Renowned for its superb views, the countryside around Dublin is full of various historic sites and buildings.
There are ivy-covered castles, ornate mansions, and any ruins from different times for the most demanding taste. And all this, of course, is filled with stories of strange and supernatural occurrences. One such site is the Seminary of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Patrick's College in Mainuth, near Dublin.
Since 1795, priests have been trained here. It is known that the seminary has a mysterious room about which there are many legends and frightening stories. It is described as inhabited by ghosts and demons. The room is deep in the college's vast compound, in a building built in the 1830s to house undergoing novice training. It is simply called “Room 2” and in the 1840s it was the site of the first of several suicides that led to rumors and stories of the supernatural.
The first incident occurred when a student named Sean O'Grady unexpectedly and without warning jumped out of a window and crashed to his death. No one could understand why he did it, and his act remained a mystery. The next suicide occurred when another student living in this room, Thomas McGinn, did not show up for a lecture. Friends went to look for him and found him in a pool of their own blood.
It turned out that he had cut his own throat. After that, the room remained empty for a long time. When the next tenant appeared in it, he too was soon found committing suicide. He also cut his own throat. Then another student who was accommodated in this room found himself with a broken body on the ground under her window, from which he jumped out.
But he lived long enough to tell that in that room he had horrific demonic visions. Before his death, he told the priest that he saw the demon's face in the mirror and that it demanded that he cut his throat, but instead he decided to jump out of the window. The priest decided to spend the night in this room, and the next morning he went out with a gray head. The college tried to hide the facts of the suicide by not telling new students about them. The room was eventually transformed from a living room to an auditorium and then to a waiting room, but stories of it continued to circulate among the seminarians.
Paranormal researchers are also interested in her. Hans Holzer, author of the book "Ghosts: Real Encounters with the Otherworld," spoke of how he experienced a feeling of overwhelming terror in this room and was forced to flee from it under the influence of forces that he did not see or understand. Other visitors to the room spoke of similar sensations and visions of a four-legged demonic being.
In addition, they felt something strange, the presence of some invisible entity near the statue of St. Joseph, which is on the altar in this room. To this day, there are dark marks on the floor of the room, which are said to be from blood after suicides committed in it.
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In addition, they talk about strange dark figures, unexpected coldness, a problem in the operation of electronic devices. It remains unclear why this particular room, the only one in the entire college, attracts the attention of the other world and why over the years the priests have not found a way to deal with it.
GUSAKOVA IRINA YURIEVNA