When we used to come camping as children we were told a story about a road that was close by, it was the most direct route to the campsite. The owners told us a different route to get to and from the campsite. When questioned about this road that looked like the most direct route […]
A photo taken by tourist Christopher Aitchison in May 2008 at Tantallon Castle appears to show a person looking out in old style clothing. Insisting the photo isn’t tampered with this image is baffling researchers. This photo has just been made public by Richard Wiseman, a professor of psychology studing “photographic evidence for ghost” ahead […]
We get a lot of odd requests at ScotClans. Despite living here all our lives (well apart from a year in Carlisle but I don’t like to talk about that!) and thinking we know pretty much all there is to know about Scottish Traditions we do hear about ceremonies that are a complete mystery to […]
No-one is absolutely sure if these gruesome villains existed, or if they were just English propaganda to blacken the Scottish name after the Jacobite rising, but if you had been traveling in Galloway a few hundred years ago, you probably wouldn’t have wanted to test the truth yourself! Sawney Bean and his wife were loving […]
I came across a great story to read in full follow this link. Legend / oral history has it that the clan Maclain of Lochbuie chief had a son called Ewan ‘with the small head’. concerned that they wouldn’t inherit the clans castle and it’s lands on the chiefs death Ewan continuously hassled his father. […]
