Crumlin Road Gaol was built to hold about 550 prisoners and about 25,000 people passed through it. Seventeen men were hanged there between 1854 and 1961. A dedicated execution chamber was built in C Wing in 1901, next to the Condemned Man's Cell.
Spirited Isle and Icy Sedgwick record the same set of reports. A male figure is seen walking down C Wing and dissolving as he reaches the end near the condemned cell. Whispering and choking sounds are said to come from the execution chamber. A phantom warden is said to do his rounds in B Wing, and a visitor in 2019 reported photographing the outline of a man in uniform in a cell doorway there. The padded cell in B Wing is linked to a dark presence and to visitors being touched or shoved.
A tunnel runs under the Crumlin Road to the courthouse, used to move prisoners to trial. Former staff have reported a grey figure there, along with footsteps, and ghost hunters have recorded groans, sighs, whistles and coughs. During a Halloween investigation in 2016 a heavy steel door was said to close by itself and a recording was read as the name Isabelle. Most executed prisoners were buried within the prison walls.
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