In Pure Spirit

Sally Morgan, also known as Psychic Sally, is one of Britain’s most popular psyhics. Her TV show “Psychic Sally: On The Road” runs on Living TV. Tickets are also still available for the On The Road tour for 2011, some of which will feature in the TV series. Sally’s On The Road tour continues throughout [...]

Once known as Castle Weem, Castle Menzies is believed to be haunted. It’s a popular venue for organised ghost hunts for tourists and more thorough investigations from paranormal investigators. The castle was built in 1488 by Sir Robert Menzies and was then rebuilt some tween between 1502 when the castle took significant damage and 1571. [...]

The festival Féile na Marbh is Gaelic by tradition. In Scotland and Ireland it has become bundled into Samhain. The phrase “Féile na Marbh” is Irish for Festival of the Dead. In the past the festival itself could have lasted up to three days; beginning at the end of October. As a result Féile na [...]

Traquair House is the oldest inhabited house in Scotland. It takes back to the 11th century when it was a hunting lodge for royalty. Today it’s also a bed and breakfast, a day out for corporate groups and an ideal venue for weddings. Traquair House is also the centre point to Traquair Fair. Returning in [...]

In the Scottish town of Saint Andrews, by the railings of the Hope Park Church, is a large stone with a strange blue patch. The stone wasn’t always beside Hope Park Church, it once rested at Magnus Muir where Knights of Scotland used to swear their oaths. The legend behind the Blue Stane of St [...]

A French couple on holiday in the Highlands of Scotland claim they have managed to photograph a ghost. The couple took the strange photograph on the high street of Fort William.  Sophie Mager and Remy Ruckey told press that they didn’t see the ghost themselves; it only became visible to them in the photograph. They [...]

Archaeologists from Historic Scotland are divided over the discovery of a mysterious stone in the village of Temple, the site of the Templar Preceptory for Scotland. John Ritchie, author and historian, admitted the debate, “It is a crude carving, quite primitive, but I have never seen anything like it in my life. It has a [...]

Palatine Hall and 2 Dalton Square are adjacent buildings; number 2 was once the home of the infamous doctor Buck Ruxton. Ruxton was once called Bukhtyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim. He was born in Bombay, India, on the 21st of March 1899 and was a Parsi – according to tradition therefore descended from a group of [...]

Image by Andrew Girdwood via Flickr This is the second time In Pure Spirit has written about Inverarary Jail and hauntings. In May of this year we had a copy of a ghostly blur caught on camera in front of “Cell X” in the Scottish jail. We were also able to report that Ghost Finders [...]

A Scottish city is set to burn a 16th century witch and is giving people the chance to meet the gaoler before hand.

The re-enactment will be held on Saturday the 18th of July at 11am, 12 noon, 2pm and 3pm at The Tolbooth Museum, Castle Street, Aberdeen.

The council’s press release notes that burnings were rare in Aberdeen except in 1597 when King James the VI encouraged a witch hunt. That year 20 people were executed for witchcraft.