Conversational “Ghost” in an Old Scots House.
A popular and intelligent “ghost” has taken up its location in a house in the lower part of Buckpool, Buckie (Banff), over a century old. The ghost some time ago made loud knockings which caused the householder to go to the door, but he found nobody there. Afterwards intermittent knockings occurred till they got so common that a signal code, to which the spirit responds, and answers questions, has been devised.
Seances are held at night with the result that people who have heard the knocking go away thoroughly mystified with the edge taken off their scepticism. The ghost’s code includes one knock for “yes,” two knocks for “no.”
The solution remains a mystery.
The People, 19th August 1928.