4 months ago
#TheHellfireClub
"The notorious Hellfire Club in the Dublin mountains is a name murky with ugly rumours, dark deeds, black magic and blasphemy.
It is the last place you'd wish to be on a starless night.
They say that on one such night a fellow was playing cards with a stranger at the club when he happened to glance away from his hand and down to the stranger's foot on the floor.
He spied a cloven hoof... and an icy hand clutched his heart.
Hell-fire clubs have always been shrouded in rumours of devil worship and dark satanic deeds. How do you separate fact from fiction?
Drive out of south Dublin and climb Mountpelier Hill and there, on top, squats the shell of the old hunting lodge built for Irish Parliamentary Speaker William Connolly in 1725.
Now, a team of archaeologists are excavating the site to find out more about two prehistoric passage tombs on the hill - similar to Newgrange in Ireland's Boyne Valley..."
"The notorious Hellfire Club in the Dublin mountains is a name murky with ugly rumours, dark deeds, black magic and blasphemy.
It is the last place you'd wish to be on a starless night.
They say that on one such night a fellow was playing cards with a stranger at the club when he happened to glance away from his hand and down to the stranger's foot on the floor.
He spied a cloven hoof... and an icy hand clutched his heart.
Hell-fire clubs have always been shrouded in rumours of devil worship and dark satanic deeds. How do you separate fact from fiction?
Drive out of south Dublin and climb Mountpelier Hill and there, on top, squats the shell of the old hunting lodge built for Irish Parliamentary Speaker William Connolly in 1725.
Now, a team of archaeologists are excavating the site to find out more about two prehistoric passage tombs on the hill - similar to Newgrange in Ireland's Boyne Valley..."
Digging up the truth about the notorious hellfire clubs - BBC News
The hellfire club in the Dublin mountains is a name murky with ugly rumours, dark deeds, black magic and blasphemy...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-37609835
4 months ago
Watch Benjamin Franklin's Secret Societies Clip | HISTORY Channel
While in England, Ben Franklin may have been a member of a secret underground society known as the Hellfire Club.
https://www.history.com/videos/benjamin-franklins-secret-societies
