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00:03you know what i love about it is the craggy coasts the what the craggy coasts what's a
00:08craggy coast ah the craggy coasts the way it cuts in and out along the shoreline i think
00:15it's beautiful oh it's not there's not called the craggy coast no it's not called that it's
00:20that's what the way i'm explaining here
00:26i'm roman kemp i mean look at this there's some of the scenery we're driving it's beautiful where
00:31we are really nice and i'm his proud dad martin so are you ready for this road i'm ready yeah
00:37i'm
00:37ready and we're off on a father and son road trip like no other oh my goodness around the landscapes
00:47you don't fancy paddling then dad i'm just taking life easy one and legends i mean it looks cool it
00:53is
00:53beautiful it's cool yeah of the magical island of island it sounds like my dad in the car
01:02i lived here back in the 80s back in my spandell ballet days this place had a huge influence on
01:09me
01:09my mom always said she was half irish so that makes me a quarter irish that makes you an eighth
01:16irish
01:17so coming back now with roman feels a little bit like coming home i can't remember the last time
01:24we went on holiday not together it's like me since you were a kid we don't spend nearly enough time
01:31together these days and life seems to be getting faster and faster bro makes me feel bad if i don't
01:41do
01:41it no it's not makes me feel bad it makes me feel old so this is a chance to slow
01:48down and explore some
01:49of the things island does best stories mystery so from looking at that you think there's a vampire
01:59under that upside down yeah and history out of all the places i've been i've never come across anything
02:05like this after all island is in our blood i think that we've literally done those dna tests i know
02:14and it turned out that we were what germanic oh little devil within little devil without
02:21oh proper boys weep together that's what we wanted isn't it yeah
02:31we are old and now in life take some time to ease your mind
02:42for the last leg of this bewitching road trip we're in northern ireland
02:46right at the top northern ireland okay yeah i like it here i mean it's some of the most beautiful
02:53landscapes that you can see an area famous for its mythical giants
02:58world-class stargazing and yep the craggy coast
03:04no one's ever said the word craggy what i'm saying is dramatic is that your attenborough
03:09yes no that is the way i like to describe things you've never said the word craggy in your life
03:16i do say craggy you say you've saved that for this trip
03:21our first story is intrinsically linked to this epic majestic and all right let's call it higgledy
03:28piggledy coastline it's the story of the selkie the only time i've ever heard that word before
03:34was in a line from a poem or maybe it was a song lyric i am a man upon the
03:40land i am a selkie in the sea
03:43who's that juran juran juran didn't pay your schooling i'll tell you that wham did yeah wham did
03:59so anyway selkies we're off to discover selkies right on our father and son trip okay all right
04:07right just watch how you're driving otherwise i'll drive no you're good
04:11our search for the selkie has brought us to benone's strand on the causeway coast and the
04:17chilly waters of the north atlantic and when we say chilly we mean chilly the whole place
04:23is covered in a blanket of snow not the weather for an ice cream it's cold looks looks stunning out
04:29there though but that hasn't put off helen henderson and local mcbride guys warm in it it's fresh this
04:37morning who leads small group swims and walks along this coastline all year round
04:44it's a method actually for island nations like ourselves ireland scotland are not actually north
04:49up in the faroe islands yeah it's a method shared with a lot of people that live beside the sea
04:54but
04:55really it says that on the full moon the selkie seals come ashore and they turn into woman and on
05:00that night of the full moon they dance and they sing and they take a human woman form the steel
05:06skins they take off and they leave them and by the shore and then very often some mischievous uh
05:12fisherman or farmer comes and takes the skin and they can't return to the sea without their seed skin so
05:18it's a really lovely story about a search for coming home a search for belonging on the sea
05:25standing here you can kind of get why selkie stories took hold the sea was mysterious and
05:31dangerous who knew what lay beneath those waves but why do these stories still matter today
05:38there seems to be a lot more i guess spiritual connection that the irish mythology has towards
05:44its own nature than i thought certainly i mean is that what inspires you guys to go in and do
05:49this sort
05:50of the mythology itself they give us a kind of understanding of our local places and they give
05:55they sit just more culturally in our place i always see it as a the myth is like it's kind
06:01of the
06:02ancient wisdom it's the wisdom of our ancestors i mean getting in there is all about spiritual
06:06connection but i feel like my body's going to have a disconnection from my own head yeah this is a
06:12chance for you to empathize with uh the selkie because you're going to go in on your skin
06:18you might think roman's being brave here but don't be fooled this is all about making me do
06:24something he knows i don't want to do okay so let's not think about it too much yeah we're going
06:30to do a couple of breath holes and the purpose is to stop us getting too cold okay that is
06:34the type
06:35of person when it comes to peer pressure with me he always wants to do it like my dad doesn't
06:40eat meat
06:40but for some reason if we go for dinner together and i order a steak he has to order a
06:44steak
06:45i don't know why it's a nice big deep inhale under our belly and one more i love the stories
06:53that they
06:53tell about the selkies and i love the myths and the legends from around here and the connection with
06:58the sea i didn't think i was going to go in though i'll be really honest with you i'm only
07:03going in
07:04to throw this as you exhale out this time down your hunkers and try and hold your breath down here
07:10just because i've put my beanie on he's got his baker boy hat on which doesn't make sense in this
07:16scenario and will look weird it's not competitive it's not one-upmanship it's just that roe makes
07:23me feel bad if i don't do it no it's not makes me feel bad it makes me feel old
07:31look at that that's how cold it's like what am i doing
07:37coming in
07:40i'm taking on with driving and i'm heading far from you
07:44to the limits of the places where the maps are colored blue i'll go to where the red sun
07:50is blistering the sea and the taller trees well there's no going back now
07:55just like oh yes there is oh my absolutely mad the weather now is closing in i'm heading for a
08:07storm
08:07where the waves will lash the setting clouds and legends will be born where the very force of nature
08:13when was this island you told us about it it is like ice in there i can't feel my feet
08:23tell me if you see any selkies
08:28this freezing ocean knocks everything out of you it's like a cold hard reset of body and mind
08:35so it's hard to shout anything back but then the less said about my dad's performance here probably the
08:41better
08:44where were you i saw your toe going
08:48i did it
08:49get out
08:50and i'm something you propose
08:51got on the edge edge of the world
09:04oh nice we deserve this right are you joking what what happened
09:09you sold me out i went in i went in i turned i i went to go in
09:14yeah and i turned around and i looked at what looked like old mother may in a you know
09:20pinky blinders cap heading back to the sauna it was cold i did enjoy it though
09:26adrenaline rush isn't it yeah it's that fight or flight thing when you go in there
09:29yeah you know your body's telling you what the hell are you doing and so is your brain
09:34it's just see that's the thing my body told me what the hell are you doing just a little bit
09:37earlier yeah than yours yeah what was really nice though is it having you know helen and
09:43law can tell us those stories and feeling like they want to actually feel where they're from
09:48yeah you know it's what it's one point knowing where you're from and it's another
09:52i guess way in part of it of feeling it yeah
09:55selkies aren't just some random story the island of islands got thousands of kilometers of coastline
10:02and all the way around it people have told stories about what's out there
10:07about gods in the waves about kingdoms hidden under the sea
10:11about islands you can only reach if the tide and the light are just right some even believe
10:17there's a place beyond the horizon where nobody grows old not even pop stars from the 1980s
10:25so are you glad i brought me here i'm glad you brought me here but i'm not impressed with what
10:32you've achieved cheers with the feeling slowly returning to my fingers and toes it's time to head
10:44to our next location bro bro a place that's well within dad's comfort zone because it's indoors and
10:52involves beer so can you help your old man after my chilly swim off northern ireland's causeway coast
11:14me and my dad are on our way to our next storytelling stop which thankfully will be indoors
11:21do you want to get good news yeah it's time for a pub visit yay couple of stouts oh i
11:28love that
11:29couple of tails yeah it's a good place to meet someone by a fireplace and get a weird old ghost
11:34tail so i thought you'd enjoy that oh we'll love that yeah great stories often begin in unlikely places
11:46and the 19th century pub we're going to is just down the road from a location that may have
11:52inspired one of the most iconic and terrifying characters in the history of storytelling to find
11:59out more we're having a pint with folklore expert dr bob curran thanks for seeing us bob so tell us
12:06about
12:06your vampire everybody everybody thinks that vampires come from transylvania yes forget that
12:15almost every culture in the world has vampires from malaysia to south america to norway yeah
12:25and dr bob thinks it's an iris legend that inspired the iconic story of dracula
12:30the story of our attack a cruel fifth century chieftain a story embraced by the parents of oscar wilde
12:41each night during the week sir william and lady wilde threw their house open for a number of guests
12:49who came in and told ghost stories or stories of the fairies or stuff like that and there is no
12:56doubt
12:57that the story that the story of the vampire the story of the our attack was told now one of
13:03the guests
13:03which they had at their dinner party was bram stoker right so he would have come away hearing
13:09the story of our attack and he transferred it i think into the the story of dracula dracula was a
13:19noble
13:20man so was our attack dracula drank blood so did the our attack dracula needed wood and a stake
13:31to lay him to rest so did the our attack it said his subjects wanted to kill their cruel king
13:39so they went across the mountain to another kingdom and got another king captain who came across the
13:48mountain and slew him being a king avatak was buried upright in the ground but the following day he
13:56returned demanding a bowl of blood so kakin slew him again and avatak rose again still thirsty so they sent
14:06an sos to a holy man and he said what you must do is you must slay him with a
14:12sword made from you
14:14wood like a stake like a stake bury him upside down all right so that if he wakes up he
14:21goes down rather
14:22than up you must put a series of thorns around his grave and put a capstone over the top of
14:30him so that
14:31if he does come up he can't lift it yeah the capstone is still there and tree which has grown
14:37out of the thorns is still there unbelievably dr bob has given us directions to what local law says is
14:46avatak's actual resting place well i didn't have this on my bingo card i gotta be honest
14:54so we're going to the graveyard right we're going to check it out yeah you up for that i didn't
14:59like
14:59the idea of not dead but suspended yeah well that's how it's put in isn't it putting upside down
15:06apparently here amongst this beautiful rich farmland mid-olster is a spot smack dab in the middle of
15:13what would be a very useful field that no landowner has ever dared disturb it's not even dark you've got
15:21your torch out no it is dark he's so scared oh no that's way creepier than i thought it would
15:34be
15:41no no no roman roman oh come back here come on
15:51all right oh i would say if it was pitch black i'm not going there yeah oh i'm not sure
15:57about this now
15:59i'm not going to lie i was giving it bigger that's a lot scarier than i thought it'd be when
16:07you
16:07think no he's under there upside down well no it freaked me out more because that's exactly how
16:13he's told it in that story it was yeah let's get a look come on
16:20this place feels as scary as it looks but for my frustratingly logical brain something
16:27doesn't quite add up they killed him twice yeah but it was only a third time that they realized
16:32oh something's a bit wrong here yeah we better go and kill him properly no he said third time
16:39they've gone to someone and said we might have an issue yeah is it not not the first time he
16:46got back
16:47yeah yeah not the second time third time third time he might not be human well he gave it a
16:52chance
16:52he might not be human yeah okay the story is far-fetched and doesn't make a whole lot of sense
17:00but i'm certain there's something buried here this stone has been placed here for a reason
17:06if i go with bob's story and bob was telling it really well this is the spot and that
17:12is where he is upside down under the ground in a grave so from looking at that you think there's
17:20a vampire under that upside down yeah all right i do no listen that's your that's your call i think
17:28there is something buried there i don't think that stone gets there by natural means i love believing in
17:35stories i don't want to believe it i have to admit the atmosphere and mood here is all very christopher
17:42lee
17:42so although i don't quite believe as much as my dad does i am pleased to be leaving
17:49you deserve that as well
18:00leaving the undead and the buried behind us we're on our way through the foothills of the sparing
18:06mountains where the glaciers have left distinctive rounded summits and where stargazing visitors flock to
18:13its famously dark skies we're searching for one of ireland's most important mythological figures
18:19a fearless warrior kuhullan the warrior equal to the greek god achilles okay got my attention a
18:27little bit of legend yeah well i've got a big old achilles tattoo on me so i might as well
18:33get a
18:33kuhullan i'll tell you that yeah yeah get a kuhullan yeah we've heard that there's a deep connection
18:38between the myth of the great warrior kuhullan and the 3 000 year old sport of hurling and this is
18:45hallowed hurling ground up on your feet arm yourselves up to the teeth a drinking head and
18:51a firm belief your markers got your back with this way
18:59smart neil is one of the most successful clubs in the country
19:06and these are two of their star players brendan rogers and rory omeynon
19:13how are we doing guys how's it all good looking at that ball i'm surprised you both got teeth
19:20well you wear a helmet as well going coming this looks like a like a tennis ball but that is
19:24yeah it's rock solid it's more like a baseball isn't it yeah yeah yeah so it's the fastest field
19:28sport in the world yeah is the sport completely amateur then yeah yeah totally amateur yeah like
19:34we were training there for the well for the whole year but building up to that all iron and her
19:38semi-final maybe three four nights a week yeah and you don't i suppose you don't do it for money
19:43it's about pride isn't it this weather's not i presume not your regular playing weather not this
19:51bad no it is to be fair it can be very very cold up here as you can see there's
19:54a big white mountain
19:55up there on cairns yeah it does be cold during training and stuff but this is because of going
20:00a bad day no this is good though this is beautiful dad's probably hoping the snow will stop play today
20:07but before we can get involved in any kind of training here we need to know about this ancient
20:13connection between hurling and the warrior kuhullan the original name was satanta so the kind of story
20:20goes back to the folklore that you'd have been taught from primary school around king connor who's
20:24obviously the the king of the area um invited a local warrior satanta to colin's yard for like a
20:32party but as the travels there on foot back then he had brought a stick with him on a ball
20:37and been
20:37playing around but standing guard at colin's yard was a beast a huge irish wolfhound that could rise
20:45taller than any man when it charged satanta defended himself so the story goes that he struck the hurling
20:54ball into the dog's mouth and killed it on the spot and obviously king connor was glad satanta
20:59arrived but colin was very disappointed he lost the dog yeah yeah yeah to honor the dog what satanta
21:06said the color was i will guard your area as the dog would until such times where you get a
21:11replacement
21:12for the area and he would slap out in the dog's pen but they called him coo colin which would
21:17be
21:17hound of colin so he became the guard yeah the hound of colin so as for that guarding with the
21:24stick
21:24and the ball or stick and the ball yeah so he stood by his own principles there can't be many
21:29sports with
21:29an origin story to match that no wonder people still love to tell it to this day i remember my
21:36father
21:36like setting us down and before bed and stuff and he'd be sitting talking to you about cool calling and
21:40satanta and you'd be sort of mesmerized by it like so yeah but when you're a kid and you're learning
21:44that sort of stuff at school it kind of draws you in which is to the culture and to the
21:49history of
21:50where you're from and who your people are and all that stuff it definitely ties you in now we know
21:55how hurling began all we have to do next is learn how to play it if you see the goals
22:00there you've got
22:01a mixture of like it's like a rugby and a football goal yeah so if you score in the football
22:04goal or
22:05under the crossbar yeah it's three three if you put it over the crossbar and in between the posts
22:10that's one yeah so you get a point to go over the bar yeah see that would do tottenham
22:17they need more than a point come in there chap you know what this could be the sport i was
22:23made
22:24for i've always let roman win ever since he was a kid you know to bring him up yeah well
22:31done bro
22:31well done but this time i'm gonna smash it i'm not very good at tennis i'm not very good at
22:38golf
22:38i'm not very good at cricket so i should be fine you're wearing this yeah i'm wearing a helmet
22:47tape yeah a little bit after a quick bit of practice
22:53nearly beheaded somebody oh that's it
23:04we're ready for a hurling face-off or what's known as a pack fader
23:11basically whoever hits it the furthest wins great let's do it this is your game to lose by the way
23:17you know this is your game to lose you got all the chat oh come on the kems i think
23:23i got around
23:23one roger that's it
23:26that's clean there oh get in there all right i've got the distance on that i can see it
23:35oh all right short i think i've won that go on bro your turn oh let's go
23:44yeah oh terrible good shot oh cool job we're in business are you in short for those windows back
23:53yeah the windows yeah go on that's good oh it's definitely lovely i'll tell you what you hit that
24:02air really hard yeah i know
24:05go on lovely oh well done well done well done that was so good good fun that for brendan and
24:15rory hurling
24:16is so much more than a sport the folklore that comes with it bonds them to the land to their
24:22history to their team and their community too i have a feeling in the real world the match would
24:28have been called off i get a sense of that bonding at arsenal when we're standing on the terraces
24:33only our stories aren't quite as deep or repeatable
24:51having mastered the art of hurling we're driving east to the antrim coast where for centuries cliffs
24:58coastlines and castles have set the scene for gripping tails often told late into the night
25:07built in the 1600s bally galley castle has lived many lives it's been a fortress a family home and now
25:15it's a reputedly haunted hotel where the ghost of former owner lady isabella still makes an appearance
25:22i don't know why it's scarier because it's a woman of course it is it reminds me a woman in
25:28black will
25:28go in there and there'll be a someone new rocking chair the rocking chair will be moving on its own
25:36oh
25:46our father and son road trip through the landscapes and legends of ireland is definitely having an effect
25:52on me and roman as we go deeper into the stories of the past it's making the present feel just
25:58a little
25:59less frantic and stressful but all that might be about to change because we're going to spend the
26:04night at what is reputed to be northern ireland's most haunted hotel it looks scary doesn't it it is
26:11scary i've got another bag somewhere don't i have a bag yeah when you stay in the night yeah yeah
26:20all right let's do it shall we
26:24welcome to balagalli castle great thank you very much very welcome so this is your room here in the
26:30tower staying in the tower i'm sure you notice it's getting colder roman do you feel that spirits spirits
26:39are making it colder yeah these are your bedrooms here tonight now not that one to say too much but
26:46we've had people leave at three or four o'clock in the morning they haven't stayed the whole night
26:52so does it why why well you just felt spirits in the room and things have happened like where they've
27:00had bibles and stuff on the end of the table and it's flipped off and opened a passage in the
27:06middle
27:06of the night but these are your bedrooms which is just literally below the ghost room now i've worked
27:12here for 31 years and i'm not a lover of going up into the ghost room so i think i'll
27:18let you do
27:18this bit on your own and see how you get on just want to make your way up so this
27:23is the room where
27:24people hear crying coming from this is it well i'll tell you what you're going to hear crying coming
27:28from that home as well good luck with me all right see you soon see you soon in a bit
27:32norma
27:34the story goes after giving birth to a daughter lady isabella fell out of favour with her husband
27:41lord james shaw he took the baby from her and locked her in this tiny room in the tower
27:49starving and tormented by her baby's cries isabella tried to escape through a window
27:55and fell to her death on the rocks below
28:01oh my goodness it's cold man it is freezing you can feel it can't you
28:07it's not just that you can feel the atmosphere also i actually stayed in here with no tv
28:15yeah hotel as well definitely didn't believe in ghosts at all before i started in here but
28:19i've totally changed now oh this is uh this is a lot creepier than i thought it was what's it
28:27say here
28:30no what's it say i am looking for my daughter he keeps me against my will
28:40oh god come on um all right wait there yeah go on oh get lost roman bro
28:49the story of my night was that i spent it fully clothed with all the lights on
29:00good morning mate all right but my dad's night went a little differently you know when you get
29:09a smell really strong and it wakes you up you ever read that no yeah sometimes you have a smell
29:15okay yeah yeah last night right i smelled this really sweet like oil smell and it wasn't just
29:23in one place in the bedroom it felt like it was moving yeah i filmed it
29:28listen i'm not saying it's a ghost or anything i'm not saying i'm just saying this is what happened
29:34woke me up oh it's it's so strong it's making it's making my throat almost burn
29:45darling this one's the weirdest thing it's so strong it was fast asleep it woke me up
29:50well i will say one thing i don't know how you had all the lights switched off because best
29:53sleep all of them were on what did you leave oh we were in full beam we were in full
29:58beam the master
29:59light was on the bathroom light was on i'll cover the energy how did you go to sleep i bet
30:03this hotel
30:04was glowing there's no there's no yeah that room would have been glowing yeah yeah all right come on
30:09in having lived to tell the tale i'm calling home to let my mum know that i'm okay but unfortunately
30:15my dad is no longer with us hi mom hi uh how's it going yeah it's all right i'm finally
30:27on my own
30:29what do you mean i got rid of dad well where is he what have you done with him he's
30:35gone on his own
30:36mission and i am off to go and meet a lady called drea who get this is an irish pagan
30:44oh wow that
30:46sounds interesting what do you know what do you know about pagans um not much but they do live
30:53by the calendar and the full moons and the moon they worship the moon well i'm off to go and
31:00find
31:00out what the origins of halloween are and how they used to do it back then oh very nice and
31:05what did
31:06you say dad was actually doing who cares where he is i don't know is he gonna be all right
31:11on his
31:11own yeah no be fine you can make some friends about time you know what if you can't make friends
31:20in
31:21ireland you can't make friends anywhere and right now i'm in a city where strangers have no problem
31:27talking to strangers especially at halloween with a glance at the clock face it nears time to go
31:34so we aviate homebound with the zombie this is dairy londonderry a historic wall city beside the
31:43river foil compact full of character are fiercely proud of its past and just as proud of its present
31:51because every year this city is home to europe's biggest halloween festival so how did it become such
31:57a wicked party town at this time of the year well i'm going right to the source brian doherty
32:04cheers martin welcome to dairy thank you very much the former pub landlord who may have just
32:12inadvertently started it all back in 1985 at this very pub by making an offer people simply couldn't
32:19refuse that's the original invitation of the night it says here 50p off for fancy dress well it was a
32:27little bit of an incentive shall we say yeah 50p in those days was was a lot of money was
32:31a lot of money
32:32i can't recall but it was probably nearly the price of a pint at the time i used to work
32:36all
32:36week for 50p come nine o'clock the whole downstairs bar is packed with everybody in fancy dress and some
32:43of the costumes were unbelievable how people thought them up do you know what this is real halloween 1980s
32:50style isn't it yeah i i i i i'm sure the guy on the end there he's kind of like
32:56got a fill in it
33:00he has got a little bit of cindy lauper in there as well you know adamant well spotted well
33:07spotted exactly he's proper 1985 exactly i love that exactly suddenly after about an hour hour and a
33:13half policeman comes the door bomb scare evacuate the premises right they pulled up outside in a
33:19land rover right so they come to the door it was pretty serious forced from brian's pub by the bomb
33:25scare the punters took their factory dress party onto the streets instead and it's argued that this
33:31was the genesis of what's become europe's largest halloween parade everybody flowed out into other bars on
33:41mass it was that coincidence yeah of the night that other bars that hadn't uh put on a fancy dress
33:48party that night suddenly realized wow this is the thing to do yeah and everybody seemed to do it the
33:53following yeah from there the dairy halloween festival simply grew and grew and in that time
34:01ireland just like so many other places in europe has incorporated american influences into the party
34:07with trick or treating and pumpkin carving and fancy dress costumes galore best halloween party was
34:15at a time when i was living in los angeles with the kids and a friend of mine owned the
34:22original house
34:22for the halloween movie the location and as you walked out of that house and you were on the street
34:29that all halloween was shot in it was the best thing ever but halloween didn't start in america it
34:36started here in the island of ireland long before trick-or-treating pumpkins and hollywood there was
34:43a time when people genuinely believed that the veil was getting thinner between this world and the
34:48next kind of mesh together it's not it's not as it's not as big that jump isn't as big as
34:53we think
35:01while my dad's off exploring modern halloween i've come to meet practicing pagan andrea dixon
35:07to trace the tradition right back to where it began right here in ancient ireland
35:14Joanna, this is very nice
35:16It's absolutely gorgeous
35:17I like it, nice by the fire
35:20To a time when November marked the change
35:23Not just between autumn and winter
35:25But between one year and the next
35:28For us it was our New Year originally
35:31Right, okay
35:31So if you think about New Year celebrations and how big those are even today
35:34Yeah
35:34It's that kind of energy where our New Year's now
35:36You tend to look backwards at the year you've been
35:38And think about the year going forward
35:39What's going to happen and things
35:40Yeah
35:40And when you think about the timing of that
35:42It happens sort of at the very end of October
35:45The very beginning of November
35:47And to us it was so important that it's not only
35:50We call it Samhain
35:50And it's not
35:51You call it what, sorry?
35:52Samhain
35:52Samhain?
35:53In Gaelic it's Samhain
35:54Samhain
35:54In ancient Irish
35:55Okay
35:55We celebrate the cusp
35:57It happens that
35:58So it's the eve of November
36:00When you sort of celebrate that crossover
36:03That idea of crossing over
36:05Isn't just about crossing from one year to another
36:08But the possibility of spirits crossing here
36:11From the next world
36:12So on that kind of eve
36:14What separates our world from the afterlife and from the other world was thinner
36:18So they kind of cross, they kind of mesh together a bit closer
36:21It's not as big, that jump isn't as big as we think
36:24So things we've seen as like our ancestors could technically come back type thing
36:56And we would honour them at that time
36:57Once you had your apple, you had to peel in one go and see what the peel revealed
37:03Because I see the straight lines with a c
37:05Yeah
37:06Okay
37:07Personally I would read that straight line
37:09Minus things are going to be made straight
37:11I like that
37:11But it will be a very obvious path for you ahead
37:14There's a more modern pagan way of setting intentions for the future
37:18Writing wishes down and throwing them into the fire
37:21So FYI, if Arsenal win the Premier League and the Champions League
37:25Yeah, that was all down to me
37:26To me, the ancient traditions added depth to it
37:30It doesn't take away from the fun
37:32Because a lot of the traditions are still fun
37:34But they added grounding to it
37:35Yeah
37:36Oh, thank you very much
37:37Good luck on your intentions
37:38Thank you
37:44Back at the Derry Halloween Festival
37:46If there are any evil spirits coming through the veil
37:49They're going to have a hard time tonight
37:51Because the Halloween masks and disguises are on another level
38:01Jim
38:03Nice to meet you, man
38:04How's it going?
38:05What a place
38:06Everywhere I look, you've got amazing models
38:09Jim Collins heads up the artists and volunteers
38:12Who spend months preparing props and costumes for the festival
38:16Well, this is the wolf of Leermount Forest
38:19This was actually produced in a local village
38:22And far from the city
38:23We had a master class
38:24We were trying to upskill local artists
38:26We're exploring the pukka
38:28Which is a mischievous spirit
38:29Who shapeshifts into many animal forms and detectors
38:33So one of which is the wolf
38:36Jim, tell me about these
38:38These are absolutely brilliant, I've got to say
38:41Obviously, it's Halloween
38:42And these were drawing inspiration from the Mexican day of the dead
38:46And people don't disguise us
38:47It becomes something completely different
38:49So that's got magic on its own
38:51Yeah
38:51And obviously, we want to create a wee bit of fright there
38:54Without scaring people to death
38:56Of course, of course
38:58So what's up here, Jim?
38:59This is the costume department
39:00It's all the costume department, isn't it?
39:03Yeah, yeah, exactly
39:03I can never resist a good costume
39:06And this one, made by Amy Cowell
39:09Suits me perfect
39:15Oh, man, I love it
39:17I just want to take part
39:18How long did that take to make?
39:20Well, it actually probably took me about five hours so far
39:23The horns are quite difficult to build
39:25So, yeah
39:26Amy, you work here
39:27But you also get a lot of volunteers, right?
39:30Yeah, we get loads of volunteers
39:31Why do you think they all come down?
39:33Oh, because they love just being involved with the Derry Halloween
39:36We're proud of it
39:37I think we're proud of it
39:38And everybody wants to be a part of it
39:40And it's really good fun
39:42This is what this journey is all about for me
39:45Meeting people who are living and breathing
39:47The stories and traditions of their ancestors
39:50Amy, Jim, and their volunteers
39:52Might find new ways to spook people every year
39:55But there's a thread running through all of these costumes
39:58A storytelling thread
40:00That connects past to present
40:02As much about storytelling
40:04As dressing up and taking part in a parade
40:06You know, and you've been here
40:08I'm sure on and off till you realise
40:10That, you know, Derry people, Aries people in general
40:12Are following a chat and telling a few stories
40:15They've got a good story
40:17The story of Halloween here
40:19Is all about transformation and reinvention
40:22What started as an ancient ritual
40:25Became folklore
40:26That folklore turned into a tradition
40:29That travelled the world
40:30And then found its way back
40:32To where it all began
40:34I honestly thought that
40:37Before I came here
40:39That Halloween was American
40:40For me it's really cleared up
40:42Of where Halloween started
40:44You know, it's part of that kind of
40:46History, mystery
40:47That I've been missing in my life
40:54The thing that I love the most
40:55Is the way that Derry
40:56Has found its own personality
40:59Its own culture
41:01That it's created
41:02From that moment
41:03That all those guys were kicked out of that pub
41:05And onto the streets
41:07While they were having this
41:08Small Halloween festival
41:10Party
41:11To what it's become today
41:12Where there's 40,000 people on the street
41:14It's just
41:16Blown me away
41:25We've almost reached the end
41:27Of our Irish adventure
41:28From ancient legends
41:30Medical tales
41:31And reinvented rituals
41:33This trip has shown
41:35How stories begin
41:36Evolve
41:37And pass on
41:38From generation to generation
41:40Across the centuries
41:42And if there's one place
41:44Where stories will always thrive
41:46In Ireland
41:46It's in a pub
41:53So we've come to round off
41:55Our journey in style
41:57With father and son musicians
41:59And songwriters
42:00Shamey and Stephen O'Dowd
42:02Who are carrying on the tradition
42:04Of handing down stories
42:06Through song
42:13Raymond, good to see you
42:14Good to see you
42:14That sound is so fantastic
42:16You think about it
42:17Like if you go to
42:18A pub in England for instance
42:19Like if there's a band
42:20The band are playing
42:21A song by the Beatles
42:22Yeah
42:23Yeah
42:23Where you guys are
42:24Singing songs and telling stories
42:26That have been passed down
42:27From you
42:27You don't even know who
42:28Yeah
42:28Oh yeah
42:29In some cases
42:29Yeah
42:29You'll probably know
42:30Where you got the song yourself
42:31You might associate songs
42:33Like there was a lot of songs
42:35Passed down through
42:36The traveller community
42:37Like they would have just
42:38Sunged each other
42:38And they had a big part
42:40In preserving songs
42:41Why do you think
42:41Those songs stick
42:42In people's memory
42:43Is it the story
42:44Or is it the tune
42:45I think it's a combination
42:46Of the two
42:47The tune
42:48Nearly opens up your mind
42:50And then you get the idea
42:51In the tune
42:53The tune is the Trojan horse
42:55That's exactly
42:56Well put
42:57It could be anything
42:58From a story
42:59That people want to
43:00Talk about
43:01From history
43:02To a yarn
43:03Or a joke
43:03It is the two things
43:05Have to come together
43:06Oh yeah
43:07And that's what makes
43:08A brilliant song
43:09All these things
43:10Have to come together
43:12At the same time
43:12Absolutely
43:13So what's this song
43:14That you're about to play
43:15It's the Galleus
43:16La Gerona
43:16From the Spanish Armada
43:17There's a bit of a tale
43:18To it I suppose
43:19But the gist of it
43:21Is they were
43:21On their way over to England
43:23It didn't work out for them
43:24Evidently
43:25Yeah
43:25But when they were
43:26On their way back
43:27The English actually
43:29Sacrificed some ships
43:31And sent them alight
43:32And sent them towards the Spanish
43:34And they cut their anchors
43:35To escape
43:35But coming around
43:36The top of Ireland
43:37They came into some bad weather
43:38As a result of that
43:39They foundered against the rocks
43:40And they all sank
43:41But as if that wasn't enough
43:43I decided to make
43:43Finn McCool the bad guy
43:45Okay
43:46Yeah
43:46Shall we jump
43:47Flash into it I suppose
43:48Yeah
43:59Finn McCool is the legendary giant
44:01Said to have built
44:02The giant's causeway
44:03So he's normally a hero
44:05In Irish stories
44:06But Stevens made Finn McCool
44:09The villain for a change
44:10By playing his part
44:11In helping the English
44:13Sink the Spanish ships
44:14In order to protect
44:16His causeway
44:18On the voyage
44:21Home from worthy
44:23Sank below the waves
44:26Only nine men were saved
44:29That was the kind of
44:31Serona
44:32Oh!
44:40Wow!
44:42That is better than good
44:44It's better than good
44:46It's just absolutely brilliant
44:51This mix of facts and fiction
44:53To create a living legend
44:55Is what makes Irish stories
44:57So powerful
44:58What a fantastic way
45:00To mark the end of the road
45:01The final stop
45:03On our journey
45:03Through the history
45:04And the mystery
45:06Of this extraordinary land
45:09Well it's nice
45:10Being able to do
45:11Something like this
45:12Together
45:13Together
45:13Yeah
45:14Isn't it?
45:15Yeah
45:15I think we've got
45:16A nice little relationship
45:18Bro
45:18But I don't think
45:19You can ever bond enough
45:20It's about making memories
45:22It's about everywhere we go
45:23Everybody we talk to
45:24Every little bit of culture
45:26That we see
45:27Every pipe we suck
45:28Is about a bonding memory
45:30Yeah that's what I'm talking about
45:32And we have all of this Irish experience
45:35To take home with us
45:37Yeah
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