In this paper we study the oscillatory properties for the eigenfunctions of some fourthorder eigenvalue problems, where the boundary conditions are irregular in the sense of the classification of [S. Janczewski, Oscillation theorems for the differential boundary value problems of the fourth order, Ann. of Math. 29 (1928) 521-542]. In this case, we show that these oscillatory properties are different from those of the Sturm-Liouville problem.