Scottish Ghost Stories

Haunting images of the strange, the sinister, and the supernatural have scarred the bleak beauty of the Scottish landscape for centuries. In Scottish Ghost Stories, macabre mysteries of the unknown, both past and present, are unravelled in tales of soul-freezing suspense. I researched these stories during 1986 and 87, while working for the Clyde Valley Tourist Board in south central Scotland. The Clyde Valley Tourist Board, now joined with the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board, covered the local administrative districts of Hamilton, Motherwell and Clydesdale and that it where these stories originate from. The River Clyde rises in the south of Lanarkshire, near the former mining village of Leadhills, and flows past the World Heritage village of New Lanark. It continues through the fruitful Clyde Valley, famous for its tomatoes and soft fruit, flows between the towns of Hamilton and Motherwell and continues into the City of Glasgow and on to the sea at Greenock. Thanks are due to all who shared their stories and experiences. I would like to personally thank Scott Armstrong, then manager of the Clyde Valley Tourist Board, who had the idea of turning these stories into a "ghost tour". These tours received a great deal of publicity at the time and set the seal of authenticity on the tales The booklet that was typed up by the Board's secretary, Sheila McMorran (my thanks to her also), not only sold well in our Tourist Information centres, but was also partially responsible for getting me my current job in Walt Disney Imagineering. For this, much thanks! Finally, thanks go to Terry Primrose of Alveston Graphics, Strathaven, who produced his delightful illustrations of the ghosts for the original booklet, and which are reproduced here.

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