Spook Hunting at Cumnock.
Haunted House Crowded Out.
The little hamlet of Glengyron, two miles west of Cumnock, has a haunted house. Structurally it in no manner differs from the other twenty houses which made the row, yet it is becoming famous.
Every night close on ten o’clock mysterious noises emanate from this humble dwelling. There is suddenly a knock on the wall. At regular intervals there are other knocks, apparently from another side of the room altogether. Then the knocking moves to the ceiling, and proceeds down the other wall.
For weeks now the house has been filled with people anxious to hear for themselves the peculiarities of the haunted house. As many as forty folks at a time have congregated at the witching hour of ten, and without fail the ghostly rappings make their flesh creep.
What is the cause? True the entire area is honeycombed with underground workings from the collieries that have been worked from time to time in the vicinity. But that doesn’t seem to provide an explanation. No other house in the row is affected.
The tenants moved out last week, and each night since the house has been the eerie mecca of interested townspeople and officials. Parts of the flooring, walls, and ceiling have been torn up but without revealing any tangible explanation of the mystery.
Another family which lived in the house 28 years ago declare that the phenomenon is no new thing. They experienced the same “knockings” then, but put it down to a peculiar variety of “nuggs” as underground straining is termed by the miners.
Whatever it is it has aroused the interest of folks from all over the district, and soon the house will be unable to hold all those who are keen to “listen in” at nights, in an endeavour to solve the problem.
Sunday Post, 9th February 1936.
Glengyron Row isn’t there any more – it seems to have been cottages built for miners (or perhaps lived in by railway workers, as it was near the railway) at about NS 558193.