Ghost Stories of the Scottish Highlands

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

This video is one of five taken from my now defunct second channel, Phantom Chronicles. As some of you will know, I started my second channel last year. The intention was to seperate my true crime/dark histories content from my paranormal content. Unfortunately Phantom Chronicles was not the success I had hoped it would be, so I've decided to revert back to one channel. I've also been distracted lately, and reminded that there's more to life than KZbin; hence my recent inactivity overall. I will be back, however.

[@matthewhendy5785]

I’m so glad you’re back. I love your matter of fact narration and ability to transport the viewer to another place in time.

[@jokesonyou1373]

Good shit mate! I dig your paranormal content!

[@saml7610]

I was wondering what all the uploads all of a sudden were about. Guess I got quite a bit of content to watch, huh? I'm sorry the second channel didn't do well, but for what it's worth, I've loved your stuff for a while, yet I didn't know you even had a second channel. Maybe if you decide to take another shot at such a thing in the future, you might be a bit more aggressive about promoting it to your existing audience at the very least? I don't recall ever hearing anything about it, despite this type of content being right up my alley. Either way, I'm glad you're pursuing a good work/life balance, definitely don't let youtube take over. If you don't upload for *a year*, it doesn't matter too much because I'm not gonna unsubscribe (I only unsubscribe if a channel is actively producing content that is offensive to me, and most people are the same way, from what I gather), so I'll just be ecstatic after that year long absence when you upload again and I think "OH DAMN, I forgot about this fella, glad he's uploading again!" No harm in taking a break, no harm in an unreliable upload schedule. If you do decide to make a second channel again sometime, definitely go harder in promoting it, that's my unsolicited advice.

[@jokesonyou1373]

@@saml7610 Yaaaaawwn

[@glendanison3064]

I wished i would have known about the other channel. I would have definitely subbed

[@cassius092]

I come from Scotland and I've never heard these stories before. A huge thanks to my neighbour for delivering these stories, they were super interesting!

[@danacapodarco1363]

My neighbor tells a tale about her visit to a friend's home in Scotland that was once a part of an orphanage that had a tragic fire that claimed the lives of a couple young children and one of the nuns who cared from them. The nun went back to save there others but perish when trying to get them out. During my neighbors visit to her friend's place she was left alone, and heard some one walking about on the old wooden floors. My neighbor went into the hall expecting see her friends retuning, but instead saw a see through lady singing a gentle song to a baby in her arms. My neighbor said she wasn't scared of the woman she was, but went back into the room she was staying in, closing the door behind her. She said she stayed in the room until she was her friend's car pull up, and raced to meet them in the houses main floor. After telling her friends about what she saw, they responded, "Oh! You saw the nun," in a calm manner.

[@paulthrutner9114]

What a load of nonesense 😂😂😂😂😂😩

[@danacapodarco1363]

@Wee Red Fox I’ll ask my neighbor next time I see them. I’ve never seen anything like this, but have heard unexplained noise when at questionable locations. Rational me explains it away, but it has never completely took away the eerie feelings.

[@KerrieOhanlon123]

@@chickpea432 I'm from Glasgow as well, where was the children's home you worked?

[@ramseydoon8277]

Thank you for sharing the story with us!

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

Glad you're back, no apologies necessary! You're content is worth the wait!

[@fourshore502]

i love these. perfect timing too in late november when its dark and ghastly outside and you just want to stay inside curled up in a blanket with a hot beverage of choice.

[@Sugertips]

I'm Scottish, thanks you I love this ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨♥️✨

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Real life takes precedent over a YT channel. Hope to see more from you, you're one of only a few channels I watch over and over again. Take whatever time you need

[@paulthrutner9114]

“Real life” ghosts still can’t be proven to exist.

[@karenbrown4524]

Judgmental Cat, I see your adorable cat in the comment sections found in many of my favorite YT haunts! 🐈‍⬛

[@thejudgmentalcat]

@@paulthrutner9114 You watch these kinds of videos just to troll?

[@paulthrutner9114]

@@thejudgmentalcat why am I trolling? Because I don’t believe in ghosts?

[@rabbit0664]

@@paulthrutner9114 You're trolling because of a lot of reasons . I. You're here trying to provoke a reaction. II. You're here in general. You've made 7 comments so far. Granted you could be new but if you weren't looking for a reaction you'd leave. Why bother to even comment if you weren't expecting a reaction? III. You said you don't believe in ghosts. I highly doubt KZbin recommended this vid to you. IV. Going off what I said earlier if it wasn't recommended you were probably searching for it looking for a reaction. There are artists I don't like. However you don't see me going around posting X sucks in the comments.

[@walkingdad6978]

Great to see you back, your voice and stories have been sorely missed CW 😊

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Thanks so much.

[@miriamwells35]

Didn’t used to believe in this stuff until my son (who is on the autism spectrum) heard a banshee the night before we received news my mum was going to die. He also saw her 2 weeks after she passed in his school canteen smiling at him. What he didn’t know is that she used to volunteer one morning a week in the school canteen and often said it was the favourite part of our childhood. She was a McBurney - Catholic Highlanders that went to NorthernnIreland centuries ago before coming to Australia to get away from the tensions that were to erupt in the Troubles much later.

[@maverickhistorian6488]

I've heard that Scottish banshees were often spotted by streams, washing the grave clothes of people who are about to die.

[@darabennett4316]

This channel deserves more attention. It's definitely one of my favorites, and better not disappear anytime soon.

[@jujumulligan43]

Most of us in the mountains of western North Carolina have Irish ancestors. Myself being one. I love these fantastic stories. I feel we are among many spirits, we may or not be aware of. Thank you so much for these interesting stories.

[@petpilgrimgoose]

Thank you for your videos. You do a great job and we really enjoy them!

[@w8m4n]

Glad you've re-uploaded the videos to this channel as I probably would have missed them otherwise

[@bobbiej.merritt5928]

You are one of the few channels I listen to, your voice is soothing and stories are interesting. Take time for you; your fans and subscribers will applaud you for taking time to yourself and your well being. 🙏❤️

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Thank you, Bobbie. I'm glad you like them.

[@suemount6042]

Great ghost stories I’m sorry the second channel didn’t take off like you hoped but I kind of like the mix on here to be honest glad your keeping it going

[@Ciara1594]

A few weeks ago on Coast to Coast a guest was telling George Nory, that he had gone to Scotland to collect ghost stories and stories about the Good Folk. And the guest said that the thing that surprised him the most, was that what other countries would find frightening and strange, was considered as normal in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☺️

[@DelftTrains]

Great to see you again CW, hope you're doing well.

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

I knew of the first two stories, but was impressed to both see the locations and the degree of background research you undertook. Ben Ile is most curious - it reminds me of a couple of tales I've heard about WW2 aircraft crash sites in some respects. As for the farmer and his wife's spirit, you'll find similar stories about faithless husbands all around the UK - Cannard's Grave in the West Country is a good example - so which of them is the true original I'd not like to say!

[@chloemcneill2151]

Thank you so much! Don’t know if you remember me asking for this a while back! Loved it 😊

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Very interesting stories, loved these.

[@DarraghK93]

The story of sandwood bay is interesting, I don't know if you know but the placename Strathchailleach where McRory Smith lived means in Irish/ Scottish Gaelic, the place or street of the witch, cailleach being witch or old hag...could explain the supernatural events there

[@donnab3135]

I live in the Scottish Highlands and it’s weird to hear people pronounce the names differently as to what we do locally. Dunnet is the same is punnet. Great stories 👍🏻

[@julianshepherd2038]

Dunnit

[@paulthrutner9114]

I live by Inverness 😀

[@kristofevo]

@@paulthrutner9114 Im another 30 miles North......we are truly blessed to live in this beautiful area of the country.

[@thebarefootwitch5564]

I live in Caithness, and yes it is indeed Dunnet (like punnet). It’s also CannisBAY not Cannisbiy.

[@prd1073]

Thanks for this. The mispronunciations were very jarring throughout.

[@dailaffin9066]

Great you’re back, love your content and presentation, many thanks 👍

[@gerardshort6149]

I didn't expect those 3 ghost stories as i was ready to go to bed . I enjoyed them so much as some of them i can recall things like that i have seen myself somewhere else . Like the actor who died and was seen at 10pm 15 minutes after he died . As in January 2000 my dad passed away with a burst ulcer and my eldest sister was the only one who hadn't seen my dad . The day of his funeral my sister went upstairs and seen my dad and then he vanished across the road at the church . As in 1978 a Saturday morning a girl i use to go to school with died and her funeral was that day and she said gooodbye to me in my sleep as it happened again a few years later when i was in a flat where i use to work with a guy called Jim and we got on well with each other . The night he died he wanted me to be there with his wife but i couldn't as it was in the early hours of the morning and i seen him floating in limbo land and he said his goodbye to me that way .

[@bctrails7206]

It is said in pirate legends that a soul is left to guard the treasure and has long been known that a captian of old would, by his own will, go down with his ship to forever rest upon the wreck...

[@stiflers_mom]

so cool hearing about the castle of mey on youtube a couple of my mates work in there, used to be able to see dunnet head from my highschool reg class back in the day, really nice bit of the country

[@MrChuNkyWrit3r]

I was in the scottish highlands like 15 years ago. Beautiful place, beautiful folklore and friendly people. Cheers from Spain.

[@AHylianWarrior]

In Inverness there's the tale of the Tomnahurich fairy queen who whisked away two musicians to play at her party for "one night", but one night for the fairies was hundreds of years in the real world so they were dumped in a strange new Inverness with their family's graves right there. They ran into a church all frantic and panicking, but when the pastor tried to calm them down with bible verses the musicians crumbled into dust. Tomnahurich is a hill with a graveyard covering it, its name meaning "hill of the yews".

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

Wow!!

[@murrayscott9546]

Where Old Ghosts Play - Jethro Tull

[@liliasgordon3565]

That's a story that I remember reading about many years ago. Thank you for filling in some details that my foggy brain had lost track of. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mousetreehouse6833]

Wonderfully spooky and highly entertaining, I seldom indulge in ghost stories at Christmas time. But this popped up, so I broke with tradition, and enjoyed your very untraditional stories tremendously... so...I wish you a very merry Christmas 🎄, and thank you for chills of a different kind! (from New England ((🇺🇲)) where we know our scary stories)! 😀

[@josephmannion1714]

Merry Christmas to you from Scotland!

[@mijiyoon5575]

TY excellent stories & wind sound effects

[@ludovica8221]

The daughter of an earl is always "Lady Fanny Sinclair" or "Lady Fanny" and can never be "Lady Sinclair" as "Lady is the title of only the wife of a lowly Baronet or Life Peer. Cruickshank is pronounced "crookshank"

[@lucysin414]

Your voice is well suited to this type of content 🙂 great listening!

[@darabennett4316]

Your 2 part story of Montrose, is outstanding! Just thought I'd say.

[@candicemirisha912]

I’m watching all these videos because I’m going to visit Scotland soon ❤

[@reginariddle2266]

Great stories! Thank you

[@melodymacken9788]

Brilliant, brilliant and brilliant. NZ 🇳🇿

[@LunarWind99]

Brilliant stories and narration 💙

[@The_Robert.Fletcher]

Thanks for these great stories. Personally, I prefer your presentations under one channel. But it was worth trying the duel channel approach.

[@JustOneKnight]

Wow awesome stories thank you for sharing them

[@murrayscott9546]

Spooky. I love it ! Scotland - it's mists, its mounta

[@violetmartha916]

It was so interesting to read the newspaper piece about Lady Fanny Sinclair's funeral. "The procession extending to a mile in length." With her coffin "literally covered in wreathes of immortelles..... Upwards of 150 carriages followed, beside a large body on foot." 😱😭

[@johnshields6852]

Here's the thing about ghosts, their so intermittent and rare that the witnesses can never prove their sightings, but today's cameras everywhere have captured many ghosts, they are absolutely real.

[@MaureenDunn-g1n]

Holidayed in Durness in 1961. Family wanted to go to Cape Wrath but had read stories about the place being haunted, so we didn't go. Durness Beach is like the one in your video of Sandwood Bay; beautiful, tropical-like - but the water and air temperature are arctic-like!!

[@karenbrown4524]

These were *ALL* very good and well told stories! I wonder if after we die will we have option to choose locations in which we feel particularly keen to haunt and/or might we choose to haunt those with whom we feel done us dirty? 🐈‍⬛ I don't reckon we'll know until we get there, right?

[@TheSaneHatter]

I'm still happily enjoying your "Thanksgiving gift" of no less than FIVE new videos, well into the following day. Even though I'm not an ardent believer in ghosts, I must say that you're far, far too good at narrating these stories with depth and intelligence to feel as if you must somehow separate them from your true-crime material: these segments are both equally entertaining.

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Thank you, Nick. I appreciate your kind words, and the support you've shown over the past few years.

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Enjoyed the video very interesting

[@Alan-io2ew]

Fascinating stories. I'm a believer in the supernatural but haven't always been .My Grandparents house I discovered was haunted, When I stayed there years ago, and still find it hard to come to grips with what I experienced.

[@leikilimaile2565]

Mahalo nui loa🤙🏻🌺 well done sir

[@ieuanbriers]

We've had Ghost stories from Ireland, London and now Scotland. Please can you do Wales next or Cornwall and the West Country.

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Certainly.

[@reinadegrillos]

It's very sad when you sense the ghosts don't know they are dead. Poor souls. I myself had one ghost living in my flat, it was my husband's grandfather, he entered the flat by a mirror I had in the wall that communicates my neighbour's flat and he came and went that way. He used to bother my children by changing their things, but made no harm. When I painted my flat, i took off the mirror and he never came back. I wonder whether I exiled him or where did he go?

[@ianmorris4922]

9:53;Katherine Kirby-McStraightnose. She works there. She reminds visitors to use the handrails and to generally be careful on the stairs!

[@alexispaterson814]

Can you tell the story of Luiebelt. It was used to give shelter to climbers and ramblers. Before the building crumbled

[@KWolf-vb7po]

The stories are enjoyable but the photography is wonderful...

[@kristofevo]

Its Ross-Shire, not Ross County.Ross County is a local football team!

[@lindenmanmax]

Imagine going to the beach only to be driven off by an ectoplasmic Captain Haddock.

[@firebyrd437]

My husband came from Caithness and he said this story wasn't true, he came from the Sinclair family, we spent a lot of time there but since he's dead I haven't been there for many years now

[@alexwilliamson1486]

My uncle witnessed the ghost of a highlander walk through one wall and through another at Culloden House in the 1970s, whilst doing maintenance work. I lived in Inverness until I was 18, never heard of the Strothers lane tale before?!

[@carolweaver3269]

I need to check to see if Lady Fanny Sinclair, had a maiden name of Fanny? As that name was my husband's ancestor and yes, a Scottish name. I must check that out more. Very interesting and yet a sad story of her life IF true. Does sound true. Partly anyway. Thank you for sharing so many interesting Ghost stories of the various Castles of Scotland. Many that have assed am sure do not realize it and are left in the past and living their lifetime over and over until the day the Lord comes back. He will lead them to the life where they belong according to their heart. This has been awhile, and to them maybe a short time? But they loved their castles am sure and felt that was where they belonged. Thier home and they belong there.

[@ludovica8221]

Fanny is normally the pet name for Frances. Sinclair was her maiden name

[@carolweaver3269]

@@ludovica8221 TY!!

[@Mrs.Karen_Walker]

I love these ghost stories. The things people come up with while being wasted after a long night in the pub.

[@cryptidsNstuff]

Good stories

[@murrayscott9546]

Didn't finish.. . . it's mists, it's mountains bring out the sense of the supernatutal for those that have a feeling for such things. Ghosts,; perhaps ?

[@1963Iota]

I wonder if the Fannie in the second story is the Fannie that BBC Ghosts is based on? 🤔

[@4seasonbackpacking]

Been to Sandy house now a hiking bothy back in 2012 while hiking The cape wrath trail. No ghosts to report,

[@margaretgill4330]

Very interesting. Brrrrrrrr 🥶

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

My cousin just learned about the song about Loch Lomond,😓😢😭 very sad indeed and I was if the version that she learned about is true. Now I wonder if they met after all.😢 We really don't know how many versions there are.

[@shlibbermacshlibber4106]

In the Highlands we often behave in a way that outsiders find odd, a man walking over a mountain in a suit is exactly the sort of thing we would do and often there would be unofficial arrangements with railway staff to hitch a ride, nothing about the man on the mountain sounds strange to me

[@jackofallvidz9418]

STORY TIME, I honestly would love to believe in supernatural events. I dont think i do anyway.... however, this is the weirdest thing I've ever experienced and the only thing that makes me question it. I live just off The Isle of Skye in Scotland. In the village where i live, there's a bridge linking the mainland to Skye. It has a lighthouse and 2 cottages sitting next to the bridge going back hundreds of years. Theres a lot of folk law around them and people say they're allegedly haunted. They have always said the same story about the area which is that they heard voices outside the buildings... but no one has ever been able to understand what the language was... nor did they see who it was. Anyway, one night i was running over the bridge after work at around 9 pm. I stopped to take rest between the cottages and the mainland in the darkness. I leaned on the barrier for a rest and looked back into the street lights... i was immediately stunned. A feeling of amazement and bewilderment. I was looking at what seemed to be a 20ft giant stick like figure. It had no features other then see through shades of blue and black. Its legs and arms were the same long, thin shape of its body, and the head was also the same as those other parts strangely. It looked like a giant stick, man i guess you could say... anyway, it crossed the road from right to left in the street light, (on the edge of the darkness). As it took steps it walked very smoothly but didn't seem to make contact with the ground. It seemed to more glide with the steps it was taking... it reached the other side at the stone wall and then vanished and reappaeared in the same spot and began to repeat the same crossing over, and over and over until.... it never came back. Since that day i get a really bad vibe about the area. I do still go into it, of course, but it'salways in the back of my mind. What the hell was that? Im an athiest through and through, but that was not a normal experience. It made me question the world.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

My heritage is Ulster Scott with some Indigenous blood intertwined, Scotland and Ireland are my ancestors home and soon I would like to venture there. Just to see just how much of my ancestry is real due to the raiders of the Sea. As for what I identify with is a multi grain saltine.

[@jameswilson3991]

ulster scot cyan

[@rikallan5094]

That first story sounds very much like a shadow entity, the same 'signs' are being reported again and are on the increase.

[@yeshuas_follower]

Im Scottish and still live in Scotland...its not the same as it was...the lands are sold off to the arabs and americans...also the englush crown took most of it...we cant fish freely if at all in most rivers and streams,you need permits for the ines you can fish...its disgusting whats happened to my country.

[@20thCenturyManTrad]

I believe the chaps who were getting wood, mainly because the pony reared, the pony must have seen something.

[@katharinecarmichael7759]

I am of Clan Carmichael, In Scotland

[@chrisplunkett2814]

If we want an explanation for ghosts we can assume they're some sort of echo from the past caused by the death of someone with enough 'presence' for something to remain behind when they're gone.What I have a problem with is any ghost stories where the claimed ghost interacts with people many many years after their death.If the bearded man on the beach is just such an echo,how can he see that the father and son have collected driftwood from his ship and be able to speak to them to tell them to return it where it came from? A lot of (if not all) ghost stories start off as a made up tale based loosely on anything that takes the story teller's fancy,told in such a way as to keep their young children away from dangerous places.These stories get added to as they are passed on from generation to generation until eventually they get taken as actual true accounts of what happened a long time ago as no one remembers how they started.

[@susanfurman]

My ancestors were of the Crichton Clan.

[@conflict7269]

All i have from the motherland is a bag of rocks and dirt my mom brought back for me

[@wraymenzies9925]

For "Cruishank"hear "the proper name "CruiCKshank"

[@billbailey7193]

Cruickshank pronounced Crookshank

[@robertonunesoliveira]

🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@shlibbermacshlibber4106]

Singklah and crookshank

[@aaronsaunders6974]

Stranger on the mountain is the strangest tale. You can tell the way he pronounces garage, the narrator is British. Not sure about Scottish

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Scotland is weird...the people are particularly strange.

[@99fruitbat94]

Uch aye and jings , help mah Bob ! 😂 And in the name oh the wee man ! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hi there Ian 👍👋❤️

[@kristofevo]

Its good to be strange........

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@@99fruitbat94 wow! Now there's a blast from the past - how are you? I've not seen your name in years - life treating you OK?

[@99fruitbat94]

@@ianmacfarlane1241 Yeah all's well enough . I've been around in various comments sections . Hope all is well with you 👍

[@marianpower6711]

People are strange when your a stranger.😀

[@scottw.3258]

Cruikshank is pronounced 'Crookshank', not 'croo-ickshank'.

[@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4]

Ghosts do not appear as clear as a living person thats bollocks

[@jaapvander3787]

I've been to Scotland. one evening after 6 glasses of Scotch Whiskey I saw 4 ghosts. they were women ugly old women. Bringers of doom and decay😁

[@crusaderknight4792]

Feed

[@damarysdingui]

I'm sorry about your second channel, but I hope you keep posting more great contents on this channel.. Thanks, Curious World..💖

[@yeshuas_follower]

Im Scottish and still live in Scotland...its not the same as it was...the lands are sold off to the arabs and americans...also the englush crown took most of it...we cant fish freely if at all in most rivers and streams,you need permits for the ines you can fish...its disgusting whats happened to my country.

[@yeshuas_follower]

Im Scottish and still live in Scotland...its not the same as it was...the lands are sold off to the arabs and americans...also the englush crown took most of it...we cant fish freely if at all in most rivers and streams,you need permits for the ines you can fish...its disgusting whats happened to my country.

[@suellensheppard9734]

Thanks kill joy. Dreaming of Scotland was all I had left.

[@yeshuas_follower]

Im Scottish and still live in Scotland...its not the same as it was...the lands are sold off to the arabs and americans...also the English crown took most of it...we cant fish freely if at all in most rivers and streams,you need permits for the ones you can fish...its disgusting whats happened to my country.