Ghost Stories

[bannock]

Anyway back to the serious stuff. I've heard tell of a crofthouse which is possibly in Baltasound but definitely in Unst, where a guy was lodging once and awoke to find the room he was sleeping in completely changed and i think there was someone or something in the room with him. Anyway he got the fright of his life and attempted to leave and exited through what appeared to be a door, but had been converted to a window in recent years, hence, he exited through the window, much to his surprise.

 

ie. he accurately described seeing the room as it had been decades before he was there.

 

It's a while since i heard this tale, but if anyone has heard tell of it (especially,you north islers)

 

otherwise, i'll see if i can get the whole story from the guy who told me.

 

 

Don't know about seeing the room as it had been decades before he was there. But do know of a man who saw something in a house in Unst and was so shocked he jumped through a window in his rush to get out the house. Although I suspect alcohol may have had a part to play. Would be interested to know which house it was though.

[Guest Anonymous]

i heard this story about a fellow heading north late at night ,as he came toward petta watter on da lang cames all the power cut out on his car , the car slowly ground to a halt , then he noticed a bad smell in the car, the passenger seat sunk down as if someone had just sitten on it, the hairs on the back of his neck were on end and he was frozen to the spot with fear. Eventually the smell started to fade, the seat came back to normal and the lights came back on. He started the car, drove to someone he knew in Voe, he had to stay there the night as he was too scared to drive any further. I have heard other stories about that same stretch of road where people have seen the image of two ghost horses running across the road in front of the car. Also heard from folk who have fished at Petta Water who reported hearing a bairn greeting.

[lumpsucker]

I think I had a bad experience in that house - if I have the right one - I canna go into it but it was the creepiest house I have ever been in - it felt like there was a malevolent spirit in there.

I've just remembered a very unpleasant dream I had while I was living there. It was extremely vivid and basically involved some kind of violent but invisible force dragging me down the bed and dumping me on the floor. I woke up screaming and it was hard to believe it was just a dream.

 

That sounds similar to what I experienced - except I was not sleeping! I did not get dragged down the bed but felt there was a voice telling me to get out the house, a really eerie whispering. There was lots of other stuff too - but thats the part I don't want to get into as it affected other people.

[Muppet]

i heard this story about a fellow heading north late at night ,as he came toward petta watter on da lang cames all the power cut out on his car , the car slowly ground to a halt , then he noticed a bad smell in the car, the passenger seat sunk down as if someone had just sitten on it, the hairs on the back of his neck were on end and he was frozen to the spot with fear. Eventually the smell started to fade, the seat came back to normal and the lights came back on.

 

I drive a ford too!!!

[Guest Anonymous]

Yes, Im been doon tae da sandyloch een o yun nichts, when da mist is steering thick, and da trouts stop boulin as da soond o oars kem closer. I strained tae look oot troo da mist and could joost see a vague shadow. At dat i freaked oot and made up ower tae da hoose. Da crotch o me drawers wis farely creased wee broon marks dat nite!!!!!!

[Njugle]

What is it with lochs?

 

I was at girlsta one night and got the heebeejeebees as if there was someone breathing down the back of my neck. I kept turning round to see if there was someone watching from behind but there was no-one there.....The sun started to dip below the horizon and i legged it, breaking the tip off my rod on me way

 

I'd been to girlsta many times before and have been many times since, but never like that night,

[lumpsucker]

yes i have to agree njugle it is creepy holl oh sharn !! da troots in yun loch are even scared oh a worm .

[Njugle]

Dy worm maybe

 

*shouldn't this be in a different thread about trout fishing *

[Njugle]

Anyway, ther can't be many lochs in shetland with more dead folk in them than girlsta.......

[muddybay-kyebeoy]

I have seen the 'tax collector' fellow at da Windhoose. We were parked at da road haein a sandwich and a tall man walked across the front o da hoose and in through a wall. He was very tall, wearing a top hat, and had a long coat on. 3 others in da car saw it. It was only when I returned home and read a bit aboot da hoose that what I saw was accurately described in the book.

 

It was not a living person.

 

I lived wi a family in Sweden who told me they had moved as their previous dwelling in an apartment block had suffered from mysterious noises. One day the mammy o da hoose got a phone call at her work fae her neighbour telling her to get home and end the party that was going on. She told her to stop speaking rubbish as there was definitely nobody home. But there was jazz music, and at least 30 folk dancing, laughing, and drinking going on the wifey said. As time progressed, several poltergeist happenings freaked da bairns oot and they moved.

 

Is da Kantersted hoose da white een? I wis in it once and didn't like it.

[lumpsucker]

Yes the Kantersted House is a white een

[Guest Anonymous]

Also in Tingwall, not a ghost story perhaps but still pretty gruesome. Back in the day, around Christmas time a mother and 2 children had gone through the ice on the Tingwall Loch in a horse and cart and were pulled from the water dead. The bodies were moved to the family home but the father was away on business. He returned to the house later that evening to find his family dead and he killed himself in despair. Any truth to that?

Half true. The man in question was the Rev John Turnball who was minister for Tingwall. His wife, 2 children and maid were taking a shortcut across the loch when they fell through the ice and drowned. Rev Turnball was in Sumburgh at the time. When he returned home he found them all laid out dead in his home (the big house next to the kirk). He didn't kill himself but lived on until his ninetys.

[Guest Anonymous]

This is a good story, and goes something like this.

 

If you walk round the coast to Uyea from Sandvoe you will come past an old abandoned croft called Bruligarth. This croft was once inhabited by an old woman (i did used to know her name). Two lads called past one day and found her dead. Seeing an opportunity to make a quick buck they tried to steal the rings off her fingers. The only problem was they couldn't get them off, so they decided to cut off her fingers. Her ghost has been seen on several occasions roaming the hills looking for her fingers, particularly around the loch of Pettawater.

 

True story apparently.

[Ally]

I was told that the mystery of the White Wife was solved ages ago. Apparently it was just lights from cars on the other side of the hill reflected from the low cloud cover. That and the fact that Unst folk are permanently blootered

 

I used to get terrified walking back from Sound youth club on dark nights. I lived in Longland, uppersound at the time, which meant I had to pass the auld sound graveyard. One of the headstones had the name of a girl who died when she was 12, and her name would always pop into my head when I walked past at night. I’d have to force myself to walk faster and keep looking straight ahead for fear of catching sight of her out of the corner of my eye.

 

One building I know for a fact to be cursed is Glen Orchy house on Knab Rd. When they were renovating the place they had to knock down an old wall, whereupon they discovered a small cavity containing a hand-written note, dating back to when the place was first built in the 1800s.

 

The note was just a general gripe written by two joiners about their wages being too low and that the site foreman was “mean bastardâ€. It went on to curse the building and all who stay in it and was signed by both men who, obviously, had kicked the bucket over a century ago.

 

Sticking with Knab Rd, does anyone remember something about a tree in the old graveyard that had a sinister wooden spoon growing out of it?!

[PoolHaddock]

It's a metal spoon. It goes right through the tree. One end sticks oot wan side, and the idder end sticks oot the idder side. They had it x-rayed a number o years ago (apperantly) and it turned oot, right enough, tae be a whole spoon.

 

It wid be an easy thing tae do yourself if you had the time and the inclination. Just look at auld ropes that are tied to tree branches and how the tree grows aroond the rope.