Ireland After Dark

Ireland's roads connect communities, carry history - and on occasion, carry something else entirely. From the Barnesmore Gap in Donegal, where a woman climbed into the back of a car on a freezing night in 1983 and told the driver exactly where she had died, to the Murder Hole Road in Derry, where a highwayman's ghost is said to still patrol the route he once terrorised - the accounts in this episo...

Leap Castle has been called Ireland's most haunted home. Given its history, that's not hard to believe. A priest murdered at the altar. A hidden pit filled with the bones of the forgotten. A creature so disturbing that even those who share the castle with it urge caution. Seán and Anne Ryan bought the ruins in 1991. They are still there. They have heard things they cannot explain - voices in an ol...

Alanbrooke Hall was a student tower block attached to Queen's University Belfast. Over several years, a series of students and staff reported experiences they could not explain. A shadow figure radiating pure evil. Violent banging on doors with nothing on the other side. Objects moving of their own accord. A warden living alone in a locked tower, hearing the lifts move in the night. The witnesses...

A dark figure standing over your bed. A scream only you can hear. Eyes in the rear-view mirror that shouldn't be there. This is Ireland After Dark - and this short test episode is your first look at what's coming. I'm Jonathan, and starting on Midsummer's Eve here in Ireland (23 June), I'll be sharing true ghost stories from across Ireland's 32 counties every week. Subscribe now so you're ready fo...