Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet!
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Scottish
Mysteries!
Oooh!
This is a great time of year for a Scottish mystery...it is winter, it is around Burns
night...so huddle round the fire with a wee dram and have a listen to our eerie tales.
Before we get into it, though I want to ask you guys if you have ever been to Scotland?
I have - it is one of my favourite places in the world...
Ullapool and Edinburgh especially!
Leave a comment - like and share ----- instagram and stick around to the end of the video where
I will be answering comments from a previous list.
10 - The Death of Annie Borjesson Annie was a 30 year old Swedish woman who
was found washed up on the coast of Prestwick, West Scotland in December 2005.
Police ruled the death suicide by self-drowning but the majority of the people out there who
have looked into the case absolutely don't agree.
There are an some truly weird factors surrounding the last day of her life that simply can't
be ignored.
For one, Annie lived in Edinburgh and travelled 80 miles to Prestwick airport where she tried
to withdraw cash but her bank card was declined.
She was seen acting suspiciously on airport CCTV, appearing to run across the terminal.
She look distressed and confused.
She then made her way to the town but what happened to her there is unknown.
During her autopsy, coroners found bruises on her body that appeared to have been inflicted
while she was still alive.
After she was found, her hair was cut and thrown away, which is not normal practice.
Authorities seemed reluctant to provide forensic examinations into her death and when her family
logged into her email, they saw they had all been deleted...as too had her entire 2005
phone records.
Family members started experiencing internet interruptions when they logged on to their
own emails as well as receiving silent calls.
In 2013 Scottish parliament were presented with 3,000 signatures of those wanting a full
and further investigation.
9 - Gilmerton Cove In the village of Gilmerton, now a suburb
of Edinburgh around 4 miles away from the city centre, there is a cottage hiding a pretty
big secret.
From the outside, the house unassuming, but inside the cottage is the entrance to a network
of tunnels, passageways and chambers that expands underneath the village and nobody
really knows why they are there or indeed who built them.
The theories of course include the occult, the suggestion it could have been a hideaway
for witches on trial...others say it could have been an illegal drinking den.
Wilder theories say murder dungeon....we just don't know!
8- - The Lighthouse Keepers Among the remote outer Hebrides off the West
Coast of Scotland, there is an even more remote collection of islands called the Flannan islands
and on those islands sits the lighthouse of Eilean Mor.
The islands were named after an Irish Bishop who built a chapel there but would never stay
the night, fearful of the old Scottish spirits that haunt the lands.
The area was so remote and uninhabited at the turn of the 20th Century that only the
lighthouse keepers lived there.
On the frosty Boxing Day night of the year 1900, a ship was arriving to bring a new lighthouse
keeper to join the three already living there.
As they came to sure, they were surprised to see there was no light coming from the
lighthouse.
When they went to investigate they could not see any sign of the lighthouse keepers.
They were, however, confronted with a strange scene.
Meals were half eaten in the kitchen and a chair had been upturned as if the inhabitants
fled quickly.
Dramatically, it also seemed as if the only clock in the room had stopped.
It was assumed that they were blown of the cliffs in a storm and drowned.
Their bodies, however, have never been found.
7 - The Pictish Stones Stones have been uncovered across Scotland,
revealing an ancient civilisation called the Picts who lived in Scotland between 300 and
843 AD.
The stones displayed symbols which at first Historians and archaeologists thought were
just symbology, but it seems that actually they are an ancient language - a bit like
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
At the moment we have absolutely no idea what the stones are telling us, but a team of language
experts are working on deciphering the code.
What it might reveal....we don't know.
It could be terrifying.
6 - The Unknown Ship High up in the remote Scottish Highlands is
the village of Drumberg.
The coastline is rugged but regularly used for fishing.
In the 1990s, fishermen found an old sunken ship...although there are no historical records
of a ship ever floundering in this area.
The wreck is thought to be hundreds of years old and only a wooden hull and three cannons
remain.
The wreck can't be raised for further examination because researchers are concerned it would
disintegrate, as a result we are simply left to wonder what happens.
Coupled with the many reports of ghosts haunting the cliffs of the West Highlands, we can only
imagine what perilous end the ship came to.
A mid list treat right here!
One of the more famous of our mysteries, at number 5 it is our mate
5 - The Loch Ness Monster Ahhh, the most enduring Scottish Mystery of
them all!
How could we fail to mention this one!
So the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster has been one of the most famous Scottish urban
legends of all time.
Loch Ness is a body of water between Fort William and Inverness in Scotland and has
long been the site of otherworldly discussion.
Before the enduring legend of the Loch Ness Monster began, people thought the water was
home to otherworldly mysteries...indeed a monster was sighted in the area in 565 AD.
The legend became truly popular in the 1930s with a slew of sightings and of course the
infamous Surgeon's photograph of Nessie.
In 1938, Nessie was allegedly caught on film, and in 1954 detected by sonar.
Over the past 90 years there have been a vast number of sightings but of course there is
no irrefutable proof.
None the less, people are convinced there is something living in the lake!
Is there a wider mystery here, or is the legend of Nessie just a story made up for tourists?
4 - Peter Gibb and the Mull Plane Mystery On Christmas Eve of 1975, 55 year old Peter
Gibb and his 32 year old girlfriend, Felicity Granger, were dining on the Scottish island
of Mull when Gibb abruptly decided he would fly his plane in the dark following a boozey
dinner.
Granger held torches for Gibb as he took off in his Cessna Plane, against the better advice
of his fellow dining partners.
Some swear they saw a second person holding a torch with Granger, although she claims
she was the only one there.
Gibbs took off and did not come back.
His body was found four months later on a nearby hillside, that had already been searched
for his body months prior.
The autopsy suggested he died of exposure to the elements - he wasn't injured, save
from a small cut on his leg.
His plane was nowhere to be seen...which was strange indeed as the way he was found suggested
a successful landing rather than a crash.
Fast forward 11 years and a plane matching his description was found in the sea between
Mull and mainland Scotland, but this plane had crashed very hard and he would have died
on impact...also...you know...it was in the sea.
Gibb didn't have a parachute so jumping out of the plane would have been a death wish.
There are a lot of unanswered questions here and a number of people suspect foul play.
3 - Bible John Scotland had their very own Zodiac style serial
killer in the 1960s and we are still none the wiser as to the identity of the murderer
today.
The killer picked young women between the ages of 25 and 32 at the Barrowland Ballroom
in Glasgow, Scotland.
The murderer took three victims, after dancing with them at the ballroom.
The final victim, Helen Puttock, had introduced a strange man to her sister, who claimed he
had been her dance partner.
Bible John got his nickname as Helenès sister Jean said her companion had been called John
and cited verses from the Old testament and referred to Glasgow as an adulterous den of
iniquity.
He was profiled as being around 5ft 10 with red hair between the ages of 25 - 30.
Sadly, he has never been found.
2 - The Miniature Coffins of Arthurs Seat It was the summer of 1836 when a group of
young lads were out hunting rabbits.
A small cave captured their attention and they decided to investigate...however instead
of finding rabbits for supper, they found 17 3.7 inch coffins arranged in rows.
Curiosity overtook the boys and they decided to look inside the little coffins.
They found 17 dressed wooden dolls with open eyes staring back at them.
The boys told locals about their findings and interest in the mysterious tomb grew.
From investigation it seemed that the coffins had been placed at different intervals in
time over the past few years.
The media started calling them Fairy coffins and rumours as to their purpose went wild.
Some said they were memorials for murder victims but the most popular rumour was witchcraft.
The Scotsman, the oldest and most famous Newspaper in Scotland at the time wrote: Our own opinion
would be, had we not some years ago abjured witchcraft and demonology, that there are
still some of the weird sisters hovering about Mushat's Cairn or the Windy Gowl, who retain
their ancient power to work the spells of death by entombing the likenesses of those
they wish to destroy.
Urrrm.
Freaky.
To this day we still don't know who put them there.
1 - The Glasgow Effect Also known as The Riddle of Cylde, the Glasgow
effect refers to baffling mortality rates in the Scottish city.
Let me put it this way....
Average life expectancy in war-torn Iraq is 67 years old, in North Korrea it is 71...
but In Glasgow City Centre, it is 54.
Glasgow has the lowest average death age of the UK and indeed of wider Europe.
The statistics have often been pegged down to poverty - which increases the likelihood
of smoking, drugs and alcohol abuse.
However there are other areas of Great Britain with similar levels of poverty, yet people
are on average living 15 years or more longer.
Research is still rendering more questions and we still just aren't sure why people in
Glasgow are dying much younger than people who live in warzones.
So that was the Top 10 Scottish Mysteries - what did you think to this list?
Which of the mysteries did you find the scariest?
Let me know!
Have you been to Scotland?
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Comments from Top 10 Scary Sixth Sense Stories -
Jordan 95 HD said: I do think people can have a sixth sense.
They're usually gifted.
Especially the ones who can see spirits.
But people might be able to see ghosts and not have a sixth sense...
Who knows.?
Madison Penrose said: I sometimes see outlines of people, my mum says they might be ghosts,
she didn't freak out because her mother could see ghosts too.?
A lot of you were saying you got the water challenge right - so well done.