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Your money or your life! Marty Cullen uncovers Ulster’s underworld of rapparees, resurrections and restless souls.

Lissan House in Cookstown stretches back to the Ulster plantations and is believed to be one of the most haunted in Ireland. From the lady of the house who threatens guests with a candelabrum, to The Barefoot Baronet who creeps quietly through its corridors – the ghosts in this house have a bone to pick.

Redmond O’Hanlon is largely considered Ulster’s most infamous outlaw. He patrolled the roads between the Louth, Armagh and South Down area, robbing the rich and making the poor pay The Black Rent, basically protection money. He once had a gang of almost 50 men, all loyal to his cause besides one... who led to his downfall.

In Co. Armagh there are not one, but two resurrection stories. These were both women who were laid to rest beneath the ground, but arrived home at their own wake. One of their stories sparked one of Ireland’s most famous headstones, ‘Lived Once Buried Twice’.