A haunted mansion house at Lonmay.
An old mansion-house in the parish of Lonmay is firmly believed to be the haunt of some uncanny spirit. This dwelling is now converted into a farmhouse, and, like most houses reputed to be haunted, it abounds with eerie nooks and gloomy passages, says a Rathen correspondent in the “Weekly News.”
About thirty years ago things were being made rather too lively for the ease and peace of mind of the inmates. Footsteps in the passages were often heard, and yet no human being was visible. At night noises resembling a cartload of stones being emptied to the ground were frequently heard in the yard outside.
The farmer who then occupied the house had his nocturnal slumbers rudely disturbed one night by a strange and unearthly noise. Immediately after a faint light gradually lit up the room, revealing a muffled ghostly figure standing by his bedside. The figure bend over his prostrate form, and it seemed to the farmer’s excited imagination that he was being held down. Next moment the light faded away, and with it the spectre.
About the same time next night the farmer had a repetition of his weird and nerve-testing experience. On the third night he retired to rest, determined, should the vision re-appear, to speak to it. His courage failed him, however, before the time arrived, and he got up and withdrew to another bedroom, and the strange apparition was seen no more.
Even at the present day loud sounds like the report of a gun are occasionally heard, and a workman employed for a number of years on the farm informed me that he never woke up during the night but what he heard footsteps outside, and whenever he summoned up courage to peer out nothing was to be seen.
Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties’ Advertiser, 1st December 1903.