Ghosts
A note from one of Richard’s tours,
plus some of the latest encounters in St Andrews
With over 200 haunted locations in St Andrews and over 400 ghosts, St Andrews for its size is one of the most haunted locations to be found anywhere.
In all the years of research the following is one of the more unusual…
In 2016 a family came on a tour and spoke of an experience they had one summer afternoon some ten years before on a visit to St Andrews.
While wandering through the Cathedral ruins their young son ran up to a grave and began laughing and playing. He then ran up to another and did the same thing. He did this around four different graves.
His parents read the inscriptions on the graves he’d been playing around, they were the graves of children. He was too young to read, and the graves of children in the grounds are not easy to find.
The following is very small snapshot of paranormal experiences. A lot more has happened since.
JANUARY 2019
Figure walking along the Scores Path toward my tour party at the Haunted Tower. The figure then turned to the left and didn’t reappear. It had walked through the locked iron gate in the Cathedral precinct wall beside the old lighthouse turret.
DECEMBER 2018
Strange lights in photos by the Haunted Tower, taken by a person on a tour. Also appeared in photos I took at the same location a few nights later when I went down on my own afer a tour.
NOVEMBER 2018
Ghost of a little girl standing beside St Leonards Chapel
OCTOBER 2018
The White Lady seen at 3am by a student in Cathedral grounds
OCTOBER 2018
Tour attendees mobile phone going haywire at the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
SEPTEMBER 2018
Sound of coach and horses Church Street
(During a tour)
SEPTEMBER 2018
Ghost of a woman in the garden of Queen Mary’s House
AUGUST 2018
Static shock from within the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
MARCH 2018
Ghost of a nun seen in St Leonard’s School
(During a tour)
JANUARY 2018
Sound of horses hooves – Church Street
(Just before a tour)
JANUARY 2018
Sound of horses hooves – South Castle Street
OCTOBER 2017
White Lady seen by group – Cathedral
(During a tour)
OCTOBER 2017
More incidents at the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
JUNE 2017
Ghost of a Nun seen by all on the tour at St Leonards
(During a tour)
APRIL 2017
Sound of Coach & Horses – Market Street
FEBRUARY 2017
More incidents at the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
DECEMBER 2016
A grey ghost at the castle
AUGUST to OCTOBER 2016
More incidents at the Haunted Tower
(During tours)
JUNE 2016
More incidents at the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
MAY 2016
3 seperate incidents at the Haunted Tower
(During a tour)
APRIL 2016
Elderly woman in black dress seen on the Pends Road
MARCH 2016
Ghost of woman and girl seen at St Leonards
FEBRUARY 2016
A ‘Spectre’ was seen during the day.
Corner of Scores path and Butts Wynd
FEBRUARY 2016
The famed Nun was seen by 2 St Leonards pupils in the Nun’s Walk