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\n\t\tMetro got the chance to visit the Wednesday season 2 filming locations (Picture: Netflix\/Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tMetro got the chance to visit the Wednesday season 2 filming locations (Picture: Netflix\/Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n
The new season of Wednesday<\/a> hasn\u2019t even aired yet, but Ireland\u2019s Charleville Castle has already welcomed avid fans of the Netflix<\/a> show on a gothic pilgrimage to see the sets.<\/p>\n The second season \u2013 the first part of which arrives this Wednesday (!)<\/a> \u2013delivers the fandom a whole new batch of locations, after the production moved from Romania to Ireland<\/a>. Albeit, with Romanian actor Victor Doroban\u021bu as the scene-stealing Thing still scuttling in tow<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the Irish locations scouted out for the new bundle of episodes is the gothic Grade I listed fortress Charleville, in County Offaly, whose crow and bat topped corridors have been walked by Jenna Ortega<\/a>, Tim Burton \u2013 and us, as Metro was treated to a visit.<\/p>\n In many ways Charleville Castle is the ideal place to unspool Wednesday\u2019s tale of mystery, mayhem and murder, because it\u2019s a lore-laden place itself, where things are said to go bump in the night.<\/p>\n By things, we mean creepy ghost children. One of the spots the production used to film scenes was Harriet\u2019s staircase, a gloomy spot that takes on even gloomier significance when we\u2019re told an 8-year-old girl tragically fell to her death there.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tGet personalised updates on all things Netflix\t\t\t<\/p>\n Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro\u2019s TV Newsletter.<\/p>\n Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> and then select your show in the link we\u2019ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.<\/p>\n The story goes that the youngest daughter of the third Earl of Charleville, who once upon a time owned the castle, was asked by her governess to go upstairs and wash her hands before a meal. On the way back down the gloomy three-story staircase, Harriet is said to have clambered up onto the bannister to slide down.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t She slipped and fell to her death on the flagstone tiles below. A brass guard was subsequently installed on the bannister to stop those who might have a similar idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since then, the staircase has become one of the castle\u2019s hotspots for so-called activity, of the paranormal kind. The goings-ons are straight out of a horror film. Bonnie Vance, 75, who helped form a charitable trust to restore the castle after it fell into disrepair and lives there with her son, said she has only seen the ghosts \u2018occasionally\u2019, but often hears them.<\/p>\n What is it that she\u2019s heard? Children giggling, voices talking, the scrapping sounds of furniture being moved in rooms that stand empty. She later learned the jangle of children playing was coming from a room that had once been a nursery.<\/p>\n Guests at the castle have heard who-knows-what move in the night and asked to switch rooms \u2013 which makes you wonder why they might have wanted to stay in the first place. Most of the spectral racket takes place in the small hours from 2am to 3am.<\/p>\n \t\t To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web One unassuming bedroom \u2013 an imposing bed decked out in scarlet red covers, next to arched windows that don\u2019t come with curtains attached \u2013 is supposed to be a hub of ghoulish hinjinks, with a door that has been reported to lock people in and out at will. Bonnie shut the door when we were inside, leaving everyone with a brief but queasy feeling before we were released.<\/p>\n \u2018My official statement on the ghosts is I don\u2019t believe in them,\u2019 says Bonnie\u2019s son Jonathan, the only one of her three children who stuck around to help manage the castle, \u2018but I won\u2019t say it loud enough for them to hear me.\u2019<\/p>\n Bonnie insists she isn\u2019t scared of the ghosts (\u2018They\u2019re friendly\u2019) and speaks very tenderly of late Harriet. We didn\u2019t experience anything too spooky while walking through the lofty castle \u2013 unless you count getting a glimpse inside the library\u2019s secret passageway \u2013 but it\u2019s easy to imagine how the shadowy corners could prey on a scaredy-cat at night. <\/p>\n What the Wednesday cast made of all these eerie tales, we don\u2019t know. They were spared an overnight stay, instead setting up in the nearby town Tullamore. But Ortega and co did get on very well with the castle\u2019s black cat, Mirka, who was known to take up residence on their hot water bottles. (The castle has no central heating and hit-and-miss power supplies).\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tIreland’s most haunted houses\t\t\t<\/p>\n Leap Castle. Many were locked up and executed at Leap Castle and it now has a reputation that puts it in the running for most haunted house of all time. Said to be haunted by a demon with a decaying face, among a few others. Eek.<\/p>\n The Hell Fire Club. This old hunting lodge had an \u2018anything goes\u2019 mantra, with noble members who wouls once dabble in black magic and summon Satan. With a name like that, it\u2019s not surprising. <\/p>\n Loftus Hall. Built in County Wexford during the Black Death, this mansion is also a spot said to have been visited by Satan and legend goes he still lurks there now. <\/p>\n \t\t \t\t The castle was one of the locations Wednesday director Tim Burton signed off on, as the production had the double duty this season of not only finding a whole new roster of Irish locations, but ones that would pass for their predecessors in Romania.<\/p>\n The reason for the swap? Locations manager Maria O\u2019Connor, who\u2019s been in the screen locations biz for over 30 years and worked with Wednesday\u2019s showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on Into The Badlands, said they chose Ireland because the creators have loved working there in the past.<\/p>\n The country isn\u2019t spoiled for choice of gothic castles, so Charleville was an easy decision. As were many of the picks, Maria said, since the Edward Scissorhands<\/a> director isn\u2019t one to hum and haw. <\/p>\n Perhaps unsurprisingly, it sounds like Tim\u2019s company is not of the dull variety. When scouting out the building that would become Nevermore Academy\u2019s exterior (with an ornate new canopy digitally plonked on top in post-production) Tim tasked Maria with scrambling up ladders to get onto the roof for a proper looksee.<\/p>\n This building sits within Powerscourt Estate, the other chief location used, beside Ashford Studios for the interior scenes, and owned by the Slazenger family (of the sporting gear). A mossy foliage-covered graveyard was one of the spots, with smoke machines pumping away during moody night shoots, just inches from the Slazenger family\u2019s own private graveyard in the corner.<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t The 19 hectare County Wicklow estate has swanky gardens, a dramatic nearby waterfall and a 36-hole golf course \u2013 which avid golfer Catherine Zeta Jones<\/a> made full use of while filming. There was less of a requirement for this part to fit into the mould of what had gone before, since it serves as the home of new cast addition Joanna Lumley\u2019s<\/a> character Hester.\u00a0<\/p>\n Whether the location changes will be picked up by ardent Wednesday fandom (of which suggested names online have included Woes, Outcasts and Thursdays \u2013 because it follows Wednesday\u2026) remains to be seen. The episodes we have seen certainly look more lush than previously, but County Wicklow is referred to as the Garden of Ireland after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n The attention to detail has certainly been paid, down to replicating the exact same tree layout as that shot in Romania. Not that Maria overly hypes how hard it all was, simply describing it as \u2018tricky\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Wednesday is now in Ireland to stay. Filming for the third season kicks off this November and the Addams family car has stayed in situ in the meantime. As has the Nevermore Academy chandelier, with head-sized orbs of light that hang over the main staircase in Charleville Castle. It was a gift from the production. Although, you almost feel they\u2019ve done enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n The castle might have claims of otherworldly visitations, but if anything, that will only make the curious Wednesday loyalists \u2013 who were devout enough to visit Romania in droves \u2013 even more eager to take a look in.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wednesday season 2 launches on August 6, with the second part arriving on September 3.<\/p>\n Got a story?<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff<\/a> page \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260740610-8538.jpg\")
\n\t\tHarriet\u2019s tragic staircase (Picture: Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260740762-7529.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe chandelier was gifted to the castle by the Wednesday production (Picture: Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260740740-0ca3.jpg\")
\n\t\tDon\u2019t shut the door behind you (Picture: Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tThe courtyard scenes in the show were shot at Ashford Studios in Ireland (Picture: Helen Sloan\/Netflix)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260740603-c8fc.jpg\")
\n\t\tMirka was hugely popular with the cast (Picture: Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n![\"Joanna](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260491562-7565.jpg\")
\n\t\tPowerscourt Estate serves as Hester\u2019s home in Wednesday season 2 (Picture: Jonathan Hession\/Netflix)<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SEI_260740620-6db9.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe graveyard was the setting for two stunts (Picture: Rebecca Cook)<\/p>\n
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