Anyone been to hellfire club at night?

Musicman2006

I live just at the bottom of that mountain and used to be able to see the club from my bedroom window (before the celtic tiger built thousands of apartments/houses and blocked my view!). But of course living near it ive heard many of the stories and have just read one online about 2 girls going there at night and seeing black shadows everywhere...i think i might be more scared of the junkies hanging around - but i wonder if anyone has any experiences/stories of spending a night up there?

kylith

I'd imagine there are lots of black shadows at night, alright. I wouldn't go near the Hellfire club at night; I have a terrible allergy to being murdered by junkies.

iPlop

kylith wrote: »

I'd imagine there are lots of black shadows at night, alright. I wouldn't go near the Hellfire club at night; I have a terrible allergy to being murdered by junkies.

I've been there many times ,sat on the roof at 3am and looked across Dublin.It's a bit scary alright.
The last time I was up there was about 10 years ago and the it was a bit strange. Clouds moved in and the whole area was covered in dense fog and out of nowhere a woman walked over to us and asked us which way to lord masseys.

She was hiking by herself at 2am in thick fog:eek: I thought that was strange, everyone to their own I suppose.

kylith

Sink The Banana wrote: »

I've been there many times ,sat on the roof at 3am and looked across Dublin.It's a bit scary alright.
The last time I was up there was about 10 years ago and the it was a bit strange. Clouds moved in and the whole area was covered in dense fog and out of nowhere a woman walked over to us and asked us which way to lord masseys.

She was hiking by herself at 2am in thick fog:eek: I thought that was strange, everyone to their own I suppose.

Hiking across the mountains at 2am? That's a bit mad.

I haven't been up there for years, but I was fascinated by the history of the place. I wish I could remember how to get there cos it's a lovely hike up the hill.

texidub

Yep. Been up there at night. Would agree with the others who said they'd be more afraid of junkies etc.

Some great shots of it here, BTW:
http://www.abandonedireland.com/hf.html

iPlop

texidub wrote: »

Yep. Been up there at night. Would agree with the others who said they'd be more afraid of junkies etc.

Some great shots of it here, BTW:
http://www.abandonedireland.com/hf.html

I've heard about this junkie thing but have never seen it tbh, although I have seen the evidence there. I'd say it's more lads drinking than junkies, I have gone up and come across people drinking and messing in the woods alright.

Ruth KPS

The Hellfire Club - My team have investigated back in January, very active location. Lot's there to be found ( Paranormal wise )

Otherwise, never go up alone anyway, but never go up alone if your female!

After our investigation ( we had to cut it short at 1am ) we reached the bottom of the hill.. to be greeted by 3-4 cars of skinhead guys going up there... on a Monday night? Looked fairly dodgy!

Riamfada

Found a drug addict up there once. Tried to investigate it but the fact that it's open to the elements makes it nearly impossible. Been up there a few times at night, it's just at the back to tallaght so it's bound to attract a bad element. O ly paranormal investigation that we needed to bring a baseball bat on.

Dave!

Would never go up there at night, no... Madness. Dodgy as fcuk

Riamfada

Dave! wrote: »

Would never go up there at night, no... Madness. Dodgy as fcuk

These people go head to head with the devil. A few scrotes don't scare them.

T17cH

I was just reading through the article and the story with the devil playing cards in the house is nearly word for word the same as the story associated with loftus hall in wexford.

kylith

Riamfada wrote: »

These people go head to head with the devil. A few scrotes don't scare them.

They should. There's no proof that a devil exists, but junkies with syringes or stanley knives are a proven fact.

thegspot

Hi All,
Myself and my mate went up one night about 2 years ago around Halloween... On way up in pitch black and next thing is I fall over sheep!!! I nearly died.

We had cameras, recording equipment. Think we caught a number of orbs on them... two days later I came down with swine flu! Nasty... Hense I'll never forget it!

Columbia

I would love to go up there sometime. I've just spent two years writing a research thesis on a group of Irish authors, one of whom was James Worsdale, who happened to be one of the founding members of the Hellfire Club.

tallaghtmick

Riamfada wrote: »

Found a drug addict up there once. Tried to investigate it but the fact that it's open to the elements makes it nearly impossible. Been up there a few times at night, it's just at the back to tallaght so it's bound to attract a bad element. O ly paranormal investigation that we needed to bring a baseball bat on.

CianRyan

Sad as it is, it's true.
I've never had any bad experiences up there myself though.

You'd tell fairly quickly by the car parked at the gate whether there's any eejits up top really but have your wits about you going up all the same.

HellFireClub

CianRyan wrote: »

Sad as it is, it's true.
I've never had any bad experiences up there myself though.

You'd tell fairly quickly by the car parked at the gate whether there's any eejits up top really but have your wits about you going up all the same.

I've been walking up here all my life and have very rarely run into any shady folks up there. I did however come across the aftermath of some kind of a ritual that had been held up there a few years ago, when I was walking up there early one morning back in 2006, one of the upstairs rooms had candles still lighting in it and all sorts of occult paraphernalia was lying around on the ground with a big pentagram mapped out on the floor.

CianRyan

HellFireClub wrote: »

CianRyan wrote: »

Sad as it is, it's true.
I've never had any bad experiences up there myself though.

You'd tell fairly quickly by the car parked at the gate whether there's any eejits up top really but have your wits about you going up all the same.

I've been walking up here all my life and have very rarely run into any shady folks up there. I did however come across the aftermath of some kind of a ritual that had been held up there a few years ago, when I was walking up there early one morning back in 2006, one of the upstairs rooms had candles still lighting in it and all sorts of occult paraphernalia was lying around on the ground with a big pentagram mapped out on the floor.

Very cool find!
I don't suppose you got any pictures?

My parents have always told me there's weird goings on up there on Halloween, devil worish and all that.
This is the first case I've heard or some one actually coming across any evidence of this.

HellFireClub

CianRyan wrote: »

Very cool find!
I don't suppose you got any pictures?

My parents have always told me there's weird goings on up there on Halloween, devil worish and all that.
This is the first case I've heard or some one actually coming across any evidence of this.

I took pictures at the time but they were taken on my mobile and then eventually a few months later the mobile died and the pics were lost.

The date I remember was the morning after the winter solstice of December 2005, just a day or two before Crimbo of that year. It was the room to your right if you are standing upstairs at the middle window in the hall, looking out over the city. Weird and all as it was to see, a room laid out for a satanic ritual, I didn't really put it down to anything more than some students experimenting with the occult but sure you wouldn't know these days what would be going on...

kylith

HellFireClub wrote: »

I took pictures at the time but they were taken on my mobile and then eventually a few months later the mobile died and the pics were lost.

The date I remember was the morning after the winter solstice of December 2005, just a day or two before Crimbo of that year. It was the room to your right if you are standing upstairs at the middle window in the hall, looking out over the city. Weird and all as it was to see, a room laid out for a satanic ritual, I didn't really put it down to anything more than some students experimenting with the occult but sure you wouldn't know these days what would be going on...

Probably just some eejits messing around. Still, even if they were serious at least they have a much chance of raising Satan as Christians have of getting God to show up somewhere.

fontanalis

HellFireClub wrote: »

I took pictures at the time but they were taken on my mobile and then eventually a few months later the mobile died and the pics were lost.

The date I remember was the morning after the winter solstice of December 2005, just a day or two before Crimbo of that year. It was the room to your right if you are standing upstairs at the middle window in the hall, looking out over the city. Weird and all as it was to see, a room laid out for a satanic ritual, I didn't really put it down to anything more than some students experimenting with the occult but sure you wouldn't know these days what would be going on...

A satanic ritual on the winter solstice in a building made popular by urban myths, they sound like real winners.

Son_of_Belial

I've gone up there recently enough with the gf but I haven't been there after dark - she refuses to and I won't go on my own. For safety's sake you understand? Took the pic below on August 14th just gone.

rossc007

I live in Firhouse and can see it while Im sitting on my couch here

I've been up there plenty of times, day and night. Any junkie that can make it up there at night must be supplementing steroids, I cant imagine why any self respecting junkie would bother, there are easier places to bang up. There used to be raves help up there at night, although I never attended. Camped up there a couple of times in my teens, only thing to be afraid of was the joy-riders on the way up. Saw a heap of bright lights up there last summer, turns our the where shooting for "Camelot".

tallaghtmick

Whats the easiest way up? I know theres a steep hill up but I think theres a long way round am I right?

Unpossible

T17cH wrote: »

I was just reading through the article and the story with the devil playing cards in the house is nearly word for word the same as the story associated with loftus hall in wexford.

It does seem to be one of those myths that gets thrown about a lot, I have heard of it in relation to another house, but can't remember which one. I've also heard of variations where there was dice involved or dancing in a local hall.

seamus

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Whats the easiest way up? I know theres a steep hill up but I think theres a long way round am I right?

Yeah, just follow the main fireroad out of the car park, it winds around the mountain a bit. You'll reach a point where there's a T-junction, you can go left down towards the forest or right up to the building.
The main road takes about 35 minutes, the direct route you'll climb in 10-15 minutes.

I wouldn't go up at night only because you have no idea what kind of scumbags you'll find up there. Generally only kids of 14 - 17 years old knacker drinking, but they can be dangerous when they want to be. Midweek is probably safer than weekend nights.

HellFireClub

I've camped up on the mountain several times, it's my fav part of Dublin, (hence the username!), I've often gone for a midnight walk up to the house from where I was camping which would have only been a few minutes walk away, it is obviously more errie at night, more foreboding than errie but you can't beat the night time view from the middle window at the top of the stairs, walking into the house at night thought and up the stairs can be a bit freaky on your own...

Actually this venue would make an ideal boardie's Paranormal beer's haunted night, (Scholar's Pub is at the foot of the hill), get a few sociable evening pints in, followed by a night time haunted walk up the hill and then back to the boozer!

LostCovey

Riamfada wrote: »

up there a few times at night, it's just at the back to tallaght so it's bound to attract a bad element.

Bit harsh on Tallaght. Plenty of decent people in Tallaght

LC

lolo62

i got a flat tyre in the middle of the sally gap once on a monday night at 11.30 with two friends in the car....im generally not a fearful person but i nearly s**t myself waiting for help to arrive as it was so isolated..i think every horror movie i had ever seen ran through my mind

i remember my dad coming back from fca camp when i was younger saying he saw some sort of rituals going on in the woods up there so i have this massive fear now of going into the mountains at night....wish i didnt though 'cause if youre not s*****g yourself id say its magical!

HellFireClub

lolo62 wrote: »

i got a flat tyre in the middle of the sally gap once on a monday night at 11.30 with two friends in the car....im generally not a fearful person but i nearly s**t myself waiting for help to arrive as it was so isolated..i think every horror movie i had ever seen ran through my mind

i remember my dad coming back from fca camp when i was younger saying he saw some sort of rituals going on in the woods up there so i have this massive fear now of going into the mountains at night....wish i didnt though 'cause if youre not s*****g yourself id say its magical!

Someone told me once a good few years ago that they witnessed a procession of 8-10 people, in 2 lines/files, steadily making their way up the pathway to the house at the top of the hill once, dressed in black hooded robes and carrying candles. He was cutting through the forest on the way down the hill and almost walked into them as he was about to cut across the pathway that cuts through the forest.

lolo62

HellFireClub wrote: »

Someone told me once a good few years ago that they witnessed a procession of 8-10 people, in 2 lines/files, steadily making their way up the pathway to the house at the top of the hill once, dressed in black hooded robes and carrying candles. He was cutting through the forest on the way down the hill and almost walked into them as he was about to cut across the pathway that cuts through the forest.

wow thats not the kind of thing you want to run into...ive heard rumours too about satanic rituals...

i LOVE the mountains also but tend to steer clear at night...do you go up there regularly after dark?

HellFireClub

lolo62 wrote: »

wow thats not the kind of thing you want to run into...ive heard rumours too about satanic rituals...

i LOVE the mountains also but tend to steer clear at night...do you go up there regularly after dark?

Lol no, but over the years I've often gone walking up there in the autumn or winter in the afternoon or early evening and it would be dark by the time I'd get back down. I know the area so well it wouldn't bother me walking down the hill when it's started to get dark. I used to live at the foot of the hill near the Old Mill Pub and it was my favourite place for a walk a few times a week, especially in the summer.

I've been up there hundreds of times as I lived so near the hill and the only time I've ever seen anything odd up there was morning I went into the house and saw the aftermath of a satanic ritual of some sort the night before. Only one other time last summer did I ever feel uncomfortable up there and that was when I encountered junkie scum on the way up the hill and that was in broad day light and just some idiot dope stoned off his head who was acting a bit ropey, trying to start a conversation with me as he passed me by, (he was heading up the hill and I was heading down).

Son_of_Belial

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Whats the easiest way up? I know theres a steep hill up but I think theres a long way round am I right?

Long way is where you go right up the length of the carpark, the track sort of switches back on itself, then you take a right at a little "cross-roads" and head straight on up.

Easiest/most direct route is to take a left as you come into the carpark past the main barrier, there are 3 wooden posts there at the start of the track up, presumably to block quads/dirt bikes. Head straight up from there. It's harder on the legs coming back down, but here's a tip - sort of "sit back" into your hips as you're coming down, almost as if you're leaning your weight backwards at the hips. Your quads will thank you in the morning!

If you're up there at night make sure you're especially careful coming down as well with torches etc. the track is VERY uneven and rugged, it wouldn't be hard to turn an ankle

edenderry voice of paranormal

we investigated the hellfire club not so long ago. its a great place. I was left alone in there while the lads went outside.

HellFireClub

edenderry voice of paranormal wrote: »

we investigated the hellfire club not so long ago. its a great place. I was left alone in there while the lads went outside.

It was never haunted or alleged to be haunted! The Hell Fire Club (which was never haunted or associated with any alleged paranormal activity), is always confused with Kilakee House, which is a different building beside the car park, which was said to be haunted and was said to have been subject to poltergeist activity in the 1970's...

CianRyan

HellFireClub wrote: »

edenderry voice of paranormal wrote: »

we investigated the hellfire club not so long ago. its a great place. I was left alone in there while the lads went outside.

It was never haunted or alleged to be haunted! The Hell Fire Club (which was never haunted or associated with any alleged paranormal activity), is always confused with Kilakee House, which is a different building beside the car park, which was said to be haunted and was said to have been subject to poltergeist activity in the 1970's...

Come on now, as some one who's lived in Tallaght all my life I've always been told/thought it was haunted, the house too for that matter.

rossc007

CianRyan wrote: »

Come on now, as some one who's lived in Tallaght all my life I've always been told/thought it was haunted, the house too for that matter.

Whats stories? I'm not sure how a house that hasn't been inhabited in 100 years could have haunted stories.

The only fable I heard was about how it burnt down, something to do with the devil and a card game

HellFireClub

CianRyan wrote: »

Come on now, as some one who's lived in Tallaght all my life I've always been told/thought it was haunted, the house too for that matter.

Nope not haunted, associated with satanic rituals and the occult, yes, but there have never been any reported sightings of ghosts in the building or any reports of paranormal activity in the building. There is a constant stream of people climbing the hill and visiting the Hell Fire Club building and that has been the case for the last 200 years, so I'm sure if there was any paranormal activity going on there, we'd have heard reports of it by now...

Kilakee House is a different matter, there are reports back in the 70's of the house and it's immediate grounds being haunted by a large black phantom cat, also the apparition of a nun is said to have appeared at a window and there were reports of extensive poltergeist activity in the 1970's also, which were widely reported, RTE did a documentary on it which as far as I know may be available on YouTube.

But it's important to remember that these are two different buildings with two completely different histories, nearly a mile away from each other.

The reason people are wary of The Hell Fire Club is because of it's alleged associations with satanic ritual and occult activities over the years, but it has never to my knowledge been the site of any paranormal apparition or of any type of unexplainable activity.

A little known fact about the Hell Fire Club building is that in the past, the grounds immediately outside the house was the site chosen on three occasions for a duelling challenge at dawn to settle a dispute between two men, where they stand back to back with a firearm, then walk 40 paces away from each other and then turn around and try to shoot dead their adversary, thereby winning the duel and finally settling their dispute.

tallaghtmick

A few of us went up to masseys last night just at the foot of the hill,it was pitch black so other than torches we could see nothing,after about 10 mins I got the freakiest feeling that I needed to turn around,at the gate was a car parked up sitting there lights on for about 3 mins and drove off,the ladies freaked out and we left,was so weird though just getting the feeling that something was behind me.

HellFireClub

tallaghtmick wrote: »

A few of us went up to masseys last night just at the foot of the hill,it was pitch black so other than torches we could see nothing,after about 10 mins I got the freakiest feeling that I needed to turn around,at the gate was a car parked up sitting there lights on for about 3 mins and drove off,the ladies freaked out and we left,was so weird though just getting the feeling that something was behind me.

I was up at the HFC for a walk yesterday evening, it was just before dark, I bumped into one or two folks/couples walking up there and there was a party of 3/5 folks camping just a few metres from the old ruin, it was pitch dark by the time I came down from the summit as I got a phone call at the summit, it is certainly a foreboding and somewhat errie place to be walking after dark but it's all in the mind I think!

tallaghtmick

HellFireClub wrote: »

I was up at the HFC for a walk yesterday evening, it was just before dark, I bumped into one or two folks/couples walking up there and there was a party of 3/5 folks camping just a few metres from the old ruin, it was pitch dark by the time I came down from the summit as I got a phone call at the summit, it is certainly a foreboding and somewhat errie place to be walking after dark but it's all in the mind I think!

Very true and I would def attend any paranormal beers up there:D

HellFireClub

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Very true and I would def attend any paranormal beers up there:D

Have to say if I ever had to leave Ireland, it's probably the only place I'd really really miss. Over the years, it's been the place I've always gone to for a walk when I had to clear the auld head or to get a perspective on some problem or another.

tallaghtmick

HellFireClub wrote: »

Have to say if I ever had to leave Ireland, it's probably the only place I'd really really miss. Over the years, it's been the place I've always gone to for a walk when I had to clear the auld head or to get a perspective on some problem or another.

*Starts to think HellFireClub is the devil*:pac:

I know what you mean I can see it clear as day from my house and I do be up around that area(usually masseys)for walks.

edenderry voice of paranormal

my team investigated the hellfire club over a month ago. Was left inside alone, great fun

Dave!

tallaghtmick wrote: »

A few of us went up to masseys last night just at the foot of the hill,it was pitch black so other than torches we could see nothing,after about 10 mins I got the freakiest feeling that I needed to turn around,at the gate was a car parked up sitting there lights on for about 3 mins and drove off,the ladies freaked out and we left,was so weird though just getting the feeling that something was behind me.

They were probably just up there for some dogging, nothin to worry about

tallaghtmick

Dave! wrote: »

They were probably just up there for some dogging, nothin to worry about

Well the fookers ruined it for me!!!!! lol

HellFireClub

Dave! wrote: »

They were probably just up there for some dogging, nothin to worry about

Haha that's another thing about that whole area from Kilakee down as far as Glencree, it's a real lovers lane for couples who haven't got their own place yet!

tallaghtmick

HellFireClub wrote: »

Haha that's another thing about that whole area from Kilakee down as far as Glencree, it's a real lovers lane for couples who haven't got their own place yet!

Ive seen the garda around a good bit especially viewpoint.....and ive seen a guy **** up there:eek:

HellFireClub

I was going to go camping for the night up by the Hell Fire Club, the bit of sun earlier on looked promising but it's lashing rain now so not looking like such a good idea...

tallaghtmick

HellFireClub wrote: »

I was going to go camping for the night up by the Hell Fire Club, the bit of sun earlier on looked promising but it's lashing rain now so not looking like such a good idea...

ah gwon:p

HellFireClub

tallaghtmick wrote: »

ah gwon:p

Gonna give it a go next weekend, this storm on the way in is a showstopper!