(mountain refuge) by mountaineers and walkers and has a well established reputation for being haunted. Ghostly footsteps, knocking sounds and a strong sensation of 'being watched' have all been reported by some very reliable sources in the climbing fraternity. One spring day twelve years ago, a local gamekeeper - whose good reputation is known to me - was walking past the cottage when he clearly heard the sound of voices from within. Entering the small building he found it be completely empty.

Another allegedly haunted cottage stands beside remote and beautiful Sandwood Bay in Northwest Sutherland; the bay is also the haunt of a tall, bearded man in a sailors uniform - a shipwreck victim perhaps? The cottage, as far as I can gather, has been the setting for apparent poltergeist phenomena.

Whatever the truth may be behind the selection of hauntings that I have given, one thing is certain; they represent only the tip of the iceberg. - the Highlands are especially rich in paranormal phenomena - partly, as I have already suggested, as a consequence of the area's violent and tragic history, but also I believe as a consequence of the fact that in sparsely populated, rural area's such as this, people live that much closer to the natural - and supernatural - environment. Of course thats not to say that towns and cities are devoid of such things, we know that this is by no means the case; maybe it is due to the fact that a ghost story becomes all the more credible when its recounted around the fireside while the biting winter wind screams down from the Northern hill tops and the Banshee wails down the chimney pot.

Well Know and respected British UFO and Paranormal researcher, Jenny Randles, had the following to say in regards to crop circle hype generated in the British National media during July 2002.


Crop Circles: A plea for sanity.

This week the British media, via several TV reports, national
news, major newspaper articles and ongoing hype have revived the
long flagging field of crop circle research through coverage
that puts this 'mystery' into the context of UFOs and aliens.

Indeed in the Daily Mail (10 August 2000) the noted author Colin
Wilson pens an article 'Why I still believe that aliens created
crop circles' and includes with it an image of a 'grey' being
from an alien abduction book to cement the relationship in the
public imagination.

UFOIN (the UFO Investigators Network) has in its team many of
the pioneer researchers within this field. Chris Rutkowski, who
investigated Canadian circles long before they appeared in the
UK, Ian Mrzyglod and Marty Moffat, from the only UFO
investigation team to study the earliest discovered British
circles (l980) and Paul Fuller and Jenny Randles, who produced
the first ever circle evidence publication and (with Mike
Wootten - our web site designer) arranged the first conference
in l985. They also co-authored the book 'Crop Circles: A Mystery
Solved' in l990 and were the only UFOlogists invited to attend
the one scientific conference ever held to debate circles (in
Oxford) and that involved scientists from Europe, Asia and
America (its proceedings being published in l991)

Given this extensive collective background and a probably unique
track record of association UFOIN has decided to issue a