Family Leave Haunted House, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, Ireland 1985

[@MariaHunter-o1x]

How times have changed. Id go back to 1985 in a heartbeat

[@MarieCassidy-zd8sc]

No way. It looked very primitive and backward. Thank God the 90's. changed all that

[@patrickbracken3363]

You obviously aren't from the north.

[@northernlights6459]

@@MarieCassidy-zd8sc, it was like paradise compared to now.One of the best decades ever.

[@daniel-jonwilliams5980]

I'd like to go.back to 1935

[@charliebridges3584]

Me too. Offaly won the All-Ireland that year. And you could buy a pint of Harp anywhere. Plus Tenants draft appeared that year.

[@johnlally5296]

It's not the dead you need to worry about It's the living.

[@helenbyrne7663]

my mother always said that 😅😅😅

[@JP-mn5iv]

There are things in this world much worse than men. Just because you have not witnessed them doesn’t mean that they aren’t out there.

[@helengazzara8725]

Fright can kill

[@johnlally5296]

@helengazzara8725 a fright nearly killed me seen a spirit when I was a child the most frightening thing I've ever witnessed my mother witnessed something similar many years later it frightened the life out of me when she told it to me it was in the same room in the house it came in and flew around the round same thing happened to me 30 years previously but in the last couple of years of my life it was people that cut me to the bone I've learned to believe in a higher power and bring yourself around positive people and just treat people with respect and stay away from the bad ones.

[@adamweston4152]

£12 a week rent .. the good old days.

[@leedwyer161]

most council houses are still reasonably priced

[@gerardodwyer5908]

The update to the RTÉ report is that another family moved in to the "haunted house". The new occupants had no "ghostly" tales to regale Council officials or neighbours with. The Courtneys eventually agreed to move to a four bedroom Council house at McHugh Park in Ballymahon.

[@Greenwillow]

Four bedroom house. Nice.😉

[@chelamcguire]

Thankyou for the update.

[@sharon82075]

Are they still living there now??

[@Moonmagiclynn18]

4 bed nice … ahh 😱 I here a noise , thibk my house is haunted 😮

[@clockwatch5222]

Handy way to get a 4 bedroom house.

[@Jackie-v3z5e]

The way she's saying she would never go into.any house again sounds strange,anywhere where can be haunted roads ,fields even people .I think she could have considered another house.God be with the days when you could have ,12 pound rent.

[@sheilagavin6536]

@@Jackie-v3z5e yes, agree about the £12 rent! Your comment also makes me believe the poor lady/family was very upset and traumatized by the experience .

[@FreyaRae1510]

Can’t believe the was number 13

[@markbowdoin1671]

Ya but wages were only .80P per day

[@sowitandhopeitgrows]

Even a caravan could be allegedly haunted

[@Bopzibeel]

With council rents being set at one third of a weekly wage that would mean that the household income was 36 pounds a week. The average industrial wage at the time was 76 pounds a week. This family were on the breadline.

[@devonthemaskeddevonaire9471]

12 quid a week i would have lived with 100 spooks.

[@damo6975]

I think they miss heard the priest when he said a bag of sand at the door I think he said he wanted a grand to do the job leave it in an envelope at the back door 🤫

[@susanlangan4753]

They moved into the four bedroom in the end ❤❤

[@kitsilanomusician2669]

Arra sure 'tis only the neighbours ridin'..

[@aidanjoyce3248]

😂😂

[@Oakleaf700]

🤣

[@seanmckillen9090]

😯😉🤔🤣🤣🤣

[@daviddunne1178]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 class

[@bmc5075]

Lol😂

[@Digibeatle09]

When you go on the “national airwaves” - relating things that - in the eyes of some - will likely expose you to ridicule, I’m inclined to regard that as a factor pointing to the genuineness and sincerity of this family’s accounts. Anyway - if some other comments are correct - whatever unfriendly spirits were there at the time have since moved on which - given the scarcity of social and affordable housing - is good to hear.

[@Frank-i2v]

I knew s house was haunted . Owners son got a blow at back of neck knocked him across kitchen . They sold .left . Yrs later I was delivering a bed there . As I took it upstairs I noticed there was a large statue of blessed Virgin on stairs where it turned . I only remembered then and got a shock and got out fast .poltergeist are hard to get rid of ... only time I think .They wear out of energy .

[@25pappy]

@@Digibeatle09 some people are just shameless.

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

I have always felt - and many people feel as well - the Irish are the most BEAUTIFUL people in the entire world! When I meet or see someone, I can always tell if they have Irish blood = the skin, the nose, the GORGEOUS eyes, and the facial bone structure. The MOST beautiful. I am, of course, speaking of BOTH Irish men and women. Case closed. I have an ancestor from the early 1800s who was on my mother's mother's side who was Irish. Her name was Cora (or Kora) Nettleton. Grandma told me she had flaming red hair - enough for 3 people. She had ice green eyes. Why did I not get her genes??? I got the genes from the other countries in my heritage. LOLOL

[@emmedevlin5076]

You’ve never been to Ireland have you?

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

@@emmedevlin5076 I booked a trip in 2020 but COVID shut all travel there down. Even tried to rebook in 2021 and 2022, and still shut down. I would love to go.

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

@@emmedevlin5076 lol

[@mayam1141]

Yeah...and rotten teeth 😅

[@justgrowthehellup6598]

@@mayam1141 What a stupid ignorant thing to say. People like you let themselves down by making ridiculous generalisations. Or, perhaps you're just jealous.

[@kitsilanomusician2669]

Father Bland recommends Sand..

[@tonemc6047]

It is holy sand though.

[@4cormacos]

@@kitsilanomusician2669 he could have recommended salt at least. fekin sand? He must have had shares in the local quarry

[@Greenwillow]

😂

[@timber8403]

I thought garlic would have been a better choice

[@sukianneobrien]

Lol brilliant 😂

[@obsidianzarok2361]

Bag of sand fix anything

[@roymunson1]

To go with the cement mix to block up the back door.

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

Lads , gotta love the Irish sense of humour, the comments 😂😂😂

[@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

are you Irish?????

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

@@Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits I am.

[@Morningstar-xz5bl]

The council msn says that he would never consider putting people in a caravan but always into a house. Wow, and we were a poor country back then. Now look at us rich yet 14,000 Irish homeless,4,000 irish children homeless. So many sleeping on the freezing wet streets and gov putting the taliban in 4 star hotels😂😂😂 what the hell

[@LK333]

💯

[@Julie-u4f]

Yeah that's why they used to h,,a..n...g traitors Merry Christmas from America

[@charliebridges3584]

It sounds like a supernatural entity alright. Ireland has an unusually large porthole to the dimension beyond this universe because of its location.

[@Soundofmusic777]

What's so special about the location?

[@charliebridges3584]

@Soundofmusic777 The low-lying cloud from the Atlantic Ocean, the magnetic and mineral effects from the abundance of hills and valleys, and the singular play of light during extended periods of twilight. Many extraterrestrial entities maintain a presence there, traditionally regarded as fairy beings.

[@aaronmcbride5998]

That house was haunted in 1985. Fast forward to 2024, the whole world is haunted.

[@kitsilanomusician2669]

Shortly after this video was made, the local spoöks had to be moved on to make way for incoming international protection applicants..

[@jaws6869]

Change the record ffs.

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

Lol😂

[@MariaHunter-o1x]

I call them scammigrants. I'm not a racist. I'm a realist

[@Dafydd.Bovril]

​@@MariaHunter-o1x Looking for victims & freebies.

[@annakelman6627]

​@@Kittysoftpaws377cute thumbnail and nickname 🐈🐈

[@marky1974]

Wonder what became of them..?

[@michaelward3516]

The father and mother are dead two son's are still alive

[@4cormacos]

Sounds like they could be on a faerie path. Very common in newly built council houses. Either that or they want a better house

[@annakelman6627]

Yeah a faerie area it's full of magick in Ireland

[@bernadettetormey4452]

This happened in our house in Dublin but the priest did come down to bless it. It calmed things down for a while but I was always terrified in that house as a child. All 8 of us saw things

[@4cormacos]

@@bernadettetormey4452 fascinating although scary for yourself. I'm convinced now that hauntings poltergeists, even UFOs, aliens etc are all linked to what our ancestors referred to as the faerie folk. They manifest themselves according to the collective consciousness of the place they appear. Hollywood has influenced the psyche of the people that they now appear as UFOs, aliens etc almost everywhere now

[@laoisemeehan]

What did ye see?

[@bernadettetormey4452]

@laoisemeehan Oh, a man walking from the box room to the bathroom. We all heard walking around and up and down the stairs at night. And the atmosphere was thick. Scary house to grow up in but we just got on with it

[@sheilagavin6536]

A lovely couple and family I hope they all found comfort, peace and prosperity. Sara Mondaini grew up in a haunted council house in England. Her yt channel is Wurthering Nights

[@fiddlejohn9305]

😂😂😂

[@raypitcher9767]

They should have just kept quiet and put in for an exchange. A seriously long way about doing things.

[@danieljackson2680]

😂😂😂

[@connoroleary591]

The son looks like he is vaguely possessed. I hope he is doing well for himself and is no longer pounding the walls and switching the lights on and off.

[@leedwyer161]

just a big Joy Division fan :))

[@AndrewJohnston-t3m]

😂

[@Kittysoftpaws377]

I think she has lovely hair

[@carljamieson2833]

love your name 😊

[@celticfclad1]

Minus the teeth 🦷

[@iano6944]

The banging noise was probably the central heating 😂

[@bid84]

No central heating in those days in council housing

[@iano6944]

@bid84 there certainly was... we had it in 1980 off a coal back boiler

[@lauradesmarais2044]

Ah the good old back boiler. We were happy to have it.😁 our next house was a freezing old Victorian semi with fireplaces only. That was 1987. Could see my breath in the bedroom-wore a hat to bed like old Scrooge🥶Still, we were so happy back then. Simpler then.

[@bid84]

@@iano6944 oh yea I forgot the back boiler, it would cost a fortune to heat a house like that now

[@Soundofmusic777]

And the light going off and on, and the stomping of feet, too? There are houses like this, alas...You simply don't have the experience.

[@pupskin123]

Wonder what happened to them? They seem abandoned!

[@chelamcguire]

They got a new 4 bedroom house shorty after.

[@lukethedrifter100]

She wouldnt get away with that story in 2025😂😂😂😂

[@blindknitter]

The Housing Executive wouldn't believe it, but I know of haunted houses up here in the North that nobody stays in, and one in particular that I nor my son would never set foot in. (It's going to be knocked down, too many suicides.)

[@lukethedrifter100]

@blindknitter Mary with respect, but that kind of superstition is out dated, only old people used to think like that from long ago..Today, in 2025 almost, the only thing you gotta fear are guys with beards dressed up as women, or demonists who think abortion is normal and progressive...in actual fact youd be better off locking yourself away in one of those haunted houses you mentioned, youd be a lot better off and safer ... you can alway take the bulb out when the demons starts fucking around with the light switch at 3 in zee morning. 🤣🤣

[@Ali-iqq1z]

😢😢😢

[@25pappy]

I just checked it out on Google Street View. It's still there...still not haunted. 13 St Matthews Park. Ballymahon

[@johnkk7863]

Fair play I was looking for terrace not park they musta changed the name

[@bigmama2135]

Its the one with the bag of sand at the door😂

[@vingotaq777]

Where have all the ghosts and supernatural phenomena gone now that we have HD video and security cams everywhere ?

[@Dafydd.Bovril]

They are being captured on video all the time.

[@peterlarkin762]

Fr. Bland: "Get some sand, it'll be grand."

[@MORCHEEBA77]

Even the house number is 13 i live in a place 113 I wonder if thats considered bad luck also

[@TheSerpentGallery]

That's a nice number.

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

poor people and just because it doesn't happen to the next person suggests poltergeist

[@bradpaul8576]

I agree, the new family might not have had the same experience. I believe that these people experienced something disturbing.

[@sheilagavin6536]

@@bradpaul8576 Yes, I agree with you.💯% 🙏

[@suzannesia6868]

I think it may have been poltergeist activity connected to their son.

[@MarieWalsh-fd1je]

That's was year 1985 what happened to the family after the news report inthe year 2024.ANY FOLLOW UP IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW IF POSSIBLE.

[@MargaretThompson-os9gb]

They got another council house in Ballymahom

[@RossONeill-s2p]

They were in it since it was built, nobody died in it, how is it haunted. Not a clue what the husband was saying.

[@dechannigan2980]

Who's in it presently, have they had any supernatural experiences. .

[@jamesward1656]

House built on a badger pass. A badger walks same ground Every night. Will happen in new estates Only people dont hear With Tv on All night. Badgers and Faireys use The Same Path.

[@EmmaRonan]

We need an update!

[@brotherdom1]

The bag of sand WTF

[@johncrossanc6928]

Just goes to prove that Longford is a great place

[@joelawless4725]

Father Bland was the original Fr Stone im thinking 🤔. What a name😂

[@Iamhome365]

Looking forward to watching this. I grew up in a haunted house, it never bothered me, annoyance moreso, i heard things, saw things but my daughter hated my bedroom, something grabbed her ankle from under the bed in her teens, my mothers ankle was grabbed twice in bed. Mam didnt particularly like my bedroom either she said. It was an old cottage, over 100years old before it was added onto. Mam saw plenty, brothers heard things but I've since built a house and oh theres things going on! They've followed us to our new home! My 2 youngest have asked me "have you ever felt like someone is watching you but when you turn around theres no one there" i say no, dont want to scare them! Just today my youngest (7) said he heard someone say hello in the kitchen but no one there. I see things out of the corner of my eye, doors closing but no windows open and when i check, the door is wide open. But the big thing is in my home house there was a little girl, aged maybe 5, i saw her, heard her once but my daughter saw her regularly in my home house! We lived with my parents and there was a spare cot in my daughters room for when my nieces and nephews were in the house, my daughter would see this girl asleep in the cot, it freaked her out. Her toys would be changed (she had sylvanians), moved around or messed up but anyway about 3 weeks ago my daughter, now 22 came out of her bedroom and there standing outside my bedroom door was the little girl! I was like are you bloody serious! We've lived here about 5 years now and its really in the last year or so that I've felt something here but knly in the last 2 months or so am i hearing things (the doors closing) and now the little girl. I thought i left all that up in my home house!!! A cousin did ask me eould i get the house blessed but I'm afraid to incase it angers them and things escalate

[@robinboucherwonderfulflight]

Sorry to hear your going thru this. Get some sage and start in the basement and burn it going around all the walls. Open the closets and have the smoke from the sage in there as well. Keep doing this on all floors. On the top floor have an open window and finish there. Close the window afterwards. Get Holy Water and make the sign of The Cross on each door and window frame. The little girl could actually be a demon. I hope this helps.

[@annakelman6627]

​@@robinboucherwonderfulflight👍👍👍

[@annakelman6627]

It won't my angel told me to tell you to do it sage rids spirits archangel Michael drives them away. Hecate the witch of Samhain can ask them to leave, or the Irish Caiileach

[@TF80s]

@@annakelman6627 and Santa Clause will chase them away....

[@lesleyhubble2976]

You need a good Psychic medium to pass them over, can’t be good for a spirit to stay in a home, I think we all reincarnate and she hasn’t got the opportunity. All weird stuff

[@mrman8868]

If that house had wheels there’d be no ghost.

[@mrherbman1]

What exactly does this remark mean Your obviously not Irish because the only conclusion I can come too is you wrongly think they are traveller's They are definitely NOT Traveller's

[@noelcahill6707]

Father bland i give up hahahaha

[@tomasjoconnel5367]

I vaguely remember this in the news back then. not fully convinced it was genuine

[@pauliewalsh6875]

I bet ya they got Daniel O Donnell to service the boiler.

[@michellereilly7768]

Same thing but worse happened on falls road Belfast , theres actually a book ,it's called no 91 Belfast ghost story

[@paulohagan3309]

Lots worse happened in Belfast. And the only spooks around were Special Branch. The bloody place is haunted by attitudes from 400 years ago. It's said that spectral Orange figures walk the roads every 12 July. Any Irish person who sees them is likely to suffer great misfortune ...

[@paulohagan3309]

Lots worse happened in Belfast. No spooks involved ...

[@bmc5075]

The banging was the delf the doors the beds Sounds like next door knew how to give the house a good christening

[@annakelman6627]

Being a psychic, I'd say avoid houses with 13 on the door not a good omen and the son looks worried, it can all attract poltergeists. It's probably by a faerie rath or there's an angry ghost nearby. I had a wailing banshee outside my home pre Covid, my ancestors are from an olde Irish clan and certain people can predict ☠️💀 death or bad stuff I can tell straight away what's causing it upon entering a place and sometimes tell it to go home it needs psychic sprays or smudging i did that to my new mobile home 🏠 out in the wilds of Nottinghamshire. A little Jewish receptacle by the doorpost, called a Mezuzah, drives away spirits and poltergeists. Nothing gets past my front door unless it's an ancestor or guardian spirit now. Celtic places are riddled with these stories, as it's no ordinary land ✨✨

[@sheilagavin6536]

@@annakelman6627 Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom 💯% 🙏❤

[@chelamcguire]

Wonderful info. Many blessings are being sent to you.

[@annakelman6627]

To you Hun 😽 😘 ​@@chelamcguire

[@dechannigan2980]

@@annakelman6627 I would also avoid numbers 13 and 4 and any numbers adding to number 4 . . Also symbolic sign's like 4 glass panels on the outer door. . I've lived in many addresses in UK and Ireland, some were sinister and unlucky. . I became sensitive to the negativity of certain places. . And witnessed a negative vision at one residence. .

[@annakelman6627]

@dechannigan2980 yes lived in flat number 4 of an old house, also main house number 4, two successive family related deaths within a month and hauntings galore four means death in Chinese, too I dislike that number and 11 is a bugger too, it can betoken two sticks of 🧨 dynamite

[@MartinaFallon-c9n]

What ever happened to them in the end. Did they get a different house. Is there anyone living in the house now

[@Dafydd.Bovril]

Latest comment is by someone who claims to know them but isn't much use.

[@williambinions4205]

Who ya going to call

[@Dirish420]

Not the parish priest apparently ✝️

[@connoroleary591]

​@@Dirish420according to the neighbours, the parish priest was there regularly. She can't be telling the truth.

[@williambinions4205]

@@Dirish420 😂😂

[@lukethedrifter100]

😂😂😂😂

[@tonemc6047]

The local builders merchants apparently.

[@christopherconroy4876]

Bags of sand for what 🤔 hopefully not for the cat's

[@AndyMcTigue-b8t]

This house had a poltagest ive seen this both england and ireland a troubled spirit

[@AndyMcTigue-b8t]

Thank u ya some throw dishes around and at you I knew of a place where the family hadto run from the house at 3 in the morning around what they call the dead Hour all them big houses are badly haunted because they are the homes of the devil built on the slave trade land got by the gun bad things done in them I'm talking about the big mansions on the big estates that's why hundreds of them now lye empty no person can live in them bad angels haunt them .some would laugh at this .but there there for sure

[@barrycreed9886]

Shur the house was only there 10 years!

[@ArsonFire00]

1:07 'Father Bland'. Brilliant.

[@Miss_PANDAS]

Fr. Bland 😂 The bag of sand at the front door. God, weren't they innocent times.

[@mariamadden4147]

Just because entities can't be seen doesn't mean they're not around us for various reasons. Some are trying to get our attention, looking for help. One reason is because spirit doensn't realise it's passed over, another is those who can't find the light need to be guided to it to rest in peace. There are too many reasons to list but take it seriously all you sceptics, some day it may happen to you....

[@markwilliambarton1284]

The houses looked miserable anyway 😂

[@elliegreen4738]

When the woman living in the adjoining house is being interviewed her daughter is keeping almost hidden in the hallway instead of coming outside to take part.

[@ballygeale1]

I couldn't understand what he said about the priest and the sand

[@Dafydd.Bovril]

The priest told them to spread sand outside the door because it would capture the footprints of any intruders.

[@florencewhite9582]

The priest and the sand are getting more attention than the ghost 😂

[@PatKeogh-u4i]

Noisy neighbours and a bag of sand foundation problem a wonder the parish priest didn't order a few bags of cement half of donegal have that problem 🤔🙄😕

[@patrickmoriarty01]

If there's something wrong in your neighbourhood who you gonna call......... The parish priest 👿👻

[@becksarmstrong8264]

Councils being rubbish again with the quality of the homes they provide! It always amazes me how blind people choose to be, we provided them with a home that's no good, but we'll leave that part out!

[@seanm9109]

The good old bag of sand

[@vinlennox7658]

Tents have advantages...

[@martymartin2894]

The ghost must have stolen the toothbrush.

[@tonemc6047]

I don’t think there was one to steal .

[@Tyroneguy77]

Maybe a lodger up in the attic glad of a roof over his or her head

[@BrianBetson]

What about the cement????

[@gumzy1985]

The rent was paid

[@Paulco67]

Apparently lol

[@mariar4431]

I believe them.

[@andrewwalsh6177]

we gone backward since 85

[@gearsandtears7643]

Google maps it looks like rhe ghost moved in next door 😂

[@75YBA]

#13…

[@nelldaly3274]

😂 the comments.

[@irishdepartmentofagriculture]

"Ghost my arse" - Jim Royale

[@norfolkronin6307]

The vicar would of soon got there. If there was a meal and a bottle of whiskey.

[@kgraham5820]

Awful that Father So-&-So didn’t help them. He, of all people, should believe in the supernatural, especially when professing to believe in the Bible, which is filled to the brim with supernatural activities. 🤦‍♀️ His actions betrayed his words… 😮

[@MICKYFISH100]

Was only the rats and mice running throughout the house .

[@docastrov9013]

Brasiliamahon

[@slowboywhiteboardv4]

I finally had to turn the subtitles on 😮 that Irish tongue

[@BrianMusak01]

Yeh..great stories from recent history 😂

[@chloeew4627]

After dah turd time me to.😂😂

[@slowboywhiteboardv4]

@chloeew4627 you say ya hadta listen tree times? 😆

[@md61211]

@@chloeew4627 Roflmao

[@jimmymcjimmyvich9052]

I would think that couple just wanted to travel)) They wanted a travelling house...

[@norfolkronin6307]

They did you know. They got a lovely 4 bedroom house they did, they did.

[@Katwoman4318]

Superstitious with the number 13. County Council was having it.

[@lwilson123]

in Scotland no number 13 houses

[@lightningspirit2166]

Number 13.....? Unlucky for some...😮😅

[@retroarcade3342]

Sounds like the house was wired by Jim Carey

[@iano6944]

Wired by Buzz O'Shaughnessy

[@bridboland8839]

Good one

[@SeosamhDubhghall-q7x]

head board banging against the wall with faulty wires, and worse George mcfly with his lovely hairdo from back to the future playing the son 🤔

[@northernlights6459]

He’s the image of George McFly! Well spotted.

[@TtableWhey]

Every house is haunted. Give us a mobile home Now!

[@hilltop521]

Holy Water

[@Sigridovskij]

The priest probably put a recorder into the wall and something to turn off the lights so to get rid of the family or to just have fun. Who knows what some priests are up to.

[@AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is]

That auld priest is a very Bland man.😂😂

[@Scrapper.]

My didn't they charge the ghost rent?

[@oceantiara]

Jayzuz

[@keithskegwin]

It's Peter Tobin in happier times

[@bq1424]

What a Gaslighting Reply from The Coucil Rep.

[@Paulco67]

"Mary Reilly"... look it up lol

[@karenstec8012]

Priest not much use wow , sure he was a priest

[@cristinadriviera8144]

Father "BLAND" - says it all...

[@Glynnermang]

And the bag of sand didn't sort it?😂 is there anything to be said for another mass??

[@irishjohn3528]

Its a bland story...😅

[@patrickdaly5054]

Oh my jaysus. 😅😅😅

[@missadda8890]

The son was riding his hot water bottle that's what all the commotion was.

[@maryneufeld9375]

And the catholic church couldnt help.as per usual!! If there is poltergeist activity they CAN.help.just cant be bothered!! Itscos they dont want to admit it really can happen.