Ghost Stories

[Ghostrider]

^^^ Stove & Smith's I persume, the Hydro now, didn't Gair & Smith buy it off GF, Stove & Smith's last owner.

[tlady]

^^^

 

Ahh the building o the possessed ...

[Guest posiedon]

Check out this video if you dare.

[spencey7]

BUMP~!!! Let's keep dis thread goin'...

 

It's been mentioned five or six times on here so far, but der's still been no definitive version o The Tale of the Hydro-Electric Shop...

 

Anybody?

[Ghostrider]

Can't help, sorry. The nearest thing I ever saw round that part of the street looking like a ghost, was a baker or two from Malcolmson's going home at the back of dinner time with a dumba of flour shaking or blowing off them....

 

Seems the ghosts only got going in the 80's once it was no longer Stove & Smith's, I knew quite a lot of folk who worked round that part of the street in the later 70's in the latter days of Stove & Smith, and never heard anything about ghosts ever mentioned.

[Marshall]

The story about the man that appears in your car at the sand water junction happened to a friend off mine.

 

She was traveling from south to north at 03:00am in the morning on her own. When she was approaching the sand water juntion there was a man in oilskins standing at the end off the road as she drove past she looked in her rear view mirror but he had gone. Then there was a very strong smell off fish in the car and when she looked in the mirror he was sitting in the back seat off the car.

 

She was a bit shaken up to say the least.

[Rizzo]

FREAK OUT

[Jeemsie1989]

I was at the wind house early-ish on a winter evening and me and an ex-gf went up to it for a peerie look around. We got close and something ran straght past me at knee level and almost knock me off my feet! I could hear low, gutteral noise from inside. Trying to look brave for my ex I went up to see what it was, when... AN F'N RAM RAN OUT PAST ME AND I ALMOST POOPED MY PANTS AGAIN!!!!!!!

[Tomblands]

Noo den

 

Dis is the subconcious of the big G, hits nearly da witchin hour, and do I have a story to tell! Whar do you start, probably at the beginning.

 

We would need to identify the year, location and characters. Perhaps give some background on the building, maybe even name the ghoul.

 

All I can disclose is that it was indeed 1989....and yes, the shop in question was Gair and Smiths (three floors under one roof, said the sibc advert at the time) Peerie Bryan, i'll be back on Monday night, n weel continue da tale den.

 

It's been 2 years...I think the suspense has worn off...

 

 

I really want to hear this story!

[Rizzo]

I too would like to hear the real story, and more Lerwick paranormal stuff. There must be loads to tell. I've heard about tesco's site being haunted - it does have a bit of a negative vibe to the place, but haunted I don't know. The Legion and it's Grey lady/man? can anyone enlighten us?

Hayfield House and it's reapearing bloodstains - not sure if this was a windup though. Monfield Hospital's unused ward/area? The slamming of doors there, is this true? One day to Halloween, I hope somebody can tell us some more stories.

I spent an afternoon reading this forum last year with much interest. Learnt alot about the isles odd happenings.

I was at the Windhoose last year, and didn't find it particularly scarey. It was a bit of a trek to get to it (was muddy and wet), so was a little dissapointed that i didn't really even feel any vibes or anything! Just an old dilapidated house. Took some photies. It would be Spooky to look at, after sundown I would imagine though.

[Marooned in Maywick]

Windhoose tale.

 

I took a group of pupils there last summer. At midnight. On a dreich, misty night.

They (and some of the staff) had been psyching themselves up for some time beforehand as to what they would see or experience.

 

Making our way around the outside of the fence we saw several black mounds up by the fence at the rear.

 

Someone (could've been me, but dinna think so) in an effort to spookify things suggested that they could be newly dug graves - one for each of the 10 of us.

 

So one of the staff started counting.

"One, two, three, four...there'd better not be ten...five, six, seven, eight, nine, oh bloody hell!!!"

 

Of course we just had to take a closer look...and discovered 10 heavily decayed black bales of silage.

 

Never mind - some of the party carried on around to the back of the house and one staff member and one pupil were peering over the dyke when...Whooosh...a bird shot out from the foliage just at their feet, obviously having been disturbed by their presence and causing a major adrenalin surge in those closest.

 

Apart from that I didn't see anything but it was interesting to see how people behaved given the lead-up to the visit.

[Kephas4]

Da events occured at da Schoolhoose aroond da turn o da century, an' da main pert o da Radio Shetland report came fae a reading o an extract fae da Shetland Times back when it all happened.

 

Da story read on Radio Shetland wis meant tae a been written some 50 years eftir da events described, so hit's by no means an eye witness account. I gied wi Mike ta look at da aald schoolhoose afore we recorded da story, an dere wis nothin you could really caa an 'ill feelin' or 'ooriness' aboot it, just da shell o an aald buildin. Dat said, we could fin nobody raelly willin ta spaek aboot it. Dis is no unusual wi ghosty/trowie/fey stories. Dey used ta tink hereaboot dat ta spaek o a ghost/trow/devil wid wirk laek a invitation.

On da tidder haand, hit's no unusual fir a storyteller ta stretch time a peerie bit. Ta say dat sic-an-sic a thing happend "aboot a hunder year ago" or "at da turn o da hidmost century" adds a weight o years an' a bit o respectability tae a story. No only dat, hit taks awaa argument. Unlike suntin dat happened tae 'da freend o a freend', when a story is aald an' aertkent enoff, der's no need ta pick hols in it, or look for corroboration.

Hit may be da Ollaberry poltergeist is just a story dat hurled, gadderin' embroidery as he guid.

 

I wis never awar o da 'cookin ghost' when I wrowt at Radio Shetland, but I wid agree wi comments abuin dat Brentham Hoose wis a spooky hol aftir dark. Not a place you wantit ta be on your own.

Mind you, nor wis upstair i'da Excelsior next door. Proximity tae da Fort, tink you, or redder mair aertly spirits?

[Rizzo]

Are there any ghost stories from the Garrison Theatre?

I heard there was a soldier who used to appear around some cupboard at the foot of the stairs (at the performers entrance). No one connected to the theatre could say they had actually seen anything though, the tale had just been passed on.

[Jeemsie1989]

The is "supposedly" a ghost that abodes in the upper front of house lighting area, but no stories of a soldier or any such thing.

 

I've worked in there for years now, and that is the only ghost story I'm aware of.

 

Also, ever since SYT performed "The Scottish Play" at Scalloway castle in '04, I've heard 2 or 3 people say that some people have claimed to have seen a dead medieval warrior covered in blood roamed the outside. *coughs* bullsh*t *coughs*

[Kephas4]

Jeemsie1989 wrote:

Also, ever since SYT performed "The Scottish Play" at Scalloway castle in '04, I've heard 2 or 3 people say that some people have claimed to have seen a dead medieval warrior covered in blood roamed the outside.

 

Probably based on eye-witness accounts of John Durst as Banquo lurching off across the yard to wash his 'gorey locks' after the cauldron scene.

 

Mind you, there were a couple of folk though they saw 'something' during the run, including one woman who saw someone standing on the walls where no one could physically be standing. Hurrah for suggestion and mass hysteria.