Ghost Hunting at Springhill House

Springhill House has always been a location that has enthralled ghost hunters for generations. It has been the subject to many ghost stories between children in Northern Ireland for hundreds of years. With its sinister narrow passages and history of death it comes as no surprise to find out a lot of those ghosts stories come from truth! Irelands own haunted house on the hill.

The Blue Room

The Blue room is known as the most haunted part of the building with people having experiences here every time someone spends the night. The Blue Room was the site of a lot of sadness which eventually led to the suicide of Mr George Lenox Conygham. The Ghost of his desperate widow is still seen rushing to the room or standing in the doorway with her hands raised in the air and a silent look of horror on her face.

The Room at night has been known to be full of unseen people. Whilst trying to get some shut eye people have reported hearing a lot of people moving around and whispering within the room. Not to mention the fact that the bed sheets are well known to slowly drag from your body and neatly placing themselves on the floor

Miss Hamilton was spending the night in the blue room when, just as she was starting to fall asleep, the room appeared to fill with agitated servants who were “pushing and wrangling in whispers.” As she lay there terrified she heard a clicking noise from the wall behind her bed and turning, saw a door open and a light shine from it. She later recalled how “someone seemed to come out through this light and stilled the commotion, so that all fear left me, and after a while I fell asleep.”

On waking the next morning she was startled to find that no door existed anywhere behind her bed. However, when she reported her experience to Charlotte Lenox-Conyngham, she was told that there was a door behind the bed but that it had been long since been papered over! Interestingly, years later the blue room’s wallpaper was stripped off and the secret door uncovered. It opened into a powder closet, on the floor of which lay an ancient pair of gloves and small pouch containing bullets.

There is also poltergeist activity in this room and a lot of it; however it’s not only this room that suffers from the occasional lamp being thrown across the room.

Springhill in its Entirety

The house itself is entirely haunted. There is activity reported in all part of the home though Mrs Congyhm seems to be the only one who is showing herself fully. Footsteps and dark shadows are said to dart around the house. Guests have often reported the feeling of being watched when walking through the empty halls. As well as cold spots in random places around the house.

One couple where walking through the house when the women stopped dead. She stood with her jaw hanging wide open staring at the end of the corridor. When they husband asked what was wrong, she said she had seen what looked like a long black bed sheet floating through the air, and going round the corner. This undead bed sheet has been seen around Springhill a lot in modern days. However it is more likely that it is a robed figure some sort, or an elaborate hoax involving strings and a demon blanket. However is this indeed an apparition, what where blacked robed figures doing in Springhill house in the first place?

Springhill House is yet to be investigated fully. What is this black robed figure? We have seen within a number of locations a dark secret being covered up. Especially when it comes to noble lords of old. Ireland is steeped in witchcraft and black magic, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world. Is it possible that the well known story of the Congyhm’s is created to cover up something a lot more sinister? Only an investigation into the paranormal can tell us anything else.

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