Caoineag: The Highland Weeper Whose Cry Means Someone Is Already Dead
Most of the supernatural beings in Scottish Highland tradition have a shape. They have a form you might see, even […]
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Thomas the Rhymer: The Man Who Could Not Lie and the Queen Who Made Him That Way
On a slope of the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders, on a day in the thirteenth century that the
Mary King’s Close: The Buried Street Beneath Edinburgh That Never Emptied
Beneath the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, under the weight of three centuries of accumulated city, there is a street. It
The Mackenzie Poltergeist: The Most Violent Haunting in Scotland
Greyfriars Kirkyard sits in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, a ten-minute walk from the castle, surrounded by the city
The Brahan Seer: Scotland’s Prophet and the Curse That Destroyed a Dynasty
He saw the railways before the first locomotive had turned a wheel. He saw ships sailing through the glens of
The Fairy Hill of Aberfoyle: The Minister Who Walked In and Never Came Back
There is a hill on the edge of the village of Aberfoyle in the Trossachs, a gentle green mound rising
Major Thomas Weir: The Wizard of Edinburgh Who Confessed to Everything
In the spring of 1670, a man walked into a room in Edinburgh and began to destroy his own life
North Berwick Witch Trials: The Night the Devil Danced in Scotland
In the autumn of 1590, a group of people gathered in the old kirkyard of North Berwick on the southern
Flannan Isles: The Lighthouse Mystery That Has Never Been Solved
On the 26th of December 1900, a relief vessel called the Hesperus arrived at the Flannan Isles, a small group
Each-Uisge: Scotland’s Most Deadly Water Horse
There is a distinction in Scottish Gaelic supernatural tradition that matters enormously and that is easy to miss if you