Spooked Ireland

This is Ireland. My home.

I'm Vogue Williams, and since I was a kid,

I've been obsessed by the supernatural.

I have spent my childhood terrified of Banshees.

Now, something incredible is happening here.

Look at that, something is sitting there.

Do you hear that? I heard that one.

With incidents of paranormal activity

being reported across the country.

He's here. I'm scared!

So I've invited spiritual medium Chris Fleming to investigate.

Arrrgh, back off, back off...

In a lifetime of investigating I've never been to Ireland,

but when I heard what's happening here,

I had to check it out.

Puca! My god!

We've discovered ordinary people who've had extraordinary encounters.

It hit me so strong that I actually had tears coming out of my eyes.

Local investigators are overwhelmed.

I literally have a pain in my heart, I feel so scared.

So Vogue and I have assembled a world class team

of supernatural experts.

Tech guru Ryan O'Neil is in charge of deploying cutting edge equipment

that sheds new light on the spirit world.

And Consultant Parapsychologist Dr Evelyn Hollow...

How does that happen?

...will scrutinise all claims, with the most up to date science.

The shadow should cast on the outside of the stones,

but it's only casting inside the stones.

Led by the people of Ireland...

It went straight through me, I heard an exhale of breath.

...we'll expose the unknown forces plaguing the country right now.

Get your hands off me. Don't touch me.

This is Spooked Ireland.

Cork city, in the South West,

is home to Ireland's most haunted school,

Colaiste Eamann Ris.

There were kids saying they're even afraid to come into school,

it's haunted, like.

CCTV capturing unprecedented phenomena here went viral,

with over 20 million views worldwide.

I assumed it was a prank.

We put it up online and we let people decide.

We never expected it to go as big as it did.

With so many aggressive spirits here,

the staff are desperate for us to find the truth.

I just saw something walk right through here. You saw it too?

Yeah, one hundred percent, yeah.

My mates and I used to always tell each other ghosts stories in school,

but like to actually be in a school that's haunted

would freak me out.

Well, you'd be surprised how many schools actually are haunted.

Well, this one has so much activity, it's been caught on camera.

It seems quite aggressive.

And also people have seen it in front of their very own eyes.

Well, if it's aggressive, that means either it's messing

with people or it wants to be left alone.

So we're going to have to get to the bottom of it.

While Chris and Ryan start their sweep...

...Evelyn and I meet Principal Aaron Wolfe.

I've seen the videos. It's pretty creepy.

Absolutely.

How it started, the principal at the time,

Kevin Barry, came into the school.

He found new papers strewn across the floor,

asked me, I was the Deputy Principal at the time,

to check the cameras, and that's what we saw.

So you found it? I found it, yeah.

When it originally happened, we did have some students

saying we're not coming in school, we're too scared 'cause of the ghost.

Yeah. So were you just freaked out when you saw that?

Well, I assumed it was a prank, so that's why I said to Kevin,

we'd put it up online and we let people decide.

We never expected it to go as big as it did.

Once the video got published, other people started coming forward

saying, well, that school was always haunted.

Have you had anything happen to you yourself personally?

I have heard noises.

One example was we were here and at three o'clock in the morning,

we heard a piano in a classroom.

And what about other stories? Who's come forward?

Any of the staff have anything happen to them?

Yeah, well, only recently, actually, we had our school open night

and there was a queue coming to the open night

and we put a picture up online on Facebook of the queue

and then someone on Facebook sent it back to us saying,

have you seen your ghost is actually in the picture?

And you can see there's the queue.

And if we zoom into this section here,

there's a shape.

Yeah, that's in front of the gate as well.

It's weird because it's actually blocking...

Yeah, you'd see the gate...

It's actually blocking the gate.

It looks like it's on the other side of the gate.

It is strange.

So and again, we didn't notice that, someone else sent it back to us.

Yeah, lots of people saying they won't come in,

I mean, there's a staff member here

that won't come up to the third floor.

Is convinced that the place is haunted,

and I mean, our staff would complain about constant cold spots.

They always used to say there's a feeling of them being watched.

There was one story about a girl, said she heard crying

coming from the bathroom, and then when she went in,

there was no one in there.

We would come in very often, things would be broken overnight,

science equipment would be broken, lockers pulled open.

So when was the last recorded activity here?

I was away only four weeks ago, and the school alarm went off,

and I can check the cameras on my phone

and we could see the sensors in every corridor going off.

We called the guards to come out to the building,

there's no one in the building.

With so many sightings, we've got a lot of ground to cover.

We've started our sweep in the music room

where there's reports of a piano echoing through the empty school.

I am getting a massive spike on the K2 up to red.

I had it walking round me all the time. It's quite strong!

It's a blast to the red.

I'll be damned.

Someone just walked right across this beam.

I saw full formed shadow legs

walk right across this beam towards us.

I'm going to pinpoint right here.

And then it vanished as soon as it got here.

OK, is there a spirit energy who is watching us?

Did you hear that? Like breathing!

We can't just ignore what we just heard,

it was like a male type of breath.

We just heard a breath. Can you do that again, please?

How long have you been here?

Almost like a trickster, you like playing these games.

Almost like a trickster, you like playing these games.

Good job, see, you didn't really hear anything on mine,

but you heard it on his.

I'm so glad you did!

It shows you that that picked it up, but this didn't.

If that was a natural sound in our environment,

both of them would have picked it up.

How long you been here?

Seven!

So we're getting answers, there's answers coming in here.

Yeah.

Go, go, come, come, come!

What?

There's something not right with this area here.

Just as you walked in? I mean, yeah.

Sometimes I can walk into a certain area

and there's a feeling that you get when you walk in to that area.

It was just like a...

It's here.

Is something here? Yeah.

Right around this corner, cause as I walked here,

I felt almost like, you know a snake snaps at you?

Woah, woah, woah, I saw something,

I saw something, c'mere, c'mere, c'mere!

In Cork city, we're investigating

what's believed to be the most haunted school in Ireland.

Woah, woah, woah, I saw something,

I saw something, c'mere, c'mere, c'mere!

Something was right here.

Like a little black shadow was right here,

the corner, was very faint, and it quickly darted.

I don't know what it was yet, all I know it was like a mass.

A black mass, it was a little bit translucent,

like kind of transparent, you know.

This thing was more down like this,

looking like this at what we were doing

and as soon as it recognised that I saw it,

it darted back very fast.

I felt a change like something was watching us.

Like even now, me standing here, my shadow is not even close

to the darkness I saw, it was way darker than that,

more grey to it.

Evelyn has been studying the online footage

and is keen to speak to the students who owned the moving lockers.

So the first thing that happens

is that going up this corridor, a door opens.

That's quite loud.

Yeah.

On this side, there was another set of lockers?

So they're gone now.

Yeah, my locker is the one that's shaking there.

That would've been there. That would've been yours?

Jeez, and then there's also another locker, so it's this one?

So then that's one that would've flung open.

And there's like books and papers

and stuff are coming out of it as well.

That was Josh's locker.

So it was your locker that's thrown open

and your locker is the one that was pushed.

Did you guys feel afraid when you came back to school.

Definitely.

When I seen the video first, it was like,

11 o'clock at night, and I just was sitting in bed like, erm, no.

And then when I came back to my locker,

I don't want to go near it, but I had no choice.

I just kind of had to get over it really.

You just got to get on with it. Yeah. Had no choice.