Leap Castle: Irelands Fortress of Fear

Welcome to The Shadow Signal, The Frequency of the Unknown. I'm Josh Rutledge. And I'm Stephan Gearhart. Together we dive deep into high strangeness, UFOs, cryptids, the paranormal psychic phenomenon, and the hidden truths that echo just. Beneath the surface, somewhere between reality and myth lies The Signal. Can you hear it? Tune in?

The Shadow Signal is live. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another fantastic episode of The Shadow Signal podcast starring me Stephan Gearhart as the host and I guess this other guy, Josh Rutledge. What's up, Josh? Hey man. I have been really enjoying the episode we put out for the first episode. Me too. We've gotten

really good feedback on it, so yeah, I'm really stoked to do this next episode. We've got a really cool episod so that we're going to be talking about tonight. We're going to be talking about the infamous haunted Leap passle in Ireland. It's going to be really really cool. I love getting back to

the haunted stuff. I wonder how many times you'll use an Irish accent. None, now that you've said it, I was going to do it the whole time. I was going to say, we could you know, people listening, you could pause if you're watching this on YouTube or whatever,

and drop a comment how many times you think he'll use it, and then you can listen and see if you're right right? Could be five, could be zero. I might, I might. I throw one in there. You never know.

Oh top of im iron Antoya, there's one. Well that's and that's very cliche. Mm hmm, yeah, well yeah that's I am cliche. Yeah, cliche is your middle name. So how you've been doing, Josh, you've been doing all right, I've. Been doing pretty good. Just you know, it's hot here.

It's hot here too. Yeah, it's uh you know. I think the difference though, is like here, it's it's what I imagine a pizza oven. The inside of a pizza oven was just blowing hot air all the time, which there's no reprieve from the hot air that is blowing, Whereas where you're at it's like.

It's like a y m C a steam room filled with weird naked people. Yeah, or like when you go to the YMCA, the swimming pool, the indoor swimming pools there's like always that weird humid moisture bog on the glass anyways, So yeah, differing heats still hot.

So yeah, that so bad. Well yeah, I think that's about it. I mean Fourth of July we had recently, I took my daughter, she's three, took her out to see fireworks for the first time, out into the street. She love hated, yeah, which is about what I expected. She lasted longer than I thought she would. Finally she

was like, I'm done. She literally said, I'm done. Yeah. We went to a baseball game. I had won tickets from a local radio station, so we went to a Diamondbacks game for fourth and free tickets nosebleed section, as you can imagine, and actually had a mild panic attack because of the height and the openness of the stadium.

Like, oh, you've never sat up that high before. I have, Like I went to a game with my parents when I was like maybe twelve or thirteen, to the Saint Louis Cardinals, which were you know, it's a very also similar stadium, and we set up in the high levels there as well. But I guess it just

didn't bother me the same way as when. You're a kid. You yeah, you just let things fly. So but it was I pretty much had to stare at home plate. If I tried to look out at anything, it would like it would come back. So and it completely drained me on fourth to the point where yesterday

I pretty much slept like I would wake up and I'd be up for like an hour and a half, and then I would just feel drained and I'd go back and I'd sleep for another couple of hours. Like I pretty much slept off and on all day long. I understand, man, I understand. What else? What else? You

got anything else? Today? While we're recording this, it is the Dalai Lama's birthday. It is happy ninetieth birthday to the Dalai Lama. I've had the privilege to see him speak twice and both times was absolutely phenomenal, once in Louisville and once in Indianapolis. Pretty cool.

Took our good friend Santosh from astral stew with me one time, the one up in Indianapolis, I think I think that was the one in Indy, And yeah, that was really really cool. He's He's absolutely amazing. I've never had the privilege of being in the same general area and hearing him speak. But I've heard some

of his you know, speeches and presentations and broadcasts and such. So ye, his his book Art of Happiness is on my top ten list of like self help books that I go back to so highly. So Happy birthday, Happy Birthday, Dalai Lama. But if do you think his friends call him Dolly?

No, he's I forget what his actual name is. Let me see real quick. I just wondered, if you know, if you're really close to the Dalai Lama, do you get to just say Dolly or you just say d L? Like what's up? D L?

Not to be confused with d L Heagley, but. Right, nobody even knows who that is anymore. I don't know. It's too hard to look up. But yeah, no worries. Yeah, but yeah, I like how he said he plans

to live to one hundred and thirty. I read an article today he said he plans to live to one hundred and thirty, but he does plan on reincarnating, yeah, into the next Ali Lama. Well, the beautiful thing is because you know, time outside of our physical space is not linear. He already has.

Yeah, it's true, it's true, all right, Josh well, let's get moving on. Let's get moving on into some interrupted signals. Interrupted transmissions. All right, So interrupted signals, for those of you who don't know, this is basically like our old creepy ketchup where we talk about things that have happened to us

or to people we know are things that such on the paranormal scale. So you said you had a little. Something I do. So a couple of weeks ago, I went to Vegas with my family. My one of my daughters is in dance and she's on a competitive dance team and nashs for the group that she's with, was

in Vegas. We went. We went up there and we didn't really do much. We went to like a show called Potted Potter, which was pretty good. You know, it's a pretty funny show. It's a two man show and it's just like all seven books in seventy minutes. It was a party.

I wonder if it was Harry Potter. Yeah. But and Laila, uh, my daughter got called up on stage. So that was fun. Uh. You know. Unfortunately, there was no filming or anything allowed, and so you know, all we have is our memories to remember it by. But we were we had driven out one day to

a Disney outlet store. My wife is a big Disney person, as you know, and so we've driven out there to see what they had. And we were on our way back, and on our way back, traffic was a lot heavier. And I complained all the time about Phoenix Arizona drivers, but Las Vegas Las Vegas drivers are like way worse

than Vehoenix there the tribe. But anyways, so this car in the fast lane decided it was gonna cut me off to try to get ahead in traffic. What ad jer I know, I called them a few names too. But well, as I slammed on the brakes, my hand, you know, both hands on the stairwalls, slammed on the brakes,

everything you know, flew forward in the. Car, garbage in the back seat and all the stuff my kids. Were holding onto and like everything just flew forward. But right at the like, I don't I think I still would have hit the person even after slamming on the brakes.

But right at the last minute, something else turned my wheels so that my wheels cut ever so slightly towards the passenger side, and that I missed the person. I miss hitting their car if if that had not happened, I would have hit them. But because the last like millisecond, something else, it wasn't me. I didn't like, I didn't cut,

Like I had both hands on the wheel and I felt the wheel move, not me moving it to cut the wheel to keep me from hitting that person. And I know you had another experience like that a couple of years ago where you felt like you were like almost in a wreck or something and you felt like

something took control of your wheel. And I wish they would have done it a month ago when I got into my wreck a month ago. Yeah, I guess you know, they're only there for the dire important ones only. Well, I mean, you know, with my wreck a month ago,

I wasn't hurt, you know, so maybe that was part of it, you know, maybe the other one was I could have been hurt. Yeah, but something saved me. Yeah, so that was you know, like, it's the only time I've had situations where I felt like and I've even seen glimpses in our rearview mirror,

like my peripheral vision of things in the car with me. Uh. In fact that you know, the first time I went to Vegas a couple months ago with a friend. I felt like I pulled like an entity came back with it. Yeah, I remember that you talked about that last episode. So I mean, I've had that happen, but I've never

had a situation where something actually intervened and cut the wheel. So so that's than something intervening and cutting the. Cheese, that's true, or the brake line for that matter. Or the brake line, yeah, for that matter, So you had something. Yeah, I've got two things. Actually one's mine, one is somebody else's. So both of them have to

do in a sense with where I work where Like, like I talked about last time, I work in a senior living facility and one of the things I was surprised I didn't mention last time is there's this weird phenomenon and there's only a couple of us that experience it. But there's two elevators in the building, and the one

that's over by my office. I swear to you, almost every morning I walk by. As soon as I walk by that elevator, it opens and no one's there. No one's there. I can't tell you how many times. And it's not always just in the morning, but I that's when I noticed that the most is in the morning. Yeah,

but it happens a lot where that elevator opens up. No one's there, the button was not pushed. It just opens, and it's it's always right as you walk next to it. Like I sit in the office, I don't. I don't hear it open unless I hear people out there talking. How close, like you literally around the corner, okay, literally

right there, And so when you're walking by it, it's like maybe within like a couple feet, yes, okay. Like no more than twenty feet at the most. You don't have like a weird motion sensor open. Hell oh no okay. And like I said, I've brought it up and they're

one or two people that have experienced it, but other people are like. No, I've never noticed that interesting. So I don't know. It just feels weird. And it's literally where I brought up the woman that was standing by the memory care door. Ye, memory care door is right next to the elevator, so

I always wonder if that's her pushing the button for me, saying, hey, you want to go for a ride. Maybe I'm like, no, I got to clock in. I can't or maybe she's coming down from something, yeah. Or she's somewhere yeah, maybe go into memory care. That's true. So the other thing is actually a story from one

of my residents. Once she found out that I had a paranormal podcast. She told me a bunch of stories, but one in particular stood out that she wanted me to bring up to you, okay, to see if you had any explanation for it. And it's different, it's very different. Name is Barber. She gave me permission to say her name.

She's one of my BFFs there and she was telling me. So. She grew up in California and she used to go to the beach all the time, but she would never go swimming. She has a fear of water. She doesn't like, yeah, to go swimming, but she was at the beach all

the time, son and tanning, checking out boys like that. That was her bag. One time, there was a party at somebody's house that had a swimming pool and she's in high school. She said, she was like fifteen or sixteen, and some of the boys found out that she didn't want to get into the pool. That she didn't want

she didn't like to get wet. So they decided they were going to pick her up and throw her in the pool. So she ran as you would. They chased her all around the backyard and all kinds of stuff like that, and she finally gets to an area, and she said that she hunkered down, closed her eyes, and

just all of a sudden, she felt this bolt of electricity shoot through her body from the top down to the bottom. And she felt more grounded than she'd ever felt in her entire life. And these three big football player type boys could not move her, literally could not move her, as if she weighed two tons. And she

said that after five minutes or whatever, they just gave up and walked away. But they couldn't pick her up. They couldn't move her. And she was little, she was a little skinny, you know, ninety pounds something or other, you know, little skinny thing. And yeah, they could not pick her up. They couldn't move her, they couldn't shift

her nothing. And she said before that she felt like what she describes as a bolt of electricity running through her body. That's very interesting. I don't know that I have any like official explanation for it, but I. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything.

What kind of comes to mind is is that you know, we we've talked about it in previous episodes of the Old Show, talked about astral stew But you create the reality that you live in every day, right, and so it sounds to me like h and almost like an instinctual response to the situation. She had a she had

a Condollini moment where she connected with her higher self and it it sent her you know, higher self energy enough that she could manipulate her reality so that she was immovable. Right. She was she was a stone because obviously after the situation had completed, like she was a able to stand up and move around on our own.

So it's it was a temporary thing for the protection. So it's like a you know, the the base level, the base programming of the body, what I call like the firmware, if you will, is the stuff that keeps you alive. It's where fight, flight, you know, freeze, all that kind of kind of stuff comes into play. It's

the thing that helps you breathe and digest food. You don't have to think about doing those things, they just happen. It's part of your firmware. And I think in some people, if you're if you're tapped into your higher self or at least open to or consciously aware of the possibility of having something bigger than you outside of you, that

when those fight flight are freeze moments happen, it can trigger not just a physical response, but a metaphysical response. And I think that's what happened in her case. Yeah, that's what I think too, or you know, the manifestation of superpower so to speak, like a mom that can lift up a car to save the kid at

the moment needed. Yeah, it's exactly. It always makes you wonder, are those powers, those abilities locked away in our head always but we don't know how to yeah, use them all the time? I think. Also it's a matter of Western ideology, right,

like if you're talking about earlier about the Dalai Lama, if you look at cultures where they are more open to the possibilities of what we call psychic gifts and things like that, as like from birth right, it's just assumed or accepted that you may have the ability to you know, interact with spirits or to levitate yourself if

you can meditate you know, long enough and deep enough. But in Western society, specifically in the United States, a lot of that stuff is discounted for birth right, it's considered childish or imaginary. And so I think because of that, especially in the United States, people who are born in the US and who have grown up in the environment

in society where all that stuff is discounted. When you reach an age when you're like, hey, what if I can actually hear and interact with spirits when whatever that age happens to be for you or whatever the phenomenon is that you decide you want to interact with. Whenever you reach that age, you almost have to relearn or

reacclimate yourself with things that the rest of the world has never figured or assumed were not capable or possible. Yeah, it's like I remember you telling me a long time ago how it was like you had shut that antenna down and had to retune. It, and you know, like I was, I don't We're

kind of getting off topic here a little bit, but I was talking to somebody else recently about how it seems like a lot of the stories about you know, entities or ailings or whatever, visiting the governments or whatever, seem to happen mostly in the US, and I wondered if there was something you know, unique about the US

that you know, why those stories seem to all kind of congregate or aggregate to the US. And it could be a lot of what I just said. It's because maybe the rest of the world is already open to the possibilities, and the US is so rigidly grounded in either either a staunch faith that doesn't allow them to

you know, explore the possibilities, or or science that doesn't allow them to explore the possibilities. So maybe that's why these entities, there's so much focus seems to be on the US and people of the US, and then outside of the US, it seems to be on areas of the of the world where maybe these things are true,

where you know, if if UFOs are meant to be some sort of an initiation to trigger us to wake up to realize that things are bigger and bolder than what we expect or or even accept, then it would make sense that they would focus a lot of their attention on the areas of the world where it is

rejected or ridiculed. Yeah, yeah, anyway, completely, anyway, that's. Those are some uh, some interrupted transmissions, and we use those interrupted transmissions to interrupt this this episode. So yeah, I. Think I called it interrupted signals, but yeah, interrupted transmissions. We're we're still learning people, Yeah that's right, still figuring

this out, still figuring us out. But yeah, let's go ahead and move on then, if you're ready, I'm ready. I am so ready for our main topic tonight. I I love I love iron stuff. So let's go ahead and follow our way down to the end of the rainbow to leap Castle, the main story.

That's two I think, so all right. So leap Castle, uh is, as you have already said, in Ireland. It's in County God bless you. Yeah, it's in the rural midlands, surrounded by dense forests and fog lace fields that feel centuries removed from modern time. I'd imagine it's a wonderful place to just see and experience.

I want to go to Ireland just in general. Yeah, same, Let alone now after reading up on leap Castle, do I want to go? Yeah, I mean there's a lot of there's a lot of things I think to do in Ireland outside of this. I always wanted to go as well, but never on

like a guided tour situation where like you have to be at a certain point at a certain time, and you can only spend so much time in a place like I just wanted to, you know, grab a car, drive on the wrong side of the road. Well it's funny, you know, like the only thing that

I feel like I have to do that's got like a guided tour type thing. And there's something I don't even like is the Guinness Brewery. Oh yeah, because it's been there like a thousand years or whatever, like it's really old. I really want to do that. So anyways, onto the castle. It was built in the

thirteenth century around twelve fifty. No one was alive then, no one. Yeah, you know, the earth is only six days old, so yeah, it says. The land itself though where the castle was built was sacred to the Druids, you know, long before the castle was built. Yep, and believe it's believed that the space was used for initiations

and fire rituals. Very cool. So it was constructed by the Obanon clan uh which is a secondary family under the ruling o' carells. The original name, which I am gonna butcher, was Liam uh Behinden. Pretty good. That was some good gaellic okay, which means

leap of the obanance. And so, according to legend, these two abandoned brothers were competing for clan leadership and somebody came up with the idea, Hey, why don't you two guys jump from the rock rocky precipice where the castle is going to be built, and whoever does, whoever survived, that would be the leader. Like, I want to know

what happens if both of them die? Like, yeah, but go to the dog Murphy, right. You know. And in this case, though, only one brother survived and the other plunged to his death, and so from that point forward it was known as Leap Castle, should have been.

Called Leap to your Death Castle. The Old Carol clan, though, seized the castle shortly after it was built, and they turned it into the seat of power for for their clan. Yeah convenient, yeah, you know, Hey, I'll let you guys build this as soon as I'm gonna take it over.

I'm sorry your brother died, but it's our snow. Yeah exactly, Your brother died for nothing. Yep. The family, though, was known for being ruthless. And just. They betrayed everyone they know that they were associated with and Mulrooney. Mulrooney, that's the most Irish name I've ever

heard from life, mulroney o carroll, And I mean no offense to the Irish people. I'm mostly Irish, Irish Scottish English. So one of the most powerful chieftains ruled until his death in the fifteen thirties. Afterward, his sons fought each other viciously for control of the estate. They could have just jumped, they could have. I guess they thought that

was a bad idea. I don't know. It was during this time that the infamous Bloody Chapel became a scene of violence. So the way the Bloody Chapel came to be known as the Bloody Chapel was a private mass inside the family chapel. Tease O'Carroll drove a sword through his own brother, who was a Catholic priest, while he

was standing at the altar. I mean that's human sacrifice, yeah, pretty much. I mean if it's an altar, I don't care if it's a Catholic altar. Blood does matter, Like you have to intend it to be a sacrifice for it to be considered a sacrifice. Teddy at about human sacrifice. My brother teachs fodder Teach.

Now Teach wasn't the priest. He is the one. Not Fodder Tea killed the priest. But the murderer was allegedly motivated by a struggle for dominance. So there you go. Instead of taking a leap, he took a left and stabbed his brethren. He took a leap of faith.

Yeah. Uh So the priest died in front of the altar, and the chapel was abandoned and sealed off and feared for centuries, and over time it became known as the Bloody Chapel, Yice. And all I think of is that small chapel that we went to with your brother and oh yeah, but

I can't remember the name of it up in Indiana. Yeah, yeah, I can't think of it either. It was your idea to go there too. I know. You'll probably it'll come to you. Ye.

So people since then have reported apparitions chanting in an intense negative energy. But what do you expect, yeah, you know. So moving on to the mid fifteen hundreds, So this kind of just a general history of the space, and then we'll get into some of the hauntings and stuff. So the mid fifteen hundreds, the o'carroll's hired a group

of mercenaries soldiers UH to fight rival clans. After the successful campaign, rather than pay them, the o' carroll's invited the mercenaries to a feast and then slipped their throats in their sleep. Oh neat, such wonderful people. I wonder why they're known as betrayers.

Right, yeah, especially when you're the Irish Christmas songs. I don't get it. So their bodies were believed to be thrown into the ablette, which is whatever. Haven't you ever watched Labyrinth? Yes, it's on a long time ago that the scene

with the hands always freaked me out. So it's the same movie, right yeah, yeah, well they like the hands are grip. Yeah. Okay, where are you going? Is that? Is that the same movie where at the end there's like a microwave and there's like the devil guy head in the microwave. No, okay, no, okay.

I don't know what you're I don't know what. It was some movie that my grandparents like had recorded off of HBO. Used to watch it all the time. But anyways, with the devil head and the microwave. Okay, yeah, I swear it was the labyrinth, but I don't know because I thought that there was a like

a devil guy. No, you're thinking a legend, okay that, but I still don't recall it. There's a microwave. Anyways, somebody will somebody listening redeem me here, because it's got to be a thing, right, you want to do it. Anyways, So anyways, a hidden pit located

behind the altar in the chapel right where it was. Many psychics and investigators believe that these betrayed warriors still haunt the site, especially around the Bloody Chapel and what's called the murder hole instead uh. In the sixteen hundreds, the castle pass through marriages and was eventually taken by the Darby family.

Oh DARBYO, who were English Protestants Boom. In the nineteenth century, Jonathan Charles Darby and his wife Mildred Derby lived there. Mildred was a Gothic novelist who wrote about the hauntings, especially her experience with the elemental. During the Irish Civil War in nineteen twenty two, the castle was set ablaze by the IRA. Restoration began in

the nineteen nineties and continues today by a private owner, Sean Ryan, who has also witnessed and experienced paranormal phenomena. Yep, all right, so let's get into some actual stories of different phenomena in the castle phenomena. Dude, you have to say it in an Irish voice. Phenomena. Doo doo doo.

All right. So, since we just mentioned her, Mildred Darby's encounters these from nineteen nineties to nineteen twenties. Like I said, she was a writer of gothic fiction, former resident of Lee Castle, and wrote extensively about the strange happenings in the Bloody Chapel. In her own words, she says, suddenly two hands were laid on my shoulders. It turned around

sharply and saw as clearly as I see you now a gray thing standing a couple of feet from me, with its bent arms raised as if it were cursing me. I cannot describe in words how utterly awful the thing was. Its face was human, or, to be more accurate, inhuman. It was twisted, and the nose was sunken, the eyes

deep set and wide open. It looked exactly like a decomposing corpse who. This is definitely you know, during the time of the spiritualist movement. Oh yeah, so you know, yep, she seeks some stuff. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean even if she wasn't

even if it wasn't all at lake Castle, I'm sure she traveled around and saw some things too. Mm hmm, yep. I mean I even pulled her up. There's a Wikipedia page about her, which is pretty cool. So discovery of the Wait, wait, you just told me and I'm gonna stilliblettelette. Oh yet, Okay, I got you know,

I got it. When leap Castle was being restored, after the fire workers in the Bloody Chapel uncovered the hidden ublioate were uh inside were the impelled skeletal remains of over one hundred and fifty people. Yes, they said that these spikes were up to eight feet tall.

Yep. It says that we found bones stacked three feet deep and they were pierced by wooden spikes. Some still had scraps of fabric. Whoever these people were, they were meant to suffer. Yeah, they ubiliats are crazy. So ubilia essentially means to forget, and so it was just a hole where you would

forget things you would put things and forget them, and people put people down there to forget and just put them down there and forgot about them. But yeah, did you even see the one that said that, like they found a pocket watch on one of them. No, Yeah, they found a pocket watch from the eighteen nineties. So

there was at least somebody that got put down in there at least as late as the eighteen nineties. Wow. Yeah, Or was he investigating in fell in there? Who knows? Yeah? Or was he a time traveler. Or was he had time traveler and he was one

of the mercenaries that got thrown in because they found a watch on him and thought he was a witch. Yes, well, bump Bum is a witch? That right there is the next Marvel movie. I'd watch it. It's the New Agatha all Along season two exactly.

It's instead of the Tom Traveler's Wife, it's the Tom Traveler's death. Oh that's so sad. Anyway, biked and just he likes his beveragees spiked anyway. So, modern tourists and investigators have reported Latin chanting and the Bloody Chapel, and one visitor's account from a two thousand

and four tour says I heard what sounded like a group of monks or priests chanting very softly. I thought it was a recording, but the guy told us they don't play music in that room. The air went cold and heavy right after. Interesting. And you know what's interesting too, is like I think,

back in the day, if anybody were to speak Latin, you would immediately think Catholic Church. But nowadays, because of Anton Levey and the Church of Satan and all the movies off, now when you hear Latin, you immediately think Satan, like dark black magic. Now when I hear Latin, I immediately think somebody forgot

to update a section in a contract that was created by Chatchept. Anyways, moving on, So in twenty ten, there was a sighting of what some claimed to be the priest that was killed, not tej No, not te Tesch's brother, Liege Liege, My Liege, the ghostly figure of a man in a blood stained robe, often appearing by the altar

or doorway of the Bloody chapel. The paranormal team that did the investigation, and we'll get to a little bit more about that team in just a moment. In twenty ten, it says our e FRED cameras picked up a silhouette forming near the upper window. It held its shape for about twelve seconds, then vanished. EMF level spiked right before

the sighting. So for anybody listening that may not know, EMF stands for electromagnetic field and a lot of things put off EMF, like your router, your computer monitor, your phone. It just you know, anything that has an electromagnet and it produces an electromagnetic field. So anything that has a speaker has an EMF, but it's read or or at

least you know. Yeah, I would say even at this point in time, evidence has been collected enough to support that when spirits form in a place, they intends to see a spike in e MF. And so yeah, that's why that is important that if em level spiked and then they also caught something on infrared cameras, that's basically

two you know, evidence points to support the claim. So two pieces of pudding, two pieces of pudding, I don't know, two. Like putting pie. Maybe no blood pudding, Okay, but isn't that just blood? Putting in the UK is just like sausage, right, I don't know, I don't know. Somebody will fill us in,

all right, So moving on. Then, some visitors frequently report sudden overwhelming sadness, nausea, and the smell of sulfur or blood when entering into the chapel. Sulfur is never good. Yep. A blogger in twenty eighteen wrote, I wasn't scared until I walked into that room. It hit me like

a wave, panic, sorrow, and then the worst smell I've ever experienced. I left shaking. See, we need to go. We need to go to the lead Castle. We do, we do? We need to grab Keith age Jane heard and go

to the leak Castle yep. And eat some blood pudding. I don't think I want to eat any blood pudding. Is it the bloody chapel. It's the bloody chapel, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So. We need to eat blood putting in the bloody chapel with our and have a bloody good time.

And some spotted dick and some spotted dick. You gotta have spotted dick. Yeah, we gotta have it, especially if you have freckles. Yep. So So moving on for the murder hole. I'm gone murder hole. I love so much more.

All right, Well, I mean, I think it's because, you know, like like myself, maybe maybe some folks don't know how to pronounce it or what it is, so. You're like, we we we bleeet day. So, during an unsanctioned investigation in the early nineties, a paranormal researcher collapsed near the murder hole, claiming to have

felt an invisible force grab his shoulders and pull him and pull him toward the pit. No thank you, uh, he said later. Something didn't want me there. I've been in dark places, but this felt like hatred, pure and ancient. My knees gave out right next to the edge, and I swear I heard a whisper joint them.

That gives me creeps. I wonder if the ubli still has the spikes in it or not, or if they had them removed. I feel like, if you go, they're probably because, like I said reported before, it's being restored, So I feel like they probably put like a piece of plexiglass or

something over it so you can still see down in it to see the spikes. But there's a piece of plexiglass, I. Don't I don't know that for sure, but if I was thinking about this from a from a you know, I'm restoring this historical site that has all this lore

and stuff associated with it. Why would I cover something up that that might be an attractor for people to come visit, you know, and pay me money to look at it. I'm looking at the picture picture of the link you sent me with the story, and I'm looking at the ublia.

I don't see the spikes. Okay, Okay, Well I'll just say that, you know, if you Sean Ryan, if you're listening, I recommend putting the spikes back and then covering it with a piece of plexiglass so people can walk over the space. Oh yeah, like like the c N Tower. Yeah, those

places that do where they do. The like you could you could, you know, like the Another one is the Corvette Museum and Bowling Green. You know, a couple of years ago they had that sink hole opened up, a bunch of a bunch of corvettes fell inside of it, and so they just plexiglass over the

hole where you can now see down inside of it and see all these you know, rare corvettes that are. Oh is that what they did? I'd never do that, Yeah, never, I've never been you know, for somebody that went to Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I never made it to the Corvette Museum.

Well, don't feel bad. I lived there for forty two years and I never went, So. I want to go though. I love I love corvettes. So the next thing is several visitors and castle caretakers report hearing faint, scratching, muffled screams, or whispers coming from the area around the ubliette, especially at night. I guess

testimony from two thousand and seven and Overnight's Day that would be fun. We were camped just down the hall and I kept hearing what sounded like fingernails against stone, slow and deliberate. It came from the chapel. I finally got up and went to look. The trap door had somehow opened on its own.

Boom, lordy, no, thank you. So if we go to Leap Castle, you don't think you would be an overnight's day candidate. No, I would be an overnight's day, but I ain't hanging out by the ubliet. If you heard the trap door open, would you get

up to investigate? Nope? I would say, Josh, you need to get up and investigate, take a camera. I would be afraid I might fall in while I'm trying to find the bathroom. Maybe it is the bathroom, Maybe it is.

So. The local oral tradition says the Upliet was not just used for prisoners of war, but on disobedient clansmen, traders, unpaid mercenaries, et cetera. Their souls, betrayed and discarded, are said to be trapped in a constant cycle of dying and reawakening. A psychic visitor in twenty fifteen said, there are so many voices down there. They're crying, screaming, begging.

Some don't even know they're dead. This place isn't haunted, it's damned. Ooh that yeah, that's some good stuff. That's good writing, all right. So moving on from the Ubliet, we have the Red Lady. The Red Lady.

The Red Lady is believed to be the spirit of a young woman held captive by the o' carolls, possibly abused, and who died by suicide after her newborn child was taken and killed. Sucked they did. Sorry if anybody listening has the surname O carroll, I'm sure you're better. Now, Yeah, you're better now your family sucked.

The story passed down. An oral tradition describes she was a prisoner locked away in the castle steps when her child was torn from her. She found a blade and took her life. Since then she wonders with that same dagger, searching in grief for vengeance. The Red Lady is often seen as a tall, elegant gear in a flowing red gown,

often carrying a dagger in her raised hand. Witnesses say her eyes appear hollow or sorrowful. Her presence is accompanied by an overwhelming sense of despair and dread. Yeah, I believe that. A two thousand and four tourist account says she appeared at the end of the corridor, just standing there looking

at us. She raised her arm like she was going to strike, and then she was gone. But the sadness that stayed in the room for hours. Sure, man, I hate stories like that. Well, yeah, because especially not only is it, you know, maybe frightening to be a part of it, but just

to know that there's potentially this trapped you know, spirit in this space, just kind of doomed to repeat her grief over and over and over again, over and over. Oh yeah, So the Red Lady's presence is usually heralded by a sharp cold wind, often with no natural source. Many described feeling an emotional wave alongside the chill, usually grief, fear,

and hopelessness. Psychics visiting leap Castle describe the Red Lady as lingering emotional imprint rather than a malicious ghost. She is sometimes perceived standing near windows or on the stairwell looking out, as waiting for someone. A clairvoyant in twenty twelve said she isn't trying to hurt anyone. She wants to be seen. Her pain is so strong it left

a scar in the air. Again writing YEP. Audio phenomenon or several EVPs, and again I'll say for anybody listening to EVP is electronic voice phenomena. And during during investigations, people they'll use like a digital recorder or even an analog recorder. They'll just have a mic setup and they'll just have it playing and they'll be talking, you know,

trying to interact with whatever might be there. And on a review they'll go back and listen to what was recorded and sometimes you'll catch whispers or even full on voices in those EVPs. It's again can be a very valuable piece of evidence. They do have EVPs that have been captured in or near the Bloody Chapel in the

main hall, including a female sobbing, soft whisperers, and what sounds like a woman murmuring in Gaelic. A notable twenty eighteen recording featured a whisper almost a lullaby, but distorted like a mother trying to sing through tears. Multiple witnesses over the years have reported seeing the Red Lady raise her dagger as if about to attack, only for her

to vanish or simply stare blankly instead. A British journalist in nineteen ninety seven wrote, she came down the corridor in full view, eyes black as ink, holding the blade. I was frozen, but she never moved beyond that, just stared, then turned and drifted through a wall. All right, So moving on from the Red Lady, we have two little girls.

Oh nothing scary about two little ghosts. Now, you know, especially if they're wearing the same dress in a hotel. So we've got Emily and Charlotte, who were two young sisters who lived at Leep Castle during the sixteen hundreds or seventeen hundreds. Emily is believed to have died from a fall from the castle's battlements. Some

say it was an accident, other believe she was pushed. Charlotte, who had a deformed leg, is said to have lived a short and sorrowful life thereafter. Multiple visitors, though, have witnessed the girls running and laughing in the main hall or along upper corridors. Charlotte is often seen limping behind Emily, and in some accounts, vanishing mid step as if falling.

A tourist account from two thousand and six, we were walking the upper hallway when we saw two children playing chase. The smaller ones stumbled than just faded. There were no other guests in the castle. Hey, you know, at least they found each other to be friends with in the end.

That's right. I mean one lived, you know, so much. You know, we don't know how much longer life the other one lived. But the fact that even after that other sister died, she still went back in spirit form to spend time with her sister that was in this space. So yeah, it's nice. One of the most disturbing reoccurring

apparitions is of Emily falling from the battlements. Yeah, a full spectral replay of her death twenty eleven, Paranormal Investigators Journal says, I saw a little girl fall from the upper wall. I screamed and ran toward the spot, but there was nobody, no sign of impact. Our guide told me several people had seen the same thing over the years.

Yeah. What amazes me, I think a lot about these stories is that whenever people you hear people talk about apparitions and things, I think, like, unless you've seen spirits, you tend to think of them as being like wispy, you know, almost like a mist floating through the air, stuff like that.

But the way that these people are describing, I mean, this person thought there was actual, you know, human flesh and blood girl who had fallen. So I mean, you know, they don't always appear as just wisps in the air. Right, especially a bunching. Yeah, yeah, that's very true. You're welcome. Tis. A twenty

fourteen team actually captured footage of what appeared to be a small figure darting across the hallway an infrared light, followed by a strange dragging motion as if someone with a limp was following behind. And then the last little bit here is that visitors and psychics have left toys in the chapel or hallway as offerings. Many report the

toys being moved, or hearing giggles and whispers, or even fate singing when no one is present. Creepy cool from a castle caretaker. In twenty seventeen, a doll placed near the mainstair moved six inches overnight. It's happened more than once. One guest said she heard a child humming Ring around the Rosie around three. What's really interesting. I think that

would be a really good dating, I think of potentially because then earlier I reported, you know, sixteen hundreds for seventeen hundreds. But we know that Ring around and Rosie is a song about the Black plague, and so looking to see when the black plague. I don't know the exact dates, but the fact that it had reached you know,

kind of maybe common tongue, that a child would be singing, it would probably indication a better dating of, you know, when they were president in the castle. Let's see, all right, we're moving on to the elemental. Oh, the elemental, and this is the you know, the by far the kind of biggest store. Let's say, a more fearful production or

or or entity that lives or exhibits in the castle. We already talked a little bit about Milder Darby's encounter and that she believes was an elemental that exuded an aura of death and dread. It actually left her physically ill for several days. The smell of death and sulfur. Visitors have reported a sudden, overpowering stench described as rotting flesh, sulfur,

and decay. An eighteen ninety nine ghost hunter wrote, we didn't see it, we smelled it. It hit like a ball, the smell of a wet grave, and the moment it came, all the equipment went dead. Batteries drained in seconds. True. That reminds me of our friend Justin's flatulence. Yeah, well, you know when we went to Reugh River

and it got trapped in a speaker. Speaker don't play music with bass after that. So I remember I talked about in a previous account there was a paranormal team that went investigated. So that was the TAPS team, the Atlantic Paranormal Society who you know best known for the TV series ghost Hunters.

Right, So was this ghost Hunters International? Then? No? The team traveled to Leap Castle in two thousand and six. Oh okay, so this is before yep, for an episode called Attack of the Irish. Elemental Well I watch yep. They captured what they believed was the elementals form on

infra air, a hunch shadow moving independently of anyone present. Right before the anomaly, a team member collapsed in panics, signing pressure in their chest in an overwhelming sense of being watched by something ancient. And this is in quotes. It didn't feel like a ghost, It felt like something that never was human.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to mess with elementals man. Yeah. So some mediums and psychics have visited Leak Castle over the years and are often disturbed or even refused to re enter after sensing the elemental So common theories is a Druidic guardian spirit that might be bound to ancient ritual grounds before the castle was built, a manifestation

of trauma that have just been fed by centuries of violence and betrayal and murder, or even a demonic parasite attached during a nineteenth century occult ritual, possibly conducted by Mildred Darby herself. I'm digging Mildred Darby. It almost sounds like when you do a whole episode on her.

I know. One psychic in twenty eleven said it's like a wound in the astral fabric. It doesn't communicate. It feeds not on your fear, but on your energy your self again, good writing, yep. Another theory is that the Elemental is a sentinel. Caretakers and residents over the years have described the Elemental as a watcher, appearing before tragedy

or disturbance. In nineteen eighty nine, a fire broke out in the part of the castle. I guess claimed they saw the Elemental standing at the top of the stairs, arms raised as if in a warning. Minutes later the flames erupted. Because so kind of like a mothman. Maybe in that aspect, maybe mothman was it elemental?

That would not be the first time I've heard that equated to that, just in different terms. Yep. The quote says it wasn't trying to hurt us, It was warning us. That's what scared me most. It wasn't malicious, it was purposeful. Yeah.

Several visitors have claimed that even after leaving Leap Castle, they experienced nightmares, unexplained bruises, and oppressive feelings for weeks, so they got some hitchhikers going on there. Ye a recent twenty twenty report from a tourist. I felt it near the Bloody Chapel. I didn't see it, but I knew it was there. Something pushed against my chest and

I couldn't breathe. Since then, my dreams have been full of red eyes and whispers. I never believed in curses until now. So that's pretty much the phenomena. If that's not enough, I apologize. I said pomena phenomena three times, not four. So if you if you had guessed how many times I would say phenomena, it's five now.

Nope, nobody was guessing that, Okay. So I wanted to dive a little bit into some of the things that might, you know, kind of contribute or power the leap Castle hauntings. So, as you know, I'm a big Leay Liane guy. So Leap Castle is actually really close to an intersection of two powerful lay lines.

And so again for anybody who listening who doesn't know, lay lines are basically they intersect with powerful places on the earth like Stone Hinge or the Great Pyramid, and then from that point they completed full circle around the earth, and that is the lay line for that place, and so things will intersector beyond those lay lines. You tend

to have an increase in paranormal or UFO sightings with things of that nature. So it's theorized from here that the geometric currents may amplify a spiritual activity and druids may have recognized this, and that's why they chose this site for sacred rituals before the castle was ever built. So, you know, kind of the thing I was thinking about,

is is Leep Castle haunted because of what happened there or because of where it is? Right right? Did did even just the things that happened tend to happen because of right right? Did it somehow influence the humans to make you know, poor choices.

Or like the Amityville House? Right? So many of the ghosts that lead castle may be residual versus intelligent, which are just you know, kind of the residual is that kind of psychic echoes of traumatic events that we play in time loops, like Emily's fall or the Chanting of the Chapel. But some spirits

like the Red Lady or the Elemental or even Charlotte appear to interact with the living, you know, suggesting more of an intelligent haunting than residual. Right. The elemental as it agrigor uh agregorgre, is a concept from a cult, an esoteric tradition, a thought former, collective psychicanthathy created by the leaf, fear and focused emotional energy. We we covered this.

I think we'll covered it in like as the storybo we talked about it. The the the psychic entity or whatever that was created in the Philip experiment Philip Experiment. Right, So is it possible that you know that the elemental has just been created because of all the lore attached to the castle and people you know, expecting to see it,

you know, is it possible that it's you know, that's why it exists, because the fear and thought energy of people have created it. Yeah. Like, I'll tell you a quick side note. I'm a little freaked out. I've got a little star Wars Ahsoka bibblehead. Yeah, and the head's moving right now. And

I'm in the basement. It's a cement floor. Huh. I'm not touching the table air blowing on it. No interesting, Okay, all right, Well, I just wanted to share that okay. So one of the reasons why the elemental may be considered an eggrigor or even some sort of like an

emergent spirit is that its behavior is not typical of ghost behavior, and so it's you know, something else. Uh. Some say that it might be even a psychic defense mechanism of the land itself. Right at that I totally believe, and.

So yeah, Another thought around the bloody Chapel is that it could be a psychic wound. So you know, if the castle is the body, then the bloody chapel is basically a bleeding a bleeding wound that never healed, and so instead of of you know, healing souls, that traps them there.

Yeah. So yeah, that's pretty much it for what I was able to find and put together. If thirteen pages of research wasnident enough. For you, that was good, that's good. And I mean, bottom line, I definitely want to visit it,

but I also want to make sure that I protect the hell out of myself so that I don't bring anything home. So yeah, definitely sure. Well, thank you, Josh. I appreciate you spending time and putting it together. And you know, if anybody has had any experiences with the leaf Castle.

Put in the comments your own experiences. I would love to hear about it. Or if you know of a story that we missed, share as well. We would love to do that. Yeah, Or if you live close by, you know, when you want to do like a proxy trip for us

and then report back, that'd be cool too. Yep, that'd be cool. Or if you live close by and you want to give us a place to stay and. Plane ticket, winky winky winky, and. And you're not offended by my horrible Irish. Accent, right, so all right, yeah, it's a good show.

I again really thank everybody for listening and watching this episode. As we kind of continue to build this out, you know, reminder to hit that subscribe button, leave us a review if you can. Yep, I know I'm going to be looking up Mildred Darby's books. I'd like to check out what she's got. So,

like I said, she's got a Wikipedia page, so that means it probably won't be too hard to find some of her books. It might even be a documentary about their out or you. Know, mm hmm, yep, I'll be checking that out. So and plus the uh, the episode of taps where

they actually went to leave castle. Yeah, I'm definitely going to be checking that out too, so I'm excited that. So I guess we'll get out of here. Then we've got a really great episode next month. I'm really excited about. No spoilers, but I'm really excited about that. So please stick around. Thank you guys for

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