A number of Banffshire girls who are presently at Lerwick at the fishing are having a unique experience. They are, to use their own words, lodging in “an aul’ steen hoosie,” and occupy rooms on different floors. Quite recently, they have discovered that the house is haunted! Strange noises are heard during the night, not altogether unlike “spirit rapping,” while the furniture seems to be moved about the floor, and the crockery is spun round. If only Mr W. T. Stead could find time to come north, he might add materially to his knowledge of “spooks,” but the girls are much too scared to investigate, merely contenting themselves with burying their heads in the bedclothes when the sounds seem unbearable.
Shetland Times, 17th July 1909.