Most Haunted House On Earth?
Leap Castle in Ireland is one of the world's most infamous haunted houses. This place has been home to so many horrors, it would be difficult to even know where it all started. There's the chapel, where one brother murdered another right over the altar. There's the oubliette- a kind of a dungeon, but with no door in or out, just a hole you dropped the victim into so you could forget about him. Lucky victims would land on the spike at the bottom of the pit and die relatively quickly. Unlucky victims would miss the spike and then slowly starve to death. When they started renovating the castle, it took three carts to haul away all the bones they found in the oubliette, along with one pocket watch from the 1840s- long, long after anyone should have been throwing anyone into an oubliette in Ireland.
Then there are the rumors of black magic. According to legend, the Darby family who owned the castle summoned up an evil spirit known only as “It,” which still appears from time to time, accompanied by a disgusting animal smell. There isn't really any clear description of It except that It's face always seems to be melting. “It” is only one of the the spirits that haunt Leap Castle, which is not surprising considering all of the people who suffered and died there. One of the theories about “It” is that the spirit is not the result of a black magic ritual, but a manifestation of all of the bad things that have happened at Leap Castle over the centuries.