Exorcise in ghost busting. Shopkeeper Linda Williamson is hoping a ghost-busting priest has helped clear the air in her High Street shop. Canon Kevin Conway was brought in to exorcise the “ghost” in the shop
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Lochrutton, Dumfries and Galloway (1851)
A Tale of Wonder. Considerable excitement has prevailed in a parish not far from Lochrutton, for the last week, from a report that something no very canny had been playing some mysterious cantrips about a
Continue ReadingDumfries (1782)
About 1782, a house at Dumfries, on the Nith, was the scene of various extraordinary manifestations. The place was inhabited by a highly respectable gentleman, a magistrate of Dumfries, whose family were perpetually annoyed by
Continue ReadingAuldgirth, Dumfries and Galloway (1993 and some decades)
Farmhouse haunting horror. Most people will have fun this weekend celebrating Hallowe’en but ghosts have a far more sinister influence on the lives of one Dumfriesshire family… The McNay family – who live in an
Continue ReadingGlenluce, Dumfries and Galloway (1654)
Relation XI. The devil of Glenluce enlarged with several remarkable additions, from an eye and ear witness, a person of undoubted honesty. This is that famous and notable story of the devil of Glenluce, which
Continue ReadingRerrick, Dumfries and Galloway (1695)
A True Relation of an Apparition, Expressions and Actings of a Spirit, which infested the house of Andrew Mackie in Ring-Croft of Stocking, in the Parroch of Rerrick, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Scotland,
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