THIS PAGE IS GOING TO BE A BIT DIFFERENT THEN THE OTHERS, THIS PAGE IS
                       ABOUT HAUNTINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD! I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED A
                       GOOD GHOST STORY SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE A FEW WITH YOU!
 
 

                   THESE FIRST STORIES TAKE PLACE IN SCOTLAND AND LAND RIDDLED WITH
                        CASTLES AND TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL!
 
 

                    STIRLING CASTLE WAS KNOWN TO BE THE MIGHTIEST FORTRESS IN SCOTLAND.
                        THE CASTLE WHICH STILL STANDS TODAY WAS BUILD IN THE FIFTEENTH
                        CENTURY. THE INFANT MARY,QUEEN OF SCOTS WAS CROWNED IN THIS CASTLE.
                        MANY GHOSTS ARE SAID TO HAUNT THIS CASTLE BUT THIS IS ABOUT ONE IN
                        PARTICULAR CALLED THE GREEN LADY. THE STORY GOES THAT IN LIFE THE
                        WOMAN WAS A SERVANT OF THE INFANT MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, AND THAT SHE
                        SAVED HER MISTRESS'S LIFE. IT IS SAID THAT THE SERVANT HAD A DREAM THAT
                        MARY WAS IN DANGER, AND UPON RUSHING INTO THE NURSERY SHE FOUND
                        FLAMES ENGULFING THE ROOM. SHE TOOK MARY AND RUSHED HER FROM THE
                        ROOM!
                        DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES IT IS SAID THAT THE APPEARANCE OF THE
                        GREEN LADY HERALDED FIRES AND OTHER DIASTERS.
 
 

                   THE SANDSTONE RUINS OF HERMITAGE CASTLE SETS ATOP THE BLEAK
                        SCOTTISH MOORS NEAR THE ENGLISH BORDER. THE CASTLE WAS COMPLETED
                        IN THE 13TH CENTURY BY NICHOLAS de SOULIS HEAD OF A NOBLE NORMAN
                        FAMILY. ACCORDING TO OLD BORDER TALES, WILLIAMS PASSION WAS BLACK
                        MAGICK. HE STUDIED WITH THE MASTER WIZARD MICHAEL SCOT AND BECAME
                        A GOULISH MONSTER. IN HIS DUNGEONS deSOULIS REPORTEDLY MURDERED
                        AND KIDNAPPED CHILDREN TO USE THEIR BLOOD TO SUMMON A FANGED
                        DEMON NAMED ROBIN REDCAP. IN RETURN FOR THE BLOOD ROBIN PROMISED
                        deSOULIS THAT HE WOULD BE IMMUNE TO EITHER ROPE OR STEEL, THE USUAL
                        CAUSES OF VIOLENT DEATH. THINKING HIMSELF INVINSICBLE HE ROAMED THE
                        COUNTRYSIDE MURDERING INNOCENTS. THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED TO THE
                        KING MANY TIMES, FINALLY IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE KING ROBERT OF
                        BRUCE SAID "HANG HIM, BOIL HIM DO ANYTHING YOU LIKE TO HIM, I WILL
                        HEAR NO MORE!" SO THE PEOPLE TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD, THEY TOOK THE
                        EVIL deSOULIS AND WRAPPED HIM IN A SHEET OF IRON AND BOILED HIM IN
                        IN A CAULDRON! deSOULIS GHOST IS SAID TO BE DOOMED TO RETURN TO THE
                        CASTLE EVERY 7 YEARS TO MEET WITH ROBIN REDCAP WHO OWNED HIS SOUL,
                        THEY MAKE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN BY SCREAMS AND MANIACLE LAUGHTER!
 
 

                          THIS STORY TAKES PLACE IN BALDOON CASTLE WHICH STANDS ON A DESOLATE
                          STRIP OF LAND IN THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND. IN THE MID 17TH CENTURY
                          BALDOON WAS THE SITE OF A TRAGIC TALE. THE FAMILY INVOLVED WAS SIR
                         JAMES DALRYMPLE AN EMINENT JURIST AND STATESMAN. HIS ELDEST CHILD
                         A DAUGHTER NAMED JANET DALRYMPLE SECRETLY PLEDGED HER TROTH TO A
                         HANDSOME BUT POOR NOBLEMAN NAMED LORD RUTHERFORD. HER PARENTS
                         FOUND OUT AND DISAPPROVED OF THIS IMPENDING MARRIAGE. JANETS
                         MOTHER WAS A HAUGHTY WOMAN, EVEN HER HUSBAND FEARED HER, AND
                         JANET KNEW SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO MARRY THE MAN CHOSEN FOR HER
                         BY HER MOTHER. THE MAN WAS DAVID DUNBAR THE NEPHEW TO LORD
                         RUTHERFORD! THERE WAS A GREAT FEAST AT BALDOON FOR THE WEDDING, AND
                         AS WAS THE CUSTOM THE BRIDE AND GROOM RETIRED. SOON AFTER THERE
                         CAME A HORRIBLE SHRIEKING FROM THE BRIDAL CHAMBER. AFTER BREAKING
                         DOWN THE DOOR, THEY DISCOVERED DAVID DUNBAR LYING ACROSS THE
                         THRESHOLD COVERED IN BLOOD FROM STAB WOUNDS. HIS BRIDE, STAINED
                         WITH HIS BLOOD SAT HUDDLED IN A CORNER OBVIOUSLY MAD. HER ONLY
                         COHERANT WORDS WERE "TAK UP YOUR BONNY BRIDEGROOM" DUNBAR
                         SURVIVED, BUT JANET DIED A MONTH LATER. IT IS SAID HER BLOOD COVERED
                          GHOST STILL HAUNTS BALDOON CASTLE.
 

                   ON THE THAMES SOME FIFTY MILES WEST OF LONDON, BISHAM ABBEY IS SAID
                        TO BE THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE BERKSHIRES!  LIVING IN THIS
                        ABBEY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN TIMES WAS THE HOBY FAMILY. LADY
                        ELIZABETH HOBY WAS WELL EDUCATED AND BRILLIANT AND A CONFIDANT OF
                        QUEEN ELIZABETH I, SHE WAS ALSO A CHILD MURDERER. ACCORDING TO
                        LEGEND ELIZABETH HOBY HAD SIX CHILDREN. HER LAST CHILD WILLIAM WAS
                        RATHER DULL AND SLOW TO LEARN. IT IS SAID THIS ANGERED HIS PROUD
                        MOTHER SO MUCH THAT SHE BEAT HIM TO DEATH. OTHERS SAY THAT SHE TIED
                        THE UNFORTUNATE CHILD TO A CHAIR WITH HIS LESSON BOOKS IN FRONT OF
                        HIM THEN WENT TO THE COURT FOR SEVERAL DAYS, UPON HER RETURN SHE
                        FOUND HER CHILD DEAD. ALL VERSIONS OF THIS BRUTAL TALE COULD BE
                        FALSE AS NO RECORDS WERE KEPT OF IT, BUT DURING A RENOVATION OF THE
                        ABBEY IN 1840 WORKMEN FOUND BETWEEN THE FLOOR JOISTS IN THE DINING
                        ROOM SOME FADED BOOKS THAT BORE SIGNATURES OF THE HOBY FAMILY. IN
                        ONE OF THEM THE LESSONS WERE SMUGED ON ALL THE PAGES! COULD THIS OF
                        BEEN THE UNFORTUNATE WILLIAMS BOOK?  IT IS SAID THAT THE SPECTOR OF
                        ELIZABETH HOBY CAN BE SEEN WALKING THE HALLS WITH A BOWL OF WATER
                        FLOATING IN FRONT OF HER, PERHAPS SHE IS HOPING TO WASH AWAY HER
                        GUILT, LIKE LADY MCBETH?