Part 2 The spooky stories behind leap Castle..... If you read the first part of our spooky story behind Leap Castle I think you all would agree that it is enriched with extremely bloody history. Leap Castle has always had a reputation of being haunted, a reputation so strong local people avoided it at night. Completely gutted by fire, Leap Castle was boarded up and its gates were pad locked for over 70 years. Locals have described seeing the windows at the top of the castle light up for a few seconds as if many candles were brought into the room late at night. The castle laid in ruin for years. Shortly after Leaps dungeons gruesome discovery, a psychic disturbance may have caused the emergence of the elemental spirit. In 1659 ownership of Leap Castle passed in marriage from the OCarroll family to an English family, the Darbys. The Darby family turned Leap into their family home, with improvements and additions and landscaped gardens . In the late 19th century descendants Johanthan and Mildred Darby were looking forward to raising their family here. The occult was the fashion of the day, and Mildred Darby did some innocent dabbling, despite the castles history and reputation for being haunted. Mildreds dabbling with magic awakened the elemental with ferocious velocity. In 1909, Mildred Darby wrote an article for the Journal Occult Review, describing her terrifying ordeal. I was standing in the Gallery looking down at the main floor, when I felt somebody put a hand on my shoulder. The thing was about the size of a sheep. Thin guanting shadowy..., its face was human, to be more accurate inhuman. Its lust in its eyes which seemed half decomposed in black cavities stared into mine. The horrible smell one hundred times intensified came up into my face, giving me a deadly nausea. It was the smell of a decomposing corpse. The elemental is thought to be a primitive ghost that attaches itself to a particular place. It is often malevolent, terrifying and unpredictable. After Mrs. Darbys experiments in the black arts, Leap Castle has never been the same. Haunting plague Leap leaving a sinister air throughout the castle. The Darbys remained at Leap until 1922. Being the home of an English family, it became the target of the Irish struggle for independence. Destroyed by bombs, completely looted, nothing but a burned out shell remained. The Darbys were driven out. In the 1970s Leap Castle was purchased by an Australian, who had a white witch brought in from Mexico to exorcise the castle. She spent many hours in the bloody chapel, when she emerged she explained that the spirits at Leap Castle were no longer malevolent, but they wished to remain. In the 1990s the castle was sold to the current owners. They were aware of the castles troubled history. Shortly after moving in they began restoration of the castle. During which time a freak accident left the owner with a broken kneecap delaying restoration work on the castle for nearly a year. One year after his accident the owner was back at work restoring his castle when the ladder he was standing on suddenly tilted backwards away from the wall causing him to jump several stories resulting in a broken ankle. Both were strange accidents. The owners say they would be happy to share the castle with the spirits as long as there are no more occurrences. In 1991, in Leap Castles Bloody Chapel was the christening of the owners baby daughter. For the first time in centuries the Bloody Chapel was filled with music, dancing, laughter, and most of all love. The day had been a happy, pleasant, wonderful day. If the troubled spirits of Leap Castle did not leave, maybe they have finally found some peace.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:01:33 +0000
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