Eerie Edinburgh

What if one of Scotland's strangest ghost stories turned out to be more than just a legend?

In this episode, we travel to the beautiful Glen Lyon in Highland Perthshire to explore the haunting of Meggernie Castle - a place where history, folklore and eyewitness testimony have become closely intertwined.

According to local tradition, a jealous laird murdered and dismembered his wife, concealing part of her body within the castle before burying the rest elsewhere. Over time, stories spread of a ghost unlike any other in Scottish folklore - not a full apparition, but only the upper half of a woman silently moving through the rooms of the old tower.

Most castle ghost stories remain just that: stories.

But during the nineteenth century, two educated visitors - the Reverend E. J. Simmons and Beaumont Featherstone - independently recorded experiences that appeared to match the centuries-old legend in remarkable detail.

Were they influenced by local tradition? Victims of suggestion? Or did they genuinely witness something they could not explain?

Join me as we examine the history of Meggernie Castle, the legend behind its most famous ghost, and the eyewitness accounts that continue to make this one of Scotland's most intriguing hauntings.

📚 A special thank you to my good friend Graeme Milne, whose excellent book Tales From Haunted Scotland: Volume 2 first introduced me to the story of Meggernie Castle. If you enjoy Scottish folklore, ghost stories and lesser-known history, I'd thoroughly recommend his work. You can find Graeme's books here: Graeme Milne at Waterstones

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In 1953, a family moved into a remote Highland sporting lodge near Loch Ness, expecting nothing more than a fresh start.

Within weeks, they began hearing footsteps crossing the landing above their heads. Then came the knocking. Always measured. Always deliberate.

But the most disturbing encounter belonged to the housekeeper, Mrs MacDonald.

Late one night she awoke to find an elderly woman crawling slowly along the upstairs corridor, carrying a candle. The figure vanished before anyone else could see her - yet the footsteps and knocking continued, witnessed by everyone in the house.

Was it grief, suggestion... or something far stranger?

Join me as we explore one of Scotland's lesser-known hauntings - the remarkable case of Ardachie Lodge and the legend of The Crawling Ghost.

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In 1954, on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, an ordinary croft became the centre of one of Britain's strangest alleged poltergeist cases.

It began with peat moving beside the fire. Then glasses cracked without being touched. Crockery shattered, household objects floated from room to room.

Was it an elaborate hoax? A rare psychological phenomenon? Or could there be another explanation?

In this episode, we explore the extraordinary events of what became known as The Lewis Poltergeist Case - one of Scotland's most remarkable and least-known paranormal mysteries.

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Deep within the woods near Edinburgh lie the forgotten ruins of Woodhouselee - a place haunted by one of Scotland's oldest and most tragic ghost stories.

In this episode, we trace the legend of Anne Hamilton, a woman said to have been driven from her home during the Marian Civil War, before exploring more than four centuries of reported paranormal activity linked to the estate.

From mysterious knocks heard by two Victorian sisters, to wartime sentries repeatedly challenging a ghostly woman on the grounds of a prisoner-of-war camp, and a strange apparition witnessed shortly before the house was demolished, this is a haunting that has refused to disappear.

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Castle Fraser is one of Scotland's most beautiful castles - and one of its most haunted.

In this episode of Eerie Edinburgh, we explore the ghostly legends of Aberdeenshire's Castle Fraser, from the mysterious Lady Blanche Drummond and phantom footsteps in empty corridors to the chilling tale of the Green Room and the bloodstained spiral staircase.

Are these simply stories passed down through generations, or is something still walking the halls of Castle Fraser?

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