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Get spooked out at Crumlin Road Gaol
If you aren’t faint hearted, love ghost stories and even hope to see one, here’s your chance. Crumlin Road Gaol, which dates back to 1845, closed it’s doors as a working prison in 1996. Reopened now after extensive renovations, take a guided tour of the prison and hear about the history of the site. You can visit the reception area of the prisoners, where their details were noted, photographs taken, clothes and personal belongings surrendered and the place where they would bathe, were de-liced and taken to their cells after they changed into their uniforms.
Other stops include the Governor’s room, where you will have a chance to pose with the Governor and the room used for legal visits; the cells. You can also visit the spooky areas including ‘The Tunnel,’ which is an underground tunnel that connected the gaol to the Crumlin Road Courthouse, where it is believed that the ghost of a little girl called ‘Isabel tugs’ on the trousers of women and plays with their hair and the condemned man’s cell before seeing the execution cell where the majority of the 17 men were hanged.
Get spooked out at Crumlin Road Gaol
If you aren’t faint hearted, love ghost stories and even hope to see one, here’s your chance. Crumlin Road Gaol, which dates back to 1845, closed it’s doors as a working prison in 1996. Reopened now after extensive renovations, take a guided tour of the prison and hear about the history of the site. You can visit the reception area of the prisoners, where their details were noted, photographs taken, clothes and personal belongings surrendered and the place where they would bathe, were de-liced and taken to their cells after they changed into their uniforms.
Other stops include the Governor’s room, where you will have a chance to pose with the Governor and the room used for legal visits; the cells. You can also visit the spooky areas including ‘The Tunnel,’ which is an underground tunnel that connected the gaol to the Crumlin Road Courthouse, where it is believed that the ghost of a little girl called ‘Isabel tugs’ on the trousers of women and plays with their hair and the condemned man’s cell before seeing the execution cell where the majority of the 17 men were hanged.
