Weird Distractions

Spike Island, Ireland

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Make sure your candles are lit, your passports are up to date, and you bring your own coffee this week, folks! We’re back talking all things spooky with an infamous Irish location - being that of Spike Island! Tune in to hear the history, the haunts, the occult observations and Alex’s pet peeves with disembodied whistles. Need a distraction? I got you. 

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Resources: 

  • The Irish Road Trip website - “Visiting Spike Island: The Isolated Irish Prison Known As ‘Ireland’s Alcatraz’” - By: Keith O’Hara - May 26, 2022 - https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/spike-island/ 
  • Destination Fear - Season 3, Episode 16: Spike Island - Dec 25, 2021 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16427904/ 
  • CNN article - “Spike Island: Secret staircase discovered at 'Ireland's Alcatraz’” - By Kathy Scott - August 20th, 2020 - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spike-island-ireland/index.html 
  • Wikipedia - “Spike Island, County Cork” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Island,_County_Cork 
  • Spike Island Cork website - https://www.spikeislandcork.ie/ 
  • Irish Examiner - “Spike Island opens to the public today and we look back at its darkest history” - By: ÁILÍN QUINLAN - SAT, 04 JUN, 2016 - https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20403278.html 
  • The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec) article - “SPIKE ISLAND RIOT” - October 18th, 1921 - https://www.newspapers.com/image/419681850/?terms=spike%20island%20riot&match=1 
  • Bob Lethaby website - “James Gray the ‘Jack-In-The-Box’ - Posted on November 21, 2017 - https://www.boblethaby.co.uk/2017/11/james-gray-the-jack-in-the-box/ 
  • The Guardian article - “Ireland’s Alcatraz: Spike Island in Cork” - by Philip Watson - March 19th, 2018 - https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/mar/19/ireland-spike-island-cork-harbour-alcatraz-prison-and-fort 
  • Wikipedia - Martin Cahill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cahill 
  • Irish Mirror - “IRA reveal for first time why they shot dead one of Ireland's most notorious criminals The General” - by John Kierans - January 24th, 2021 - https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ira-reveal-first-time-shot-23376274 
  • Trip advisor website: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g211925-d1857499-Reviews-or10-Spike_Island-Cobh_County_Cork.html 
  • Irish Examiner website - “Ghostly goings-on at Cork's Spike Island” - by Kyle Lehane - October 30th, 2018 - https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30882120.html 
  • Irish Central website - “Spooky! Ghost hunters say Covid-19 has resulted in a spike in paranormal activity” - 
  • Spooky Isles website - “IRISH PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS, GHOST HUNTING IN HAUNTED IRELAND - By Spooky Isles - 8 November 2018 - https://www.spookyisles.com/irish-paranormal-investigations/ 
  • Spooky Isles website - “VISIT SPIKE ISLAND, IRELAND’S MOST HAUNTED PLACE FOR CHILLS AND THRILLS” - By Ann Massey - 14 May 2018 - https://www.spookyisles.com/spike-island/ 
  • Paranormal Database website - “County Cork Ghosts, Folklore and Paranormal Places” - by Darren Mann - https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/about/index.html 


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