Scottish Ghost Stories?

**Bugbear** · 15th October 10, 01:33 AM

What is your favorite Scottish Ghost story, and why?

Scary Scottish stories and tales with fairies, goblins and monsters count too.

**Lallans** · 15th October 10, 05:54 AM

Particularly after a couple of strange personal experiences here in Canada, I've always been a fan of tales involving kelpies, the water horses. Because they are real.

**macwilkin** · 15th October 10, 06:13 AM

Tam O'Shanter is my favorite, but this one is a close second:

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/s...bhan-sith.html

The Mysterious Britain site is worth perusing this time of year.

T.

**Lallans** · 15th October 10, 06:38 AM

Tam O'Shanter, dang, I should have thought of that one.

Other favorites of mine are the tales involving brownies (the wee folk, not the junior girl guides), plus of course the brownie lore itself.

**Drac** · 15th October 10, 08:13 AM

The Green Lady is the only one I know from a book I read -

http://www.hollowhill.com/uk/scotland-greenlady2.htm

Hermitage Castle has a pretty nasty reputation though -

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.u...tle/index.html

Here is a listing of Scottish castle ghosts -

http://scottishghosts.webs.com/castleghostsak.htm

Jim

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 15th October 10, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

Particularly after a couple of strange personal experiences here in Canada, I've always been a fan of tales involving kelpies, the water horses. Because they are real.

Hmm, if tales of the supernatural appeal then you would probably enjoy The Adept by fantasy novelist Katherine Kurtz. Set in modern day Scotland it's a fast paced yarn that involves ghosties and ghoulies as well as the Loch Ness Monster.

**Drac** · 15th October 10, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Hmm, if tales of the supernatural appeal then you would probably enjoy The Adept by fantasy novelist Katherine Kurtz. Set in modern day Scotland it's a fast paced yarn that involves ghosties and ghoulies as well as the Loch Ness Monster.

That's where I read about the Green Lady & Hermitage Castle

Made me want to look into the stuff it was based on.

Jim

**Lallans** · 15th October 10, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

Hmm, if tales of the supernatural appeal then you would probably enjoy The Adept by fantasy novelist Katherine Kurtz. Set in modern day Scotland it's a fast paced yarn that involves ghosties and ghoulies as well as the Loch Ness Monster.

Kurtz, the old Scottish name?

I'll look for the book. Now that I'm an urban dweller I don't have to feel like I'm living it... but really, the Loch Ness Monster? Surely everyone knows that it's really just a kelpie! Or possibly an each uisge- which is an even scarier kelpie variant I didn't even know about until today.

**grizzbass** · 15th October 10, 10:01 AM

It's a story that goes from scotland to america and I first read it in an account of the battle ticonderoga. here is an account from the web. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.c...avidperry/ty2/

**Lallans** · 15th October 10, 10:21 AM

Great legend. I've been to Ticonderoga and the fort it is definitely there just like the legend says. And if that doesn't prove the story, I don't know what does!

What about the movie The Ghost Goes West? Again, Scottish all the way to the USA!