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Ballechin House

A Jesuit priest, Father Hayden, stayed in Ballechin House, just out side Dunkeld, for a few days in 1892. One night, when asleep, he was awakened by loud noises. He moved to an adjacent room and found that the noises had followed him and he told of hearing sounds like those of ‘a large animal throwing itself violently against the bottom of the bedroom door.’ The noises were accompanied by bangs and screams. Next year he met, by chance, a woman who was an ex-governess at Ballechin House, who told him that she had left her employment there because she had been frightened by strange noises which had kept her awake at night. As she elaborated on her story, it became obvious to Father Hayden that she had occupied the two rooms that he had used during his visit.

The house was rented in 1896 for twelve months, to a family who left after eleven weeks thus losing more than nine months rent which they had already paid. They were driven out by mysterious groans, rattling noises, bangs and footsteps. On one occasion clothes were pulled from beds and an icy chill descended on the house. Father Hayden had told Lord Bute of his experiences. Lord Bute rented the property and arranged for two investigators to live in the house and try to explain the phenomena. The investigators were greeted on their arrival by a ‘loud clanging sound’ which echoed through the building and was repeated for two hours. They too re ported voices, dragging and pattering sounds, bangs and knockings.

A ouija board was used in an attempt to communicate with the spirit or spirits and during one session, someone with the name of Ishbel told the investigators to go at sunset to a valley nearby. When they did so they saw, against the white background of newly fallen Snow, the figure of a woman wearing a nun’s habit which moved away from them and vanished under a tree. The same figure was seen on subsequent occasions and was heard to cry and talk ‘in a high note, With a quality of youth in her voice.’ The mystery has never been resolved. Durham | Loch Ness | Abbotsford | Berkshire | Bruntsfield House | Canterbury | Devon | Devonshire | Edinburgh | Ely | Flat Rock | Ghost lady | Haunted | Haunted Flat in Manchester | Ireland | Lady in Black | London | London | Northern England | Nottingham | Orkney | Pontefract | Rathfarnham | Redcar | Rotherham | Scotland | South Africa | Steeped in sorrow | Suffolk | Surrey | The Room of Terror | Torquay, Devon | Tyrone | West Germany |