Scotland, ah the next best place in the UK after Wales and Ireland of course, but hey we all got one thing in common, we all hate the English am I right?
No in all seriousness Scotland like most of the UK has a vast wealth of old castles, spooky stories and places linked to ghostly goings on. I hope one day to experience some of these places for myself and maybe just maybe experience something more to sway me in the more believing way!
So here we have 5 places that are some of the most (supposedly) haunted places in Scotland:
1. Crathes Castle
Looking like something right out of a fairy tale book, this beautiful looking castle can be found near Banchory. Built in the 1500's it stands majestically with its unique turrets and towers.
However dig a little further and you'll uncover the secrets within, such as the Green Lady, a spectral woman clad in green (weird huh?) haunting the halls. Dig a little further and you will find the story of the pregnant servant girl who supposedly fled the castle, only to be found bricked up in the wall behind the fireplace at a later date.
2. Glencoe Massacre
One of the most horrific incidents of treachery in Scottish history, in the late 1600's the people of clan MacDonald took in some people who they thought were friendly visitors. No such luck however for they were soldiers on government orders to kill the family due to some uprising of Jacobites and failing to pledge allegiance to the current monarchy.
Though this commonly happened a lot back then, the most frightful part was being the dead of winter many of the family members who fled froze to death in the surrounding mountains and moores. To this day you may still hear their screams or see an apparition while out there!
3. Skaill House
Skaill house actually sit on the Orkney Isles, it's a lovely quite place where people have been rumored to live for over 5000 years!
Due to this the site has seen a lot of coming and goings over the years. As well as countless ghostly happenings documented over thousands of years. from apparitions to noises to worse in the form of demons themselves!
These days people seem to catch the smell of pipe or cigarette smoke where no has been or the ghostly form of a man called Ubby who created a human made island in the nearby loch and was said to have died out there.
Finally the place is also said to be a site for an old Norse burial ground when FIFTEEN bodies were discovered in renovations for opening for the public, carbon dating placed them at the time of the vikings.
4. St. Andrews Cathedral
Seems Scotland has no end to tales of bodies found during renovations of old parts. This place is also guilty of that crime, see one of the two ghosts found here is the Lady in White a ghostly woman seen wearing all white (weird I know). two caskets were found in a sealed room one open bearing a very well preserved corpse of a woman who wore white gloves!
It's not all doom and gloom here though, there's a spirit of a friendly monk that supposedly roams the stairs area too. The place is little more than ruins now but still a beautiful place to visit from the sights I've seen.
5. The Old Tay Bridge
A technical marvel in engineering the old Tay bridge is a massively long railway bridge by Dundee crossing the river between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. It's cross lattice design an innovation of it's day, for being lightweight and low cost. It was finished in the year 1877 but did not open until 1878, unfortunately on an uncharacteristically windy day in only 1879 the lattice gave way killing a whole trainload of people as it fell into the icy waters.
It is said that on the eve of it's happening some people have heard screams from the area of the lost dead, or seen a full re-enactment of the fateful accident!
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