DavrossT Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Osla's cafe is haunted. Worked dere a couple o year ago, heard folk rummelin aboot upstair twartree times an wance i herd fitsteps goin up da stairs win i wis at da boddam o dem, stairs had joost been clerted we a weet mop an dir wis nae fitprints. Havin bed in shurton brae aa me life im nivr been awar o ony spooky gains on. Onymare stories aboot da soond school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090327/tuk-spooky-haunting-photo-baffles-ghost-45dbed5.html Spooky! Haunting Photo Baffles Ghost Busters Today, 12:40 amSkyNews http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/skynews/20090327/01/1431915507-spooky-haunting-photo-baffles-ghost-busters.jpg An eerie image of a figure in period costume has spooked experts investigating apparent photographic evidence of ghosts. The picture, taken in May 2008, appears to show a man or woman in a ruff peering out of a barred window at Tantallon Castle. No mannequins or costumed guides are employed at the castle, and three photographic experts have confirmed that no digital trickery was used on the photo. Even confirmed ghost sceptic Professor Richard Wiseman, who led the study, admitted being puzzled. "It is certainly very curious," he said. "We ran it by three photographic experts and they said it hadn't been Photoshopped at all. "The figure appears to be in period costume, but we know 100% that Tantallon Castle is not the sort of place that has dummies or costumed guides - they just don't go in for that sort of thing." Tantallon Castle, a ruined fortress dating back to the 14th Century, stands on a remote rocky headland near North Berwick on the Scottish east coast. It was badly damaged in an attack by Oliver Cromwell's forces in 1651. Christopher Aitchison, who took the photo, said: "I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture, only noticing the anomaly when I got home. "Staff have verified that there were no sinister dummies in period costume or historical re-enactments going on that day at the castle. "I did not notice any nice old ladies wearing ruffs walking around the stairs! Some people have suggested its just light reflecting on rocks and one person suggested it may be King James V of Scotland." Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, who has made many studies of the supernatural, launched the investigation a month ago. Members of the public were asked to submit ghostly images for experts to analyse, the best of which were posted on the website www.scienceofhauntings.com More than 250 pictures were received from all over the world and more than a quarter of a million people voted for what they considered to be the most convincing photos. "The Ghost in the Castle" took first place, winning 39% of the votes. Here are the runners up: :: Ghost in the Woods - Appears to show a strange ghostly figure in the trees. Sceptics say it is probably a mixture of shadows, leaves and branches. :: Ghost on the Street - A strange shadowy figure next to the couple in the picture. Non-believers say blurring in the image suggests a long exposure. A person may have walked past the photographer unnoticed. :: Ghost on the Beach - A mysterious dark hooded figure stands at the water's edge. Sceptics say the figure is an illusion created by an indentation in the rock face. :: Ghost in the Mirror - A ghostly face in a car's wing mirror. The photographer says no one else was around at the time but sceptics insist the face could be a reflection of a headrest, someone standing nearby, or the result of digital manipulation. The study is part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Experts will discuss the findings at Hauntings, a one-day public festival event examining the evidence for ghosts on April 4. looks liek fake image to me. but hard to tell on a small img Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephas4 Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 ^Looks pretty weird on first glance, but...Save it as a JPG. Zoom in as far as you can go. You'll lose defination as the image pixilates but that's OK. Now squint at it. Any one else think that it looks suspiciously like the mask used in 'V for Vendetta'? I'm guessing Photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 only place I have ever heard thats been haunted is the Anderson highschool....I dont believe in places being haunted really....but I still jump if people jump oot at me when its dark....that happens often in me hoose.....fell down stairs once i got such a fright....also frightened the life oot o mesel looking in a mirror after listening to ghost stories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 There was a tale around the 1930s called "Stark Thief" or "Lang lies Lowrie at th' Mill" I have a book with it in and was interested if anyone had it telt to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 I have never actually heard any shetland 'ghost' stories.....Im actually intrested if anyone knows any? Id love to hear different myths and stories about places from shetland. Anyone know of any they fancy sharing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Maybe you've already read them, but there are quite a few in the seven pages of this thread There are also references to places where stories have been published. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piggywiggie Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 haha woops! will take a good read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 Maybe you've already read them, but there are quite a few in the seven pages of this thread There are also references to places where stories have been published. HTH Maybe its a case of "now you see them, now you don't" considering what the subject matter is.... Yup....Im already geen....wark ta duh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyjim Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Gunista Grave yard. It was a shadow that moved from flat on the ground to standing upright and took the form of a man standing with his legs apart and hands on hips. It remained a black shadow. It just became a mist as i walked toward it. I think it was April 1996. I saw it twice during a four week period while doing some renovation work on the mausoleum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upmakk Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Gunista Grave yard. It was a shadow that moved from flat on the ground to standing upright and took the form of a man standing with his legs apart and hands on hips. It remained a black shadow. It just became a mist as i walked toward it. I think it was April 1996. I saw it twice during a four week period while doing some renovation work on the mausoleum. Tall? Short? Fat? Thin? In the same place both times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 This isn't a Shetland ghost story but it has Shetland connections http://www.haunted-britain.com/highwayman.htm The Highwayman enjoys a lonely and dramatic setting. It stands opposite the pretty little church of St Thomas Becket, beyond which the dark bulk of Dartmoor looms against the scudding clouds, bleak, brooding and thoroughly menacing. Until the mid 20th century this little pub was known as The New Inn, although it was anything but, since the building dates from the 13th century. In 1959 the dilapidated property came into the possession of John Buster Jones, a Welsh visionary whose previous achievements had included running away to sea when he was 14, and representing Wales at boxing and distance running. He and his wife, Rita, changed the pub's name to The Highwayman, and set about transforming the modest roadside watering hole into one of the most unusual and imaginatively furnished hostelries in the whole of England. What Buster Jones created was a fairy-tale cottage cum Aladdin's cave, with nautical and ecclesiastical themes thrown in for good measure. He dragged tree stumps from nearby woodland and fashioned them into bar tops, or used them as massive beams to prop up ageing ceilings. The old Okehampton-to-Launceston stagecoach formed a suitably eccentric entrance lobby. Old spindles, battered tankards, cartwheels, lanterns and all manner of other bric-a-brac came to occupy every spare inch of wall, beam or ceiling. Timbers and fittings from old ships, including the intricately carved door of the whaler Diana that ran aground in the Humber in 1869 were used to create the remarkable Galleon Bar, which has the below-decks ambience of an 18th-century pirate ship. Buster's daughter, Sally, and her husband Bruce, who take great care to ensure that his legacy remains intact, now run the inn. They have long grown used to sharing their bequest with one or two spirits of an ethereal nature who drop in every so often to keep an eye on the comings and goings. Much of the ghostly activity occurs in the Galleon Bar, and it is mooted that it may be related to the eerie-looking door from the Diana. Between 21 September 1866 and 17 March 1868, 13 members of the ship's crew died when she became trapped in Arctic pack ice. "We will not have a moment' s peace of mind or body so long as we are in this awful ice," one sailor wrote in his log. When the remaining crew finally managed to force the crippled vessel across the Atlantic to reach Shetland, the first reporter to board her was appalled by the sight that met his eyes. "Coleridge's Ancient Mariner might have sailed in such a ghastly ship," he wrote, "the main deck a charnel house not to be described." Several psychic investigators have suggested that the apparitions seen in the Galleon Bar are the long-dead mariners, whose spirits have remained earthbound in the fabric of the door. Such a theory might sound a little far-fetched, but a definite air of melancholy emanates from the relic. Other phenomena experienced here have included items being moved around by invisible hands, orbs of light hovering in mid air, and a ghostly figure in a feathered cap who drifts silently around, no doubt content to roam the eclectic interior of such a characterful and hospitable place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suuusssiiieee Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Does anyone know if the building housing Tait & Peterson's is haunted? Only i thought i heard/felt something the other day in there that freaked me out...heard a whisper in my ear saying "Okay dokey" never saw anything but felt there was something around me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahyoung Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 I've heard a few different stories from around the place. The road through the Tingwall Valley, I've been told that the pilot that was killed in the Air Ambulance crash a few years back has been seen from the road. ' Just thought you should know. That pilot your speaking about? Yeah he is Alan Gary young and he is my dad. I'm his second daughter Sarah and i'm 15. This has really freaked me out. Is this even true? coz if not, it is a SICK joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trowie246 Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thers's a ghost story in the Shetland Times this week, under past times 100 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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