Ghostly hauntings?

quietobserver

Anyone got ghostly experiences from around Galway city? I remember as a kid Gerry Ryan talking to someone with a Poltergeist in their house, im pretty sure it was in Newcastle but can anyone confirm it?

Theres talk of haunted houses near the Golf Course in Salthill and on the Old coast Road in oranmore,
Barna woods.... said to have the cry of a woman from years ago who died on the road to galway.. dont know the truth of this story.
can anyone relate the stories as to why these are haunted? and also any newer haunted areas.

minxie

quietobserver wrote: »

Anyone got ghostly experiences from around Galway city? I remember as a kid Gerry Ryan talking to someone with a Poltergeist in their house, im pretty sure it was in Newcastle but can anyone confirm it?

Theres talk of haunted houses near the Golf Course in Salthill and on the Old coast Road in oranmore,
Barna woods.... said to have the cry of a woman from years ago who died on the road to galway.. dont know the truth of this story.
can anyone relate the stories as to why these are haunted? and also any newer haunted areas.

think that was the house out in corrib park, was in papers recently again

quietobserver

what was the story on it this time?

minxie

quietobserver wrote: »

what was the story on it this time?

think same family are still there, no sure what it was about.....

ronnie3585

There was a well documented alleged poltergeist in Corrib Park about 5 or 6 years ago, maybe more, I memory serves me right. I'm nearly sure that there was a mass held there by a priest to rid the house of it's visitor.

When I was growing up the big house across from the Huntsman (on the corner beside the roundabout) was alway talked about as being 'definitely' haunted. The old house, since knocked, did look pretty creepy. The big rumor around the playground was that the old house was knocked because it was haunted. There was then a story that when the new house was built (it was a B&B) a guest was staying there when the ghosts started messing with him, screaming etc, as ghosts do, and the guest ran out of the house in a panic tried to jump the wall, missed, and broke a leg or an arm. I love remembering the stories that used to circulate around the playground! I drive past that house pretty regular and it looks like it's empty, anyone know what's going on with it?

minxie

ronnie3585 wrote: »

There was a well documented alleged poltergeist in Corrib Park about 5 or 6 years ago, maybe more, I memory serves me right. I'm nearly sure that there was a mass held there by a priest to rid the house of it's visitor.

When I was growing up the big house across from the Huntsman (on the corner beside the roundabout) was alway talked about as being 'definitely' haunted. The old house, since knocked, did look pretty creepy. The big rumor around the playground was that the old house was knocked because it was haunted. There was then a story that when the new house was built (it was a B&B) a guest was staying there when the ghosts started messing with him, screaming etc, as ghosts do, and the guest ran out of the house in a panic tried to jump the wall, missed, and broke a leg or an arm. I love remembering the stories that used to circulate around the playground! I drive past that house pretty regular and it looks like it's empty, anyone know what's going on with it?

lived in welllpark a few yrs ago and used to drive past that regulary,thought an old couple lived there.
saw door open a few weeks ago, looks v old inside

quietobserver

Thanks Ronnie,

heard that too about the B& B at the Huntsman roundabout, urban legends i wonder.
I heard that one of the houses on the left as you pass salthill golf club the last one, had a stone used in the mantle piece that was marking a place where a girl fell of a horse and died inside the wall there years previous and that when the house was being finished mixers used to turn on and tools would be scattered in the mornings.
i pass it alot and never see life in there, maybe is someones summer home that they dont use because the weathers too bad but there must be reason why the house always looks vacant, even looks spooky


house on the old oranmore coast road has all its windows bricked up and its creepy out to pass,any info on this one?

The one by the Huntsman is a strange one. I'd often walk by it to and from work and I've never once seen it without its "no reservation" sign, despite the absence of any cars, or life as such.

Anyone remember the supposed Haunted House where the Galway Bay Hotel is now?

quietobserver

Deleted User wrote: »

The one by the Huntsman is a strange one. I'd often walk by it to and from work and I've never once seen it without its "no reservation" sign, despite the absence of any cars, or life as such.

Anyone remember the supposed Haunted House where the Galway Bay Hotel is now?

cant picture it clearly, was it the white bungalow? what was the story on that one?

quietobserver

quietobserver wrote: »

cant picture it clearly, was it the white bungalow? what was the story on that one?

I think it was a two storey bricked house. Don't know the story exactly but years ago my brother and mam were driving passed it when they saw a candle flicker in one of the windows. They relocated the whole house somewhere else AFAIK.

minxie

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it was a two storey bricked house. Don't know the story exactly but years ago my brother and mam were driving passed it when they saw a candle flicker in one of the windows. They relocated the whole house somewhere else AFAIK.

seriously ?????

quietobserver

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it was a two storey bricked house. Don't know the story exactly but years ago my brother and mam were driving passed it when they saw a candle flicker in one of the windows. They relocated the whole house somewhere else AFAIK.

ill have to dig deeper on that one, certain hotel in furbo said to have few hauntings i think, used to do alot of work there and some of the rooms would really give you the creeps, it was a soup kitchen during the famine, is there a collection of hauntings from around galway i wonder.

Happy Monday

quietobserver wrote: »

Anyone got ghostly experiences from around Galway city? I remember as a kid Gerry Ryan talking to someone with a Poltergeist in their house, im pretty sure it was in Newcastle but can anyone confirm it?

Theres talk of haunted houses near the Golf Course in Salthill and on the Old coast Road in oranmore,
Barna woods.... said to have the cry of a woman from years ago who died on the road to galway.. dont know the truth of this story.
can anyone relate the stories as to why these are haunted? and also any newer haunted areas.

Yes the Newcastle house had many sightings and movements which were documented at that time - this was constantly reported in the local press - when people talk about the huntsman you mean the old white house across from it? - does anyone know how this was deemed to be haunted??

mrsdewinter

Re Oranmore haunted house, heard at one stage that it was built over an underground stream, which meant odd noises were heard at night. My school playground was out that direction and 1 girl had a few stories about it, but they could easily have been rehashed bits from a 1970s horror flick. Thought the underground stream had a bit of credibility to it, tho

Robbo

Happy Monday wrote: »

when people talk about the huntsman you mean the old white house across from it? - does anyone know how this was deemed to be haunted??

One would imagine it has something to do with developing commercial units so close to the roundabout...or the paranormal.

Chose your respective horse****.

hada

Can't remember the name of the housing estate but it's up past shantalla, going past old seamus quirke road on your right and then take the next left (before you get to westside/newcastle road). Anyway...

(posted this a few years back in paranomal board..so some things have changed, so i've done a quick edit, but most of it is in the present tense, apologies i.e. the girl isn't my girlfriend anymore, etc etc, but the kernal of the story still holds true!)


Well my (ex) girlfriend rent a house for college, and moved into a 6 bedroom house with 5 more female friends of hers (it's amazing for a student house, has a sauna, two lounges, massive kitchen) This house is quite close to my house, so naturally I frequented between the two.
Anyway the first night they spent in the house they all noticed a clearly formed cloud hovering over one of the girls beds. My ex then used her high definition mobile phone to record a video of the cloud over the bed. So from day one they noticed very very strange things happening in house..
My ex had mentioned that she had seen a couple of strange shapes around the house as well, but never in much detail until yesterday on the bus home. She said that while looking in the mirror yesterday morning she saw a glimpse of a figure. The same figure she then admitted to seeing atleast once or twice a week since they moved into the house; well built man, all dressed in white with a black thing around his neck (not a collar or shirt, just a black thing, she isn't sure what it is). She then mentioned this to one of her housemates, and that housemate also admitted to catching the exact same figure in the corner of her eye a number of times also.
Now here is the part that gets confusing, NONE of the girls will talk about the cloud they saw on the first night, they are in complete denial about it - to the point where they deleted the video. In fact, 3 out of the 5 housemates do not know about the other two seeing the same figure around the house. My exgirlfriend won't even talk to the other girl who saw the figure about it anymore, for fear that she'll get upset since she sleeps on the bottom floor on her own.

Other weird crap has happened: like my ex was in bed one night, everyone else was out, and she could hear footsteps going from one side of the attic to the other, back and forth over and over again.

One of the girls was down in the kitchen pulling down the blinds, and she saw another guy looking straight in at her - cue: scream of terror from girl.

The house itself is in that housing estate, it's number 1. [whatever the housing estate is]. They moved out after the year at college, but a family moved into it subsequently.


- actually walked up to see it one day this year, hadn't seen the place in a few years - still people living in it. Just remembered another story: we were getting a taxi home one evening after the bus up, and the taxi man asked us where we lived: we told him the address, and he was "I suppose ye know then.."... and started laughing.. When we questioned him, he didn't say anything more, but just laughed. I wouldn't be especially superstitious, but the whole scenerio scared the crap out of me to be honest!

ronnie3585

Happy Monday wrote: »

when people talk about the huntsman you mean the old white house across from it? - does anyone know how this was deemed to be haunted??

Yea that's the one. I think that the original house was old and derelict (and haunted) for years and was bought by someone who either knocked and rebuilt the house or just totally refurbished it, I can't remember. This house was then opened as a B&B but it didn't last too long due to the ghostly happenings...or so the story goes.

SimpleSam06

minxie1 wrote: »

think that was the house out in corrib park, was in papers recently again

Not to worry, the spook has probably been robbed by now.

Actually one of the abiding stories that sticks with me from the time I spent travelling the Philippines, was the persistent superstition they had about trees, especially old trees, either trapping the spirits of those who died near them or bringing up nasty things from deep underground, I never exactly got the right of it. They had a little chant you had to say to make yourself invisible to these things. Lovely people, the Filipinos, but terribly credulous.

Still, despite myself, I'd pause before going into a dark wood at night, although that might have more to do with the fear of braining myself on a low hanging branch than the concern that devilish spirits were going to hop out...

justfortherecor

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Yea that's the one. I think that the original house was old and derelict (and haunted) for years and was bought by someone who either knocked and rebuilt the house or just totally refurbished it, I can't remember. This house was then opened as a B&B but it didn't last too long due to the ghostly happenings...or so the story goes.

Dont think the house was knocked, just think the new owners invested a lot in refurbishment. Its actually quite a grand house, slightly raised on a hill overlooking the roundabout. Thought it would have done well as a B&B due to the location as well.

There's another derelict house nearby now, behind the big advertising billboard also at the roundabout.

ronnie3585

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

Not to worry, the spook has probably been robbed by now.

:D

ronnie3585

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Yea that's the one. I think that the original house was old and derelict (and haunted) for years and was bought by someone who either knocked and rebuilt the house or just totally refurbished it, I can't remember. This house was then opened as a B&B but it didn't last too long due to the ghostly happenings...or so the story goes.

Yeah I think that's right. It wasn't knocked down, just done up on the inside. Apparently on one day builders ran screaming from the house.

minxie

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I think that's right. It wasn't knocked down, just done up on the inside. Apparently on one day builders ran screaming from the house.

any idea why they ran??

padi89

"Gerry Ryan"
"Theres talk"
"said to have"
"alleged"
"I'm nearly sure"
"rumor"
"or so the story goes"


Seriously though if any of you guys fancy a palm reading il do it, €50 each, how does that sound?

DRakE

Ghosts don't exist.
Case closed.

hada

DRakE wrote: »

Ghosts don't exist.
Case closed.

maybe someone should tell this crowd that: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=446


I would, but for fear they'd hex me!

ronnie3585

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I think that's right. It wasn't knocked down, just done up on the inside. Apparently on one day builders ran screaming from the house.

That's right it was done up a few years ago. Heard of a few people running screaming from there too, don't have any details though.

Was speaking to a friend of mine who is an archaeologist with a good knowledge of Galway and it's local history. She said that Woodlawn House in Woodlawn is regarded as being haunted. I googled it and came across this blog http://brenspeedie.blogspot.com/2006/09/woodlawn-house-most-haunted-house-in.html it's probably a load of sh1te but the house looks spooky anyway!

She was also saying that there are loads of urban legends around Yeats country and north Co Galway that the ghost of W.B. Yeats is haunting several houses. Probably all the Leaving Cert students bad mouthing his poetry!

hairyfairy00

My dad worked with the guy whos house was haunted in Corrib Park during the time all the stuff was happening. It definetly wasn't fake, i saw the effect it had on the family at the time. The parish priest still denys ever saying a mass in the house, the tv show ' A Haunting' which is on Discovery covered it also. The irish acents were so funny, 'arra bee garra there do be a ghost im me house'

SimpleSam06

hairyfairy00 wrote: »

The irish acents were so funny, 'arra bee garra there do be a ghost im me house'

Or the father with the Galway accent and the son with the Northern accent, hai. Shome mishtake shurely?

left_behind

There's another derelict house nearby now, behind the big advertising billboard also at the roundabout.

Theres an elderly couple living in that house for as long as i can remember.

I know the guys who did the roofing on that building at the rounabout. They knew about the stories from when the house was abandoned but when there seen nothing and heard nothing from any of the others working on the building.

ronnie3585

ronnie3585 wrote: »

When I was growing up the big house across from the Huntsman (on the corner beside the roundabout) was alway talked about as being 'definitely' haunted. The old house, since knocked, did look pretty creepy.

I remember hearing that.

nobodythere

That huntsman house, someone told me a few years ago that one of the potential buyers spread that rumour to drive down the price of the house. Not that believable, but then neither is a haunted house!

ronnie3585

grasshopa wrote: »

That huntsman house, someone told me a few years ago that one of the potential buyers spread that rumour to drive down the price of the house.

In that case the entire Irish property market must be haunted:p

minxie1

minxie1 wrote: »

any idea why they ran??

My father told me a story once.
Do ye know the semi-d house with the flat roof just at the tuam road roundabout? (before Monaghans garage)

Back in the 60s/70s my dad was on a demolition crew. There was a row of similar houses there that were all due to be demolished.

Anyway coming up to Friday evening this was the last building left to be knocked. Some of the lads knew that if they started the job they would have to finish it and they wanted to go to the pub instead.

So they said it was haunted and refused to go near it. They went to the pub instead.

I reckon some similar reason is why the builders ran.

quietobserver

ok the b&B opposite the huntsman seems to be the most popular any stories or info on the others mentioned??

boarded up house on old coast road to oranmore?

connemara coast hotel

house at the golflings in salthill?

any others of note?

Steyr

quietobserver wrote: »

ok the b&B opposite the huntsman seems to be the most popular any stories or info on the others mentioned??

Apparently thats a load of BS people just said it was "haunted" because it was run down/old

quietobserver wrote: »

boarded up house on old coast road to oranmore?

Never heard of it

quietobserver wrote: »

connemara coast hotel

Never heard of any paranormal activity out there

quietobserver wrote: »

house at the golflings in salthill?

Never heard of it


Now the house in Corrib Park was definately haunted it was also featured on a TV programme hosted by Michael Aspel called "Strange But True?", I passed by there one day with a mate and we both witnessed what looked like a doll move from the left of the window to the right.

ronnie3585

Steyr wrote: »

Now the house in Corrib Park was definately haunted it was also featured on a TV programme hosted by Michael Aspel called "Strange But True?", I passed by there one day with a mate and we both witnessed what looked like a doll move from the left of the window to the right.

Keith Finnegan was talking about it too, so it must be true!

redshoulder

quietobserver wrote: »

ok the b&B opposite the huntsman seems to be the most popular any stories or info on the others mentioned??

boarded up house on old coast road to oranmore?

connemara coast hotel

house at the golflings in salthill?

any others of note?

Heard of the first two, there seems to be alot of boarded up houses close to the billboard at the roundabout.

toiletduck

hada wrote: »

Can't remember the name of the housing estate but it's up past shantalla, going past old seamus quirke road on your right and then take the next left (before you get to westside/newcastle road). Anyway...

(posted this a few years back in paranomal board..so some things have changed, so i've done a quick edit, but most of it is in the present tense, apologies i.e. the girl isn't my girlfriend anymore, etc etc, but the kernal of the story still holds true!)


Well my (ex) girlfriend rent a house for college, and moved into a 6 bedroom house with 5 more female friends of hers (it's amazing for a student house, has a sauna, two lounges, massive kitchen) This house is quite close to my house, so naturally I frequented between the two.
Anyway the first night they spent in the house they all noticed a clearly formed cloud hovering over one of the girls beds. My ex then used her high definition mobile phone to record a video of the cloud over the bed. So from day one they noticed very very strange things happening in house..
My ex had mentioned that she had seen a couple of strange shapes around the house as well, but never in much detail until yesterday on the bus home. She said that while looking in the mirror yesterday morning she saw a glimpse of a figure. The same figure she then admitted to seeing atleast once or twice a week since they moved into the house; well built man, all dressed in white with a black thing around his neck (not a collar or shirt, just a black thing, she isn't sure what it is). She then mentioned this to one of her housemates, and that housemate also admitted to catching the exact same figure in the corner of her eye a number of times also.
Now here is the part that gets confusing, NONE of the girls will talk about the cloud they saw on the first night, they are in complete denial about it - to the point where they deleted the video. In fact, 3 out of the 5 housemates do not know about the other two seeing the same figure around the house. My exgirlfriend won't even talk to the other girl who saw the figure about it anymore, for fear that she'll get upset since she sleeps on the bottom floor on her own.

Other weird crap has happened: like my ex was in bed one night, everyone else was out, and she could hear footsteps going from one side of the attic to the other, back and forth over and over again.

One of the girls was down in the kitchen pulling down the blinds, and she saw another guy looking straight in at her - cue: scream of terror from girl.

The house itself is in that housing estate, it's number 1. [whatever the housing estate is]. They moved out after the year at college, but a family moved into it subsequently.


- actually walked up to see it one day this year, hadn't seen the place in a few years - still people living in it. Just remembered another story: we were getting a taxi home one evening after the bus up, and the taxi man asked us where we lived: we told him the address, and he was "I suppose ye know then.."... and started laughing.. When we questioned him, he didn't say anything more, but just laughed. I wouldn't be especially superstitious, but the whole scenerio scared the crap out of me to be honest!

The weirdest part of this is a "high definition mobile phone" :pac:

hada

toiletduck wrote: »

The weirdest part of this is a "high definition mobile phone" :pac:

Ok this was a few years ago when I wrote this and obviously was in a frenzy!... jeeeze :rolleyes:

workaccount

hada wrote: »

Ok this was a few years ago when I wrote this and obviously was in a frenzy!... jeeeze :rolleyes:

1080p

Steyr

redshoulder wrote: »

Heard of the first two, there seems to be alot of boarded up houses close to the billboard at the roundabout.

Ya at least 4 of them, what an eyesore they should be knocked!

tinofapples

I take it none of you remember the haunted house in Castle Park. Twas probably the early 90's when it made alot of the local headlines particularly the Advertiser iirc. They had recording equipment set up in the house, I was in it one night with the son who was in the same year as me in primary school. Didn't experience anything dodgy although all the wiring and the old fashions tape recorders were a strange sight !!

nitemare_kiwi

Hi, I worked at the Connemara Coast Hotel Furbo, for 2 years as Night Manager.
I did experience some unexplained activity in the early hours of the morning and
as did some of my staff, around the hotel.

The locals told me that the Coach used to stop at the back of the original house, which is now the bar area, and a lady in grey clothing was hit and killed, I have seen this lady
twice in the Teach Furbo bar area, she was friendly and had a habit of taking the picture, in the mezzanine of the Cocktail Bar, off the wall, and moving the furniture.
A colleague and I, heard children laughing and running upstairs, in the Furbo room (has wooden creaky floors).

A phone in the 100s, used to ring, in early hours when that wing was closed over the winter, when only 3 other rooms occupied in the whole hotel., even when the hotel could be totally empty, only us staff in house, we would have to go into the room and take it off the hook, but when those rooms were occupied, no troubles at all.

It was the creepiest wing in the whole hotel, and the wind used to howl down there, like the Banshee, lets just say, there was a high turnover in nightstaff, and was very frightening on a stormy nite, a window left open in a room, so you would have to find out which room and go in and close it, bloody fast, we never went down there alone.

There is also a room in the same wing, we used to call the Coffin, as the interior was draped in heavy pleated fabric, you work it out, we call the wing the Morgue, it was the oldest part of the Accommodation.

But I have to say the worst thing, was a big thunderstorm back in 2003, and all the lights went out, oh my god, total darkness, that when the mind runs away.....then
we have to go outside, around the back of the hotel, to kickstart the generator,
more than once. But there was nothing evil or malicious about any presence, I have heard old Irish stories, about children that passed on before their time, are left hanging around, we never heard the children again. Its just the unexplained !

quietobserver

cheers kiwi,
great to get an insight from first hand experiences, indeed i know the room you refer to as the coffin room as i used to do some work around the hotel, used to give me the creeps. even the laundry did!

_Whimsical_

hada wrote: »

Can't remember the name of the housing estate but it's up past shantalla, going past old seamus quirke road on your right and then take the next left (before you get to westside/newcastle road).

Any idea what the name of this estate is? Is it Highfield Park?
Or am I way off there?

_Whimsical_

nitemare_kiwi wrote: »

Hi, I worked at the Connemara Coast Hotel Furbo, for 2 years as Night Manager.
!

That place has always given me the creeps since I was at a birthday party of a neighbour there years ago - around 15 years ago. We were in the bar area with other guests of the hotel during the start of the evening and an eldery man who was staying there was quiet upset and telling people he had seen strange things there ...some shadow or figure he could not explain in a room or hallway. Everyone presumed he was ramping things up to frighten the children (which he suceeded at...I was completely freaked out:) ) . Later on in the night however he was coming back from his bedroom to the bar when he thought he saw something again and got such a fright that he ran through an indoor glass door trying to escape it. I remember the sound of shattering glass and a big commotion. An ambulance arrived quickly and took him away and all the children were sent home so we heard nothing more than that "he wasn't well". I'd never heard any ghost stories about the hotel and always presumed that the man in question was just a bit strange but reading this does cast a spookier light on things! Always presumed that the fact the place always had an eerie feel to me was because it had all been quite an upsetting experience at the time.

I don't believe in ghosts myself but sometimes it does seem a pity to let the truth and rational thought get in the way of a good story.

hada

chilly wrote: »

Any idea what the name of this estate is? Is it Highfield Park?
Or am I way off there?

yep that is exactly the place!

lostinnappies

heres a good one for ya. The three storie houses you see on abbey gate street in galway.... the one that (still has or had) couch potatoes the resturant is situated in is hauted. The reason i know this is because my Grandmother used to own it. She and my grand father ran a little newsagent from it. Basically there used to be a sound of wemon wailing like they were at a wake, when my grandmother told them to "be quite" a stone flew across the room and hit her on the forhead. There were no stones in the room before nor was the window open. My little brother when he was about 4 years old was sitting in the downstairs room with myself, my mother and my grandmother. He turned around out of the blue and asked my mother if he could go play with the man. Of course there was no one there, my grandmother ask "what man". He said the one sitting in the corner with the gun. Apperntly my Grandmother found out that years before a previous owner had shot himself in that room. Also there was always one room they couldnt heat up on the second floor. No matter how hard they tried, even putting an electric heater in did nothing. They always kept it locked.

lostinnappies

quietobserver wrote: »

ok the b&B opposite the huntsman seems to be the most popular any stories or info on the others mentioned??

boarded up house on old coast road to oranmore?

connemara coast hotel

house at the golflings in salthill?

any others of note?

There is an old house behide the hurdy gurdies next to leisureland which is ment to be haunted. I dont know if its been knocked down but the previous owner was ment to have hanged themselves from the top of the stairs.

Ya and i pass the haunted house on the oranmore old coast road. Its just a shell of a building now, i dont know the story behind it.

quietobserver

excellent lostinappies,
these are the kinda stories im intersted in,its cool to think too that on one of our busiest streets, theres accounts of hauntings. cheers for that.
any more out there?

ronnie3585

By any chance do you work for the Galway First?