Jeemsie1989 Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Nothing like some good old fashioned mass hysteria! Yaay!! That said Kephas4, I'm very willing to believe that sightings of john Durst have started many horror stories! Just Kidding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suuusssiiieee Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 The unexplained continued....here's a story regarding Shurton Brae again! (the third one on here now). Two friends of mine recalled recently of a story from the early eighties of when they were taking in an evening stroll one May night. As the dusky twilight was just fading, they were just approaching Shurton Brae from lower Gulberwick. Upon reaching the top of the hill better known as Jannie's corner (a spooky spot that i know well) a bright beam of light shot down from the sky upon them. Not knowing what it was eventually they arrived hame to find 2 hours had elapsed from the time the light surrounded them to the time they got to their hames a mere 200 yards away... To this day they have no recollection of where this missing 2 hours dissappeared to but it left them shaken and confused..... Perhaps the Shurton area of Gulberwick is some kind of hot spot for unexplained activity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiskin Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 This Makes Brilliant Reading... Very Interesting...Heard Quite Afew Of The Stories But Plenty OfThese I Havn't... Which Is Great As I Am Of TheGhostie' Persuasion... Has Anyone Ever BeenTo... I Think It's "Lund"... In Unst? The Laird's Old House Is A Really Creepy Old House... There'sThe Devil's Footprint Above The Hearthstone...Would Love To Hear More About The MurdersOn Comercial Street... I Have a Good MurderieTale Fay Waas... Another Time Perhaps... Was the Gair and Smith shop which is supposed to be haunted not the bit that was across the street from the main shop (Hydro now) and is where Michael Inksters office is? I think it is the bottom of Fox Lane -- correct me if I'm wrong. I remember hearing about the house upstairs being haunted because of the mass murder by Peter Williamson who had a shop nearby but lived in said house. He murdered his wife and 3 of his 6 children, then slit his own throat. A 4th child was attacked but recovered from their injuries and the other 2 seemingly were with relatives. This happened in 1858. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 ^^ Obviously things get altered/rebuilt etc as time passes, but assuming nothing like that had occured, I don't recall that house having an outside door, entry was through the shop. Which would suggest that if Williamson lived upstairs, the shop that's now Michael Inkster's office was probably his as well, as it would seem doubtful a shopkeeper would entrust a neighbouring occupier with such unrestricted access to his business, as using the same outside door would necessitate. The first house that had a door opening out on to the lane was a pokey peerie room upstairs/room downstairs hole, I was in it often enough in the 70's, Malcolmson's used it as a box store. Definitely never saw anything unearthly in the place, and I never heard of any of the folk who also worked there being aware of anything either. Not sure if it met up with the back of the part Stove & Smith had or not though, it all depends how far up the lane their shop went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunalf Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 more than 25 years ago me and my girlfreind were spending a few nights out and about in dads camper van,one day we stopped in the car park at st ninians isle,went acoss to the ruined kirk on the isle etc etc as you do while on your hols.that night before going to sleep i went out for a piddle,turned round and saw a monk standing there looking at me (perv) any way i said nothing that night because i knew she would want to move from there.so the nixt day when i told her we ended up in a quarry in nort mavin the next night.after one or two other nights spent out and about we went home,i asked my mam if there was ever monks on that isle,she wasn't sure but she would find out.she (mam)used to be a nurse at the gbh and she asked the others about monks,one nurse said that was weird because her boyfreind saw a monk there 2 years before that.but as my granddad used to say "if dey didna hurt you when dey wir living why shood dey hurt you when dey're dead",an he wis a kirk elder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeemsie1989 Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 That's very interesting. I have heard about monks at St. ninnian's Kirk, but I canna mind if they said ghost or actual people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggie Posted January 8, 2009 Report Share Posted January 8, 2009 that night before going to sleep i went out for a piddle,turned round and saw a monk standing there looking at me (perv) St Ninians Isle car park?? Dude, maybe it was a ghost dogger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunalf Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 that night before going to sleep i went out for a piddle,turned round and saw a monk standing there looking at me (perv) St Ninians Isle car park?? Dude, maybe it was a ghost dogger. kanna imagine dogging in da 8th or 9th century,but brally funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickB Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 that night before going to sleep i went out for a piddle,turned round and saw a monk standing there looking at me (perv) St Ninians Isle car park?? Dude, maybe it was a ghost dogger. Dirty Habit Il get my coat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunalf Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trowie246 Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 I can't say I've ever seen anything but in our old house which had title deeds dated 1797 I smelled on several occasions a strange smell in our spare room and da ben hoose. Upstairs the smell could be very strong, almost overpowering, I had never smelled it before and sometimes I would just sit on the bed trying to think what it was. The nearest I ever got was vicks vapour rub but it wasn't that, I thought it was medicinal. The other smell was very familiar - pipe reek, I recognised that because my grandad smoked a pipe and sometimes I smelled it when I walked into the ben hoose. I never felt uneasy or scared staying there even though my husband was away at the fishing 2 weeks at a time. I was alsways quite happy to stay alone and always thought that if there were any ghosts there they must be friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunalf Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 pipe reek seems tae be a common wan,i mind da whif o dat in various places,strangest wan wis while fishing in a boat in da middle o da tingwall loch,nae body aboot joost da smell o pipe reek. dan dere wis strange breething in me ald hoos,kinda scarey in your bedroom when dere's naebody dere. even stranger wis me grannys glasses dit apeared ootside da bog door dan vanished aff da mantlepeice.poltergrice me tinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snurtmunchkin Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Does onybody ken aboot da hooses in Sandveien bein haunted? I wis telt dat da land wis cursed by da owner afore he selt it. Onybody hae ony stories aboot hooses dere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I mind hearin a story o' da 'freend o a freend' variety aboot a family in Sandveien dat hed a young bairn. Da midder had just pitten da infant ta bed when a pal cam aroond ta visit her. As dey yarned, dey heard a most godless rummlin noise comin fae da bairn's room. Dey ran up da stair an' fan da room up ended. Da bairn's crib wis been dragged intae da middle o' da flair, an' he wis staandin, haadin ontae da widden reebs, smeegin an' laachin at somebody dey couldna see... I also mind da hoose o pal dat bed in Sandveien. Hit wis a hoose much laek ony o da idder eens i'da area, but aye hed dat wheer feelin as though dey wir mare folk i'da room as dey should a' been. I tink dey wir a few idder stories fae idder hooses, but I don't tink I wis ever heard ony raeson why da place wis haunted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snurtmunchkin Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 When working in Unst back in 1999, it wis da Tall Ship's weekend an we decided tae go doon tae da boatin club tae see da Sail Ships dat were meant tae be comin in, only two appeared. So efter havin a couple o drinks, me an da idder two guys i wis workin wi decided tae head back tae wir digs whit wis an old croft hoose dat wis near da loch o cliff. We decided tae walk da back wye past (i think) muness hoose. Three o wis came aroond da bend in da road an dere wis wooden slats on da road whit used tae be part o a bridge. Dere wis no street lamps in dat area , but da moon wis high dat night. As we wir walkin aa o a sudden dis shape appeared in front o wis an moved past wis. I said "Hi, hows it goin?", when i got no response da three o wis looked at een anidder as if somethin wisna right, an when we look ahint wis da shape diseppeared. Needless tae say da three o wis instantly ran lik f**k tae da nearest hoosin estate which I think wis called Springfield. When we got under da street lights at springfield we aa cudna believe whit we had just seen and we still had tae walk anidder mile afore we got the da croft hoose, each o wis brickin it. Da nixt day we telt Andy at da Baltisoond Hotel whit we'd seen and ha said I coulda been da Grey Wife, or da White Wife. Just winderin if onybody idder has seen or heard onything aroond dere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now