St Andrew's Cross

Location: Athelstaneford - Skies over the village
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This area may be the place where King Hungus saw the cross of St Andrew in the sky, and took it as a sign of impending victory over the English - he ordered all his men to paint the symbol on their shields, and the fight was won the following day.

Drifting Woman

Location: Auchindinny - Firth Woods
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Early twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghostly woman who walks between the trees drowned herself after her lover ran away. Another story says that her lover was murdered by the woman's jealous father.

Grey Lady

Location: Bathgate - Former Bridgecastle Hotel (now converted into flats)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about the grey phantom woman who once haunted this hotel.

Fast Foot

Location: Bathgate Hills - Area known as Knock Forest
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Seen running in the forest by a family, this man-like creature travelled at an estimated speed of 70 miles per hour.

Old Man in Brown

Location: Blackness - Hill overlooking The Binns - house along the River Forth
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This old man dressed in brown has been observed picking up sticks in the area.

Edgewell Oak

Location: Bonnyrigg - Dalhousie Castle
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Prior to a death in the castle
Further Comments: A fall of a branch from the Edgewell Oak was said to indicate a death in the castle.

Disguised Queen

Location: Borthwick - Borthwick Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Mary Queen of Scots left the castle in 1567 dressed as a boy in order to escape her enemies - her ghost here remains clothed in this way.

The Coalstoun Pear

Location: Coalstoun - Coalstoun House (also known as Colstoun House)
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Exact dates unknown
Further Comments: The Coalstoun Pear was a lucky charm stored in a silver box for safety. It was said to have been picked in the thirteenth century by a wizard who married a Coalstoun daughter, and has remained in the hands of the family ever since. Sometime around the sixteenth century a member of the family tried to take a bite from the fruit, bestowing a brief period of ill fortune. The pear became as hard as rock soon afterwards, perhaps preventing its destruction.

Horseman

Location: Crichton - Crichton Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This horse backed rider enters the building though the original gate, that is now walled up.

Monk

Location: Dalkeith - Dalkeith fire station
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004
Further Comments: A medium was called to banish a phantom monk who was blamed for creating strange voices, eerie screams and loud bangs at night. Reports of the phantom monk on the site of a former abbey date back to the eighteenth century.

Balls of Light

Location: Dalkeith - Dalkeith House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Spring 1998
Further Comments: An American exchange student recounted how he had witnessed glowing basketball sized spheres of wispy light which moved around this building. The nursery is reputedly haunted by a child and their nurse.

Aircraft of the Future

Location: Drem - Drem Airfield
Type: Environmental Manifestation
Date / Time: 1934
Further Comments: A lost pilot recalled flying over disused airfield in the 1930s and saw it operational, with yellow RAF aircraft on the ground - these did not exist at the time. He checked later on and found the airfield was really unused. A few years later, the airfield was reopened for training purposes, and aircraft based there painted yellow.

Black Aggie

Location: Dunbar - Dunbar Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Weather Dependent: Clear nights
Further Comments: This flitting ghost has been spotted around the ruins of Dunbar castle.

Playful Creature

Location: Dunbar - Off coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: July 1939
Further Comments: A father and daughter watched a sea monster playing in the waters just off the coast for 30 minutes.

Glowing Eyes

Location: Dundar - Woods in the area
Type: Shuck
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A witness recounted how friends were terrified by a strange black dog with glowing red eyes which appeared and disappeared around them. The sightings were accompanied by high pitched screeching.

Pale Lady

Location: East Linton - Hailes Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s?
Further Comments: Locals have reported strange banking sounds coming from the castle, as well as the occasional glimpse of a phantom woman in white.

Mr Swan

Location: Edinburgh - 12 Ann Street - private residence
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Late nineteenth century
Further Comments: As he drowned at sea hundreds of miles away, Mr Swan appeared to his family at the house and took the opportunity to wave goodbye before disappearing into thin air. Some report that he still returns once every few years to have a quick look in.

Curse of the Mummy

Location: Edinburgh - 15 Learmouth Gardens
Type: Curse
Date / Time: 1930s
Further Comments: The figure of an ancient priest was seen in the building after the family returned from a trip to Egypt - it was said that the ghost had accompanied a bone that had been illegally removed from a tomb by a family member. When the piece of skeleton was destroyed, the haunting stopped.

Yellow Eyes

Location: Edinburgh - 25a Regent Terrace
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1979
Further Comments: A number of strange events occurred in this shared flat, including a voice which asked 'yes?', the sounds of a baby crying and heavy footsteps, the disappearance and reappearance of personal items, and the brief glimpse of a pair of yellow narrow eyes in the darkness.

Old Lorry

Location: Edinburgh - A7 towards Stow
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid / late twentieth century
Further Comments: A phantom lorry has been blamed for causing a number of accidents along this part of the A7. Other sources state phantom cars have also been encountered.

Resting Giant

Location: Edinburgh - Arthur's Seat
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The rocky outcrop known as Arthur's Seat was once used as a resting place for a passing giant. In 1836 a group of schoolboys discovered seventeen tiny coffins hidden in the area, each containing a small carved figure inside. Their purpose is unknown.

Howling Hound

Location: Edinburgh - Barnbougle Castle, Cramond
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Prior to death of the local laird
Further Comments: This dog accompanied his master to the Crusades; the howling was first heard when his owner died on the battlefield.

Mrs Guthrie

Location: Edinburgh - Bell's Wynd - building no longer stands
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Eighteenth Century
Further Comments: The body of Mrs Guthrie lay undiscovered in a room along this wynd for 21 years. Her ghost manifested itself to a locksmith who broke in, curious to know why the flat was not being used.

Woman Holding Baby

Location: Edinburgh - Bruntsfield Links, private house (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Reported by a servant who finally quit after seeing the apparition too many times, this phantom lady holding a young child had no head.

Gateway

Location: Edinburgh - Calton Hill
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Seventeenth century
Further Comments: A gateway leading to the fairy kingdom was reported on the hill, though only those with second sight could see and use the mythical entrance.