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If you have lived in a paranormal/haunted house, how do you find it?

  • 02-03-2011 8:15am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭


    I am alright sometimes but I get distressed othertimes. It is OK knowing there are these going-ons in the house, but it is worrying sometimes. For example I had a dream last night about shadow people, and when I woke up I didn't want to be in my room.

    Or for example, I live with my girlfriend ATM. If she is in the house everything is cool (she feels the same for me) but if I am the only person in the house I get edgy going upstairs, plus I don't look in the windows when out the back. Or if i'm upstairs by myself I sometimes close all the other doors so only the hallway is there. It definitely puts me on my toes sometimes. Before when I lived by myself I would have to leave the house sometimes.

    How do you feel with these experiences?


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  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I spent all my formative years feeling scared and edgy at home, as well as in all kinds of other places, so I understand.

    But Ive mentioned to you before, the path to coping is not changing your surroundings, but changing yourself, and your attitude towards the things you are aware of. You need to ground, you need to not let your awareness be such a distraction. The place where I live now is built on an old ruined farmstead, I could drive myself to distraction picking up on echoes from this place, but I choose not to.

    Its like learning to live next to a main road or a building site. You have to learn to tune out the noise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭GodlessM


    Didn't you say before that these things happened no matter where you were CorkMan? So technically you don't live in a haunted house; you would be what's haunted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    GodlessM wrote: »
    Didn't you say before that these things happened no matter where you were CorkMan? So technically you don't live in a haunted house; you would be what's haunted.

    Please stop posting off topic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Ruth KPS


    Couldn't agree more with Oryx.. you need to learn tp drown it out.

    Personally, I wouldn't be without the ones in my house, im so used to them now, if they left they would actually be missed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭GodlessM


    CorkMan wrote: »
    Please stop posting off topic.

    It's not off-topic; it's about living in a haunted house, just not the view you wanted to hear. If it was off-topic a mod would have called me on it days ago (and I will heed it should one call me on it). Ironically your post which I have quoted above is more off-topic than my previous one (and I've noticed you've developed a trend of trying to back-seat mod too).

    I'm going to just add you to my ignore list and be done with this, because you're constantly whiney "why won't you play the game how I want to" type posts have gone from amusing to iritating at this point. And just as a lesson, now I'm being off-topic.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 newnobody


    i know how u feel the other night i had a vivid dream about my husbands grandmother shes been dead a few years, it was a very vivid dream in the middle of it i was woke to screaming from my daughters room, she is 4, she told me somone touched her on the head, she was terrified. this is regular enough occurance. our house is never in darkness light on in every room at night, nothing extremly bad happens us just little reminders that we share this house. it belonged to family members and its an old house.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    GodlessM wrote: »
    It's not off-topic; it's about living in a haunted house, just not the view you wanted to hear. If it was off-topic a mod would have called me on it days ago (and I will heed it should one call me on it). Ironically your post which I have quoted above is more off-topic than my previous one (and I've noticed you've developed a trend of trying to back-seat mod too).

    I'm going to just add you to my ignore list and be done with this, because you're constantly whiney "why won't you play the game how I want to" type posts have gone from amusing to iritating at this point. And just as a lesson, now I'm being off-topic.

    Please read the thread title, then read your first post. The thread asked for you to give your experience, but instead you gave a question.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    CorkMan, the point GodlessM made is a valid one. When it comes to people (not just you) who are sensitive, they will pick up stuff from places that may not have a rep for being haunted. As far as the theory goes, anywhere people have lived or died will hold an echo of those lives which can be felt by a senstive person. You dont have to seek out a spooky building to experience it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    Just out of curiosity, CorkMan, can I ask you the general area in which your house is located?

    I've heard a few stories about houses in Sunday's Well and on the Douglas road (along where St. Finbarr's Hospital is).

    I don't think I've ever been in a 'haunted' house in my life. I used to work in an old folks home when I was 15-18 though and the place used to make my skin crawl (not because of all the senile geriatrics - I didn't/don't have anything against them).

    There was an old wing that had been built in the '50s and a then-brand-new wing and, predictably, it was the old wing I used to hate. I was often upstairs on my own cleaning out the rooms down these endless hallways and I constantly had the feeling of being watched every single time. I could up there for about three hours at a time Saturday after Saturday and I could never shake the feeling. I suppose that's the case in any place where people have died over the years though. I thought it was just me until I was out having a smoke with the Filipino nurses one day and they mentioned it.

    Eventually the old wing was shut down because it failed to meet the health board regulations and standards. Maybe I should have dusted the place better! pacman.gif

    Now, I'm not averse in the least about being left to my own devices in buildings - I was working in a farm most Sundays around the same time then and I'd often be out in the sheds by myself and it was no bother to me.

    CorkMan, I suppose if whatever's hanging around is irking you so much, you could always just tell it/them to feck off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    About the feeling of being watched. I could get it, but if I had to bend over awkwardly suddenly to pick something off the floor I would see something out of the corner of my eye.

    This is not just a black shadow or anything, this is a full complexion of a human. Like I dropped a PS3 controller before and had to pick it up. When I had my head to the floor I could have swore I saw a girl in her 20's starting directly at me, around 2 feet away. Only for half a second till I got up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    CorkMan wrote: »
    About the feeling of being watched. I could get it, but if I had to bend over awkwardly suddenly to pick something off the floor I would see something out of the corner of my eye.

    This is not just a black shadow or anything, this is a full complexion of a human. Like I dropped a PS3 controller before and had to pick it up. When I had my head to the floor I could have swore I saw a girl in her 20's staring directly at me, around 2 feet away. Only for half a second till I got up.

    Oh f**k, that's freaky. Would you ever think of bringing in a medium to sort out the house? I'm sorry to be mentioning him again now, but Peter Matthew does house clearings. I think he's based in Fairhill but he travels. His number is at the bottom of this page: http://www.petermatthew.net/

    It'd be worth a try anyway instead of having to put up with that sh*t any longer. If Matthew does/doesn't sort it out for you, post it up here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Well this certainly explains alot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    DOC09UNAM wrote: »
    Well this certainly explains alot.

    Which is?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    corkman

    you DID say that no matter where you live you are "haunted" so I don't think there is actually a problem with the houses you occupy.

    to be honest, I think people take your posts now with a pinch of salt, because you are not really open minded about natural occurences - everything has to be a haunting where you are concerned. Did you ever hear about the boy who cried wolf.

    no offence, but you do protest too much. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Ziycon


    The house I live in has had many strange occurances due mainly to an item in the house which a few people on boards have looked at, the item has been removed from the house and everything went quite but it has started again bit by bit about a year or so after the item was removed from the house. There are complete skeptics that live in the house and have heard talking and footsteps upstairs while alone in the house and other stuff.

    Everyone has gotten used to it and we've never had a medium or priet in to bless and nothing bad has happened and have no reason to suspect it will.

    You learn to live with what ever it is that is going on be it in our heads or ghostly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    corkman

    you DID say that no matter where you live you are "haunted" so I don't think there is actually a problem with the houses you occupy.

    to be honest, I think people take your posts now with a pinch of salt, because you are not really open minded about natural occurences - everything has to be a haunting where you are concerned. Did you ever hear about the boy who cried wolf.

    no offence, but you do protest too much. :D

    TBH if you heard clear external noises happening you'd be freaked out. A couple of days ago I heard a bang on the wall three times in the bedroom across the hallway. It was definitely the wall inside the bedroom, not on the other side.

    Even my cousin who stayed 2 weeks with me earlier in the year said he noticed some unusual things. The thing about a boy cried wolf, in my other thread I said the drawers banged and the washing machine door seemed to get kicked. I heard them outside my head, and got apprehensive when they occured. I cannot find a single natural explanation, how force could cause those phenomenon. I wouldn't even sleep up there sometimes if my girlfriend wasn't with me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Ziycon wrote: »
    The house I live in has had many strange occurances due mainly to an item in the house which a few people on boards have looked at, the item has been removed from the house and everything went quite but it has started again bit by bit about a year or so after the item was removed from the house. There are complete skeptics that live in the house and have heard talking and footsteps upstairs while alone in the house and other stuff.

    Everyone has gotten used to it and we've never had a medium or priet in to bless and nothing bad has happened and have no reason to suspect it will.

    You learn to live with what ever it is that is going on be it in our heads or ghostly.
    You would be simply amazed at the amount of skeptic accounts of people who have had poltergeist activity, apparation activity and noise activity. Changed the belief system for ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Grilled Cheesus


    girlfriends grandparents house is haunted, big old building. I hate it, thankfully never had to stay the night. She said her and her cousins used to hear crazy stuff at night when they'd stay there- wake up and see someone in their room. Loads of stuff moves around there too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭VictoriaC


    We bought our dream house only to discover it was haunted - we were out of there within 6 weeks. Yes a full mortgage - first time house for us both, we were so excited, so happy and within that time period our lives were shattered and dreams destroyed.

    The feeling was Evil, dark and nasty. We tried everyting - getting the house blessed, using the right candles/fragrances, crystals etc, getting in a medium... but it just seemed to make it all worse.

    Seeing another face looking back at me in the mirror finished it off for me - until then I hadnt actually seen anything - altho my Hubby had - I just didnt want to believe it!

    I had only heard things which I blamed on everything else, even tho the bedroom door locked itself with the key from the inside - while I was outside the door - I still blamed it on "faulty locks" (I was on my own when this happened so no one else did it).
    My little teddy bears constantly being moved around ..... all the signs were there but I just didn't want to believe it...

    Seeing is belieiving hey...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    My bedroom in Drogheda was haunted. I would be asleep and id wake up to my leg being dragged out of the bed. It happened for a good while. Some nights more than others. Eventually i had the guts just to tell the thing to feck off that i didnt think it was funny and it stops.

    My mam also had an experience in her house. She said she was asleep and suddenly she woke up and there was a man beside her bed who touched her hand. she said he was ice cold wearing something similar to a monks outfit with the hood up. She said he let go and walked back out of her room.

    I also had another experience, i was sitting in my living room quite late one night watching tv and i had just finished packet of crisp that i put down beside me. next of all the bag started shaking. Dont think i moved so fast in my life!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Shane St.


    no such thing lads. its all bollix. and no im not trolling i just dont believe in it. and thers no evidence 4 it. op can u give us examples of paranormal activity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Shane St.


    Ziycon wrote: »
    The house I live in has had many strange occurances due mainly to an item in the house which a few people on boards have looked at, the item has been removed from the house and everything went quite but it has started again bit by bit about a year or so after the item was removed from the house. There are complete skeptics that live in the house and have heard talking and footsteps upstairs while alone in the house and other stuff.

    Everyone has gotten used to it and we've never had a medium or priet in to bless and nothing bad has happened and have no reason to suspect it will.

    You learn to live with what ever it is that is going on be it in our heads or ghostly.

    what was the item??????


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Shane St. wrote: »
    no such thing lads. its all bollix. and no im not trolling i just dont believe in it. and thers no evidence 4 it. op can u give us examples of paranormal activity
    Shane, please read the charter and respect the input of others who post here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Ruth KPS wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more with Oryx.. you need to learn tp drown it out.

    Personally, I wouldn't be without the ones in my house, im so used to them now, if they left they would actually be missed.
    iv had spirits around me all my life but iv studied a lot about the paranormal and iv learned to control it you shouldent worry about any spirits in your house if they arent doing anyone any harm:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Ziycon wrote: »
    The house I live in has had many strange occurances due mainly to an item in the house which a few people on boards have looked at, the item has been removed from the house and everything went quite but it has started again bit by bit about a year or so after the item was removed from the house. There are complete skeptics that live in the house and have heard talking and footsteps upstairs while alone in the house and other stuff.

    Everyone has gotten used to it and we've never had a medium or priet in to bless and nothing bad has happened and have no reason to suspect it will.

    You learn to live with what ever it is that is going on be it in our heads or ghostly.
    i live on the inchicore rd right opposite kilmainham gaol and i constantly see things passing by and dissappering sometimes slowly and sometimes fast nothing to do with gaol itself but on the road i sit in front of the window when im on my computer iv allready seen a few things tonight but it's usually in the early hours of the morning around 3am onward but im used to seeing spirits all my life i find it all interesting:):eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Shane St. wrote: »
    no such thing lads. its all bollix. and no im not trolling i just dont believe in it. and thers no evidence 4 it. op can u give us examples of paranormal activity
    is that soooo now well i know it not all bollix evidence or not stop trying to be the big fella and have respect for others and no i dont care wheather you belive or not:eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Shane St. wrote: »
    no such thing lads. its all bollix. and no im not trolling i just dont believe in it. and thers no evidence 4 it. op can u give us examples of paranormal activity

    yeah its all bollox because you dont believe in it. that makes sooo much sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    These threads always end up going the same route.

    Someone starts off saying that they had a spooky experience of some sort - which is valid to them at the very least - and, before long, you get helpful, fresh input that flowered in the sage minds of people who remind us - in case we forgot, like - that it's all a load of bollix.

    I'm not suggesting that every story related on here is 'real' - sure how the f uck would I know? - but I don't think it's any harm to try to understand something from different angles and acquire more information from the OP. It makes for more interesting reading (to me) anyway.

    People of the 'bollix' persuasion may as well just take their tents and erect them over in the Skeptics Corner patch instead.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Guys, if someone posts something out of line, report the post instead of dragging the thread off topic. Ive already dealt with this above, so back on topic please.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Shane St.


    sorry guys I probably came across as a pig headed fool in an earlier post. I am still fascinated by this stuff/
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3496768/Poltergeist-wrecks-house-in-Coventry-and-kills-the-dog.html
    what u thin of that. cud be an umbrella moving the stool tho


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Shane St. wrote: »
    sorry guys I probably came across as a pig headed fool in an earlier post. I am still fascinated by this stuff/
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3496768/Poltergeist-wrecks-house-in-Coventry-and-kills-the-dog.html
    what u thin of that. cud be an umbrella moving the stool tho
    Cant watch the vids cos my broadband is a bit last century.

    But in cases like this my first thought is..
    Lisa has asked her housing association to be moved
    ..she just wants a new house.

    That is cynical I know, but (as heard on the radio this morning) why is it always council houses that get these poltergiests?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    But based on past experience, who was successfull in getting a new house? There is a place in Cork that claims to be haunted, it even had the City Council Manager there, the radio station there regularly and it was on RTE news one night.

    But the people still haven't got a new place. They had to move out in the end. It would not be a good impetus for people to claim paranormal activity for reason to get a new place. Though I am skeptical.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    CorkMan wrote: »
    But based on past experience, who was successfull in getting a new house? There is a place in Cork that claims to be haunted, it even had the City Council Manager there, the radio station there regularly and it was on RTE news one night.

    But the people still haven't got a new place. They had to move out in the end. It would not be a good impetus for people to claim paranormal activity for reason to get a new place. Though I am skeptical.
    1) What do you mean "based on past experience"? Whose "experience" is it based on?
    2) What evidence did the CC manager, radio station and RTE find?
    3) If the people didn't get a new place, where did they move to ????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    1) A couple in a council house with a child.
    2) They didn't report on results, just the happenings. Though supposedly some unofficial mediums when to the house and experienced some happenings.
    3) The couple are living at their parents (not sure if the mans or womens parents), though they never gave up the house. They are all in 1 room and have been out of the house for 8+ months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    CorkMan wrote: »
    1) A couple in a council house with a child.
    2) They didn't report on results, just the happenings. Though supposedly some unofficial mediums when to the house and experienced some happenings.
    3) The couple are living at their parents (not sure if the mans or womens parents), though they never gave up the house. They are all in 1 room and have been out of the house for 8+ months.

    and that somehow proves the place is haunted? I dont understand that logic tbh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    maccored wrote: »
    and that somehow proves the place is haunted? I dont understand that logic tbh.

    I never said it was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    Here’s an interesting excerpt concerning the ‘haunted house’ in Cork from Darren Mann’s great book ‘Haunted Cork’. It sums it all up nicely and it’s fitting, considering it’s been around a year now since the story first broke...

    The story of the alleged haunted house in Cork’s Hollywood Estate was catapulted into the paranormal spotlight in March 2010. Originally carried by the local media, the story quickly spread around the world on the web.

    Number 18 Hollywood Estate is a council house, typical of the properties on Cork’s Northside. It had lain empty for two years before it became the home of Laura Burke, her son Kyle and Laura’s fiance Richie Hewitt.

    The family reported that nothing untoward occurred in the house until early in 2010, when Laura fell pregnant. As is the case with many documented poltergeist stories, the family started to notice slightly out-of-the-ordinary events; keys and other small items would disappear and turn up somewhere else, clothing would be moved and taps would be turned on and left to fill up the sink.

    As time progressed, the activity became more frequent and increased in intensity. Glowing balls of light manifested in a few of the rooms, and furniture would levitate before dropping back to the floor. Visitors to the home also witnessed strange occurrences. It was reported that previous occupant Adrian Payton, who formerly lived at the house for twenty-six years without incident, watched a kitchen drawer open and a table lift slowly off the ground.

    During a television interview (with TV3), Laura described some of the events, 'Chairs lifting, moving... black shadows... horrible smells ... I wouldn’t wish this place on nobody, nobody at all, not even on my own worst enemy...'

    Richie added that, one night, after Kyle went to bed, he had glimpsed eyes staring at him through his bedroom window. He was left terrified.

    After Kyle was thrown out of bed by an unseen force, the events became too much for the family to bear. Cork City Council refused Laura and Richie a housing transfer on the basis of 'it is not council policy to deal with alleged paranormal activities', and so the family moved out to stay with Laura’s mother.

    Eoin English covered the story for the Irish Examiner, the paper carrying one of the more objective versions of events, and Eoin was later happy to share his thoughts concerning the haunting.

    "Although initially very sceptical, I arrived at the house and tried to approach the story with an open mind. And the more I spoke to the couple, the more I began to wonder just why would they make something like this up?

    As a result of their claim, they refused to stay in the house, opting instead to sleep on the floor in a relation’s home – surely an arrangement that was far from ideal as Laura was pregnant at the time. They had independent witnesses too – including the former owner of the house who never experienced anything like this when he lived there, but only when he returned to visit the young couple and offer help.

    But I saw no evidence of anything unusual, apart from a grainy photograph of a ball of light hovering above their kitchen table, and certainly saw no direct evidence myself of anything unusual or paranormal occurring in the house.

    One of the most disturbing aspects of this case was the arrival at the house, unannounced and uninvited, of two gentlemen, who claimed to be clairvoyants (English or Mann don’t name them, but I know for a fact they were John O’Reilly and feckin’ Tom Flynn). They offered to cleanse the house of ‘evil spirits’ and proceeded around various rooms, waving their hands and rolling their eyes, and making ridiculous claims about sensing this, and sensing that.

    Their performance culminated in a farcical scene whereby one guy tried to distract the people in the room, while the other bent over and tried to untie his shoe lace unnoticed before standing up straight again and suggesting that it was a spirit who had opened the lace (O’Reilly also had the gall to claim this afterwards on the phone to Prendeville). They were kicked out fairly quickly after that.”

    Eoin also spoke of Laura, saying that while her claims seemed completely fantastical, ‘she came across as a very calm, sensible person who had been through a very traumatic experience. She seemed utterly convinced and genuinely terrified that something unusual was occurring in her home’.

    Cork’s 96 FM also had a strong interest in the case, and invited paranormal veteran Paul O’Halloran (I saw him speak at last year’s World Ghost Convention – sound bloke) to the house. Paul is a seasoned spiritualist, having over twenty years’ experience of shamanic healing, house clearing and land healing. After visiting the site, Paul said, 'I discovered that there were spirits of children from unmarked graves, around twenty to twenty-five children. There was a highwayman from the sixteenth century and there were also people from the famine who were around the area. There was also very heavy, dark energy like a curse on the place.' Paul was unsure why the activity started when it did, but observed that Laura was pregnant, saying that sometimes 'mother energy can attract children spirits who are trapped'.

    Paul reported that he had seen this level of activity before in other properties, but the fear displayed by Laura and Richie was particularly memorable. After identifying the problem, Paul used his skills to engage the spirits. 'I dealt with (the situation) through opening the sacred space and working through the shamanic medicine wheel, drumming and prayers and mantras for releasing the trapped spirits', Paul said.

    Although Paul had claimed success, the family refused to move back to their home.

    The story divided the local estate. Eoin (English) reported that the majority of the neighbours believed the family were telling the truth, having experienced paranormal events first-hand. Other local families were more suspicious of Laura and Richie’s motivation, saying that they just wanted the local authorities to give them a new house. Neighbours were also upset at the amount of attention the road attracted. Hundreds of visitors flocked to the area to view the haunted house and the Gardai were called in to control the flow of traffic. Groups of teenagers took to sitting and drinking outside the house late at night waiting to ‘see something’. After the family moved out, stones were thrown at the house and windows were smashed; the house was finally boarded up and left empty.

    Unless outright fraud is admitted, what really happened to the family and their home will always be the subject of intense debate, and as I write 18 Hollywood Estate remains locked up and empty.


    AFAIK, that’s still the case at the moment. Wasn’t there a similar-ish case concerning a family on an estate in Galway back in 1997? One of the girls in the house had just had a baby and some weird occurrences kicked off. I think they called in some medium named Sandra Ramhandie (can’t spell it), and I think the story even made the RTE News as well, lol. Correct me if I'm wrong. I must look that up again...


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I seem to remember that lady used to post here, back in the day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    Oryx wrote: »
    I seem to remember that lady used to post here, back in the day.

    Really? Funny old world.

    Right, I found this article about her and that alleged haunted house in Galway. They said the story was turned into a screenplay. :confused:

    It wouldn't have been the inspiration for 'Paranormal Activity' now, would it?!
    TOP showbiz psychic Sandra Ramdhanie is planning to turn one of her real-life ghostbusting encounters into a movie.



    Sandra, who has worked with RTE shock jock Gerry Ryan to get rid of unwanted spirits, was called in to see off a spook that even a bishop failed to banish.



    Now she's putting the final touches to a film script which tells the terrifying story of the haunting of Jackie and Ester Fahy's 19- month-old grandaughter in their Corrib Park home.



    "The Galway baby ghost story is now a movie screenplay, and there's interest from Hollywood," said Sandra.


    The poltergeist plagued the family's council home for eight months, and seemed especially attracted to their granddaughter, Sarah Louise. Photos were damaged, a jug was hurled across the landing and smashed against a door, toys moved without being touched, the toilet flushed on its own, and a picture went flying off the mantelpiece.



    In desperation, the family asked their bishop to arrange an exorcism ceremony and a Mass to be said in the house, but after a curate called, the haunting got worse. As a last resort, Jackie, 48, and Ester, 45, called in Ireland's leading psychic ghostbuster, Sandra, who has featured on Gerry Ryan's radio show.



    Sandra organised a special ritual to protect toddler Sarah, who she believed the ghost was latching on to. She says the spook, which departed after her intervention, was the baby of a long- dead nun whose father was a priest.



    Sandra says: "I'm afraid the Church does not come out well in the Galway baby ghost story.

    The rest of the article: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19980426/ai_n14477186/

    "Ireland's leading psychic ghostbuster". What a creative journalist. :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    MrMojo, have you read the book "Haunted Cork"?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    CorkMan wrote: »
    MrMojo, have you read the book "Haunted Cork"?

    I have, yeah. I've been taking it around in my 'man bag' for the last fortnight or so. I read bits here and there. That's the beauty of it - you can just dip in and out of it, instead of having to read it all uniformly from start to finish (don't have time for that ATM). I don't mean to be plugging it shamelessly, or anything, but it just so happens that a lot of the content is relevant to this forum's topics.

    I don't want to be sued for some sort of copyright infringement either. Ah well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭meryem


    Things here appears to be crossing censure levels...

    @thread starter I think if you will consult some spiritual medium near your place, you can find better advice. Otherwise you won't get the clear picture whether it is house, you or anything else is haunted in particular. And please don' take things otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,245 ✭✭✭psycho-hope


    i live on the inchicore rd right opposite kilmainham gaol and i constantly see things passing by and dissappering sometimes slowly and sometimes fast nothing to do with gaol itself but on the road i sit in front of the window when im on my computer iv allready seen a few things tonight but it's usually in the early hours of the morning around 3am onward but im used to seeing spirits all my life i find it all interesting:):eek:

    was in the Gaol yesterday and got seriously creeped out


    My Grandparents house is haunted, nothing major just footsteps and the odd door banging


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    CorkMan wrote: »
    MrMojo, have you read the book "Haunted Cork"?

    Where can I buy that book in cork?waterstones?vibes and scribes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Where can I buy that book in cork?waterstones?vibes and scribes?

    http://thehistorypress.ie/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=516


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    Where can I buy that book in cork?waterstones?vibes and scribes?

    Yeah, no bookshops have it. :confused:

    It's available to buy on Amazon too: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Cork-Darren-Mann/dp/1845886941/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303128787&sr=1-1


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    shouldnt it be in easons? History Press apparently supply them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,748 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    http://www.eason.ie/books/9781845886943 - Im sure they have it in store as well


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I'll get it off amazon,its cheaper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭MrMojoRisin


    maccored wrote: »
    shouldnt it be in easons? History Press apparently supply them

    I checked the Easons in O'Connell Street, Patrick Street in Cork, the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and the Drogheda Town Centre and I couldn't see the book anywhere. I was just around, like, so I said I'd have a look. I approached a sales assistant in the Drogheda outlet and she checked the system just to be sure and, no, they didn't have it.

    So if someone finds the book in Easons anytime soon, I'd be interested to know!

    But, yeah, it is cheaper (and more hassle-free) to just order it off Amazon instead.


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