Ghost Hunters International - Ireland & England

The first stop this week is Charleville Castle in Tullamore, Ireland. The main report here is that a little girl named Harriet fell to her death on the stair case after trying to slide down the banister. She has been seen and heard many times in the castle. Barry is so happy to be back in Ireland that he makes the team a traditional Irish stew before getting down to business. That stew looked so good but there would be no ghost hunting for me after that, I would be sound asleep!

Barry & Andy find a hot spot in the original kitchen area. It started out with thumps and bangs then Andy hears a child's voice say I'm hungry (hey, you are in the kitchen after all). Barry asks the spirits to show themselves and he gets a piece of wire thrown at him and their radio equipment, which is set up on a nearby table gets knocked over.

On Harriet's staircase, Brian & Rob both see a white light near the top of the stairs but no one is there. After reviewing the tapes, they hear a child's voice in response to Barry asking the spirit to communicate. Barry had taken some photos with a 3 second interval between shots. Two of the photos show a door closing on it's own.

Rob still hesitates to say the castle is haunted as he wants more evidence. Last season, he said everyplace was haunted and this season he is really holding back.

The next stop is Samlesbury Hall in Samlesbury, England. The hall was built in 1325 and, as Dustin said, looks like a gothic gingerbread house. There is a lot of history here as well as a ton of stories as told by a much too lively tour guide. This guy could make you believe it was 12 midnight when it was 12 noon! He says the hall is the most haunted place in Great Britain. I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure I did a blog from last season on a place that said the same thing.

The team does their investigation and comes up empty handed. Nothing, nada, zilch! For a place that is supposedly the most haunted, it was a dud. I guess the ghosts needed a night off. Dustin did some research which pretty much contradicts the stories told by the tour guide. Rob & Andy present the findings of that research to the tour guide and he was visibly taken aback but managed to rebound by saying that the stories had been handed down for centuries. Considering one of the stories was about a police car that had a collision with one of the ghosts, I don't think all of the stories go back as far as a century! Double D