In Edinburgh the ghost of Lord Advocate George “Bluidy” Mackenzie is reputed to attack unwary visitors to the city’s Greyfriars Kirkyard. In the last 17 years hundreds of tourists visiting the Mackenzie mausoleum have reported having things thrown at them and of being pushed or pulled by an unseen entity.
Sir George Mackenzie
Photo by cc Kim Traynor Mckenzie’s Mausoleum
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And then there are the ghosts of soldiers spotted on the bloody battlefield of Culloden near
Inverness. More than 270 years after the last battle on British soil ended the Jacobite dream of Bonnie Prince Charlie ghosts of weary, tired and hungry Highlanders still roam the moor where heather does not grow on the clan graves. Such is the draw of the dead that the National Trust for Scotland actively promotes its haunted venues to an internationally eager audience.