HAUNTINGS
THIS PAGE
IS GOING TO BE A BIT DIFFERENT THEN THE OTHERS, THIS PAGE IS
ABOUT HAUNTINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD! I HAVE
ALWAYS ENJOYED A
GOOD GHOST STORY SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE A
FEW WITH YOU!
SCOTLAND
THESE FIRST STORIES
TAKE PLACE IN SCOTLAND AND LAND RIDDLED WITH
CASTLES AND TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL!
THE QUEEN'S HANDMAIDEN
STIRLING CASTLE
WAS KNOWN TO BE THE MIGHTIEST FORTRESS IN SCOTLAND.
THE CASTLE WHICH STILL STANDS TODAY WAS
BUILD IN THE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY. THE INFANT MARY,QUEEN OF SCOTS
WAS CROWNED IN THIS CASTLE.
MANY GHOSTS ARE SAID TO HAUNT THIS
CASTLE BUT THIS IS ABOUT ONE IN
PARTICULAR CALLED
THE GREEN LADY. THE STORY GOES THAT IN LIFE THE
WOMAN WAS A SERVANT OF THE INFANT MARY
QUEEN OF SCOTS, AND THAT SHE
SAVED HER MISTRESS'S LIFE. IT IS SAID THAT
THE SERVANT HAD A DREAM THAT
MARY WAS IN DANGER, AND UPON RUSHING
INTO THE NURSERY SHE FOUND
FLAMES ENGULFING THE ROOM. SHE TOOK MARY
AND RUSHED HER FROM THE
ROOM!
DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES IT IS
SAID THAT THE APPEARANCE OF THE
GREEN LADY HERALDED FIRES AND OTHER DIASTERS.
A LORDS
TRYST WITH EVIL
THE SANDSTONE RUINS
OF HERMITAGE CASTLE SETS ATOP THE BLEAK
SCOTTISH MOORS NEAR THE ENGLISH
BORDER. THE CASTLE WAS COMPLETED
IN THE 13TH CENTURY BY
NICHOLAS de SOULIS HEAD OF A NOBLE NORMAN
FAMILY. ACCORDING
TO OLD BORDER TALES, WILLIAMS PASSION WAS BLACK
MAGICK. HE STUDIED WITH THE
MASTER WIZARD MICHAEL SCOT AND BECAME
A GOULISH MONSTER. IN HIS
DUNGEONS deSOULIS REPORTEDLY MURDERED
AND KIDNAPPED CHILDREN TO
USE THEIR BLOOD TO SUMMON A FANGED
DEMON NAMED ROBIN REDCAP.
IN RETURN FOR THE BLOOD ROBIN PROMISED
deSOULIS THAT HE WOULD BE IMMUNE
TO EITHER ROPE OR STEEL, THE USUAL
CAUSES OF VIOLENT DEATH. THINKING HIMSELF
INVINSICBLE HE ROAMED THE
COUNTRYSIDE MURDERING INNOCENTS.
THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED TO THE
KING MANY TIMES, FINALLY IT WAS
REPORTED THAT THE KING ROBERT OF
BRUCE SAID "HANG HIM, BOIL
HIM DO ANYTHING YOU LIKE TO HIM, I WILL
HEAR NO MORE!" SO THE PEOPLE TOOK
HIM AT HIS WORD, THEY TOOK THE
EVIL deSOULIS AND WRAPPED HIM IN
A SHEET OF IRON AND BOILED HIM IN
IN A CAULDRON! deSOULIS GHOST IS
SAID TO BE DOOMED TO RETURN TO THE
CASTLE EVERY 7 YEARS TO MEET WITH
ROBIN REDCAP WHO OWNED HIS SOUL,
THEY MAKE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN
BY SCREAMS AND MANIACLE LAUGHTER!
A TALE OF LOVE AND MADNESS
THIS STORY TAKES PLACE
IN BALDOON CASTLE WHICH STANDS ON A DESOLATE
STRIP OF LAND IN THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND. IN
THE MID 17TH CENTURY
BALDOON WAS THE SITE OF A TRAGIC TALE.
THE FAMILY INVOLVED WAS SIR
JAMES DALRYMPLE AN EMINENT
JURIST AND STATESMAN. HIS ELDEST CHILD
A DAUGHTER NAMED JANET
DALRYMPLE SECRETLY PLEDGED HER TROTH TO A
HANDSOME BUT POOR NOBLEMAN NAMED
LORD RUTHERFORD. HER PARENTS
FOUND OUT AND DISAPPROVED
OF THIS IMPENDING MARRIAGE. JANETS
MOTHER WAS A HAUGHTY WOMAN,
EVEN HER HUSBAND FEARED HER, AND
JANET KNEW SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT
TO MARRY THE MAN CHOSEN FOR HER
BY HER MOTHER. THE MAN WAS DAVID DUNBAR
THE NEPHEW TO LORD
RUTHERFORD! THERE WAS A GREAT
FEAST AT BALDOON FOR THE WEDDING, AND
AS WAS THE CUSTOM THE BRIDE AND
GROOM RETIRED. SOON AFTER THERE
CAME A HORRIBLE SHRIEKING FROM THE
BRIDAL CHAMBER. AFTER BREAKING
DOWN THE DOOR, THEY DISCOVERED DAVID DUNBAR
LYING ACROSS THE
THRESHOLD COVERED IN BLOOD
FROM STAB WOUNDS. HIS BRIDE, STAINED
WITH HIS BLOOD SAT HUDDLED IN A CORNER OBVIOUSLY
MAD. HER ONLY
COHERANT WORDS WERE "TAK UP YOUR BONNY
BRIDEGROOM" DUNBAR
SURVIVED, BUT JANET DIED A MONTH LATER.
IT IS SAID HER BLOOD COVERED
GHOST STILL HAUNTS BALDOON CASTLE.
ENGLAND
THE MURDEROUS MOTHER
ON THE THAMES SOME FIFTY
MILES WEST OF LONDON, BISHAM ABBEY IS SAID
TO BE THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN
THE BERKSHIRES! LIVING IN THIS
ABBEY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN TIMES
WAS THE HOBY FAMILY. LADY
ELIZABETH HOBY WAS WELL EDUCATED
AND BRILLIANT AND A CONFIDANT OF
QUEEN ELIZABETH I, SHE WAS
ALSO A CHILD MURDERER. ACCORDING TO
LEGEND ELIZABETH HOBY HAD SIX CHILDREN.
HER LAST CHILD WILLIAM WAS
RATHER DULL AND SLOW TO LEARN. IT
IS SAID THIS ANGERED HIS PROUD
MOTHER SO MUCH THAT SHE BEAT HIM
TO DEATH. OTHERS SAY THAT SHE TIED
THE UNFORTUNATE CHILD TO A CHAIR WITH HIS
LESSON BOOKS IN FRONT OF
HIM THEN WENT TO THE COURT FOR SEVERAL
DAYS, UPON HER RETURN SHE
FOUND HER CHILD DEAD. ALL VERSIONS OF
THIS BRUTAL TALE COULD BE
FALSE AS NO RECORDS WERE KEPT OF
IT, BUT DURING A RENOVATION OF THE
ABBEY IN 1840 WORKMEN FOUND BETWEEN THE
FLOOR JOISTS IN THE DINING
ROOM SOME FADED BOOKS THAT BORE SIGNATURES
OF THE HOBY FAMILY. IN
ONE OF THEM THE LESSONS WERE SMUGED
ON ALL THE PAGES! COULD THIS OF
BEEN THE UNFORTUNATE WILLIAMS BOOK?
IT IS SAID THAT THE SPECTOR OF
ELIZABETH HOBY CAN BE SEEN
WALKING THE HALLS WITH A BOWL OF WATER
FLOATING IN FRONT OF HER, PERHAPS
SHE IS HOPING TO WASH AWAY HER
GUILT, LIKE LADY MCBETH?