Orkney

Skaill House is a large mansion lying close to the shore not far from Skara Brae on Orkney. It was built on the site of a Pictish burial ground, which may have something to do with the many ghost stories associated with the house. Visitors and residents alike have reported strange experi ences, including ghostly footsteps and unseen people sitting down on beds.

According to one story, a man called Ubby constructed a little island in the middle of the nearby Skaill Loch by repeatedly rowing out into the loch and dumping stones overboard. Eventually he died on the island and legend has it that his ghost came to Skaill House and has haunted it ever since.

Though many paranormal phenomena have been reported at the house, there has only been one actual sighting of a ghost there. Early one morning the clean ers were in the courtyard when one of them looked up and saw a woman with a shawl over her head standing at the door to one of the apartments. They assumed that the people staying there were still there and left, thinking that they would clean that apartment later. But the guests had already left and the building had been empty at the time.

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