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Charlotte is here to join me today with
another video in our urban legends
series and this is top 10 scary Scottish
urban legends let's do this we've got
the gore balls vampire back in September
of 1954 the children from gore balls in
Glasgow went on a monster hunt looking
for the creature that killed their two
friends and drank their blood for three
nights hundreds of children between four
and fourteen carried knives seeks clubs
and crucifixes and stormed into the
creepy necropolis graveyard known
locally as the city of the Dead they
were hunting a vampire that was said to
be seven feet tall with blood-red eyes
and sharp iron teeth the children called
him the Gorbals vampire this was
actually a real event on September 23rd
constable Alex Deep Rose was called to
the City of the Dead because of a
disturbance and found hundreds of armed
kids looking for a vampire local news
outlets picked up the story headlines
said things like amazing scene as
hundreds of children rushed Cemetery but
the report about the two missing
children ended up being false the police
heard of no missing children reports at
the time the gore balls vampire was
dismissed as an urban legend and some
say the kids were inspired by American
comic books like Tales from the Crypt
and the vault of horror alright next one
over 9 now guys we have the devil's in
the bins the house of the bins is an old
Scottish ancestral home General Tom
Dahlia was the head of the Dahlia family
in the 17th century now while he lived
there town claimed that every night the
devil visited him in his home for a game
of cards
he said the devil usually won now in
retrospect this might have been a good
thing you see one night the devil
appeared as usual and as usual the devil
in town
sat down to play cards this night was
different though this night for the
first time ever
Tom seemed to be getting the upper hand
he
winning as the game went on the devil
got more and more angry about this
eventually when the game looked lost for
him he flew into a rage the devil then
through a single marble at Tam it missed
and instead landed in the sergeant's
pond outside the house now for many
years people laughed at Tam and
dismissed his story as insane
then over two hundred years later the
pond outside was apparently drained and
what should they find buried in the mud
at the bottom but a single shiny marble
he lost his marbles Oh one marble the
city chamber's it's a famous building in
Edinburgh with ancient alleys that run
beneath the streets below the city
chambers are said to be haunted and they
attract psychics ghost hunters and
mediums this is because back in the 16th
and 17th centuries this particular area
of Edinburgh was hit extremely hard by
the plague the streets used to be
littered with bodies and sick people who
were banished and left for dead after
the 18th century the abandoned homes and
alleys were sealed but that doesn't stop
people from venturing down there there
have been many strange noises and
sightings reported but most notably a
psychic claims to have come into contact
with the ghost of a young girl named
Annie abandon Annie's a story that began
in 1992 after a Japanese psychic called
a Kogi bo went to the close as a part of
a documentary on paranormal activity
when the group were touring the area she
came across a room the she at first was
too afraid to enter she said the room
had a terrible feeling of sickness
hunger and cold but then Eiko went
inside the room because she said she was
invited by the ghost of a little girl
named Annie who had died of the plague
Annie grabbed her hand and said that she
had been abandoned by her family and
that she had lost her doll Eiko later
went back to the room with a Barbie for
Annie to play with and since then
visitors to Annie's room are told to
bring a gift for her there is now a pile
of toys created by people who have
visited her room to this day people
report feeling sick uneasy and cold
while visiting Annie's room despite the
fact that there is no historical record
of any girl named Annie and the story
has been dismissed as a popular urban
myth
an urban myth that actually has a happy
purpose apparently along with toys
people leave money for Annie and at the
end of every year the money is counted
and given to the sick kids hospital so
far Annie has raised more than 45,000
pounds for other sick children excellent
we have the a75 now that is the name of
what's said to be the most haunted road
in Scotland barn on it runs through the
county of Dumfriesshire and has been a
hub of reports of supernatural activity
over the years it's actually attracted
paranormal investigators to it from all
over the world
Kathleen Crone is the founder of Mostly
Ghostly
great name by the way now she said there
have been screaming hags eyeless
phantoms and a menagerie of unearthly
creatures witnessed on this famous Road
in 1962 perhaps one of the most famous
sightings occurred on the road Derrick
and Norman Ferguson we're driving along
the road when a large hen apparently
flew into the windscreen of their car
they then saw huge cats and other
monstrous creatures passed by them as
well as a phantom furniture van whatever
that is
all of which vanished into thin air in a
year since then the number of stories
has grown to the point where some truck
drivers actually avoid the a75
altogether all right it is time for
number six the boneless the true story
of the boneless comes from the Shetland
Islands a group of small islands off the
coast of Scotland where the inhabitants
were once terrorized by a ghostly blob
yes you heard that correctly stories
about a ghostly apparition called the
boneless and sometimes a frightening
have been whispered on the shetland
island for years now it's based on an
account found in the book
Shetland traditional lore by Jesse Saxby
although no one could describe the
apparition properly people called it the
boneless because witnesses say it looked
like a giant glowing white blob others
said it looked like a jellyfish or a
slimy white cloud the boneless would
appear press up against windows and it
never made a sound it could move though
apparently it could move faster than a
dog if you had happened to find yourself
face to face with the boneless you would
cower in fear and often die of fright
there's a story about one boy who was
dragged by the boneless to the edge of
the cliff he described it as smelling
like rotting flesh as he heard the waves
crashing below he grabbed the rocks and
hung on for life the boneless rolled off
the cliff and disappeared the boy
managed to drag himself back to his home
to tell his parents and the boy managed
to drag himself back to his home to tell
his parents next at number five we've
got the haunting of Castle Stuart the
story goes like this
the Earl of Moray inherited Castle
Stuart from his father he wanted to rent
it out but he couldn't because the
castle had such a
reputation for being haunted so the
earth tried to improve the castles
reputation by offering a reward to any
man who was brave enough to spend the
night in the castle news about the
reward spread and eventually four men
agreed a minister an elder in the
Presbyterian Church a local shoemaker
and the last was a large man named Rob
Angus
the deal was each of the men had to
spend an entire night alone in a haunted
room once they were inside the door
would be locked and wouldn't be unlocked
until the next morning
the minister fell asleep in the room and
had a dream about a blood-splattered man
who sat down next to him when he woke up
no one was there the elder had a similar
experience while he was reading his
Bible the door to the room sprang open
and in walked a man covered in blood the
man drew his dagger on the elder who
fainted he was found the next morning in
complete shock when it was the
shoemaker's turn he heard the door to
the room open a tall man with whose four
feet appeared in the doorway the being
jumped at the shoemaker and he fainted
in terror he was found unconscious on
the floor the next morning and lastly it
was raw anguses turn Rob Angus was a big
strong Scotsman who said he wasn't
afraid of anything as the servant closed
the door to his room he said you will
find me as I am or dead when the servant
returned in the morning the furniture in
the room was broken and all over the
place but there was no sign of Rob but
then the servant looked out the window
and saw Rob Angus
lying on the ground dead at some point
Rob angus fell out of the window or was
pushed various sightings and reports of
paranormal activity over the years have
given Castle Stewart the reputation of
being one of the most haunted castles in
the world coming under before now guys
we have Arthur's Seat coffin coming
under before now guys we have the
Arthur's Seat coffins this one comes
from Edinburgh Arthur's Seat is a rocky
hill they're sort of a landmark if you
will one day in 1836 five local boys
discovered an entrance to a small cave
on the rugged northeastern face of that
famous hill there they found some
intricately carved major figures set in
coffins I know that's incredibly creepy
the 17 coffins had actually been left
undisturbed for an unknown amount of
time each casket contain expertly carved
human effigies creepily dressed in very
unique clothing they had painted black
boots on and twisted facial expressions
in the air since then these creepy
coffins have defined all attempts to
explain them this has opened the door to
a number of creepy
benlate and surrounding them the most
popular is that they were created to
commemorate the 17 victims of the
notorious Edinburgh murderers and grave
robbers Burke and Hare I'm no relation
to that bloke there
okay maybe somewhere along the line
getting close now at number three we've
got Sawney bean Scotland's most famous
cannibal not much is known about Sawney
bean but he was said to have been born
in the late 15th century he married a
woman who was said to be a witch and
moved to banane cave in our Shire with
his new wife Shawnee supported his wife
by being a robber but rather than risk
being caught Sawney murdered his victims
and disposed of the evidence by eating
the remains the couple started having
children a lot of them 14 to be exact
and fed them a high-protein diet of
human flesh eventually the children grew
up and had their own children born of
incest and before long the cave was
inhabited by an entire extended family
of 48 cannibals all with a taste for
humans the family remained undiscovered
and would ambush unfortunate victims
steal their money and eat them
local authorities would find decaying
body parts sometimes pickled washed up
on the surrounding beaches eventually
King James of Scotland heard about the
sonnies and orchestrated a 400 men
manhunt
they found the cave full of human
remains and stolen valuables
Sawney bean was reportedly executed for
the mass murder of over 1,000 people but
most historians believe that Sahni never
existed and his story was nothing more
than an urban legend he's number two now
we have Gilley do think of plants than
that right in Scottish legend he's a
sorcerer a Scottish male fairy that
lives alone in the forest he disguises
himself in tree so as not to be seen by
humans his light green skin and long
branch arms make it almost impossible
for people to spot him however it's
important to note that the ghillie do is
usually only this elusive to adults you
see he's been known to appear and
interact with friendly children now you
should know that doesn't mean that every
interaction is a good one he has been
known to prey on people lost in the
woods killing or enslaving them perhaps
the strangest thing I read about this
creature is that he is said to collect
the teeth of children to perform
protective magic on them this has led
some people to believe that the Gili do
actually gave birth to the legend of the
tooth fairy
a much lighter story I think we can all
agree I don't think the Tooth Fairy has
killed or enslaved anyone if you know
otherwise let me know
and finally another one now we have the
McKenzie poltergeist this is perhaps the
most famous ghost story in all of
Scotland the black mausoleum is the name
of a tomb in Edinburgh is greyfriars
cemetery and has become famous as the
home of an evil paranormal entity over
the years visitors have reported feeling
extreme hot spots and cold spots they
leave with cuts bruises and burns on
their body photographic evidence for the
legend includes pictures of these
injuries as well as pictures from inside
the tomb the song claim show an
unidentified shape others have reported
seeing a white figure in the dark
smelling strange odors and hearing
knocking noises under the ground and
even from inside the tomb itself if that
wasn't enough for you
locals have gone to the grave some days
to find dead animals in front of the
black mausoleum some people have even
claimed to have been possessed which led
to the grounds being exercised twice
both unsuccessfully apparently in the
past few decades it seems as though the
Mackenzie poltergeist has begun to
spread poltergeist activity has been
reported in four different houses around
the graveyard and in 2002 a large fire
broke out in the residences behind
George Mackenzie's tomb thanks Scotland
is a really scary place isn't it it is
I've only been a few times and maybe
this is why I think I just kind of
innately felt that it was too scary for
me just too spooky I think it's all the
castles and like the fog Penguin has
that to you though oh yeah English Gary
that's why I'm here in Canada pretty
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