Get ready for Halloween with some spooky travel tales - the most haunted places in Ireland

From old castles to deserted prisons, the scariest spots in the Emerald Isle

Today, a woman named Bridget Vance owns the property and is restoring the castle to its original Gothic Revival beauty.

Castle workers say construction has awakened the spirits of Charleville. They report having heard strange whispering voices and classical music throughout the castle.

Many have also heard the sounds of children playing in a room of the castle that was once the nursery.

According to legend, a little girl named Harriet died a tragic death at Charleville while playing in the stairwell in the early 1800s.

Harriet’s ghost has been seen in the stairwell, and people have said they felt a cold brush of wind brush past them as they descend these steps. The little girl can be heard in rooms around the castle, moving furniture and giggling and talking.

But children aren’t the only spirits to haunt Charleville.

The famous castle is said to have been built on land that was once an ancient druid stomping ground, and the Vance family reports having seen ghostly hooded figures around the castle grounds.

5. St. Michan’s Church

Dublin

St. Michan’s in Dublin is famous for many reasons. The church, built in 1095, contains the death mask of the Irish patriot Wolfe Tone and the organ on which Handel practiced his masterpiece “Messiah” before his first performance in Dublin.

The renowned Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke was christened here, while legendary nationalist political leader Charles Stewart Parnell’s funeral took place here.

But St. Michan’s is well-known for being haunted as well as the home of the Mummies of St. Michan.

The dark church vaults contain remarkably preserved corpses, including those of a 400-year-old nun, brothers and leaders of the 1798 Irish rebellion John and Henry Sheares and a body with severed hands and feet.

Though the cadavers in the crypt are cold and clammy, the air in the space is oddly warm, which makes it strange that many visitors report having felt icy cold fingers run down their necks as they stoop to examine the corpses.

Others say they’ve heard disembodied whispering voices around them, while others simply have felt a strange, cold presence.

6. Grand Opera House

Belfast

The magnificent Grand Opera House was opened in Belfast in 1895. Though the building was damaged during the Troubles, it has since been restored to its original splendor.

Several ghosts haunt the theatre, but sadly, most of them are unidentified.

Cast members have often seen a face looking in at them from a round window on their way down from the dressing rooms on the top floor. Opera House staff members have also reported a feeling that someone was behind them when nobody was there, especially while standing on stage.

Actors say they often feel like they’re being followed in the stage area, and the most commonly spotted specter at the theatre is a mysterious figure in a long, black hooded cloak that is always seen on stage. Some think the ghost to be a former actor, still waiting for the curtain to go down on his final role.

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