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Dunrobin Castle,
Scotland. The ghost who haunts this Scottish castle was a daughter of the fourteenth Earl of Sutherland. In the 1600's Margaret fell in love with someone considered not at all suitable, and strongly resisted her father's attempts to marry her off to the favoured suitor. Foiled in an attempt to elope, Margaret was locked up in the attic. Her maid was allowed to tend her however, and she offered to act as a go-between. On a set night she arranged for Margaret's lover to be at the foot of the wall with horses at the ready, while she smuggled in a rope for the get-away. But the Earl had always suspected that his daughter might try something like this and had set his own servant to spy. Just as Margaret was climbing out the window her father burst into the room. Terrified, Margaret lost her grip and plunged to her death. Her lover put a curse on the Earl and Margaret still haunts the upper corridors of the castle, sobbing and wailing for her lost love and her life' brought to such an untimely end.
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The mysteries of Haunted Scotland. Collected over many years, the author retells stories that have evolved through the mists of time, while others he recounts are based on interviews with those who claim to have experienced real life paranormal encounters. Divided into geographical chapters covering the Borders, the South West, Strathclyde, the South East, the Central Belt and
Trossachs, the Eastern Highlands, the
Kingdom of Fife, the Western Highlands, the North, the Hebrides,
Orkney and
Shetland, Aberdeen,
Dundee,
Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and
Inverness, Roddy Martine examines stories of paranormal activity and the legends and folklore of haunted Scotland.
Haunted Scotland
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