The Moving Statues Phenomenon, Ireland 1985

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  • Why are people are seeing apparitions all over Ireland?
    In the months following the first claims of moving statues in Asdee in Kerry and Ballinspittle in Cork, the phenomenon spread throughout the country. People in places as far apart as Clare and Wicklow insisted they had seen religious statues move. One statue was said to have shed blood and another to shimmer.
    Colm Connolly meets both sides of the camp, those who claim to have seen an apparition as well as those who remain sceptical.
    Fr Kilian Dwyer says there have been about 250 claims of apparitions throughout the Catholic Church from 1928-83, none of whom have received positive approval. According to Dr Joseph Cassidy, Bishop of Clonfert,
    I think there is a danger religion itself, genuine religion, will be ridiculed. And I think there is a danger that good prayerful people, and there are many good prayerful people out there, would have their expectations unduly aroused.
    Dr Peter Davison believes the shimmering of the statues can be explained by the autokinetic effect.
    An RTÉ News report from 23 September 1985. The reporter is Colm Connolly.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 149

  • @bass22ails
    @bass22ails 3 роки тому +35

    My parents went down for a look, they said they didn’t believe it, but there wasn’t much else for entertainment those days!

  • @burkaboy1
    @burkaboy1 3 роки тому +15

    At the time I was at school in Spiddal , outside Galway , When there was a bit of actual Divine intervention ,,
    Just after school outside Sean Toole’s shop , American tourists were walking past in the village , across the road is the church and a grotto , he said shuffling past looking across , ‘ My , is that the moving statue of spiddal ‘ my 11 yr old happy to tell him ‘of course ‘, he was so delighted he bought about 20 of us 99 ice cream cones , Sean god rest him said to me was that you that told him 😂 He had a bonanza afternoon too , great memories ,

    • @Talia.777
      @Talia.777 11 місяців тому

      😂😁😊👍

  • @df289
    @df289 3 роки тому +23

    There is still a huge empty car park at ballinspital waiting for more pilgrims 35 years later.

    • @gungagalunga9040
      @gungagalunga9040 3 роки тому +4

      It's a riding car park these days

    • @flyingisaac2186
      @flyingisaac2186 3 роки тому +2

      There's surely some anniversary for the statues. Are there any tourism entrepreneurs left around there?

  • @helenbeggs9556
    @helenbeggs9556 2 роки тому +5

    When I pray the Rosary to Our Lady and gaze on her face sometimes I see her move and smile back at me.

  • @gunnerglory
    @gunnerglory 3 роки тому +27

    I remember I was around 4 when this shit went down and hearing about it, then I was scared shiteless of every statue I saw

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 роки тому +5

      you have an unusual way of using words

    • @FlyHighSociety
      @FlyHighSociety 2 роки тому +2

      I remember being taken to Knock as a child and being absolutely terrified to look at any statues incase they moved.

    • @timber8403
      @timber8403 2 роки тому

      Yeah the Virgin Mary just wouldn’t quit harassing people in the 80s...

    • @Talia.777
      @Talia.777 11 місяців тому

      @@jamesbradshaw3389 😂🤣

  • @josephharley9448
    @josephharley9448 2 роки тому +15

    True story on a New Years eve night I was walking home from the pub in Derry I went over Queen street and stopped at the crib on public display. roughly 2am I stood a minute. Then I put my hand in to touch the Virgin Marys head. I am not at all religious. The head about the size of an avocado came off in my hand. I could not get it back on. The next morning I woke up with a terrible hangover and I reached in my coat for my cigs. I pulled out the Virgins head. I had no choice but to put 20 quid in an envelope and a letter saying it wasn't vandalism all in a bag with the head.

    • @poltergeistbingo9144
      @poltergeistbingo9144 2 роки тому +1

      Thanks Joseph, you've made me laugh out loud

    • @gordonremsey8055
      @gordonremsey8055 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂

    • @paudsmcmack3117
      @paudsmcmack3117 2 роки тому +1

      lol in a catholic village in the Sperrins, my cousin was doing donuts in the town roundabout in an old car....Well, his wheel came off and broke the statue of the Virgin Mary outside the chapel. You can imagine the uproar. Why didnt she move out the road!

    • @Anna-wu8mp
      @Anna-wu8mp 2 роки тому +1

      😂 I just love Derry people

    • @Talia.777
      @Talia.777 11 місяців тому

      🤣🤣🤣😂😂

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland 3 роки тому +9

    I remember going to eyrecourt to see one move but we couldn’t get there with all the traffic that was parked up. It was crazy stuff back then ,,and I’m glad I lived in these times.

  • @odonnchada9994
    @odonnchada9994 2 роки тому +11

    Hail Holy Queen Of Ireland And Heaven Our Blessed Lady Mary.☘🇮🇪

  • @marytygett4189
    @marytygett4189 Рік тому +4

    Father Patrick Peyton, pray for Ireland ☘️🌹🙏. Our Lady of Knock pray for Ireland. Sister Clare Crockett,pray for Ireland.
    For a greater devotion to The Holy Eucharist, Jesus I Trust in You

  • @tommydowling9
    @tommydowling9 3 роки тому +13

    "Statue in windswept part of Wicklow swayed from side to side" That's a mystery alright.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 роки тому

      I'm working on the Mystery of the Mud Angel.

  • @deoneforpeace
    @deoneforpeace Рік тому +2

    She is only calling for prayers 💞 ♥️

  • @helenbeggs9556
    @helenbeggs9556 2 роки тому +4

    I clearly saw the statue shimmering, the narrator said but the camera did not. It makes me wonder now was Mary telling us not to believe everything the cameras/tv tell us??

  • @user-hi1et2tb5u
    @user-hi1et2tb5u 4 місяці тому +1

    I used to go out Jogging in 1985 and I was a very fast runner
    so it was a huge surprise to be overtaking by a statue of Our Lady zooming past me and into the local spar.
    Realyy you can find everything under the tree at spar.

  • @martinwalsh3228
    @martinwalsh3228 3 роки тому +3

    At the time there was scope more good weather in Autumn & Spring then Summer.

  • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
    @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 роки тому +9

    Down with this sort of thing.

  • @johnryan2193
    @johnryan2193 2 роки тому +1

    We didn't have the mobile phone back then ! If we had NO ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN A MOUNTAIN MOVE NEVER MIND A STATUE ?

  • @huub1989
    @huub1989 3 роки тому +8

    The clergy were the ones speaking sense in this video, especially the Bishop, concerned for the people. They saw the mass delusion and the possibility for disappointment and disillusionment. I remember that time, Ireland was on the cusp of change and people were uncertain about what lay ahead. It was a more innocent time, but also one that we’ve gladly left behind.

    • @SeanSMST
      @SeanSMST 3 роки тому +2

      Still mad that the clergy were speaking sense honestly. I'm surprised not even one shown was pro statue as it were. It's mad too that this all happened just in 1985 and never again, leaving developments around the statues behind. We really were in the stone age before the massive changes of the celtic tiger and the 90s in general when this was entertainment.

  • @dominickenneally458
    @dominickenneally458 3 роки тому +7

    Mass hysteria

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 роки тому +2

      Just like the hysteria that had you hiding in your house in 2020

  • @dellhell8842
    @dellhell8842 3 роки тому +11

    Statues never moved before we joined the EEC in 1973. It's all the EU's fault. IREXIT now, or something, something. That cardinal or bishop handled it very well, diplomatic, and respectful, but firmly telling people to cop the hell on.

    • @ClannCholmain
      @ClannCholmain 3 роки тому +4

      @John Oconner I think he’s being sarcastic

    • @dellhell8842
      @dellhell8842 3 роки тому +8

      @John Oconner As a novice keyboard warrior, blaming the EU for everything and anything is part of my basic training.

    • @tomcreaniceman7426
      @tomcreaniceman7426 3 роки тому +2

      The Bishop is good at handling matters all right 🤔🤔

    • @dellhell8842
      @dellhell8842 3 роки тому

      @@tomcreaniceman7426 Yes, mental reservation, etc.

  • @helenbeggs9556
    @helenbeggs9556 2 роки тому +1

    Please pray slowly and meditate on the words.

  • @dessiemckenzie5857
    @dessiemckenzie5857 3 роки тому +10

    Wasn’t this the time that they used to leave the lights on in all the chapels all over the country because during the night all the statues used to keep bumping into each other ?

  • @shirleydowd7102
    @shirleydowd7102 3 роки тому +3

    When we where young we went to the drive in movies in Australia this was just the Irish version

    • @davidscanlon2538
      @davidscanlon2538 3 роки тому

      Aren't ye just great... Bushwhackers.

    • @SeanSMST
      @SeanSMST 3 роки тому

      Ye basically. Ireland was still in the stone age as it were until like the 90s and that's when the country really kicked off

  • @joandunbar5418
    @joandunbar5418 2 роки тому +3

    Lourdes Fatima garabandal medjugorje France Belgium Holland etc etc our Lady has asked us to pray for peace and an end to communism and to come back to Jesus scientists only can explain the physical not the supernatural our Lady queen of peace pray for us

  • @paudsmcmack3117
    @paudsmcmack3117 2 роки тому +1

    superstitious minds. You're waiting for it, dark nights and collective hysteria.

  • @seanmcmeown1992
    @seanmcmeown1992 3 роки тому +7

    If you look at something long enough of course it will seem liked it moved

    • @northstar9351
      @northstar9351 3 роки тому +3

      Try the with the council and I tell ya not they dont move

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 роки тому

      So why did they wait until 1985?

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 3 роки тому +8

    1:38 - "the danger that religion itself would be brought into disrepute." - says a Roman Catholic Bishop, bishops who systematically covered up horrendous child sex abuse by their own clergy. The hypocrisy just stinks,

    • @larryoconnor7094
      @larryoconnor7094 2 роки тому

      And you, king john, are without sin, you smug bollix?

    • @quiricomazarin476
      @quiricomazarin476 Рік тому

      Lol john king the brainwashed puppet
      Abuse happens in every religion country type of work & age groups ect......
      Just makes more money for the anti-catholic rags who hate God's church
      That's called hypocrisy

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 Рік тому

      @@quiricomazarin476 Another papist loving comment on here, no surprise

    • @quiricomazarin476
      @quiricomazarin476 Рік тому

      @@johnking5174 Yes God created the Catholic church ....means I can think logically.
      Unlike you dufus...let me guess an uneducated athiest or a heretic protestant?

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 Рік тому

      @@quiricomazarin476 I went to university. Got a degree in English and History. I am a humanist. As I don't believe in mumbo jumbo nonsense invented thousands of years ago by people who didn't know where the sun went at night. I am glad I do not belong to a paedophile perverted ridden church like the catholic church, where most clergy are sleeping with each other, sexually abusing boys and girls but mostly boys, some are married which is against your rules, others have creamed off money for their own delights. That church is homophobic, transphobic and proud of it. It hates anyone who does not obey what it says. Had killed thousands of children and buried them in unmarked graves which has been revealed in places like Ireland, which you can not deny, they found the graves. List goes on and on with that rotten church. So I am very happy not following that church, biggest bunch of hypocrites since Judas Iscariot won the AD31 Best Disciple Competition.

  • @gungagalunga9040
    @gungagalunga9040 3 роки тому +13

    I believe in moving statues before I believe in the coronavirus.

    • @rogerthecabinboy2012
      @rogerthecabinboy2012 3 роки тому +2

      Just look out the window and see all the people just dropping dead in the street.

    • @rogerthecabinboy2012
      @rogerthecabinboy2012 3 роки тому +5

      @@gungagalunga9040 I will be steering well clear of any vaccines. Any thoughts on the vaccine prgrams purpose? Money is an obvious benefit to those selling it, but i think there is more. I doubt a massive is cull is underway. Maybe a mass steraliszation.

    • @rogerthecabinboy2012
      @rogerthecabinboy2012 3 роки тому +2

      @@gungagalunga9040 Yes i am familiar with those names. Agenda 21, 30. Protocols of Zion. It is all written down for people to read, yet they brush it off as "theories", when they are are clearly conspiracy facts.

    • @gungagalunga9040
      @gungagalunga9040 3 роки тому +3

      @@rogerthecabinboy2012 that's how the voodoo and evil works. They must tell you first before doing it. If you are interested there is a telegram account "ireland on lockdown" where many like minded people are there

    • @rogerthecabinboy2012
      @rogerthecabinboy2012 3 роки тому +1

      @@gungagalunga9040 I will check that out thanks. All the best.

  • @hilltop521
    @hilltop521 4 місяці тому

    The Bishop is speaking the truth God Bless

  • @victorpulis5113
    @victorpulis5113 Рік тому +1

    why not just appear to the people at St. Peter's in the vatican and get it over with?! why all these mysterious so called apparitions? why doesn't anybody get theses phenomena on camera?

  • @electricrussellette
    @electricrussellette 3 роки тому +3

    Are there still a lot of grottos around Ireland today?

    • @keaveney
      @keaveney 3 роки тому +6

      yup

    • @dellhell8842
      @dellhell8842 3 роки тому +7

      About 400 according to Google Maps as linked below. They are predominantly in Munster, which explains why the highest number of moving statues was also there.
      streetpew.vool.ie/

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 роки тому +2

      Not after Christmas but they'll be back.

    • @subaru22b555
      @subaru22b555 3 роки тому +9

      It's hard to pinpoint how many as sometimes the statues get loose and go for a wonder past the car park getting lost in the process

    • @dellhell8842
      @dellhell8842 3 роки тому +3

      @@subaru22b555 They don't seem to wander out of Munster much though it seems. I reckon they are closet hurling and rugby fans.

  • @abegley27
    @abegley27 3 роки тому +4

    Mr Science guy trying to explain away mass religious delusion - what a juxtaposition

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe you should ask him about the delusion over the last two years.

    • @aaronruss6331
      @aaronruss6331 Рік тому

      The issue with that logic is that It has no way to be disproven. Because no matter how many people a miracle would happen to,how obvious it would be,the context of it,what happened exactly and to how many people etc it doesn't matter in that logic because you can say mass hysteria everytime. Keep going with it,even kf there was undeniable proof and it was recorded,people who have a tension inside them and refuse to believe irrelevant of the evidence would say the video is doctored with and that the people are crazy. If it is a medical miracle,no matter how blatantly obvious,or the context of the miracle,in other words no matter what proof you will have the people who deny the existence of god and have a closed heart and mind will say there's gaps in our scientific or medical knowledge presupposing that our ability in both realms are unlimited.
      So proof to these people simply doesn't matter. If it happened to them they would say they were dehydrated and didn't drink enough water or they were hallucinating etc.

  • @rogerthecabinboy2012
    @rogerthecabinboy2012 3 роки тому +2

    Look up the "Indian rope trick". Mass hysteria is a hell of a thing.

  • @shredder9536
    @shredder9536 3 роки тому +12

    40 years on we now have people in Ireland who believe a person with a penis can be a woman. Progress!

    • @michaelwalsh9145
      @michaelwalsh9145 2 роки тому

      And who believe a lot more from being brainwashed by their government and the media. It isn’t the people that believe that nonsense it’s the clowns trying to push it.

    • @caracortage3270
      @caracortage3270 2 роки тому

      Dirty!

  • @WhoKnowsWho
    @WhoKnowsWho 3 роки тому

    In this kinda climate we're open to suggestion 🤔✌❤👍

  • @pearlyman8790
    @pearlyman8790 3 роки тому

    Do you have the dawn run documentary that was shown on tg4 over Christmas?

  • @eileencolbert1334
    @eileencolbert1334 Рік тому

    I would never tell anyone u would be classed as mad it would be my secret

  • @oliviahayes5371
    @oliviahayes5371 3 роки тому +3

    Ffs mad times lol

  • @troyhayder6986
    @troyhayder6986 2 роки тому

    This has to be gantz...holy shit...even im freaking out...

  • @EWt5lg5alQWLqPViO9vk
    @EWt5lg5alQWLqPViO9vk 3 роки тому

    Who is the autokenetic guy at the end?

  • @Robin-cf9ts
    @Robin-cf9ts 2 роки тому

    Have to say that it’s fairly amusing that the priests concerns echo some of my own concerns about the church.

  • @theresahayes4294
    @theresahayes4294 Місяць тому

    Christ that Priest lOVES the word DANGER....

  • @cplcummins
    @cplcummins 3 роки тому +2

    3:27.. Blue jacket... that must be Mary:-)

  • @IRELAND_SAYS_NO
    @IRELAND_SAYS_NO 3 роки тому

    1:45 , he doesn't want the sheeps clothing pulled off the wolf .

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 3 роки тому

      So the are no genuine people in the church?

  • @obsidianzarok2361
    @obsidianzarok2361 3 роки тому +2

    i think the guy at the end is probably right some how.

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 2 роки тому

    “.....turn Mary into a marionette”?!? Brilliant!!

  • @dechannigan2980
    @dechannigan2980 3 роки тому +4

    Praying to a cement graven image created in a builders yard.
    Why o why don't people read the New Testament just once.
    God is spirit, worship God in spirit and in truth as written in John's gosple. 🙏

    • @electricrussell
      @electricrussell 3 роки тому +4

      Because the Irish remember their history, and the Penal Laws meant that Protestants could only enforce their form of Biblical Christianity in Ireland by denying civil rights to those who would not follow that Biblical Christianity. Protestants only have themselves to blame, they should have acted in a more Christian manner.

    • @dellhell8842
      @dellhell8842 3 роки тому +4

      @Dec Hannigan People in glass houses should perhaps refect on the fragility of their position, before hurling anything of a cement nature at their neighbours' glass houses of a slightly different tint.

    • @hindenpeter2.04
      @hindenpeter2.04 3 роки тому

      kjv master mason ref ed is like €70 on ebay.proper prod version😠

    • @react--
      @react-- 3 роки тому

      Yep religion turns you into a feckin gobshite.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 3 роки тому

      How do you know?
      Did you ask them?
      Ans. No.

  • @emilydiveley9661
    @emilydiveley9661 Рік тому

    at St. Davids at Arnold MO and mother Mary is not moving and i believe and that Mary is moving and made me goosebumps

  • @grahambamford9073
    @grahambamford9073 3 місяці тому

    People were desperate for attention i guess, amazing how this nonsense takes hold.

  • @react--
    @react-- 3 роки тому +6

    Proof people will believe anything including religion.

  • @kingshamie1332
    @kingshamie1332 3 роки тому +3

    Ffs,🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @irishnz_9558
    @irishnz_9558 3 роки тому +3

    Status don't move! They were probably on drugs!

  • @dn5803
    @dn5803 2 роки тому +4

    Embarrassing.

  • @gungagalunga9040
    @gungagalunga9040 3 роки тому

    Arkla

  • @joblogs8886
    @joblogs8886 3 роки тому

    Shrim season again.