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J-Neli wrote:Why are you going to Ireland for so long? Are you planning on staying with family there?

nikki4982 wrote:I also know a SUPER freaky/creepy place. But I'm not actually sure if it's still open to the public. But yeah, it's really unnerving and eerie if you're into that kind of thing.

faninor wrote:

nikki4982 wrote:I also know a SUPER freaky/creepy place. But I'm not actually sure if it's still open to the public. But yeah, it's really unnerving and eerie if you're into that kind of thing.

I'm interested!

There has been a prison on this site since 1616, although the series of tunnels and passageways that can be explored date from its last rebuilding in 1844. By the mid-19th century the House of Detention, as it became known, was used as a holding prison for those awaiting trial, and an estimated 10,000 people a year passed through its gates. The prison was demolished in 1890, but an entire underground section survived and lay undisturbed until the bombs of the Blitz saw it reopened as an air-raid shelter. After World War II it was again largely forgotten until, in 1993, it became a museum.

Descend a clanking set of iron stairs and pass under a grim replica of the grotesque head whose screening mouth, sunken eyes and matted hair were meant to symbolise criminal despair. It once hung prophetically over the main gate of the prison. Step into a sinister ventilation corridor where the air hangs heavy with the musty smell of damp and age, and progress slowly through this cavernous world of silent shadows. The floor beneath your feet is uneven and worn, ice-cold moisture drips from above', and there is the unnerving feeling that you are being constantly watched. Many visitors to the prison have caught sight of a shadowy figure mov­ing swiftly through the darkness ahead of them. Others have come back from the cells and grim passages and asked who the old lady is who seems to be searching for something, but does not respond when assistance is offered. Former manager Tom Duran has lost count of the number of people who hear the little girl whose heart-rend­ing sobs reverberate from the inner depths of the jail. 'They genuinely believe that a lost child is wandering the dank maze of corridors and passageways.' Then he adds by way of explanation: 'Children were imprisoned here and the anguish they suffered must have been terrible. Perhaps this little girl's grief has somehow impregnated the stone and some people are just sensitive to that sort of thing.' In addition there may be a particular individual who is very unpleasant and often stalks women who wonder alone through the maze of tunnels.