

It was getting a bit dark as we were walking up to the place, we went round the back and got in through a window. It was creepy as hell in that place, as soon as we went in through a couple of rooms we started hearing this banging on the ceiling from one of the rooms upstairs, we went on down this corridor and my friend reckoned he saw something creeping around in the shadows behind us, it was so dark we could hardly see anything but we kept on walking forward not wanting to run into whatever it was behind us, till suddenly we heard what sounded like footsteps running at us faster and faster then something in front of us was crying and screaming. We got the hell out as fast as we could, I’ve never been so terrified before. Just as we were running back down to the car a security patrol turned up so we had to hide in some bushes. Me and my mate were both looking back up at the house and we both swear we saw something sinister up on the roof of the house looking down at us. We are both trying to put an explanation behind what happened but what we know what we heard and what we saw

Has anybody else been to look at Woodlawn? Does anybody know what we might have ran into in that house?

DANNY22XX

...i have seen to vid ,,wouldnt call it the most haunted if it was we would all be there,,
you should have not gone in without permission,,,owners get really p****ed off with poeple going into there property,,thats what messes up for the teams to try an investigation

Riamfada

Pissed off owner chasing you off the land. Haha legend. Sounds like fun to be honest.

BeeKally

guys you're not being much help here! the place is totally derelict, hasn't been lived in since 1975 or something. paint is all peeling off the walls, the roof is half caved in. if you want to see it go to youtube and search for woodlawn house. There was nothing human in that house with us.

6th

Ok you are saying people are not being much help but you have to see that people tresspassing on private property makes it harder for those people you go to the trouble of getting permission to investigate locations.

I'll look up the video in a while and post again.

kshiel

Sounds like a fright night for ye all. The boys are correct in saying it was a bad idea to tresspass, it may have even given ye better time to perpare if you all had permission but anyway, the place is 40 miles from no where then what was a petrol car doing there, unless either someone called them, or they are hired to patrol nightly and it sounds more like someone callled. Put the experience down to experience and leave it at that until you can look at this with a calmer mind and see it clearer.

The house looks like it used to be fab, are the owners going to try and reconstruct it does anyone know, it would be such a shame to see it fall further into rumble. Lots of wild animals nesting in there I would say, maybe thats what you disturbed, prob got more of a fright than ye did. Although it does sound like it may have an interesting history, doesn't mean haunted though as you know....

faceman

BeeKally wrote: »

guys you're not being much help here! the place is totally derelict, hasn't been lived in since 1975 or something. paint is all peeling off the walls, the roof is half caved in. if you want to see it go to youtube and search for woodlawn house. There was nothing human in that house with us.

What kind of help are you looking for?

Stoner

well who knows what you saw or heard TBH. What you saw or heard is your experience, be thankful for it, sounds like a great experience for a first investigation (even if it was not official and against the law).
We can't offer an explaination for it, sure someone could come along and give a name to whatever you saw just like I could say that the footsteps was an animal, and the screaming was a fox, but you might shoot all these ideas down and state that the footsteps were human and the crying was human etc. maybe a paranormal explaination would suit you better, we could go on forever.
At the end of the day it happened to you and your friend, you should know more about it than anyone else, but I do see that you are wondering if anyone else experienced this type of thing there and if they had a name for it, or knew more about it. But that really makes no difference you'd just be taking someone else at their word for whatever reason you have.

If you are worried about bringing something home with you, go see a priest or a witch or whatever you believe in to calm you down a bit.

So are you now officially a paranormal investigatior? if you are interested any of the Ghost hunting guide books by Loyd Auerbach, Troy Taylor or Richard Southall would be a good read IMO.

I wouldn't be too upset about the lack of interest in your post, it's just that most of us here have heard loads of these stories before and generally only trust a few people about their experiences.

Sephiroth_dude

Stoner wrote: »

If you are worried about bringing something home with you, go see a priest or a witch or whatever you believe in to calm you down a bit.

Just curious stoner,but how could she have brought something home?

Stoner

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just curious stoner,but how could she have brought something home?

Sephiroth_dude I've no idea, it's just that some people say that this can and has happened to them. So some people take these types of steps.
Then again some people just freak themselves out and a visit to a priest can calm them down and just put an end to something that was never really there to begin with (if you know where I'm coming from)

Sephiroth_dude

aw ya,I get ya now.

Dagon

BeeKally wrote: »

Guys I need to talk to somebody

We saw the spooky Woodlawn house video on youtube and decided to go and check it out for ourselves. We were up there on Friday evening and got very freaked out by the whole thing. Woodlawn is a scary old ruined mansion house out in the middle of nowhere 40 odd miles or something from Galway, nobody has lived there since the last owner shot himself in 1978.

It was getting a bit dark as we were walking up to the place, we went round the back and got in through a window. It was creepy as hell in that place, as soon as we went in through a couple of rooms we started hearing this banging on the ceiling from one of the rooms upstairs, we went on down this corridor and my friend reckoned he saw something creeping around in the shadows behind us, it was so dark we could hardly see anything but we kept on walking forward not wanting to run into whatever it was behind us, till suddenly we heard what sounded like footsteps running at us faster and faster then something in front of us was crying and screaming. We got the hell out as fast as we could, I’ve never been so terrified before. Just as we were running back down to the car a security patrol turned up so we had to hide in some bushes. Me and my mate were both looking back up at the house and we both swear we saw something sinister up on the roof of the house looking down at us. We are both trying to put an explanation behind what happened but what we know what we heard and what we saw

Has anybody else been to look at Woodlawn? Does anybody know what we might have ran into in that house?

Hey mate,

Really interesting post. Sounds like you could have met some restless spirits in that house, and doesn't sound like there were very nice vibes there at all!

Funny enough, I've been to Woodlawn before. I missed my stop for Athlone because I was asleep, so I got off in Woodlawn thinking it was a normal station... when I got off, it was just an old run down, deserted station. It was a pitch dark night and there was nobody there. Kind of chilling - I was only 21 at the time and had to wait ages for my parents to come... Woodlawn is a very quiet area, and I started hearing some weird noises all around me (probably the cows in the field).

I'm living in Galway now, so I may be interested in having a look at Woodlawn house sometime if you guys are (lawfully) going back to investigate further.

Dagon

Check this out:

"The team that produced the independent American film 'The Blair Witch Project' came to Ireland a few years ago to undertake a documentary on the most haunted houses in Ireland. They stayed in many but found Woodlawn House to be the scariest!"

http://brenspeedie.blogspot.com/2006/09/woodlawn-house-most-haunted-house-in.html

:eek:

http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=6163784751&#
:eek:

Also:
http://www.ghostsandstories.com/haunted-house-video.html

:eek:

DANNY22XX

so whats haunted the music,,,,lol

looks intresting,,

AI

Also documented this place!

http://www.abandonedireland.com/wl.html

When I was in the house taking the pics two groups of people walked up to the house to have a nose around. I duly obliged in making scary ghost noises and banging on the shutters. Both groups ran off

The basement of the house is pretty dark and creepy, I didn't feel too comfortable down by the hook room but the rest of the house seemed nice enough.

For a scare rating: I probably would spend the night in this place alone.. sorry no ghosts here.

By the way if anybody is thinking about going for a look, the place is private property and is watched by the locals who will call up the security guy if ye are spotted

pookie82

Dagon wrote: »

Hey mate,

Really interesting post. Sounds like you could have met some restless spirits in that house, and doesn't sound like there were very nice vibes there at all!

Funny enough, I've been to Woodlawn before. I missed my stop for Athlone because I was asleep, so I got off in Woodlawn thinking it was a normal station... when I got off, it was just an old run down, deserted station. It was a pitch dark night and there was nobody there. Kind of chilling - I was only 21 at the time and had to wait ages for my parents to come... Woodlawn is a very quiet area, and I started hearing some weird noises all around me (probably the cows in the field).

I'm living in Galway now, so I may be interested in having a look at Woodlawn house sometime if you guys are (lawfully) going back to investigate further.

Cripes, that sounds really scary. Why on earth would a bus driver let you off at a deserted stop like that at night? Sounds like something from a horror movie.

I've seen pics of Woodlawn and it doesn't look like a very welcoming place. Stunning location and building though. What are the chances of being allowed to view the place above board?

Mr.Whippie

As you see Beekelly on this forum they are the "real ghostbusters", see they only are interested in their own "official" investigations.I think it lousy how they just dismissed your post and experience straight off and laid down the law like they own the world of the paranormal.Seems here you must be a part of a paranormal group to have a paranormal experience and how on earth could Woodlawn House be the most haunted house in Ireland if they were not there first.
Sounds like that place has plenty going on as its a fantastic building that has been left to ruin but somebody wants to keep people out.Would love to have been there myself, but have had similair experiences to yourself when checking out places,know how you feel when something you cant explain happens.
Don't mind the "real ghostbusters" here who reckon a few investigations in Ross Castle along with the castle in tullamore and by being a bit of a geek account for experience in the paranormal.Anyone can set up a paranormal group ,just because your in one though does not give you the right to lambast and make judgment upon everyone else's experiences and put it down to fear,inexperience,landowner,animals etc. And no sixth your not the spokesperson for the paranormal world, Derek Acorah would even be more fitting.

6th

I'd have taken more notice of your post if you'd bothered using your real account instead of hiding behind a new reg :rolleyes:

BeeKally

Yeah tell me about the "real ghostbusters"! I bet it's a right ball at there conventions! lol!!

Anyways! was back to Woodlawn last night. Four of us this time and we were a bit better prepared, well at least we had torches and made sure nobody spotted us as we went up to the house. But sorry we didn't have our "real ghostbuster" certification

First we went to hook room. We took it in turns being in that room alone for ten minutes, all the others went back around the front of the house and waited the full ten minutes. We all wrote down what we felt/saw/heard when we were alone in that room. Now I'll tell you that is the scariest place I've ever been in. All four of us said we heard something like metal scraping on metal, three of us wrote we heard somebody crying, two of us wrote there was something in the room with us. We were all really scared by this time but we went on down to the cellar, as soon as we were in there the banging started on the floor above us just like I heard before, something like footsteps running at us. All four of us felt like we shouldn't be in that house or something wanted us out but we kept on going right to the last room at the end of the basement. We lit some candles and had just turned off our torches when there was a huge crash on the floor above us and all the candles went out!! We FREAKED!! and were basically falling over each other trying to get out the place!! We ran back to the car absolutely shaking!! I'm never going back near that place!

6th

Beekally, a bit of a rummage through this forum and you'll see that we alll started off somewhere and we've organised plenty of trips here for plenty with all levels of experience. Its a shane you're writing off people who've been doing this a while just because we dont agree with you tresspassing. There are right ways and wrong ways of doing things and when you do it the right way its harder for people to dismiss your experiences.

stevenmu

Mr Whippie, please do not try to antagonise, well, everyone. Some constructive criticism was made.

If anyone has a problem with a post they should report it.

jessae86

BeeKally wrote: »

Yeah tell me about the "real ghostbusters"! I bet it's a right ball at there conventions! lol!!

Anyways! was back to Woodlawn last night. Four of us this time and we were a bit better prepared, well at least we had torches and made sure nobody spotted us as we went up to the house. But sorry we didn't have our "real ghostbuster" certification

First we went to hook room. We took it in turns being in that room alone for ten minutes, all the others went back around the front of the house and waited the full ten minutes. We all wrote down what we felt/saw/heard when we were alone in that room. Now I'll tell you that is the scariest place I've ever been in. All four of us said we heard something like metal scraping on metal, three of us wrote we heard somebody crying, two of us wrote there was something in the room with us. We were all really scared by this time but we went on down to the cellar, as soon as we were in there the banging started on the floor above us just like I heard before, something like footsteps running at us. All four of us felt like we shouldn't be in that house or something wanted us out but we kept on going right to the last room at the end of the basement. We lit some candles and had just turned off our torches when there was a huge crash on the floor above us and all the candles went out!! We FREAKED!! and were basically falling over each other trying to get out the place!! We ran back to the car absolutely shaking!! I'm never going back near that place!

OMG "SAVAGE" that is mental **it !!!! Id say u were bricking it !!!! So you didnt get caught going in did you ?? The thing about it is, the more people that do get caught trying to go into these old houses, the more chance there is of the house being totally boarded up inside and out, like Loftas Hall in Wexford, u cud get inside that at one point and now the whole thing is boarded up, cos of people going inside...... its **it, i would love to go inside that place for a look..... so your never going back eehh ????!!!!

jessae86

6th wrote: »

Beekally, a bit of a rummage through this forum and you'll see that we alll started off somewhere and we've organised plenty of trips here for plenty with all levels of experience. Its a shane you're writing off people who've been doing this a while just because we dont agree with you tresspassing. There are right ways and wrong ways of doing things and when you do it the right way its harder for people to dismiss your experiences.

so tell me this, have you gotten permission from someone everytime you went into an old house etc like this place ???? or how did you go about getting in ????

DANNY22XX

Mr.Whippie wrote: »

As you see Beekelly on this forum they are the "real ghostbusters", see they only are interested in their own "official" investigations.I think it lousy how they just dismissed your post and experience straight off and laid down the law like they own the world of the paranormal.Seems here you must be a part of a paranormal group to have a paranormal experience and how on earth could Woodlawn House be the most haunted house in Ireland if they were not there first.
Sounds like that place has plenty going on as its a fantastic building that has been left to ruin but somebody wants to keep people out.Would love to have been there myself, but have had similair experiences to yourself when checking out places,know how you feel when something you cant explain happens.
Don't mind the "real ghostbusters" here who reckon a few investigations in Ross Castle along with the castle in tullamore and by being a bit of a geek account for experience in the paranormal.Anyone can set up a paranormal group ,just because your in one though does not give you the right to lambast and make judgment upon everyone else's experiences and put it down to fear,inexperience,landowner,animals etc. And no sixth your not the spokesperson for the paranormal world, Derek Acorah would even be more fitting.

ouch,,,and all that for only one post:eek:

Mr.Whippie

Mr Whippie banned

all the stars

BeeKally wrote: »

Guys I need to talk to somebody

We saw the spooky Woodlawn house video on youtube and decided to go and check it out for ourselves. We were up there on Friday evening and got very freaked out by the whole thing. Woodlawn is a scary old ruined mansion house out in the middle of nowhere 40 odd miles or something from Galway, nobody has lived there since the last owner shot himself in 1978.

It was getting a bit dark as we were walking up to the place, we went round the back and got in through a window. It was creepy as hell in that place, as soon as we went in through a couple of rooms we started hearing this banging on the ceiling from one of the rooms upstairs, we went on down this corridor and my friend reckoned he saw something creeping around in the shadows behind us, it was so dark we could hardly see anything but we kept on walking forward not wanting to run into whatever it was behind us, till suddenly we heard what sounded like footsteps running at us faster and faster then something in front of us was crying and screaming. We got the hell out as fast as we could, I’ve never been so terrified before. Just as we were running back down to the car a security patrol turned up so we had to hide in some bushes. Me and my mate were both looking back up at the house and we both swear we saw something sinister up on the roof of the house looking down at us. We are both trying to put an explanation behind what happened but what we know what we heard and what we saw

Has anybody else been to look at Woodlawn? Does anybody know what we might have ran into in that house?

Go at 2 in the afternoon. It wont seem half as scary.
Walking around in the dark like that, course your gonna think you saw things...

I totally believe in spirits and all that goes with it - but it never ceases to amaze me all the people who go into dungeons and crumbelling houses at all hours.

ultain

Dunno what that could have been man, load of us should get togrther with cam's and recorders , check it out, think most of us are in galway, be a of craic. not been smart about it, take that kind of thing with respect,.

MrMojoRisin

kshiel wrote: »

Sounds like a fright night for ye all. The boys are correct in saying it was a bad idea to tresspass, it may have even given ye better time to perpare if you all had permission but anyway, the place is 40 miles from no where then what was a petrol car doing there....

Petrol car, heh, heh! :pac:

MrMojoRisin

Mr.Whippie wrote: »

Mr Whippie banned

That isn't something you see printed every day!

bigeasyeah

Im amazed at how Woodlawn House has almost taken on a life of its own recently.It was a beautiful stately house and its grounds and estate were vast in its heyday.Now,unfortunatly, it looks like it could be haunted and peoples imaginations oblige this suggestion.
Also if one insists on being a trespasser,be careful as that house is literally falling apart.

whoopdeedoo

I only live 10 mins from woodlawn house and I definitely believe its one of the most haunted places in Ireland!! I've heard of far too many incidents and stories to believe otherwise.
When I was younger you could get through but now the house is locked, you can't trespass because of the security cameras.

The people who last lived there were french as far as I know.
Its true about the man hanging himself there aswel.. Images of a man have supposedly appeared in windows in photographs of the front of the house!

The makers of the blair witch project visited it before and they were really creeped out apparantly!!!

Believe it or not its soon to be reconstructed as a nursing home!!!!!:eek:

MrMojoRisin

whoopdeedoo wrote: »

Believe it or not its soon to be reconstructed as a nursing home!!!!!:eek:

Are u serious? Jaysus I won't be putting my old man in there when or if it opens. :eek: :eek:

whoopdeedoo

Ya apparantly! Other people are saying its gonna be a hotel!

stormkeeper

Hotel, huh?

Just so long as they don't call it the Sedgewick

amygalway

Hi guys/gals haha... Me and 3 friends of mine went to a haunted house called tyrone house in co. galway two nights ago.. I was there before but i didnt leave the car was to scared by the look of it.. A few things happend to me and my friends that night when we where there.. i saw a man standing on the roof while we where getting closer to it but i didnt think much of it and said nothing to my mates... but as my friend alan decied to go into the house on his own 4 a few mins he came out pale and he was sweating really bad and he just got over the gate and sat in the car and didnt say a word untill 30mins later after we had left the house he said *he saw an old man sitting on a chair and he was coved in blood and all the man done was smile at him* but before hand we all went in together as we said we would there was nothing in the house...so i was freaked out haha.... So i came across this "Woodlawn house" and i came across some of ur comments and replays i would love to know the where abouts of this house it looks creepy and the footsteps :eek:" OMG" i wud of passed out lmao but still i love a great scare! lol....If ye could help me and my mates thank u sooo much xx:):):)

bigeasyeah

Its not haunted so I suggest you save your petrol.Im afraid Woodlawn House is a victim of its own appearance and aesthetics.

amygalway

bigeasyeah wrote: »

Its not haunted so I suggest you save your petrol.Im afraid Woodlawn House is a victim of its own appearance and aesthetics.

Amm ok thankx

bigeasyeah

amygalway wrote: »

Amm ok thankx

Just I used to work out there.Heard a lot of stories and never experienced anything but dangerous floorboards:)

amygalway

bigeasyeah wrote: »

Just I used to work out there.Heard a lot of stories and never experienced anything but dangerous floorboards:)

Haha dangerous floorboads... so you've been in there?... I just think it looks Mad lmao

jick the rapper

BeeKally wrote: »

Guys I need to talk to somebody

We saw the spooky Woodlawn house video on youtube and decided to go and check it out for ourselves. We were up there on Friday evening and got very freaked out by the whole thing. Woodlawn is a scary old ruined mansion house out in the middle of nowhere 40 odd miles or something from Galway, nobody has lived there since the last owner shot himself in 1978.

It was getting a bit dark as we were walking up to the place, we went round the back and got in through a window. It was creepy as hell in that place, as soon as we went in through a couple of rooms we started hearing this banging on the ceiling from one of the rooms upstairs, we went on down this corridor and my friend reckoned he saw something creeping around in the shadows behind us, it was so dark we could hardly see anything but we kept on walking forward not wanting to run into whatever it was behind us, till suddenly we heard what sounded like footsteps running at us faster and faster then something in front of us was crying and screaming. We got the hell out as fast as we could, I’ve never been so terrified before. Just as we were running back down to the car a security patrol turned up so we had to hide in some bushes. Me and my mate were both looking back up at the house and we both swear we saw something sinister up on the roof of the house looking down at us. We are both trying to put an explanation behind what happened but what we know what we heard and what we saw

Has anybody else been to look at Woodlawn? Does anybody know what we might have ran into in that house?

hysterics!

quietobserver

bigeasyeah wrote: »

Its not haunted so I suggest you save your petrol.Im afraid Woodlawn House is a victim of its own appearance and aesthetics.

ive never been but have been to moorehall in mayo, puxley castle in castetownbere and many others around the country, not at night mind you but with tourists as a guide.

id agree that its a victim of its appearance. i looked at that website abandonedireland.com and felt there was alot of life once there, it was a pity to see a place that once would have been a hub of activity so quiet and derelict. still i guess thats life and life goes on.

SpinIt

whoopdeedoo wrote: »

I only live 10 mins from woodlawn house and I definitely believe its one of the most haunted places in Ireland!! I've heard of far too many incidents and stories to believe otherwise.
When I was younger you could get through but now the house is locked, you can't trespass because of the security cameras.

The people who last lived there were french as far as I know.
Its true about the man hanging himself there aswel.. Images of a man have supposedly appeared in windows in photographs of the front of the house!

The makers of the blair witch project visited it before and they were really creeped out apparantly!!!

Believe it or not its soon to be reconstructed as a nursing home!!!!!:eek:

Where abouts ya livin, Im in ballymac myself.

Worms

Hi,

In 2001, I carried out a full building and photographic survey of woodlawn house. I was in every room in the entire house and measured it, photographed it and created floor plans and elevations on computer.
During my survey, myself and my partner where standing outside the property and all of a sudden, the hairs on the back of my neck rose. I turned back and starred back at the house (was only about 25ft away) and look up at the upper windows on the right hand side of the house and noticed what appeared to be a shadow of a person like form walking across the 3 upper windows. The odd thing about this is there is no floor at that level where those windows are as the ball room was underneath the windows and that was burnt out in the last fire.
I would like to think i imagined it, but I didnt. It really did send shivers through me and make my hair stand on end.

a-k-47

so some people have had an experience with this house and the people, that have not, simply dismiss it as being haunted?. Why?.

bigeasyeah

a-k-47 wrote: »

so some people have had an experience with this house and the people, that have not, simply dismiss it as being haunted?. Why?.

Well because they are fantastical accounts of an alleged phenomenon.

intothedark

me and the lads were up at woodlawn a few days ago. its one freaky place, even walking up the driveway the atmosphere around the place felt like something just wasn't right. we went in through the window on the right hand side. pitch black inside but we had torches. everything was ok till we got to the hook room. sounded like something was scratching around on the walls and then actually banging on the floor and roof around us. we went back out the way we came pretty damn quick!! back around the front we were looking up at the house and all three of us saw some kind of shadowy figure moving around in the upstairs windows

VinnyTGM

That is a beautiful house, I'd imagine the repair costs would be immense.

iamhunted

intothedark wrote: »

me and the lads were up at woodlawn a few days ago. its one freaky place, even walking up the driveway the atmosphere around the place felt like something just wasn't right. we went in through the window on the right hand side. pitch black inside but we had torches. everything was ok till we got to the hook room. sounded like something was scratching around on the walls and then actually banging on the floor and roof around us. we went back out the way we came pretty damn quick!! back around the front we were looking up at the house and all three of us saw some kind of shadowy figure moving around in the upstairs windows

Honestly not trying to be sarcastic or anything, but you should have least tried to find out what was making the noises. I would say anything you heard would have been rodents/animals/birds (disturbed by your movements)

SpinIt

The security at Woodlawn House is immense. Seriously what ever the new owners have inside must be something special, on a recent trip i saw 6 metal poles, each with at least 4 cameras.
On one pole for example theres
a nightvision camera,
a camera with a motion sensor,
a camera that can tilt/twist
And a camera fixed on a certain point,
Then on the inside of a wall at the back of the house theres motion sensors, like something out of a james bond film.

Oh and there renovating the gardeners house i think(its the red brick house near the road at the back)

bigeasyeah

Well it ws only a matter of time before the security was beefed up.

SpinIt

intothedark wrote: »

me and the lads were up at woodlawn a few days ago. its one freaky place, even walking up the driveway the atmosphere around the place felt like something just wasn't right. we went in through the window on the right hand side. pitch black inside but we had torches. everything was ok till we got to the hook room.

So you went in through a windows thats monitored by heaps of cameras?
And how did you get to the hook room from inside, its blocked off