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Mostly Ghostly at Comlongon Castle

Did she jump, or was she pushed?

Either way, The Green Lady, believed to be the Lady Marion Carruthers who fell to her death from the tower over 400 years ago, has apparently been haunting Comlongon Castle ever since.


Comlongon Castle at night

Earlier in the Autumn, I was contacted by Buzzfeed to accompany one of their reporters who would be staying overnight after attending the Ghost Tour by Mostly Ghostly Investigations - Dumfries and Galloway’s first paranormal investigation team and creators of a range ghost and local history tours.




Hilary investigates for Buzzfeed

Researched in-depth and presented with a theatrical enthusiasm, the tour takes you round the castle while you are given the history of the building, the region, the local fueds, and reports of ghostly sightings - from the anecdotal to the well documented.




The Tour

It was all great fun, helped on by the fact I've done photo shoots out at Comlongon before now (see Comlongon Castle, Robyn Stapleton, and an Owl... and Photographing The Yahs), and Kathleen - one of the Mostly Ghostly team - happens to work with my stepdaughter, Holly, on her day job.



Personally I've never had any ghostly experiences - the paranormal seems to have passed me by. I once visited a psychic who apparently was able to tell everyone else in the group I was with, "things he couldn't possibly have known." This self confessed band of arch sceptics were astounded by his abilities. However, with me he got everything wrong. Random chance should have dictated he would have made one or two lucky guesses, but no, not a single point of accuracy. The others in the group, rather than conclude the guy was a fraud, decided the only likely explanation was I must have some super-strong psychic blocking powers...

But this lack of personal interaction with any spooks, spectres or things that go bump in the night, didn't stop me having a bit of fun creating a couple of ghostly images using long exposure techniques with my camera.


Kathleen looking quite ghostly


Hilary's wife, Madz, appears as a spectral presence on the chair in front of the bed

If you'd like to follow them on Facebook, you can keep up to date with the various tours put on by Mostly Ghostly Investigations, and Comlongon Castle periodically does competitions to win a stay in their amazing castle.

https://www.facebook.com/mostlyghostlyinvestigations/
https://www.facebook.com/ComlongonCastle/

And if you'd like to read the final Buzzfeed article, you can find it here: Buzzfeed: G-G-G-Ghosts




4 comments

Allen Capoferri said...

Great mood, Kim! They have a definite cinematographic look.

Kim Ayres said...

Allen - many thanks :)

Pat said...

You've made it look incredibly spooky. I'd love to do the tour - provided I had a young stalwart to cling to. :-)

Kim Ayres said...

Pat - I'm sure we could find one for you :)

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