The Cassette Recording - A Dublin Haunting: The Untold Story of a South Dublin Haunting
Ghost/Paranormal
Wednesday 8th, November 2023
Part one in a series of articles dedicated to the reported events of a haunting in south Dublin. There are number of events that occurred in a single property in the mid 1990's in south Dublin. With one incident it might have been brushed off, but the many events experienced in the house pulls on even the most level headed person's imagination.
This is a never before told story which has come to us directly from the primary witness after many years of deciding if they should tell their story. The names of the family involved and exact location of the property have been changed as other residents now live in the property, most probably unaware of the previous experiences at the house.
We have broken the account down into multiple articles to make it easier to digest and to allow for more of the experiences to come back to the witness as they continue to share with us over a period of time.
The story has been recalled by the individual who at the time was approximately 12 years old when they can remember the first events that occurred.
The Cassette Recording
It was a Saturday morning and Evan was in his room upstairs in a standard semi-detached house in south Dublin. It was somewhere between 10am to 2pm when Evan was in his room getting use out of his new stereo. The stereo was a big deal as it was Evan's and he didn't need to keep asking if he could use his fathers stereo downstairs to play music.
The new stereo had a FM/AM tuner, two cassette players, a CD player and an vinyl/LP players on top. Evan was so excited that he wanted to copy some of the cassettes he had, he is unsure if they were his or someone else's, but with the buzz of this new stereo he proceeded to put a cassette with music into one of the cassette players and a blank cassette into the second cassette player.
And as anyone with a dual cassette player in mid 1990's Ireland knows, to start recording you had to press down the play button on the cassette with the music and the play and record button on the cassette with the blank cassette all at the same time to start the copying of the music.
So Evan did this and went off downstairs or out to play, he is unable to recall exactly what he did while the cassette was copying.
It's worth noting that there only other male that lived in the house was Evan's father and to this day he has never heard his father speak let allow shout the way the voice on the stereo sounded. Also the only people in the house at the time would have been Evan's mother and father and two very young siblings.
Evan is unsure of how long he waited to go and check on the copying of his cassette. He proceeded up the stairs took a right and another right, then a left into his room which was situated at the front upstairs of the house. Evan sat in a chair in front of the stereo with his back to the bedroom door and rewound the blank cassette that he expected to no longer be empty and once it was rewound, Evan pressed play to hear what success and the independence of owning your own stereo sounded like.
Again Evan said he can't remember what music he was copying, but he started to hear the songs he knew and proceeded to listen to the success of his first copied cassette album. Evan is unsure how long or short he was listening to the cassette but out of blue the music came to a stop and there was what Evan described as a very loud aggressive male voice shouting, coming from the speakers of his new stereo.
Evan was in such shock, that he froze and the next thing he remembers is his father rushing up the stairs and in through the bedroom door behind Evan, turning down the volume and pressing stop on the cassette that was playing before turning the stereo off.
Evan's father brought him downstairs and from that point Evan can't recall what his father said to him or if or what his father said to try explain the noise from the stereo.
A bit more about the stereo, Evan states that the volume was much louder for the shouting part compared to the music that he was listening to, so much so that he had to put his hands over his ears when the shouting voice started.
Additionally the volume on the stereo was an analog control where you turned a circle knob left to turn the volume down and right to turn the volume up. Evan is convinced that the volume was much higher for the shouting voice than when the music was playing, but can't confirm what level the volume was at pre and post the voice being heard.
This is what Evan has come to understand could have been an electronic voice phenomena or EVP due to the fact that the cassette recorders at the time, when you pressed record it was not uncommon for people talking in the background to be recorded as well, it wasn't just the cassette that was recording, if there was a microphone in the stereo it was also recording to the blank cassette. Evan has confirmed that there was a microphone built into the stereo he had.
It's interesting to see such a stark first reportedly paranormal event that was a pre-cursor to many odd things at the property and potentially further on into Evan's early adult years.
We will be back soon with a follow up on the next key event that Evan remembers from the property.
This is a never before told story which has come to us directly from the primary witness after many years of deciding if they should tell their story. The names of the family involved and exact location of the property have been changed as other residents now live in the property, most probably unaware of the previous experiences at the house.
We have broken the account down into multiple articles to make it easier to digest and to allow for more of the experiences to come back to the witness as they continue to share with us over a period of time.
The story has been recalled by the individual who at the time was approximately 12 years old when they can remember the first events that occurred.
The Cassette Recording
It was a Saturday morning and Evan was in his room upstairs in a standard semi-detached house in south Dublin. It was somewhere between 10am to 2pm when Evan was in his room getting use out of his new stereo. The stereo was a big deal as it was Evan's and he didn't need to keep asking if he could use his fathers stereo downstairs to play music.
The new stereo had a FM/AM tuner, two cassette players, a CD player and an vinyl/LP players on top. Evan was so excited that he wanted to copy some of the cassettes he had, he is unsure if they were his or someone else's, but with the buzz of this new stereo he proceeded to put a cassette with music into one of the cassette players and a blank cassette into the second cassette player.
And as anyone with a dual cassette player in mid 1990's Ireland knows, to start recording you had to press down the play button on the cassette with the music and the play and record button on the cassette with the blank cassette all at the same time to start the copying of the music.
So Evan did this and went off downstairs or out to play, he is unable to recall exactly what he did while the cassette was copying.
It's worth noting that there only other male that lived in the house was Evan's father and to this day he has never heard his father speak let allow shout the way the voice on the stereo sounded. Also the only people in the house at the time would have been Evan's mother and father and two very young siblings.
Evan is unsure of how long he waited to go and check on the copying of his cassette. He proceeded up the stairs took a right and another right, then a left into his room which was situated at the front upstairs of the house. Evan sat in a chair in front of the stereo with his back to the bedroom door and rewound the blank cassette that he expected to no longer be empty and once it was rewound, Evan pressed play to hear what success and the independence of owning your own stereo sounded like.
Again Evan said he can't remember what music he was copying, but he started to hear the songs he knew and proceeded to listen to the success of his first copied cassette album. Evan is unsure how long or short he was listening to the cassette but out of blue the music came to a stop and there was what Evan described as a very loud aggressive male voice shouting, coming from the speakers of his new stereo.
Evan was in such shock, that he froze and the next thing he remembers is his father rushing up the stairs and in through the bedroom door behind Evan, turning down the volume and pressing stop on the cassette that was playing before turning the stereo off.
Evan's father brought him downstairs and from that point Evan can't recall what his father said to him or if or what his father said to try explain the noise from the stereo.
A bit more about the stereo, Evan states that the volume was much louder for the shouting part compared to the music that he was listening to, so much so that he had to put his hands over his ears when the shouting voice started.
Additionally the volume on the stereo was an analog control where you turned a circle knob left to turn the volume down and right to turn the volume up. Evan is convinced that the volume was much higher for the shouting voice than when the music was playing, but can't confirm what level the volume was at pre and post the voice being heard.
This is what Evan has come to understand could have been an electronic voice phenomena or EVP due to the fact that the cassette recorders at the time, when you pressed record it was not uncommon for people talking in the background to be recorded as well, it wasn't just the cassette that was recording, if there was a microphone in the stereo it was also recording to the blank cassette. Evan has confirmed that there was a microphone built into the stereo he had.
It's interesting to see such a stark first reportedly paranormal event that was a pre-cursor to many odd things at the property and potentially further on into Evan's early adult years.
We will be back soon with a follow up on the next key event that Evan remembers from the property.
