Scottish Ghost Stories!

[Lachlan09]

Good call, but it wasn't Fyfe Robertson (I remember him on the telly on "Tonight" with Cliff Michelmore - impressionists used to "do" him too ! ) It'll come back to me sometime !

[Lachlan09]

He was a Highlander from Perthshire and I think he worked for the Scotsman or Edinburgh Evening News (PS do they still do the Pink News after the football results ?). He was really old when I met him 40 old years ago and like I say I think his house was in Edinburgh and was called Straloch.

But I've still forgotten his name !

It's coming back to me that it wasn't him who was at the bothy and got bitten, he was telling the story about someone else and this writer said he had met the man and seen the scar with his own eyes and believed it to be non-human. He described the man's leg being grabbed.

I wonder if it's a telling of the Atholl vampire story of the 1920's ? This journalist would have been an active writer /reporter back then.

[wullie m]

Lachie, it wasn't the guy Shaw Grant? from Stornoway? I don't know the Atholl Vampire story. There's a good tale of the Vampire with the Iron Teeth which haunted the Southern Necropolis in the Gorbals in the 1930s. Caused a bit of hysteria at the time amongst the schoolweans, hundreds of kids invaded the cemetery one night, armed to the teeth, looking for the said "Ironteeth", the vampire apparently fled, sensibly enough.
Another wee bothy tale, a crowd of us were at a bothy for Hogmanay years ago, our first-foot was an English guy who stayed a night, joining in the festivities. Next day he set off late, over the hill, to the next bothy which we marked on his map. When he got there it was already dark, all quiet, nobody in residence, the bothy is a wee square wooden place, like a five year old would draw a house, he looked in at the window with his headtorch, the old empty rockin chair in the wee livingroom, was gently rocking to & fro. The guy fled back the way he came and arrived back with us in the early hours of the morning. wullie.

[wullie m]

Just found a pic' of the wee rocking chair bothy! whooooooooo http:Feithlinn Bothy:: OS grid NH7811 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!

This was built in the 1880s the walls are covered in great old pencilled graffiti from then! Shooting parties etc! Old dead juniper for burning, smells terrific! A marvelous wee place to wake up in a June morning to the calls of curlew & grouse! and somebody making the coffee! Halcyon Days!
wullie