Tuesday, 10 December 2024
day two
So now on day 2 wieh confirmed m.s last night was a bir strange legs started hurting ror no reason lasting almost all night changed side a few times but nothing helped out hope not the same tonight. Now got ro go to Bathgate and then Livingston to meet my girlfriend. Should be fun i hope got stuff to get. While there.
day 1 of living with ms
So it all sraered at the start of this year 2024, i started to slow down when i was walking normal, then my head felt like it was being crushed but only inside part. Then couldn't really stand up, lots of ny friends noticed i had changed how i did things but i didn't see it or brushed it off as getting old.
I am a male 57 years old born in the year 1367. Yep thats tight born before the internet. And before man went to the moon. So a gen x person. Now i lnow whats wrong with me i still walk strange in fact sometimes i cant walk. When out i take panic attack and have to struggle to do things in the house. But you do learn to live with it just change how you do things change the way you think and act to cover things and have very good friends who push you to do things.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Sir George MacKenzie Picture of Coffen
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, better known as 'Bluidy Mackenzie', died on the 8th of May, 1691.
Sir George MacKenzie of Rosehaugh was seemingly a contradictory sort of a guy. On the one hand, he was praised by some for his “cultivated and learned” literary and legal skills. On the other hand, he was reviled – still is – by many for his persecution of the Covenanters. MacKenzie looms large in the history of the Covenanters and the years known in Scotland as 'the Killing Times'. If you're a Jacobite, without understanding why as in “I just love yon Bonnie Prince Charlie” you might want to think twice about Charlie's ancestors and the impact they had on Scotland in the 17th Century. Aye, he served well the heirs of Jamie Saxt; Charles II & II and his brother James VII & II, for both of whom MacKenzie's royalist disposition emerged; delivered with a vengeance.
As Lord Advocate or King's Advocate in Scotland, MacKenzie was largely responsible for persecuting the inhuman policies of successive Stuart Kings against the Covenanters. Perhaps those policies should only and ever be seen in the light of the times, but certainly, by modern, western standards, MacKenzie must be held accountable for the deaths of something like 18,000 Covenanters. If around today, he'd be on trial at the International Court of Human Rights in The Hague for crimes against humanity, except, he had the law on his side.
Those crimes took place during the nine years that MacKenzie was Lord Advocate, when there was hardly a prosecution in which he was not involved. Under MacKenzie, torture was routinely employed, in attempts to extract confessions from the accused or, in the case of witnesses, to implicate 'conspirators'. MacKenzie also had a penchant for bending the rules and soliciting perjury in pursuit of his prejudice. According to 'Men of the Covenant' by A. Smellie, MacKenzie had a violent temper and a vicious tongue that cowed defendants and even some judges. However, MacKenzie didn't have it all his own way and there are many tales of fervently religious Covenanters, simple folk and gentry alike, who resisted his bullying, albeit many perished, despite their stoic forbearance.
Brian J. Orr, who has written about the Covenanters at length, suggests that it is probable that MacKenzie's epithet stemmed from the belief and legal tenet that a murdered person's body would bleed if touched by the murderer, because McKenzie had used that belief in a court case and secured a conviction. Orr might be right, but MacKenzie, like John Graham of Claverhouse (Bonnie Dundee to the Jacobites, mind) certainly earned his 'Bluidy' title for his persecution of the Covenanters.
George Mackenzie was born in Dundee, in 1636, and was educated at that city's grammar school, before entering King's College at the University of Aberdeen, in 1650. Afterward, Mackenzie went to St. Andrews, from where he graduated at the age of sixteen. He then spent three years studying civil law at the University of Bourges, in France. MacKenzie returned to Scotland and was called to the bar, being elected to the Faculty of Advocates as they say, in 1659. According to the on-line 1911 Encyclopedia, immediately after the Restoration, MacKenzie, who had by then become a distinguished lawyer, was appointed a 'justice-depute' and he and his colleagues were ordained by the parliament in 1661 “to repair, once in the week at least, to Musselburgh and Dalkeith, and to try and judge such persons as are there or thereabouts delate of witchcraft.”
Also in 1661, MacKenzie acted as counsel for Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess (Marquis) of Argyle (Argyll). Now that affair only adds to the contradictory nature of the man as MacKenzie was then a defender of the Presbyterians, hence his role on behalf of Campbell. At that time, according to Brian Orr, MacKenzie professed “to be a sanctuary to such as are afflicted and to pull the innocent from the claws of his accuser.” Later on, he might have said, “I am a persecutor of the afflicted and seek to draw the innocent into the claws of death.” He was knighted around that time, before he was elected the Member of Parliament for the County of Ross. One more thing for which you might want to give MacKenzie credit is that, in 1669, during his early years as an MP, he opposed Lauderdale's move for a Union of the Kingdoms. That momentous event was destined to happen thirty-eight years later.
MacKenzie was appointed Lord Advocate in 1677, when he also then became a member the Privy Council of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Pentland Rising. His predecessor was Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton, who set MacKenzie a good example in mistreating Covenanters. Nisbet was the man who proposed that delinquents from the Rising who had not yet been brought to justice, should be tried in their absence, with no defense and liable to the death sentence. MacKenzie took a bit of time to come round to that way of thinking, but when he did, he went for it in a big way.
At the dethronement of James II and the 'Glorious Revolution', MacKenzie was, unsurprisingly, one of a minority of five against the forfeiture of the crown, but the new King, William of Orange, wasn't a vindictive kind of guy. MacKenzie was allowed to retire in peace to Oxford, where he was admitted as a student by a grace passed in 1690. MacKenzie was allowed to spend the rest of his days in Oxford, pursuing a prosecution of a different sort, that of his literary ambitions. One of his last acts before leaving Edinburgh in 1689, had been to pronounce, on the 15th of March, in his capacity as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, the inaugural oration at the foundation of the Advocates' Library, which much later, in 1925, became the National Library of Scotland.
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh died in Westminster on the 8th of May, 1691, and he was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, not too far from many of the Covenanters whose execution he ordered.
People Buried inside the tomb,
1669 13th Aug Elizabeth Dickson Wife,
1669 23rd May John Son,
1689 7th April Alexander Writer,
1689 28th Dec Daniel Violer a child,
1689 2nd May Hugh servent to Laird of Lie,
1690 28th May Colin Tailor a child,
1691 26th June George K A,
1692 21st March Mr Coling Advocate,
1693 1st May John Writer warrant,
1696 12th Oct Kenneth Shergan a child,
1696 26th July Dame Anne Lady Bute,
1699 12th April Mr Rorie a child warrant died of fever,
1700 23rd Nov Hector Soldier last person we can find to be put inside his tomb it was then closed up we think never to be used again.
Sir George MacKenzie of Rosehaugh was seemingly a contradictory sort of a guy. On the one hand, he was praised by some for his “cultivated and learned” literary and legal skills. On the other hand, he was reviled – still is – by many for his persecution of the Covenanters. MacKenzie looms large in the history of the Covenanters and the years known in Scotland as 'the Killing Times'. If you're a Jacobite, without understanding why as in “I just love yon Bonnie Prince Charlie” you might want to think twice about Charlie's ancestors and the impact they had on Scotland in the 17th Century. Aye, he served well the heirs of Jamie Saxt; Charles II & II and his brother James VII & II, for both of whom MacKenzie's royalist disposition emerged; delivered with a vengeance.
As Lord Advocate or King's Advocate in Scotland, MacKenzie was largely responsible for persecuting the inhuman policies of successive Stuart Kings against the Covenanters. Perhaps those policies should only and ever be seen in the light of the times, but certainly, by modern, western standards, MacKenzie must be held accountable for the deaths of something like 18,000 Covenanters. If around today, he'd be on trial at the International Court of Human Rights in The Hague for crimes against humanity, except, he had the law on his side.
Those crimes took place during the nine years that MacKenzie was Lord Advocate, when there was hardly a prosecution in which he was not involved. Under MacKenzie, torture was routinely employed, in attempts to extract confessions from the accused or, in the case of witnesses, to implicate 'conspirators'. MacKenzie also had a penchant for bending the rules and soliciting perjury in pursuit of his prejudice. According to 'Men of the Covenant' by A. Smellie, MacKenzie had a violent temper and a vicious tongue that cowed defendants and even some judges. However, MacKenzie didn't have it all his own way and there are many tales of fervently religious Covenanters, simple folk and gentry alike, who resisted his bullying, albeit many perished, despite their stoic forbearance.
Brian J. Orr, who has written about the Covenanters at length, suggests that it is probable that MacKenzie's epithet stemmed from the belief and legal tenet that a murdered person's body would bleed if touched by the murderer, because McKenzie had used that belief in a court case and secured a conviction. Orr might be right, but MacKenzie, like John Graham of Claverhouse (Bonnie Dundee to the Jacobites, mind) certainly earned his 'Bluidy' title for his persecution of the Covenanters.
George Mackenzie was born in Dundee, in 1636, and was educated at that city's grammar school, before entering King's College at the University of Aberdeen, in 1650. Afterward, Mackenzie went to St. Andrews, from where he graduated at the age of sixteen. He then spent three years studying civil law at the University of Bourges, in France. MacKenzie returned to Scotland and was called to the bar, being elected to the Faculty of Advocates as they say, in 1659. According to the on-line 1911 Encyclopedia, immediately after the Restoration, MacKenzie, who had by then become a distinguished lawyer, was appointed a 'justice-depute' and he and his colleagues were ordained by the parliament in 1661 “to repair, once in the week at least, to Musselburgh and Dalkeith, and to try and judge such persons as are there or thereabouts delate of witchcraft.”
Also in 1661, MacKenzie acted as counsel for Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess (Marquis) of Argyle (Argyll). Now that affair only adds to the contradictory nature of the man as MacKenzie was then a defender of the Presbyterians, hence his role on behalf of Campbell. At that time, according to Brian Orr, MacKenzie professed “to be a sanctuary to such as are afflicted and to pull the innocent from the claws of his accuser.” Later on, he might have said, “I am a persecutor of the afflicted and seek to draw the innocent into the claws of death.” He was knighted around that time, before he was elected the Member of Parliament for the County of Ross. One more thing for which you might want to give MacKenzie credit is that, in 1669, during his early years as an MP, he opposed Lauderdale's move for a Union of the Kingdoms. That momentous event was destined to happen thirty-eight years later.
MacKenzie was appointed Lord Advocate in 1677, when he also then became a member the Privy Council of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Pentland Rising. His predecessor was Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton, who set MacKenzie a good example in mistreating Covenanters. Nisbet was the man who proposed that delinquents from the Rising who had not yet been brought to justice, should be tried in their absence, with no defense and liable to the death sentence. MacKenzie took a bit of time to come round to that way of thinking, but when he did, he went for it in a big way.
At the dethronement of James II and the 'Glorious Revolution', MacKenzie was, unsurprisingly, one of a minority of five against the forfeiture of the crown, but the new King, William of Orange, wasn't a vindictive kind of guy. MacKenzie was allowed to retire in peace to Oxford, where he was admitted as a student by a grace passed in 1690. MacKenzie was allowed to spend the rest of his days in Oxford, pursuing a prosecution of a different sort, that of his literary ambitions. One of his last acts before leaving Edinburgh in 1689, had been to pronounce, on the 15th of March, in his capacity as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, the inaugural oration at the foundation of the Advocates' Library, which much later, in 1925, became the National Library of Scotland.
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh died in Westminster on the 8th of May, 1691, and he was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, not too far from many of the Covenanters whose execution he ordered.
People Buried inside the tomb,
1669 13th Aug Elizabeth Dickson Wife,
1669 23rd May John Son,
1689 7th April Alexander Writer,
1689 28th Dec Daniel Violer a child,
1689 2nd May Hugh servent to Laird of Lie,
1690 28th May Colin Tailor a child,
1691 26th June George K A,
1692 21st March Mr Coling Advocate,
1693 1st May John Writer warrant,
1696 12th Oct Kenneth Shergan a child,
1696 26th July Dame Anne Lady Bute,
1699 12th April Mr Rorie a child warrant died of fever,
1700 23rd Nov Hector Soldier last person we can find to be put inside his tomb it was then closed up we think never to be used again.
The Scolding Brank.
The Scolding Brank was used in most part by the church. But it could also be used by anyone who deemed that a person has spoken out of turn.
After 1649 and the Kirk party had gained more power they deemed anyone who spoke out, against them or God would have to wear one.
They also deemed that if a women spoke down to, or before given permission to by a man, should have to wear one. It could also be used if you told one too many lies about someone.
The Brank is made of iron and fits over a person's head, it has a tongue depressor. Which stops the person from speaking. The whole Brank, or just the tongue part could be heated up. This in turn would scolded the person.
The person could be made to wear one while being chained to the church walls just outside the gate, or the main door into the church. In some cases if you look closely at a church you will see the marks of the chain. In others you can still find the chain on the outside of the church.
You would be chained to the wall for the full services of the day. You would be given no food or water while you were chained to the wall. You were a nobody in the eyes of those that passed you bye. You broke the will of God so shall you be punished by him. Anyone could do almost anything the liked to you while you were chained there. In most case it was human, or animal waste that was thrown at you. Mostly by kids but adults would also join in.
At the end of the service for the day. The charge would be read out, so those leaving the church could have their say about what you had done.
Only after every one had left would you be let free, and the Brank and chain would be removed. This was so you confessed to your sin. Then you would set free to go back home, or back onto the streets to live.
Not Just Ghosts Haunt Edinburgh and Scotland
NOT JUST GHOST HAUNT EDINBURGH,
Not Only Ghost walk the streets of Edinburgh, West Linton, Penicuik and the Pentlandhills,
Between 1930 and 1997 there have been sightings of a large cat in the areas around Edinburgh this has been seen by a few people and also there have been reports of sheep being killed around the area the cat has been seen to date it seems the cat has left humans alone. Below we list the sightings and what they saw plus reports if any made to police or the SSPCA.
1930 West Side of Pentland hills: sheep attacked however no one sees the cat or what caused the attacks to the sheep paw prints are found beside some of the sheep and blood trail leads off up in to the hills.
1979 Rosslyn: near to where the Rosslyn Chaple is a witness saw what he thought to be a puma sitting on the path about 6 feet in front of him the witness says it sat for a few minutes then jumped over some ferns and made it's way up a small hill where it stopped to look back at him he said it was golden brown with a black bar running across it's nose at 6 feet or less the witness must have got a clear view so he would have known what he saw.
1982 Penicuik: an animal of the same type and colour was seen as that in 1979, this was seen by witnesses walking along the disused railway track when the witnesses were out for a walk with there children, the witnesses described the cat as being the size of a lion and having a long tail it appeared to be haunting in the field next to the track. The cat did not seem to worry about it being watched from the path and after a few minutes disappeared further up the field and out of sight from the group.
1982 Penicuik: about a month after the above incident the cat was seen again this time by a farmer out working on his farm, he said the cat was out to stock his sheep and seemed to be hunting them. He said he moved his tractor towards the cat, which he said had dark fur and a tail 3 feet long. When it heard the sound of the tractor the cat run off towards the hills at the back of his field. This was reported to the police and they with the help of the SSPCA did a search of the nearby land but nothing was found at that time.
1982 Penicuik:a few days after the farmer had seen the cat a monk from the nearby abby saw a cat like the one everyone else had seen near the abby, he knew of the farm cat and he phoned the police again this time they thought they new they had a big cat on the loose as sheep had been killed that weekend at a farm a few miles from West Linton by a large cat.
1986 West Linton: on the road between West Linton and Penicuik a mother and daughter were traveling towards West Linton when they saw a large cat sitting in the road watching the car come towards it before jumping a gate and running off over a field.
1989 Pentlandhills Ninemile burn: a group of walkers were out following the Ninemile burn route when they saw a large cat walking towards a field of sheep. they lost sight of it as it jumped a wall in to the field of sheep.
1997 unkown road: witness saw a large cat lying by the road, she thought the cat might be unwell and reported it to police and SSPCA.
1997 West Linton: reports of large paw prints being found outside of a farm by the farmer.
1997 report by the SSPCA in the papers: We have had many sightings of a large cat in the Mid Lothian area and Pentland hills however we can confirm that no cat has been found. Large parts of the area are desolate and who knows what might live up there.
Large cats have not just been seen around the area of Mid Lothian but also in West Lothian could this be the same cat as they are known to haunt wide areas of land for food, but with sheep,cows and horses all living outside on the Hills and in fields why would it need to travel with food right at hand?. Why since the last report in 1997 has the cat not been seen since. There is still reports of sheep killing the last one in 2011 at a farm just short of Edinburgh Airport but that was said to be a fox although some say the bite mark was to large for a fox to make. Another report of a cat in Edinburgh was in January 2011 when foot prints of a large cat were found in a garden in Newhaven. So what is out there? what is hunting sheep and where has it gone?.
Not Only Ghost walk the streets of Edinburgh, West Linton, Penicuik and the Pentlandhills,
Between 1930 and 1997 there have been sightings of a large cat in the areas around Edinburgh this has been seen by a few people and also there have been reports of sheep being killed around the area the cat has been seen to date it seems the cat has left humans alone. Below we list the sightings and what they saw plus reports if any made to police or the SSPCA.
1930 West Side of Pentland hills: sheep attacked however no one sees the cat or what caused the attacks to the sheep paw prints are found beside some of the sheep and blood trail leads off up in to the hills.
1979 Rosslyn: near to where the Rosslyn Chaple is a witness saw what he thought to be a puma sitting on the path about 6 feet in front of him the witness says it sat for a few minutes then jumped over some ferns and made it's way up a small hill where it stopped to look back at him he said it was golden brown with a black bar running across it's nose at 6 feet or less the witness must have got a clear view so he would have known what he saw.
1982 Penicuik: an animal of the same type and colour was seen as that in 1979, this was seen by witnesses walking along the disused railway track when the witnesses were out for a walk with there children, the witnesses described the cat as being the size of a lion and having a long tail it appeared to be haunting in the field next to the track. The cat did not seem to worry about it being watched from the path and after a few minutes disappeared further up the field and out of sight from the group.
1982 Penicuik: about a month after the above incident the cat was seen again this time by a farmer out working on his farm, he said the cat was out to stock his sheep and seemed to be hunting them. He said he moved his tractor towards the cat, which he said had dark fur and a tail 3 feet long. When it heard the sound of the tractor the cat run off towards the hills at the back of his field. This was reported to the police and they with the help of the SSPCA did a search of the nearby land but nothing was found at that time.
1982 Penicuik:a few days after the farmer had seen the cat a monk from the nearby abby saw a cat like the one everyone else had seen near the abby, he knew of the farm cat and he phoned the police again this time they thought they new they had a big cat on the loose as sheep had been killed that weekend at a farm a few miles from West Linton by a large cat.
1986 West Linton: on the road between West Linton and Penicuik a mother and daughter were traveling towards West Linton when they saw a large cat sitting in the road watching the car come towards it before jumping a gate and running off over a field.
1989 Pentlandhills Ninemile burn: a group of walkers were out following the Ninemile burn route when they saw a large cat walking towards a field of sheep. they lost sight of it as it jumped a wall in to the field of sheep.
1997 unkown road: witness saw a large cat lying by the road, she thought the cat might be unwell and reported it to police and SSPCA.
1997 West Linton: reports of large paw prints being found outside of a farm by the farmer.
1997 report by the SSPCA in the papers: We have had many sightings of a large cat in the Mid Lothian area and Pentland hills however we can confirm that no cat has been found. Large parts of the area are desolate and who knows what might live up there.
Large cats have not just been seen around the area of Mid Lothian but also in West Lothian could this be the same cat as they are known to haunt wide areas of land for food, but with sheep,cows and horses all living outside on the Hills and in fields why would it need to travel with food right at hand?. Why since the last report in 1997 has the cat not been seen since. There is still reports of sheep killing the last one in 2011 at a farm just short of Edinburgh Airport but that was said to be a fox although some say the bite mark was to large for a fox to make. Another report of a cat in Edinburgh was in January 2011 when foot prints of a large cat were found in a garden in Newhaven. So what is out there? what is hunting sheep and where has it gone?.
Friday, 28 July 2023
Birds of Prey on the Royal Mile Edinburgh
So this is to cover the display of the birds of prey you can see on Edinburgh Royal Mile. These posts will cover some of the history of the birds. Then you can pop onto the mile and visit them for loads more details and best part is you get to hold them.
I am a volunteer with Falconry Borders who own the birds I have been for the last 10 years or so.
I have to say it is the best job on the world to have. There is nothing like it. Too see the smile on people's faces when the hold one . Kids can be the best.
I know some people will not like this and see it as wrong. But as Government will not help rescue centres, then they have to find ways to make money to help feed them.
All the birds are captive bread. So are only use to humans, and couldn't live in the wild.
The owl in the photos is a European Eagle Owl one of the largest of owls. It has a 6ft wing span and up too 700 psi in each foot. 
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Paranormal Investigation
Walk down any street, in any town or city in the world, and you are more than likely to come across a ghost story or two. None more so than in these lands that we call Scotland. Scotland is said to have more ghost per square foot, than any other country in the world. From the normal ghosts, up too and beyond what some may call normal. Form the strange lights, in the sky. To the ghosts that change with time. Scotland’s lands are full of the Paranormal/Supernatural tales to chill your heart, during the day never mind in the darkness of the night.
In this guide we aim to cover as many of these ghosts as possible. Giving you where we can the backgrounds, against which these strange haunting take place.
Tales of ghost haunting date back thousands of years. Even in times of old we have tales of strange lights in the sky, or of strange persons/ creatures disappearing in to thin air. Man has always to looked to the unknown, to help him/her reach other parts of their mind, soul or body and on to the sprit. In many of these cases, it is due to the person, who is seeing the ghost. To pass on what they have seen, and sometimes this information, can grow arms and legs. Making the tale bigger and more fearful to the person, wishing a bigger jump or bigger in some cases, to scare the living wits out of their friends. The more darker the tale, the more malevolent the ghost. The better the tale is, but not all ghosts are like that in fact some of ghosts. Are helpful in their meetings with us. Others just want us to know, they are still their with us through life’s up and downs.
There is nothing better than sitting in a room where the lights have been turned off, friends all around you, wind howling outside. Candles burning, marshmallows in the bowl, and a good ghost story to tell. Even if some of it is made up. A darkened room, a walk along the streets of an old town. A stroll through a dark graveyard. Can and does get the blood following, the mind racing. The hairs on the back of your neck standing up. What drives us to be scared out of our wits. At the tales of haunting and the hopeful chance of seeing a ghost at first hand. We shall never really know the answer as, each person is different. What we do know is we all enjoy the strange going on, and the chance to look in to the unknown.
For myself this trip, in to the other side started some 30 odd years ago. At first I thought it was just something that would pass me by. Well 30 odd years later I am still at it, and still have not lost the fun it brings, and the excitement, that is seeing the EMF meter, light up. Or for that hearing a voice on the EVP. It still makes me jump and the hairs stand on end at this discovery. What will it bring to you?, what will you find on your trip with us in to the darkness of the other side?.
I hope this guide will help you on your own quest, help you find out more about the strange world and land that we live on. Have fun hunting, have fun looking, more so have fun finding out about the Paranormal/ Supernatural world that is all around us.
To open up any book in to the Paranormal world is a discovery all by its self. We never know where this trip will take us, or how far it will go. We walk side by side through the journey, it may lead to new finds?, it may lead to you having sleepless nights? all we know is each trip takes but one step and by opening a book, you have taken that first step. This guide is not the answer to all the questions, nor does it cover all, the ghosts that haunt our lands. It is here to give you a hand in your search for your own thoughts and findings. Your own look in to the world that is all around us, but very few have seen, or felt. To help you with a place to start looking. You never know you may find, that when you go out and look ghosts really are all around us.
To open a book in to the Paranormal, is to open your mind to the fact, there is more than the eye can see. More than your ears can hear. The feelings you had someone was watching you just may be true, those voices you heard, the dark shape your eye caught late one night. Might just be roaming out there ready to be found.
To walk in to the night, in to that dark room all alone, sends the shivers up your spine, your heart racing. The hairs standing up, all the nerves in your body telling you to run. But still you walk on further in to the dark. Welcome to the world of the Paranormal investigator, book in one pocket, camera around your neck EVP in hand EMF in other, your on the hunt. Or you may just be a visitor lead by one of the many tour guides, taking you through the stories of the ghost and sites of where the huanting take place.
Ask anyone out walking late at night if they have heard a sound that has, spooked them, seen a shadow run across their path. They will more than likely say yes. Ask anyone if you have seen a ghost, they will say for the most part no it was the trick of the light. Or may have been my mind playing tricks with me. How do we know what we see in the dark is of our mind or that of a ghost. Well that is what people have been going over for years.
Ghosts fall in to main groups, we try our best here to cover the groups you, will find on your trips around the dark streets, of Scotland’s many towns and cities.
In this guide we aim to cover as many of these ghosts as possible. Giving you where we can the backgrounds, against which these strange haunting take place.
Tales of ghost haunting date back thousands of years. Even in times of old we have tales of strange lights in the sky, or of strange persons/ creatures disappearing in to thin air. Man has always to looked to the unknown, to help him/her reach other parts of their mind, soul or body and on to the sprit. In many of these cases, it is due to the person, who is seeing the ghost. To pass on what they have seen, and sometimes this information, can grow arms and legs. Making the tale bigger and more fearful to the person, wishing a bigger jump or bigger in some cases, to scare the living wits out of their friends. The more darker the tale, the more malevolent the ghost. The better the tale is, but not all ghosts are like that in fact some of ghosts. Are helpful in their meetings with us. Others just want us to know, they are still their with us through life’s up and downs.
There is nothing better than sitting in a room where the lights have been turned off, friends all around you, wind howling outside. Candles burning, marshmallows in the bowl, and a good ghost story to tell. Even if some of it is made up. A darkened room, a walk along the streets of an old town. A stroll through a dark graveyard. Can and does get the blood following, the mind racing. The hairs on the back of your neck standing up. What drives us to be scared out of our wits. At the tales of haunting and the hopeful chance of seeing a ghost at first hand. We shall never really know the answer as, each person is different. What we do know is we all enjoy the strange going on, and the chance to look in to the unknown.
For myself this trip, in to the other side started some 30 odd years ago. At first I thought it was just something that would pass me by. Well 30 odd years later I am still at it, and still have not lost the fun it brings, and the excitement, that is seeing the EMF meter, light up. Or for that hearing a voice on the EVP. It still makes me jump and the hairs stand on end at this discovery. What will it bring to you?, what will you find on your trip with us in to the darkness of the other side?.
I hope this guide will help you on your own quest, help you find out more about the strange world and land that we live on. Have fun hunting, have fun looking, more so have fun finding out about the Paranormal/ Supernatural world that is all around us.
To open up any book in to the Paranormal world is a discovery all by its self. We never know where this trip will take us, or how far it will go. We walk side by side through the journey, it may lead to new finds?, it may lead to you having sleepless nights? all we know is each trip takes but one step and by opening a book, you have taken that first step. This guide is not the answer to all the questions, nor does it cover all, the ghosts that haunt our lands. It is here to give you a hand in your search for your own thoughts and findings. Your own look in to the world that is all around us, but very few have seen, or felt. To help you with a place to start looking. You never know you may find, that when you go out and look ghosts really are all around us.
To open a book in to the Paranormal, is to open your mind to the fact, there is more than the eye can see. More than your ears can hear. The feelings you had someone was watching you just may be true, those voices you heard, the dark shape your eye caught late one night. Might just be roaming out there ready to be found.
To walk in to the night, in to that dark room all alone, sends the shivers up your spine, your heart racing. The hairs standing up, all the nerves in your body telling you to run. But still you walk on further in to the dark. Welcome to the world of the Paranormal investigator, book in one pocket, camera around your neck EVP in hand EMF in other, your on the hunt. Or you may just be a visitor lead by one of the many tour guides, taking you through the stories of the ghost and sites of where the huanting take place.
Ask anyone out walking late at night if they have heard a sound that has, spooked them, seen a shadow run across their path. They will more than likely say yes. Ask anyone if you have seen a ghost, they will say for the most part no it was the trick of the light. Or may have been my mind playing tricks with me. How do we know what we see in the dark is of our mind or that of a ghost. Well that is what people have been going over for years.
Ghosts fall in to main groups, we try our best here to cover the groups you, will find on your trips around the dark streets, of Scotland’s many towns and cities.
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