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Come jig through county Dublin with the boys while we explore the mysteries of the legend of the Killakee cat. We talked about the lay of the land, we broke down what the Killakee cat is and how it came to be, talked about some sightings of the damned feline, as well as a cult that may have played a hand in the legend. If you have any questions or topics you'd like to see the society cover, please reach out at Contact@hushhushsociety.com You can find all our audio, blogs and drop sweet ratings at www.hushhushsociety.com Leave us a review on Apple, our website, Podchaser or GoodPods You can grab Hush Hush merch and help support the show on Patreon Link up with the society on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter Join our Discord and chat with us Killakee Cat Transcript Dave: Greetings Hushlings, welcome back to the hush hush society Conspiracy hour. Mike: Where we journey into the world of conspiratorial mysteries and dark truths. Dave: I'm declassified Dave. Mike: And I'm mystery Mike, and as always, we're joined by our fellow Irish cuchie Slick Fronk Sanders. Frank: Hey, yo. Hushlings what is going on? Mike, Dave, Top O’da mornin. Mike: How we doing? All those Irish things, right? Frank: all the Irish things. The potato famine and Connor McGregor and Jameson and guns. And Guinness, Guinness, yes. Mike: Yeah. Irish car bombs. Frank: Yep. Yep. That's what we're talking about today. Irish car bombs. Dave: Frankie, I don't know if you've ever heard this story, but Mike and I were at a bar once watching guys sip Irish car bombs. And we were making fun of them and the situation could have gotten outta hand, but we showed them how to drink them. And they probably got really lit. Mike: It's like the Jiff of the cartoon, like mind blown type of thing Frank: yeah. Yeah. Mike: what? That's all you're supposed to drink 'em. Yeah. You're not supposed to drink curdled fucking nastiness. Frank: Ireland is a truly fascinating country. Its lands are both mystical and beautiful. The tales and lore of these lands are indicative of the miserable and depressing lows the country has seen throughout History Dave: The entirety of Ireland is scattered with the remains of castle ruins, ancient stone structures and abandoned mansions. All of which have a story to tell. stories of ghosts, Banshees, leprechauns, pookahs, and even demonic black cats. Mike: Thats right Hushlings, Demon cats. Today We'll be investigating Dublin, Ireland, home of the infamous black cat of Killakee Frank: We'll be talking about the lay of the land, breaking down what the Kilakee cat actually is and how it came to be some sightings of the damned feline, as well as a cult that may have played a hand in the legend Dave: Meow Mike: But before we search for the black kitty cat from hell, be sure to check us out on all our social medias. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. 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Have you ever heard of Montpelier hill in Dublin Ireland? Just think about it. Have you ever heard of that? It's sorta kind of a mountain and there's been decades and decades of spooky shit happening on this chunk of land in Ireland. Mike: It said that the hell fire club, no not from stranger things, set up shop at the very peak of the summit in an old hunting lodge back in 1765, whole piece of land. They rented that out and further down the hill was the old Massey estate, a massive mansion, which at this point sits in ruins in the woods. There's rumor that the hunting lodge at the top of the hill is actually cursed since it was allegedly built on an ancient burial ground and stones from the carin were used in the construction. Why do people build on top of fucking burial grounds? Frank: Well, not only that, but they're taking the monumental piece of the burial ground, being those stones that they used to like almost represent the burial site they're taking those stones and using them in the walls of their building. Dave: That's not good. Frank: If that's not desecration, I don't know what it is. Mike: Would you, uh, shop at a Walmart or a big box store that was completely made up of headstones? Frank: Would you know that it was made up of headstones? Is it like the inside of the walls or can you see it? Mike: yeah The entire outside, you can just walk up, see people's names and the whole, the whole rigmarole Dave: or Walmart mausoleum? Mike: Walmart's made to look like castles. Frank: I'd feel safer in that Walmart than most other Walmarts. Dave: Costco does sell coffins. Mike: Buy em in bulk. Dave: Buy em in bulk for your whole family. Mike: Your whole family. Just come home with five coffins. Hey kids. Guess what? Daddy brought home. Dave: It was in this lodge that the hell fire club initially started to hold their black masses. They would pray to the underworld they'd worship Satan Mike: Hell Satan. Dave: They'd make sacrifices of goats and members, dwarfs, And black kitty cats. What a plethora of sacrificial beings, ya got.. Mike: You can't discriminate, Satan doesn't discriminate. He takes all. Frank: I've heard that the health fire club specifically holds some strange importance in relation to black cats. Almost if they are the physical embodiment of the devil himself. Anyway, one foggy Irish evening, the club held their mass atop of the hill. It was this night where they would bring yet another black cat to offer up to the devil. But this time was a little bit different. Dave: Mm indeed It was Mike: Quick segue. So I know that Fronk is a cat person. Frank: I am. Yeah. I like cats Dave: I have a black cat Mike: Uh, yeah, Dave just got a little black kitty Frank: Well, I can tell you from experience, black cats are pieces of shit and you should get rid of it while you still can. Mike: Do you know of all the cats that I've ever owned? I've only ever owned black cats? Frank: And they probably all sucked. Right. And that's why you don't have a cat? Mike: No, no, they were great. Dave: She's pretty good. Mike: I've always had great cats. I haven't had many, but I've had great cats. Frank: I used to joke about how my black cat was the spawn of Satan and it, in relation to this debriefing, it, it brings some truth to it because she did some like really weird shit. She would like walk up the walls and contort herself all fucking weird. It was weird, man. Dave: Maybe that went one to one with your, uh, paranormal experiences and the places you've lived. As we said this time was a little bit different. The president of the club walked into the room, dressed as the devil with Hooves on his feet. That's dope, horns on his head, the whole nine yards guys. He then initiated the ritual by having two members douse this cat in whiskey, which was followed by setting it on fire. That's terrible. Frank: Yeah. Yeah. That's some real sick shit. Dave: it better not be good whiskey. Mike: It's also the most Irish way that you could set a cat on fire. Dave: Just set a cat on fire with whiskey. Mike: I don't know. I think cats are pretty flammable anyways, but Dave: Yeah, I would say, Meow Mike:throw a nice cask whiskey on there. Frank: That won't go good in fondue Mike: After the cat was lit on fire, he scampered around the room furiously and somehow managed to get out of the lodge. it immediately dashed for the tree line and got away. It was shortly after this very incident that the hellfire club's meetings place burnt down. Hmm. How curious? No surprise there seeing as they were constantly messing with fire. What's the old saying? although it's not confirmed whether the fire was an accident or not. Dave: What if it was just a ritual gone bad. Frank: Or a ritual gone well. Dave: yeah. Or the final ritual Frank: What if they were trying to embrace the flames of hell and they were like, the only way we can do that is to, to set this building on fire. We need to be inside of the fire, Mike: I wonder if anybody died in the fire. Frank: Since they were left with nowhere to meet up anymore, they moved their meetings conveniently right down the hill, right into all that was left of the old massey state, the steward's house or more commonly referred to as the Killakee house. After the club made their switch, the cultish activities of ritualistic sacrifice and setting trees on fire died down and eventually the hell fire club stopped holding their gatherings there altogether. Dave: There is note that they not only lit kitty cats on fire, but people as well, I also found that there is a ghost of a woman screaming in anguish in the area. And it said that she was murdered by being trapped in a barrel, which was set a light. It was probably a whiskey barrel and rolled down a hill while young members of the club left. And they're Merry they're Merry chuckles. Mike: I'm sorry, I would've laughed too. That's pretty funny. Dave: can you imagine, just like getting the barrel, Mike: You get in there, get in there. Dave: Get in the barrel, kick her in. Frank: A little bit of a segue on the woman in the barrel. We mentioned in the intro of this episode, and I don't wanna get too deep into it, cuz it's a whole nother topic where we're here to focus on the killakee cat. But in this very same area of Montpelier hill is the Massey woods and in the Massy woods is where you have the apparition of this young woman that was set on fire in a barrel. And the apparition is referred to as a banshee, like we mentioned earlier and she said to stroll the woods and scream and scare the shit out of people. There's a whole lot of weird stuff happening in this location. Mike: I've always thought that females have a more powerful connection to the ethereal or to the occult or to the paranormal, which is why I believe that a lot of ghosts that are female tend to show themselves more often than males. I may be wrong, obviously, but the female apparitions and ghosts are more terrifying to me because they're always screaming. There's always , some sort of, if they're wearing these, these wedding dresses or something, they look sad, they wanna kill you and chop your nuts off all that good stuff. Dave: No eyes Frank: yeah. Mike: Yeah. No eyes, whatever it may be. Dave: They make popping noises. Mike: I just feel like females are more likely to become apparitions or ghosts than males, or maybe more powerful in that sense. Dave: They do have the ability to cook life and create it. Mike: That's true. Dave: So maybe that maybe there's something to that, to the recycling of souls. And they're the vessel that makes it happen. Mike: And then you think about witches, obviously there's warlocks. Mostly women are tied to paganistic rituals. It's just one thing that I've always had in the back of my mind is that I feel like females have a higher energy potential for paranormal activity. Frank: Interesting connection, nonetheless. Dave: What are people seeing you may ask in the vicinity of Montpellier hill hauntings were originally reported in 1968 and in 1970 by Margaret O'Brien and her husband who had purchased the Stewart house with the intention of renovating it into an art center. The Stewart house is also the Massey state that we had just mentioned. Frank: What remains of it, It's the only last building that's actually still standing on the entire estate. Dave: An arts center though. Frank: Yeah. Yeah. The couple was preoccupied with other projects and allowed several builders to live there, to work essentially. workers restoring the house, experienced several sightings of a huge black cat said to be about the size of a dog with gleaming red eyes. Dave: That's a big Kitty Mike: Are there Panthers in Ireland? Frank: No, no, there's no Panthers in Ireland. Mike: You don't know that Frank: I'm I would make a very well educated guest to say that there's no Panthers in Ireland Dave: Maybe Bobcats. Frank: Bobcats, maybe, Fisher cats, maybe, but that's just a big weasel. Mike: There were other paranormal-like events that happened in the 1970s, multiple seances and ouija board sessions were carried out in an attempt to lay the ghost arrest. Good old ouija boards. You guys ever mess around with ouija boards? Frank: Never in my life and I never will. Dave: Yeah. Mike: I've done it a few times and I've been freaked out. I think penn and teller said that they were fake and proved that they were fake and whatnot, but I've had some weird coincidences that have happened around ouija boards. Maybe there's something to 'em just a little bit something. Unfortunately, the disturbances accelerated and worsened lights would turn on and off by themselves. Furniture was broken into pieces during the night and bells were heard ringing Dave: That's fucking creepy. Mike: Yeah, the dwarf boy was seen walking with a blood stained man. What? See that is… Dave: that's when it gets weird Mike: yeah. Frank: when you start seeing the apparitions of dwarfs little Ghost dwarf Dave: some guy covered in blood, Frank: Dwarfs are fucking creepy enough, Mike: Now were they holding hands ? or were they just walking side by side, like friends? Dave: probably just side by side, if they were holding hands, that would be even creepier. Frank: Many of these said employees left without even collecting their pay. And they refused to stay in the house any longer. one night, a local artist, Tom Mcassey, and two other men were painting the main hall as well as another room when the temperature dropped noticeably. And very suddenly even locked doors began opening by themselves. Dave: Yeah. That's when I'd leave Mike: Yeah, that's a big nope for me. Frank: Yeah, bu…
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