Apparitions / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published February 9, 2014 · Last modified December 18, 2018
Major Thomas Weir's House
According to an article by Oliver Norton in the Daily Mail on 7 February 2014, part of the home of the occultist Thomas Weir still survives.
ESP / Other Mysteries / Premonition / PSI
by Ian · Published February 27, 2012 · Last modified December 18, 2018
Prophetic Dream, Edinburgh Castle, 1734
According to 'The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain by John Ingram (1897); A singular prophetic, or warning dream, is related and vouched for as "entirely authentic," by Dr. Abercrombie, in his work on Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers. The Doctor, however, only gives the skeleton of the story and omits the names of the persons concerned.
Lady Eleanor Primrose And The Conjurer Of Canongate
According to John Ingram, Sir Walter Scott's (Born 15 August 1771 – Died 21 September 1832) story 'My Aunt Margaret's Mirror' was based upon events surrounding Eleanor Countess of Stair. In his book 'The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain' (1897), Ingram gives the following full account which he compiled using the work of Robert Chambers and other Scottish writers.
Apparitions / Hauntings
by Ian · Published January 23, 2012 · Last modified December 18, 2018
Unknown Mansion and Queensberry House, Canongate
In 'The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain' (1897), John Ingram gives the following account of a haunting associated with Canongate in Edinburgh. Named after the Augustine canons of Holyrood Abbey, Canongate can be found at the lower eastern part of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh and the mansion referred to is according Ingram no longer standing.
Ancient Sites / Wells
by Ian · Published October 25, 2011 · Last modified December 18, 2018
St Anthony's Well, Edinburgh
Prior to 1674 St Anthony's Well flowed from beneath a small stone arch in a slightly higher position to the bolder from under which it now sprouts. It was probably connected to the nearby 15th century St Anthony's Chapel which is now a ruin.
by Ian · Published July 22, 2011 · Last modified December 18, 2018
Woodhouselee
On 23d January 1570, the Regent of Scotland, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (born 1531) was assassinated in Linlithgow by a sniper firing a 3'5" long, hexagonal bore barreled carbine from a house window. The assassin was James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh the nephew of Archbishop John Hamilton, from who's window he fired the fatal shot.
Hauntings / Poltergiests
Trinity Poltergeist
Trinity is a mansion house district in Edinburgh that developed in the early 1800's and was named after Trinity House in Leith. There was a suspected case of poltergeist activity in a house in Trinity around 1835 which led to a legal battle between the supposedly haunted Captain Molesworth and his neighbour and landlord, Mr Webster.
Wrichtishousis, Edinburgh
In 1798 the Wrichtishousis (Wrychtishousis or Wrightshouses) mansion was bought and subsequently demolished in 1800 to make way for a hospital and school, the legacy of the merchant James Gillespie (born 1726 – died 1797).
St Margaret's Well, Edinburgh
During the 1860 St Margaret's Well was moved to its present location from the crossroads between Holyrood and Restalrig. It was described in 1852 as 'a spring well, enclosed by an ancient vault over which part of the railway workshops had been built.'
Apparitions / Hauntings / Poltergiests
by Ian · Published September 18, 2009 · Last modified December 17, 2018
Cursed Bone of Learmonth Gardens
The home of Sir Alexander Hay Seton, 10th Baronet Seton (born 14 August 1904 – died 1963) became the focus of the world media after poltergeist like activity possibly linked to a bone taken from an Egyptian skeleton led to speculation that the Baronet's family were cursed by a mummy.