A ghost on the prowl. I’ll quit town says mother. By Bill Bryant. A woman wants to flee a Scots town because she is convinced her dead mother is haunting her. Thuds in the night
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Kilmaluaig, Tiree, Argyll and Bute (1880s)
About twenty years ago, a house in Kilmoluag, Tiree, was the scene of similar disturbances [to those at Bonskeid]. With one or two exceptions, all the people of the island believed them to be produced
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A House that was “Haunted”. Another ‘strange’ story comes from Sandbank. By a “Daily Record” staff reporter. Sandbank, Monday. Sitting in her little, old-fashioned and one-time “haunted house” here this afternoon, 84-year-old Mr Annie Chalmers
Continue ReadingTiree, Argyll and Bute (1928)
Ghost Story from a Small Village. The island of Tiree, off the Argyle coast, is intrigued by strange events in a house in the small village of Scarinish, tenanted by John McDonald, a ship’s carpenter.
Continue ReadingAcharacle, Argyll (1925)
Highland Villa Ghost. Major’s All-night Vigil With Maids. Shots for eerie visitant. Fort-William, Saturday. The inhabitants of the picturesque village of Aharacle, on the shores of Loch Shiel, have been greatly perturbed of late by
Continue ReadingPort Ellen / Port Ilein, Islay, Argyll and Bute (1878)
A “Haunted House” in Islay. A correspondent, dating from Islay, sends the following:- For some time past a manse in the neighbourhood of Port Ellen, Islay, has been subjected to various strange noises and other
Continue ReadingBaravullin, Oban, Argyll and Bute (1921)
“Haunted House” in the Highlands. Psychic Research Students Make Investigations. Extraordinary happenings are reported as having taken place in the house of Donald MacKenzie, postman, who resides at lonely Baravulin, Ledaig, a small hamlet in
Continue ReadingBute, Argyll and Bute (c.1837)
An Unquiet Spirit. A paragraph has been “going the rounds,” copied from the Hull Packet, entitled “spirit rappings,” from which it appears that some unquiet spirit has taken refuge in a tenement in a lonely
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Dishes Defy Law of Gravity ‘Ghosts’ Scare Girls in Sandbank Hut By “Daily Record” Reporter. Naval officers at Sandbank, in the Holy Loch, are having more trouble with ghosts than they ever had with Hitler.
Continue ReadingRothesay Bay, Bute, Scotland (1899)
A Haunted Yacht. Weird sounds and sights. Dead sailor on board again. The Glasgow Weekly Mail has a novel ghost story. It is said that a month ago a steam yacht was anchored in Rothesay
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