How I Scored “Truth”
The score is not “probability that a dead person is present.” It is the probability that there is a real, follow-up-worthy human experience behind the story.
Named, first-hand, ordinary witnesses score higher than anonymous ghost-night attendees or promotional copy.
Multiple witnesses, separate reports, staff histories, or visitor books score higher than a single viral photo.
Named presenters, authors, venues, staff, archives, and public groups are practical leads.
Tourism, TV, ghost apps, spirit boxes, or heavy folklore branding reduce confidence unless first-hand testimony is still reachable.
Lead Map
Best Follow-Up Ranking
Initial Conclusion
This page uses a source-first approach. The strongest current source cluster is Leinster Paranormal's own Carlow Gaol / Shopping Centre archive, backed by Spirited Isle, The History Press county books, YouTube source trails, radio links, newspaper archives, and library routes.
Current Research State
Leinster Paranormal's author archive is currently the strongest group-first source because it has dated posts, repeated investigation material, audio/visual pages, and direct overlap with Carlow Shopping Centre / former Carlow Gaol.
The visible card list below contains 18 scored entries and is sorted by follow-up score. It includes Leinster Paranormal's archive, History Press book trails, Spirited Isle leads, YouTube/video leads, and older archive/story sources.
Haunted Carlow, Haunted Kilkenny, and Haunted Tyrone are now treated as primary discovery sources for local poltergeist, student-house, housing-estate, hotel, farm, and bed/room stories.
Next source routes are Facebook group search, YouTube search, Irish Newspaper Archive, RTÉ Archives, Dúchas, and Libraries Ireland.
All Leads Displayed Below
The cards below are the current scored working set, ranked from highest follow-up score downward. Each card shows why the lead is worth pursuing, what to request next, and where the source trail starts.
Group-First Findings
Primary group source with dated posts by Cormac. Found posts include Another Scary Night in Carlow Gaol, Is Carlow Shopping Centre Haunted?, Phantom Sounds in Carlow Shopping Centre, private-case audio archive, and Haunted Laois camera movement.
The EVPs page says many investigations are residential/private, so the site anonymises cases. It mentions The Old Woman story for Haunted Carlow, downstairs locked-room recordings, Carlow Shopping Centre visits between March and June 2014, café sounds, door-slam/heavy-fall sounds, and recordings where investigators are audible.
The Visual page repeats the Haunted Laois camera-movement clip and the locked supermarket sound clip, providing a linked index for original video/audio follow-up.
The About Us page frames the group around unexplained sounds, voices/name-calling and shaking cameras. This is a useful group profile because it shows their focus before mining each case.
Linked routes for staff and local testimony include Dúchas, National Library of Ireland, Libraries Ireland, RTÉ Archives, and Irish Newspaper Archive.
Linked group trails include Peninsula Paranormal Group, Ghost Searchers Ireland, Paranormal Resident, Team Ireland, and Soul 2 Soul Paranormal Team Ireland.
Group Evidence Inventory: Audio / Visual
The EVPs page embeds multiple SoundCloud tracks: 155208746, 155208743, 155208742, 155208741, 155208755, 155210052, 155208754, 155208753, 155208756, 155208752, and 155208751. Several include secret tokens, so they should be reviewed from the embedded page rather than assumed public standalone tracks.
Direct files discovered from the EVP page include laugh.mp3 and CarlowShoppingCentreDoorSlam.mp3. These need local archiving, waveform review, and environmental notes before being treated as evidence.
The Visual page embeds YouTube videos 36rft2T-7U4, x2oQ2fVe8dc, and 8FNFon5kHkQ, plus the channel link LP Ireland / Leinster Paranormal.
Primary posts to preserve and analyse: Is Carlow Shopping Centre Haunted?, Phantom Sounds in Carlow Shopping Centre, Another Scary Night in Carlow Gaol, private-case audio archive, and Haunted Laois camera movement.
Linked public trail: 2024 Kinnitty Castle public-photo report and 2025 Kinnitty Castle stone-circle/entity-photo report.
Linked Loftus Hall trail: Condé Nast Traveler's 2016 Loftus Hall article references a 3e special called Irish Ghost Hunters and quotes director David Tiernan on a thermal-imager anomaly.
YouTube leads found: Sharon Rectory Paranormal Investigation and The Hauntings of Sharon Rectory. These need watching/transcription and separation of witness claims from investigation-night equipment claims.
YouTube lead found: Ducketts Grove Ireland Ghost Searchers Ireland. Treat as a group/video lead until the channel and any related write-up are mined.
YouTube leads found: The Haunted Knocktopher Tower Kilkenny Ireland Paranormal Investigation and Tyrone House Galway. Note: Tyrone House is Galway, not County Tyrone.
YouTube leads found for Tyrone House, Galway: Operation Ghost Hunt - Tyrone House, Tyrone House Tunnel, and Operation Ghost Hunt: Tyrone House.
Irish Paranormal Teams Directory
This is a source-first directory of Irish and Ireland-focused paranormal teams/channels discovered so far. It is intentionally broader than the scored story list: some entries are confirmed Irish teams, some are Northern Ireland teams, some are Irish-connected YouTube channels, and some are visiting teams with useful Irish-location footage. Priority should go to the groups with original case files, witness access, dated posts, audio/video archives, or repeat visits to the same location.
Top priority. Primary archive with dated posts, EVPs, visual evidence, Carlow Shopping Centre / former Carlow Gaol material, private residential audio, and Haunted Laois camera-movement material. Start with author archive, EVPs, visual evidence, and LP Ireland channel.
Galway-based team trail with Kinnitty Castle public-investigation reports. Linked sources: 2024 Kinnitty Castle report and 2025 Kinnitty Castle report.
TV/special trail tied to Loftus Hall, Wexford. Condé Nast Traveler's 2016 Loftus Hall article references a 3e special called Irish Ghost Hunters and quotes director David Tiernan on a thermal-imager anomaly.
Irish investigation channel/team trail with multiple location videos. Leads include Duckett's Grove, Carlow, Conway Mill, Belfast, and Elizabeth Fort, Cork. Needs channel mining, date capture, and any supporting write-ups.
Cork-focused group lead. YouTube trail includes Deerpark CBS Cork ghost/intruder footage and Mark Manning Media's Scary Eire episode with Cork Supernatural Society, Phantasm Collective and Paranormal Galway. Worth mining for Cork school, gaol, fort and private-case leads.
Irish team/channel lead with Cork City Gaol footage. Start with GhostÉire at Cork City Gaol Part 1. Needs channel archive review and contact/source verification.
Dublin-branded investigation channel lead. Start with Dublin Paranormal Investigations at Wicklow Gaol. Needs full channel scrape and cross-check for Dublin, Wicklow, Meath and private residential cases.
Irish team name found through video search. Start with Irish Paranormal Investigations at The Athenaeum. Needs site/social lookup and identification of investigation dates, members and original claims.
Irish-named investigation lead with EVP-focused content. Start with EVP says "help me" in Irish haunted house. Treat as a private-house lead until location, consent and original context are verified.
Irish private-house lead. Start with private house in Waterford. Needs careful privacy handling and witness/contact verification.
Galway team lead surfaced through the Scary Eire S1 Ep7 title alongside Cork Supernatural Society and Phantasm Collective. Needs dedicated search for owned pages, Facebook, YouTube, cases and public evidence.
Irish paranormal collective lead from the Scary Eire S1 Ep7 listing. Needs group identity verification, links, case list and contact route.
Donegal/Northwest-focused video trail with Sharon Rectory and Doe Castle material. Leads include Sharon Rectory Paranormal Investigation, The Hauntings of Sharon Rectory, Sharon Rectory: The Return, Doe Castle, Donegal, and church ruin and graveyard investigation.
Separate group-name trail surfaced through direct YouTube search. Start with Cumber House Paranormal Investigation with Peninsula Paranormal Group. This likely overlaps with the Life Afterlife Productions trail and needs ownership/contact verification.
Northern Ireland / Donegal border-region group lead. Start with Paranormal Ulster Donegal investigation film and Lifford Courthouse and Gaol investigation. High priority for Donegal, Tyrone and Derry leads.
Irish/NI-border investigation channel trail surfaced through direct YouTube search. Leads include Hickeys Lane / Newry Towpath, Glyde Court, Tallanstown, Co Louth, Ballymoyre Forest, Killeavy Old Churches graveyard, Albert Basin, Newry, undisclosed location, and Daisy Hill Woods / Dead Man's Lane. Needs channel archive capture and location mapping.
Irish team-name lead from direct YouTube search. Start with Paranormal Investigation // Soul 2 Soul Paranormal Team Ireland. Needs channel/social lookup, case list and member/contact verification.
Northern Ireland Greatest Haunts-related channel/team lead. Start with Woburn House and Prehen House. Needs distinction between production channel, investigation team and original source archive.
Donegal case lead with poltergeist framing. Start with Ballymacool Estate, Letterkenny, Donegal. Needs local-history follow-up and any original witness trail.
Ireland-location investigation channel with Kilkenny and Galway leads. Start with Knocktopher Tower, Kilkenny and Tyrone House, Galway. Useful, but separate location folklore from investigation-night claims.
Irish-location investigation media around Tyrone House, Galway. Leads: Tyrone House, Tyrone House tunnel, and Tyrone House follow-up. Useful for Galway, not County Tyrone.
Ireland-location lead for the Hellfire Club. Start with Hellfire Club Paranormal Investigation Video Ireland. Needs Irish-team status check and extraction of witness/source claims.
Visiting/investigation channel with Irish locations. Leads include Wicklow Historic Gaol and Hellfire Club at night. Lower priority than Irish-owned groups, but useful for location bibliography and video evidence comparison.
King John's Castle/Limerick investigation trail. Leads include King John's Castle paranormal hotspot and team investigation at King John's Castle. Needs separation of production format from underlying witness claims.
Irish unexplained-content lead, not necessarily a field team. Start with Deerpark CBS Cork ghost/poltergeist video. Use as a discovery source and cross-check against Cork Supernatural Society coverage.
Belfast investigation lead. Start with abandoned mansion Belfast investigation. Needs Irish/NI team status check and location verification.
Visiting/UK investigation source with Irish locations. Leads include Belfast Prison and Cork City Gaol. Use for comparison and location research, not as primary Irish witness evidence.
External/visiting source with Irish gaol EVP footage. Start with Crumlin Road Gaol EVP, Part Two. Useful for Belfast/Crumlin Road coverage and comparison with other teams.
Belfast-location lead. Start with Titanic Belfast Dry Dock Paranormal Investigation. Needs channel/team status check and source separation.
Irish paranormal investigator from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, best known through Ghost Hunters International. Linked source routes: Barry Fitzgerald overview and Ghost Hunters International episode list.
Production/archive leads appear across multiple channels. Start with Prehen House, Dobbins Inn, Cooneen Poltergeist, Galgorm Castle, and Bellaghy Bawn. Strong for NI story discovery, but production provenance must be checked.
Use public Facebook group searches as linkable discovery routes: Irish paranormal groups, Paranormal Ireland groups, Ireland ghost hunters groups, and Northern Ireland paranormal groups.
Systematic Mining Pass
Mine the author archive, EVP archive, visual archive, Carlow Shopping Centre / Gaol post, and LP Ireland YouTube channel.
Mine linked group/video trails: Peninsula Paranormal Group / Cumber House, Ghost Searchers Ireland / Duckett's Grove, Paranormal Resident / Knocktopher Tower, Operation Ghost Hunt / Tyrone House, Team Ireland / Newry Towpath, and Soul 2 Soul Paranormal Team Ireland.
Mine Spirited Isle, Haunted Carlow, Haunted Kilkenny, and Haunted Tyrone for county story names, locations, dates and witness-contact routes.
Use public Facebook search links for discovery: Irish paranormal, Paranormal Ireland, Ireland ghost hunters, and Northern Ireland paranormal.
Mine KCLR 96FM / Duckett's Grove Scarefest, WeAreTyrone's Tyrone terrifying tales podcast, KCLR, WLR FM, Highland Radio, and BBC Sounds.
Mine Irish Newspaper Archive, British Newspaper Archive, RTÉ Archives, Dúchas, National Library of Ireland, and Libraries Ireland.
Facebook / Local Radio / Newspaper Archive Status
Public group-search routes: Irish paranormal, Paranormal Ireland, Ireland ghost hunters, and Northern Ireland paranormal.
Linked media routes: KCLR 96FM / Duckett's Grove Scarefest, KCLR, WeAreTyrone's Tyrone terrifying tales podcast, WLR FM, Highland Radio, and BBC Sounds.
Linked archive routes: Irish Newspaper Archive, British Newspaper Archive, RTÉ Archives, The Irish Times archive, Irish Independent, and Belfast Telegraph archive.
Linked reference routes: Dúchas, National Library of Ireland, Libraries Ireland, Carlow Libraries, Kilkenny County Library, and Libraries NI.
Source-First Inventory
Publication date 01/06/2011, ISBN 9781845886974. The publisher description explicitly mentions Brown Street, the White Lady, Carlow students sharing a house with an entity, poltergeists, phantom voices, ghostly nannies and white ladies. This should have been a primary source. Publisher page
Publication date 01/09/2012, ISBN 9781845887483; ebook ISBN 9780752487076. The publisher describes modern poltergeists in housing estates, phantom voices, ghostly nannies, white ladies and banshees as freshly discovered Kilkenny stories. Publisher page
Publication date 01/09/2014, ISBN 9781845888459; ebook ISBN 9780750961158. The page mentions poltergeist farms, a lady haunting a locked room in Knocknamoe Castle Hotel in Omagh, the ghost of Philly’s Phinest, and a haunted bed. Publisher page
The sitemap exposes county/category/listing pages, including ordinary sites and user stories. For Carlow/Kilkenny/Tyrone alone, relevant discovered slugs include Carlow Shopping Centre, IMC Carlow, Askea Lawns, Tullow Road, 4 Barrack Street, Foulksrath-adjacent Kilkenny entries, Bridge Street Omagh, Drumquin house, Mullaghmoyle Road, Tyrone Crystal and Scotch Street Dungannon. Spirited Isle
Linked sources: Wicklow Gaol overview, official site, and Ghost Hunters International episode list.
Linked sources: Charleville Castle overview, official site, and the castle's Ghost Hunters International / Harriet ghost trail in the linked overview.
Linked sources: Leap Castle overview, official site, and the castle's paranormal-investigator trail noted in the linked overview.
Linked sources: Clontarf Castle overview, official site, and recent haunting coverage in Irish Sun.
Linked sources: Ballygally Castle overview and related haunted-hotel coverage from The Scottish Sun.
Linked sources: Dublin Castle overview and official site. Useful as a Dublin county-history anchor and a place to mine for stories around the Castle, the State Apartments and the Bloody Sunday / 1916 history trail.
Linked sources: Puck's Castle overview. Useful for Dublin outskirts and local-legend mining.
Linked sources: Aughnanure Castle overview. Useful Galway county anchor for local-history and repeat-visitor story mining.
Linked sources: Menlo Castle overview and Galway Tourism page. Strong Galway ruin/folk-memory source with a documented fire and long ruin history.
Linked sources: Carrigaphooca Castle overview and the OPW-maintained castle entry in the linked overview. Useful Cork county anchor for spook-tale and stone-circle-adjacent local history.
YouTube / Video Leads To Verify
Channel: Spirited Isle - True Irish Ghost Stories. Key leads found: The Ghosts Of Kinnitty Castle, The Wizard Earl of Kilkea Castle, Secrets & Ghosts - Overnight at Barberstown Castle.
Key leads found: LeinsterParanormal Trailer, Leinster Paranormal RTE Appearance, Haunted Carlow. These are now important because Spirited Isle names Leinster Paranormal Group at Carlow Shopping Centre.
Ducketts Grove Ireland Ghost Searchers Ireland; Haunted Huntington Castle, Co. Carlow, Ireland 1973; Scarefest: Paranormal Investigations at Duckett's Grove by KCLR 96FM; Carlow Past and Present - Ghosts of the Past 1.
Is Kilkenny the Most Haunted place in Ireland?; Ghosts and Ghouls at Foulksrath Castle, Kilkenny; The Ghosts of John's Bridge, Kilkenny; The Haunted Knocktopher Tower Kilkenny Ireland Paranormal Investigation.
WAT's The Story podcast: Tyrone's terrifying tales; The old rectory, Cranagh, Co. Tyrone; The Ghost of Lord Tyrone.
10 Terrifying Irish Poltergeist Stories; 10 Spine-Tingling Irish Ghost Stories Submitted by You; The Ghosts of Ireland: Part 1; Glenafooka: Glen of the Ghost; Castle Ghosts of Ireland.
Groups, Books and Info
Linked source set: author archive, EVP/SoundCloud audio, visual/YouTube embeds, Carlow Shopping Centre / Gaol post, and LP Ireland YouTube channel.
Linked book sources: Haunted Carlow, Haunted Kilkenny, and Haunted Tyrone.
Linked directory sources: Spirited Isle, Carlow Shopping Centre / former Carlow Gaol, Kilkenny Castle, and Bridge Street Omagh.
Linked group/video trails: Peninsula Paranormal Group, Ghost Searchers Ireland, Paranormal Resident, Operation Ghost Hunt, Team Ireland, and Soul 2 Soul Paranormal Team Ireland.
Linked Kinnitty Castle trail: 2024 Kinnitty Castle report and 2025 Kinnitty Castle report.
Linked Loftus Hall trail: Loftus Hall lockdown coverage.
Linked public search routes: Irish paranormal, Paranormal Ireland, Ireland ghost hunters, and Northern Ireland paranormal.
Linked counter-source: Irish Skeptics Society overview.
Linked county sources: Carlow Shopping Centre / former Carlow Gaol, Duckett's Grove, and Huntington Castle 1973 video lead.
Linked county sources: Foulksrath Castle, Kilkenny Castle, John's Bridge video lead, and Knocktopher Tower video lead.
Linked county sources: Haunted Tyrone, Bridge Street Omagh, House in Drumquin, Tyrone terrifying tales podcast, and Cranagh old rectory video lead.
Linked reference routes: Dave Walsh, Haunted Dublin, Padraic O'Farrell, Irish Ghost Stories, Christina McKenna bibliography, and David M. Kiely bibliography.
Source Trail
Recent, named, non-ghost-hunter property lead. Irish Sun, Apr 2026
Hotel staff, RTÉ documentary reference, Lily Collins account, older medium claim. Irish Sun, Oct 2024 and Condé Nast Traveler, 2013
Recent public ghost-night story with named PSII investigator. Irish Sun, Mar 2024
Irish/Northern Irish authors documenting contemporary exorcism, haunting, and women’s testimony cases. Christina McKenna bibliography and David M. Kiely bibliography
Visitor-book style repeated experiences; older than the 20-year target but useful as a method. The Guardian / Observer, 2003
Not modern witness proof, but a rigorous place/person/topic index for finding repeated traditions before looking for current witnesses. Dúchas.ie