Irish Spirits

The Oubliette

September 18, 2020 Caoimhe Creed, Laura Fitzachary & Alex Buckley
Irish Spirits
The Oubliette
Show Notes

This episode focused on how haunted castles in Ireland can be! We looked at what was scarier: the castles themselves or the events that took place in the them, all washed down with our carefully crafted cocktail - The Oubliette. A drink to make you forget, it went down a little too easy courtesy of our phantom bartender, Alex! 

Each castle we discussed brought us down another rabbit hole of which much like an oubliette it was hard to get out of - each castle deserves their own episode! Until then enjoy our smattering of tales as we wonder what a ghost is at all! Our sources this week were: Augustine of Hippo, Blurry Photos Podcast, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-possible-scientific-reasons-for-ghosts/, Ghosts - W.B. Yeats, Castle Ghosts of Ireland 1995 documentary, Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland - Lady Wilde, https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/types-of-ghosts, Tarquin Blake's Haunted Ireland, https://historycollection.com/12-torturous-methods-execution-history/5/, https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/saint-agathas-breasts-festival-sicily, theirishplace.com, True Irish Ghosts Stories by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan, authenticvacations.com, https://ghostcatcherie.wordpress.com/ , https://projectdreamscape.org/annals/298/what-is-an-oubliette/, http://www.megalithicireland.com/Leap%20Castle,%20Offaly.html, punchdrink.com


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