r/Scotland • u/Pitiful-Studio9798 • 2d ago
Scottish ghost stories
do you have any personal paranormal experiences? what’s your favourite ghost/folklore story/legend that’s tied to scotland? Just came from a post about how edinburgh has a dark eerie energy, what’s your thoughts?!
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u/blinky84 2d ago
Being as you mentioned Edinburgh, I had a weird one in Mary King's Close once. Could be explained by just having a funny turn but it felt spooky af.
We got into the room with the mannequins of the family in bed and the plague doctor, and I just started feeling really weird and spacey. I lost track of what the guide was saying, felt disconnected from everything, and was overcome by the sensation that the mother in the bed was no longer a mannequin, there was a real person there. Like, it was just this overwhelming sensation of... I don't even know. I was just swallowed up in it somehow.
When the guide said it was time to move to the next room and started leading people out, I turned to my friend, told her "I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to faint" and immediately passed out. Don't remember going down.
While I was unconscious, I was dreaming I was walking in the street, before the plague. People were going about their business. There was the smell of apples and meat and people bustling about. And then I heard someone saying 'breathe' in my ear, and I came back around.
I still thought it was real when I woke up. I needed to throw up and thought there must be a basin under the bed because there were sick people in the room. Ended up puking on the floorboards instead; I'd just had a pistachio ice-cream so there was an element of The Exorcist about it 😐
It can be explained as just being hot and stuffy down there and that's what made me faint, but it's not like it's a usual thing that happens to me. The staff assured me that they do have it happen, though, and they had a vomit-cleaning kit handy so there's that. Might not be paranormal, and I'm on the fence about it, but it was a fucking weird experience.