Ghost In Kilts

Ghost In Kilts

Apparition That Startled Children In a Scotch Castle.

Strange Experience of a Young Woman In the Same Turret Chamber - Queer Figure In Black. 

It is only seldom that ghostly visions can be verified by and are traceable to events which are known to have occurred or to persons of whom history bears a record. For the large majority of ghostly appearances there are no explanations.

Of such a nature are the two stories here related. Their origin - for, after all, if we take these appearances to be true, they must have some origin in the past - remains unknown. They are both seen in the same place, the turret chamber of a certain well known Scottish castle.

It was on Sunday morning and the family had all gone to church with the exception of the children. They were playing quietly together when a sound as of a wood blocks being thrown from some considerable height attracted their attention.

So the children, rather nervous - for they were practically alone in the house-started off on a tour of investigation. Arriving at the turret chamber from which the sound proceeded they found the door ajar. But, no one having sufficient courage to enter, a billiard cue was brought into requisition and the door was cautiously pushed open. 

A sudden panic seized them. They beat a hasty retreat; but, arriving at what they considered a safe distance, they turned and looked through the now open door.

What did they see?

Staggering across the floor was a little man, kilted and bearing a heavy load on his back. That was all. There was no one casting blocks into the area. There was no one like this little man in or about the castle, and though his appearance had nothing either frightful or mysterious about it the sight of him seized the children with unwonted terror. They turned about and fled screaming away.

Years later a young lady in the best of health sleeping in a bedroom close to the turret chamber was awakened by a call from her sister, also a healthy girl, who was sleeping in the adjoining room. 

"Did you not see her?" said the sister who called. "She went into your passage."

"No-who?"

"A dark woman," was the answer. "I thought she came with a message. She shook my shoulder till I woke and then stood looking at me and seemed to move her arm as though beckoning. She was well dressed in black. You must have seen or heard her."

No, nothing had been seen or heard.

An affair no less strange than the one just recorded occurred not long since in one of the royal palaces near London. 

Now, one day not log ago a woman in the service of a lady staying at the palace came to her mistress with a curious tale. She had seen, she said, when quite casually entering her mistress' room, a most extraordinarily dressed person. At first she thought of inquiring what the intruder was doing in another person's room, but then, thinking she might be some one who had a right to be there, she retired. 

"What was she like?"

"Oh, such an odd looking person, " replied the maid, "and so quaintly dressed! She wore a high dark cap with a long scarf falling from the top of it.

"Nothing more was said to the maid. But the explanation of her story is a strange one, for in another part of the palace there is the picture of the "odd looking person" she saw in her mistress' room, and the picture represents the nurse of King Edward VL.