The Most Haunted Asylums In The UK! Ep.78

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[00:01:34] Hello. I've got another list. I've got another list? I have but first I've got a joke for you. Oh, here we go. What do you call a haunted chicken? Go on. A poultry geist. Fucking hell. Poultry geist. Exactly, well we're going to have to get some more jokes into this now we're officially part of a comedy podcast network mate. Yeah, yeah, no absolutely, I'm down for that.

[00:02:01] We have a laugh anyway but I do think we need to get a few more jokes in there. Yes, yeah, that's fine with me. No, it doesn't matter how bad they are. Yeah, okay. When you call it cheese it doesn't belong to you. Someone else's. Nacho cheese. Fuck off. Jesus Christ. He didn't like that one. No, it was shit. I thought it was brilliant. Did you hear about the cheese factory that blew up though? No. Debris was everywhere. What's levering? Sounds like a sneeze.

[00:02:32] Go on. A shoe. I like it, yeah. Right mate, I've got a list for you. Yep. I've got another one on my lists. So, we are talking about the UK's most haunted hospitals and asylums. Oh yeah. I thought you'd enjoy this one. Yeah, this is going to be my favourite. Aye. Do love an asylum. There's 11 on here, well I don't know how many we're going to do. We'll have a look through. Yep. Oh yeah. Right with me, so to start off with, I'm doing this one because we've been there before,

[00:03:02] we haven't been there but we've been there in one of these lists that we've done. So we're going back to Wales, we're going to roofing. Oh right, okay. Yeah. So we've got Pool Park Asylum. Yeah. Right then, so located in a small village of, God knows how I'm going to say that because that's in Wales. That's in actual Welsh. There's about 14 days of Y and about 47 L's. So I'm not even going to try and say it, it's like Cladwydl. Cladwydl. Yeah, something like that. So it's in North Wales. This former mental hospital hasn't housed patients since 1989.

[00:03:32] So that's not even that long ago really. Yeah, no. The manor, complete with a beautiful staircase and intricate details, was a family home in the 1800s before it accommodated overflow patients from Denver Insane Asylum in the 30s and the 40s. Paranormal investigators said they heard noises and saw shadowy figures and thrown stones at the asylum. One even said that he got an unexplained bruise after his visit.

[00:03:59] But it should be noted that the building isn't abandoned, so ghost hunters should get permission before visiting. Today, the former hospital belongs to Robert Holmes. No relation. Not spelt the right way anyway. Who have not mentioned any plans to demolish or change it. The company have repeatedly warned that trespassers from entering, not for the history. All artefacts have been collected and catalogued elsewhere because the structure is unsafe.

[00:04:29] So you can't just go in there sadly as you'd like to. But you probably could, they'll be away. Possibly. But mentioned there, we'll do this one next night because it leads on from that one. So the Dinber Insane Asylum that we mentioned there, also obviously in Wales. So not far from Pole Park, Wales' first insane asylum is now a... What?

[00:04:59] Is now a what? I don't know. Hang on. Decrepit. Decrepit, yeah? Is that a word? Decrepit, yeah. No, not decrepit. Decrepit. I don't know what the hell that means. Let's just assume it's the same thing. I say, fuck it, why not? Anyway, right, hang on, bollocks that up. Right, thoughts on that first one, Bill? Yeah. Would you go there? Yeah, go there. Yeah, I'd find your way in. We'll just get blacked out again, mate.

[00:05:28] Yeah, definitely go there. Honestly, anything on this list, I will probably go to. Fair enough. Asylums are like the sort of gold mine, in my opinion, for paranormal encounters. Fair enough. Right, so number two, leading on from the last one. So we are now going to talk about the... Again, I'm just going to say... Denby. Denby. Aye. So it's the insane asylum mentioned in the last one.

[00:05:57] So not far from Pool Park, Wales' first insane asylum is now a decrepit and very haunted location of ruins. Earth pushes up through the concrete floors, wallpaper teases off the walls, and a spooky overgrown country yard tempts ghost hunters from all over the UK. Although the place is closed to the public after the hospital shut in 1995, having been open since 1848.

[00:06:24] It's often visited by paranormal investigators and ghost hunters as it's considered one of the UK's most haunted locations. The fact that they're that close together, that's crazy. Yeah, I know. It's a two-in-one. Exactly. It's no surprise this place is haunted considering that overcrowding was rampant and patients were often subject to sedation and otherwise abusive care. Yeah, this is the stuff... For paranormal research, this is the stuff you like to hear.

[00:06:54] I don't know why overcrowding would cause it to be haunted though. Yeah, maybe not. Yeah, you just assume that they're mean because it leads to abuse, doesn't it? So, the remaining spirits and probably also unhappy with the numerous vandalism and arson attacks since its closing, which contributes to the eerily beautiful destitution of the buildings, ghost hunters have claimed hearing screeches, laughter, footsteps and big bang when they're inside,

[00:07:23] in addition to some seeing full-bodied apparitions. There you go. Exactly, that's what you want. It's not, but at the same time it is. It definitely is. Yeah, it is, but it's going to fuck me up, mate. I don't mind hearing shit, it's seeing shit. They say I'm everywhere around. I know, it's weird. Right, there have been rumblings of the asylum being demolished and turned into a shopping centre or neighbourhood, but progress has been repeatedly stalled, stopped or postponed, leaving the fate of this fraud campus in the air.

[00:07:52] For now security guards and cameras stand by, though that hasn't stopped many investigators. Would it stop you? No. You've got to give it a go. Well, as long as you've got the gift of the gab, mate, you're all right. I know, but I'm not a fan of being arrested, it's not fun. No, you're not going to get arrested, they're just going to escort you out. That would depend. I'm just going to say, look, I have a YouTube channel, we do this, we do that. We're going to podcast. Yeah, and they'll say I don't care. And they'll say that's absolutely fine, just let me out and I'll be on my way. I'm guilty of one. Exactly.

[00:08:31] So, Noosham Park Hospital was converted from an orphanage when it housed up to a thousand children at a time until the late 1800s. For a hundred years it served the community as a hospital, mental institution, morgue and nursing home. That's a busy place. Perhaps the paranormal activity, like disembodied voices and inexplicable footsteps, comes from its time as an orphanage during World War II,

[00:09:00] when traumatised children were punished harshly and separated from their siblings rather than cared for with love and empathy. Shithouses. Yeah, see, this is the sort of place that has a different kind of effect on me. So the previous two, yeah, I'm all about that. This one I feel like I just feel sad in there. Yeah. I just, yeah. Well there you go, it's your whole residual energy. It is, it is me, yeah, absolutely. Right, ghost hunters can even stay overnight at this abandoned hospital

[00:09:27] where the schoolhouse, in the schoolhouse nurses, nurses quarters. Bloody hell, that was hard to say. And the chapel are supposedly most active. If you can't afford the rental fee and the insurance costs, you can pay to attend a ghost hunt with one of the many ghost hunting companies. Right, okay. It must cost a lot to actually stay there then. I was going to say. You've got to pay for insurance and shit. Yeah, but again, I wouldn't like to be with another group. Why not?

[00:09:55] See, this is the thing with me and I'm very strict on it. Unless it's somebody like that, you know, for example, if we did a podcast episode and there's a person that we've talked to before that we know, that's fine. I'll do that. Happy days, no problem. But when you've got a group that's dedicated to a paranormal tour or what have you, I don't know what it is. I don't like it. I don't trust them as much. I need to know who I'm with kind of thing. No, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Yeah. You're never going to be yourself.

[00:10:24] You're never going to be able to do what you want to do. Like if I say to them, right, I want to take my spirit box in there. They're going to be like, well, no, we've got our equipment. It's our ghost hunt. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Right, mate. Number four. So we've got Towers Asylum in Leicester. One of the more recently used hospitals on our list, Towers Asylum functioned as a psychiatric facility from 1869 to 2013. Oh, shit. Yeah. Formerly called Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum. Hate when they're called that.

[00:10:55] I do, though. It's just because it's just a horrible word to describe people with mental illness. Oh, fucking lunatics. Don't get me wrong. There is lunatics. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People with mental illness are not lunatics. Yeah, no. Completely got that. Exactly. So the English hospital adapted through many phases of mental health care, including serving as a World War II hospital patient overflow site.

[00:11:21] It was also another site of overcrowding and rampant sedation techniques that left the mentally ill in inhumane conditions. In addition to not receiving proper care for their illness, the hauntings of Towers Asylum clearly come from these horrific acts, like the metal shackles that were found attached to the walls in the basement, despite the architectural beauty of the building. Metal shackles. Yeah.

[00:11:51] That's just... That's not a basement. That's a dungeon. That's the lunacy behind the place. Exactly. But that's not a basement, because basements are cool. That's a dungeon. Yeah. Mind you, dungeons can be quite cool. Here we go. I'd love a dungeon. Yeah. I'll bet. Full of cataphiles. Yours would be like a sex dungeon, wouldn't it, where you do all your crimes? Fifty Shades of Dark. Exactly.

[00:12:20] You've just farted again. No, it's my chair. Fair enough. Right. Past investigators have witnessed all sorts of paranormal activity here, from disembodied voices, shouts and bangs, and objects being thrown among many other disturbing occurrences. The building was recently opened to investigators. However, at the time of writing, it's currently undergoing redevelopment for residential use. So sadly, it's getting turned into flats by the looks of it. Fucking AIDS.

[00:12:50] Absolute AIDS. I mean, some people might have... Do you know what really fucks me off? Is I've got a feeling that's going to hold the crown here as my favourite. Out of the bunch. Why? Shackles. Oh, because of the dungeon? Yeah. Aye. I know that sounds fucked, but the more dark history it's got, the more chance... Well, the way you like to believe, there's more chance of paranormal activity. Yeah, I know what you mean. Right, mate. Number five. So, we have got Barnes Hospital in Greater Manchester.

[00:13:20] Okay. Now, this one I like the look of. So, this massive Gothic-style hospital surrounded by a dark forest is easily one of the UK's most picturesque abandoned buildings. I was going to say that. That already... Perhaps even eerier, the area surrounding the hospital looks like any other modern English town. After housing terminally ill patients with tuberculosis and yellow fever, then serving

[00:13:46] to treat World War II soldiers, and contemporarily serving as the set for several cult horror films, this place is shackled by a history of death and suffering. Great. Mmm. Like, genuinely. Yeah, that's the best intro that we've had. Yeah, absolutely. Exactly. So, the most interesting part of this haunting is that there were reports of paranormal activity long before the hospital was closed in 1999.

[00:14:15] Like, the nurse who said that she saw a dead patient walking. I mean, that would be weird. Yeah. I don't know why, but the way that's wrote is really weird. A dead patient walking. I don't know why. It's just weird. Yeah. Like, dead man walking. It's just because it's put bluntly, isn't it? Ghost hunters have heard the screams and shouts of the deceased. No surprise to the security guards who have reported seeing people in the windows and hearing the tower bell ring for no reason. See, that's what I like.

[00:14:43] I like it when, I don't know why, but any form of authority that sort of, because you picture a security guard and you'd like to think, you know, some big bald guy, you know, who's seen something that's fucked him up and he's been like, I've seen this shit and it's real, it's there. Well, it's like the film Mirrors, have you seen that? I haven't seen that. You've not seen Mirrors? Oh, you're going to have to watch that. I think, it's not great. Right. It's not great. You haven't started it well. It's not great, but it's not shit. Good concept. Yes. Right. Yeah.

[00:15:13] It's a great idea, probably could have been executed a bit better. Right, okay, yeah. But I would recommend watching it. Yeah, yeah. Just make sure you skip through the opening credits because it's on for about four days and it gives you a headache. Oh, hang on. Mirrors. He's a shovel. Was this around 2014? I don't bloody know. I think I might have actually seen it and there's a family that live in this one house and there's this specific mirror. No. No, I can't remember what the fuck that is then. Mirrors is where he's a security guard in an old fucking shopping mall that burned down. Oh, right, no, yeah. Right, yeah, right. You need to watch it. Right.

[00:15:43] Right, so where was I? Right, then. So sadly for paranormal investigators and armchair mediums, the location was replaced by a development of luxury flats. Where the fuck has happened there? Why didn't it fucking kill me off like that? Twice. Fucking hell. Fucking flats. But hang on, which current residents have reported are filled with issues like freezing temperatures, gas leaks and damp flooring?

[00:16:11] Perhaps the former Barnes Hospital residents weren't ready to give up their eternal homes. Yeah, I like that little statement at the end. But what fucking good is it now? I don't know. We'll go and have someone's flat and see if you can ever wander around. Oh, aye. Fucking hell, man. I know. That kills me when they destroy history like that and it's just... Yeah, but sometimes you've got it, haven't you? No. No, you can guarantee it's filled with smack heads now, sorry.

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[00:17:14] I shouldn't say that, but... It might be. It probably is. I mean, it is Manchester. I'm joking, I fucking love Manchester. I used to live there for a bit, so... Yeah, you worked there for a long time, didn't you? What a year. Ah. Long enough. Yeah, exactly. Right, number six. We've got Barrow Gurney Hospital down in Somerset. In Somerset? Yeah? That is the last place I expected anything to be. Why? Because it's Somerset.

[00:17:44] Yeah. The name tells you all you need to hear, mate. Well, it's spelled Somerset, isn't it? Well, I know, but still, it's... Anyway. Sorry. I don't know what the hell difference that makes. It's known as the most peaceful place, really, isn't it, in the UK? You think? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, all down there sort of is Somerset, Cornwall, all that sort of shit. Yeah, that's what I mean. Somerset's famous for cider. Is it? Yeah, it's where they make cider. Fucking old white star days, eh? Exactly.

[00:18:14] Three hammers. Three hammers, yeah. The white lightning. The white lightning, yeah. If I remember, I went to Yeovil, obviously, that's Somerset. Went to Yeovil for the Burram. All I drank down there was cider. Cracking head, afterwards. Oh, aye. Cider gives me a banging head. Same. Right then, so Barrow Gurney Psychiatric Hospital... What? Fucking hell. Exactly. So, Barrow Gurney Psychiatric Hospital is perhaps one of the saddest instances of poor care for patients in the UK. Shit.

[00:18:41] Known as one of the dirtiest hospitals in the country, a place transformed into a Royal Navy hospital during World War II, and then back to a psychiatric hospital until 2006. Fuck. Exactly. It's been turned into fucking flats. Before it was demolished, the abandoned place was decorated with hauntingly poignant graffiti art and references to the building's history of suffering. With blown out windows, the wind flowed through the place that once greeted patients with urine-stained chairs.

[00:19:11] Christ. Cigarette burns on the floor. And a what? And a blighted building structure. In fact, the place closed after a patient was killed by a ceiling that fell through. Now, unluxually, retirement homes have replaced the site. Fuck off. Fucking shite. What do you mean? It's a retirement home, so most of them are going to be dead soon. So, that'll probably be haunted as well. Well. Fuck's sake.

[00:19:40] It's just, it really pisses me off, mate. It sounds like we're going to fucking Wales, and that's all we can go to at this point. Yeah, nobody wants to do that. No. You held that off for a minute, didn't you? I tried to stop myself, but I couldn't. No, I'm the same. There's something out of out in place. No. Oh, the world wrecks them. That's about it. That's what we think of Wales.

[00:20:12] Right, this is, this is, well, it's got a different name. So, I don't know how to say it. I'm going to say fuckery. Is it in Wales? No, it's not actually. No, right. It's in Leeds. Oh, right. Not much better then. So, I'm going to say all right. It sounds like it's either fuckery or fuckray. Either way, it's fucked. But fuckray sounds fucking... Fucking horrible. Yeah. Right, so... Fuckray, a museum of medicine in Leeds. Oh, God.

[00:20:41] Although it isn't technically a hospital, the museum of medicine has a long history of connection to the world of medicine. Sorry, a museum of medicine? Don't, I don't know. All right, okay. We're going to find out. Yeah. It opened in 1861 as a workhouse for poor and homeless people. Despite being a harsh and unwelcoming home, it grew to include an infirmary which was closed in the 1990s, but the building didn't get away unscathed by the paranormal.

[00:21:07] Ghost hunters claim to have seen apparitions walking around during the ghost nights that are held after the museum. Ours visitors have even been touched by spectral beings and one person reported finding an old coin in an abandoned section of the building. Well, why are you in there, love? You shouldn't be fucking in there. It's abandoned. I mean, I'd go there. Well, yeah, same. I'd like to know what coin, though. Yeah, I know. It's just told us an old coin. How old?

[00:21:37] Where from? Exactly. Was it a balloon or something? Yeah. Yeah. I love this website, obviously, where I get these lists from, but I do wish there was a little bit more... Detail. Yeah. Yeah. That's the word I was looking for. Is that the end of that one? Yeah, that's it, mate. That was the worst one by far, and it's probably the only one that you could actually go to that's in England. Yeah, true. Fucking great. True. Well, technically, this one's England, but we'd have to get a ferry.

[00:22:07] Fucking not much better than it is. We'll go to the Isle of Wight. I don't want to go to the Isle of Wight. Have you been to the Isle of Wight? No. That's lovely. Is it? Very nice. But it's across the body of water, mate. Yeah, I know. I'd get a plane. No, I'd just get on the ferry. I'm not getting on the fucking ferry, mate. Don't do boats. Don't do water. Fucking shut up. Don't do the sea. Right. Whitecroft Hospital on the Isle of Wight. Fucking white everything. Yeah, but it's spelled weirdly. It's W-I-G-H-T. Oh, right. Okay. White.

[00:22:36] Along with so many of the UK's former asylums, Whitecroft Hospital closed the patients in 1992, the year I was born. The care provided at this Isle of Wight psychiatric facility was unfortunately no better than many of the other hospitals on this list. As evidenced by the rampant paranormal activity here. Ghost hunters have reported feeling like they are being watched.

[00:23:00] Far from the creepiest thing considering some have seen apparitions of nurses and doctors roaming the corridors. Shite. Personally, right, I always think it's... Especially with asylums and stuff like this, I always think it's weird when it's a doctor and that's still kicking about. To me, I'm expecting patients. Yeah, yeah. Someone who's died in there or has a dark sort of history there, whereas the doctors probably don't want it. Then again, they do say that the spirits tend to go...

[00:23:29] It's a full-on debate, this, because you've got one side of people say spirits want to be at their happiest place. Yet you always hear about the stories where the spirits are trapped in the darkest place. Right. Yeah, so you think the doctor, if he's died peacefully, he's going to go back to his happy place. And was that when he was fucking tormenting all his souls? He's spent his best lives in these asylums, sort of thing like that. Yeah. Then you counter that with the fucking patients that are trapped in there that can't get out. Yeah. So to see. The doctor's a demon.

[00:23:58] Isle of Y contractors hope to turn the place into a luxurious private residence. But it's been over ten years since the hospital's demolition and still no accommodation stands. Ghost hunters may be... Looks like we're not getting a ferry, is it? Ghost hunters may be able to still see the spectral images of the doctor who supposedly walks from the car park towards the building each day. Fuck off. The hospital itself is gone. We're getting a ferry to watch some guy cross over a fucking car park. Bastards.

[00:24:28] And knock everything down, won't they? Jesus wept. Yep. Fucking annoying. I knew this one and didn't know you as well though. What, this one or the next one coming up? Just all of them in general. Yeah, because they're all fucking not there anymore. Unless you have to go to fucking Wales. Or the worst one in fucking Leeds. Right, well we're going to Nottingham now mate. So we've got... Mapleley Hospital. Despite being one of the only UK hospitals with adequate care for mental patients.

[00:24:58] I don't like calling them mental patients. Significant suffering and distress still occurred here. What a weird sentence. Adequate care, but significant fucking... Fuck off. Right. Right. So significant suffering and distress still occurred here due to the outdated and ineffective treatments that were accepted at the time.

[00:25:24] The hospital experienced overcrowding but it still worked to provide activities, work and community for its patients. Nonetheless, since the hospital closed in 1994 and became the Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust, paranormal activity has been reported. That's a weird way of putting it. A womanly ghost. A womanly ghost. That's a weird way of putting it. A female ghost. Yeah, exactly. So one womanly ghost has been seen in the corridors.

[00:25:51] She may be the same one calling employees' names out from the ether but no one can be sure. Screeches have also been heard on sight but ghosts to us aren't available as this location is now a functioning healthcare location. So is it like a hospital? That I can accept. Yeah, sort of, yeah. Right, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. No, I'll get over that one. You can't go there though. Well, no. No, you can't. No. Unless you break a fucking arm. Right.

[00:26:20] Sunnyside Royal Hospital. Can we get to it? What do you think it is for a start with a name like that? Sunnyside. No, fucking... Scotland. Oh, far from sunny then. Yeah. Fucking hell. Exactly. Right. This is the last one. As one of the oldest psychiatric facilities on our list and the oldest in Scotland, you might think this abandoned hospital is completely decrepit. But the reality is quite the opposite.

[00:26:48] The building has been maintained quite well, leaving ghost hunters and urban explorers with a treasure trove of wallpapers and old school architecture. After its opening in 1781, Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's more like it. As Montrose Lunatic Asylum. Horrible. Horrible, yeah. It changed hands several times. It's always a weird phrase, changing hands. But yeah.

[00:27:13] So, changed hands several times before becoming Sunnyside Royal Hospital in 1962 and closing in 2011. Yeah. What? Before the asylum was demolition in 2019, ghost hunters were warned from visiting his face. The last one.

[00:27:42] I thought, well, Scotland's better than the other options. Fucking hell. Right, so ghost hunters were warned from visiting today due to rampant asbestos. Whip-de-fucking-do isn't that in every abandoned place you go? Pretty much. Right then, so the place is now home to Sunnyside Estate where luxury flats... Fucking flats everywhere! ...where filling old hospital buildings and houses will be erected... Like you.

[00:28:12] ...around the property despite its past as a hospital for the mentally ill and its high potential for hauntings. The builders intend on returning the property to its former glory. Ow! What with flats? What the fuck did I mean? Has that been... It's 1700s and they'll knock it down, fuck off. Put some flats there. Oh! You're going to redo one of these episodes with places that still stand.

[00:28:41] This whole thing's pissed me off. I'll give you a bonus one, right, so... Is it open? There's a lot in Belfast and Northern Ireland. I don't want to go to fucking Northern Ireland! Belfast Park Hospital. Ghost hunters are warned. There is a lot of paranormal fodder in this former hospital, regarded as one of the most haunted places in Belfast. The slew of buildings are still filled with patient beds, surgery curtains and medical documents from its life as a hospital from the early 1900s to 2006. Okay.

[00:29:09] Security guards reported finding shrines on hospital grounds and unsettling remains of animals, not to mention the shadowy beings they've spotted. Now that's cool as fuck. Fuck. Unfortunately, the building has now been sent... Fuck! I'm joking! Oh, really? Is that a joke, yeah? Fuck! Christ, what kind of bonus is that? A D-grade? The grounds include a dense forest and several buildings to explore.

[00:29:33] However, the grounds are now guarded carefully by security, though ghost hunters and urban explorers have been known to get in and easily lose security in a mass set of buildings. Good. Is that one better for you? Well, no, because it's still across the sea, isn't it? We're going to ferry! I don't want to get a fucking ferry! I don't want to go to Wales, I don't want to get a ferry, and the Leeds one's boring. What a load of fucking shite. Good stories, good places, but they're all gone. Yeah. They're all just gone.

[00:30:02] They're all flats. Fucking hell. That really annoys me, though. Especially that 1700s one in Scotland. You'd think, yeah, leave it standing. But this is the thing, though, because obviously when I spoke with Joe from Tales, Trails and Taverns, obviously we got on to a bit about asylums there. Obviously because there's fucking loads of them in the US. Oh, absolutely. That still stand. Yeah, but think about it. They've got a lot more fucking space than we do. True, and a lot more lunatics, but anyway.

[00:30:31] That's a very good point as well. But yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't like it, but I can see why they fucking have to do things with them. I don't like it. No, I don't. I can see why. I don't. I don't. And the main reason being is because they act like we've got no fucking land to build on. Look at the fucking moors. Sorry. You can't. It's a national park, you fucking imbecile. That build on there. That's like a national treasure, isn't it? Well, I wouldn't really call it a national treasure, but national history is what that is.

[00:31:02] It has to be part of the English heritage of National Trust. To what? To keep it all. It has to be like a listed building. You'd have thought that 1700s one would have been a listed building. That's what I'm saying. 1700s. Well, my joke, they haven't demolished that. They're just developing it, so it might be a listed building. It will be demolished and turned into flats. No, it seems it's not being demolished. That's what you said on there. If you fucking actually listened. I know, I did. I did. You couldn't. I thought it did say demolished on there. No, no. You just said demolished too many times.

[00:31:30] It's still getting turned into fucking flats, though, isn't it? Yeah, but still. There's no but still. The flats might be haunted. Yeah, but imagine going into a flat, you can hear your next door neighbour fucking banging on the wall. That's what they're banging for. I'm a cat in there, who? He's a catophile. Exactly. But yeah, that's it, mate. That's all I've got. I was... Right. In a magical world, they're all still standing. Where would I go?

[00:32:00] You can go into them all. Where are you going to go? Towers. Towers. Towers. Right, fair enough. There was another one in Greater Manchester one as well. I like the island one. I don't know what happened to my voice then. Well, I do, but I'm thinking realistically, and I don't want to go... Like, nothing against... I love Irish people. You know? Rumble in the jungle. I love Irish people. Apparently you don't. But I just... I don't want to travel across the ocean for that. Do you know what I mean? That's all I'd say.

[00:32:29] That's all I'm going to Ireland for. What else am I going to see in Ireland? Guinness. I don't like Guinness. Leprechauns. I don't like leprechauns. I don't like fucking rainbows neither. Or the fucking flower thing, whatever you call it. Aye. Fuck's sake. Right then, mate. I think we'll leave it there. Yeah, can you do another one of them but with fucking ones that still stand? I'll try. Please do. Can't make any promises, but I'll try. Because I will enjoy that thoroughly.

[00:32:57] I enjoyed this until the end of every bit. Right then, guys. We're going to leave it there. So thank you for listening as always. Go and follow the Instagram page at the Spooky Shed Podcast. The link in there. You will be able to find all our other socials that we don't use. And more importantly, you'll find the Patreon page there. The merch store there. So go and check them out. And yeah, I'll tell you what. We'll do a thing. If no one's joined the Patreon when this episode comes out,

[00:33:26] and if anyone's still going to listen all this way in, I'll probably put a post on Instagram anyway. The first person who will become a member on the Instagram as part of the Shed Squad gets a free T-shirt. Well, there we go. There we go. I like it. There we go. Right then, guys. So we shall speak to you next time. Billy, say your line. Take care, guys.

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