Where Does Dumfriesshire Feel Most Haunted?
Dumfriesshire’s haunted reputation is quieter than Edinburgh’s closes or the great Highland castles, but it has a strong local pattern of its own: border towers, old roads, theatres, churchyards and estates where ghost stories attach themselves to family conflict, forced marriage, military violence and the uneasy traffic between Scotland and England.
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Where Dumfriesshire’s ghost map begins
Dumfriesshire is a historic Scottish county on the north shore of the Solway Firth, with Dumfries as its county town. Its traditional geography matters for haunted-place research because many stories are attached to older estates, parishes and roads rather than to today’s administrative labels. Wikishire describes the county as bordering Kirkcudbrightshire, Cumberland, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, with Annandale, Eskdale and Nithsdale as its three main divisions. Scotland’s People also treats “Dumfries county” and “Dumfriesshire” as the same historic county, while noting that counties as local government areas were abolished in Scotland in 1975.[Wikishire]wikishire.co.ukOpen source on wikishire.co.uk.
That boundary point is more than administrative tidiness. Many popular “Dumfries and Galloway ghost” lists include places in Kirkcudbrightshire or Wigtownshire, which are valuable for the wider south-west but not strictly Dumfriesshire. Baldoon Castle and the Bride of Lammermoor tradition, for example, belong to Wigtownshire rather than this county page. For Dumfriesshire itself, the centre of gravity is Dumfries, Annandale and Nithsdale: Comlongon near Clarencefield, Caerlaverock by the Solway, Drumlanrig above the Nith, the Theatre Royal and Crichton in Dumfries, Carnsalloch near Kirkmahoe, and the A75 corridor between Dumfries, Annan and Gretna.[wikishire.co.uk]wikishire.co.ukOpen source on wikishire.co.uk.
This is also border country. The old shire faces England across the Solway and has long histories of reiving, wardship, castle-building, military traffic and contested inheritance. That does not make its ghost stories literally true, but it helps explain why so many of them are about women trapped by property arrangements, travellers startled on roads, aristocratic houses with family spectres, and buildings where public performance or institutional life has left a strong emotional residue.
Comlongon Castle and the Green Lady of Marion Carruthers
The strongest single Dumfriesshire ghost story is the Green Lady of Comlongon Castle, usually identified as Marion Carruthers of Mouswald. Comlongon itself is a late medieval tower house near Clarencefield, south-east of Dumfries. Historic Environment Scotland lists Comlongon Castle and Mansion House as a Category A building, describing the tower house as 15th-century and the adjoining mansion as the work of Dumfries architects James Barbour and J. M. Bowie in 1900–02.[Historic Environment Scotland]portal.historicenvironment.scotOpen source on historicenvironment.scot.
The legend is not just a vague “lady in a tower” tale. It is tied to a documented 16th-century inheritance dispute after the death of Sir Simon Carruthers of Mouswald. Clan histories and local castle sources say Marion and her sister Janet inherited important lands, and that wardship, marriage rights and property interests placed Marion under intense pressure from Sir James Douglas of Drumlanrig or his circle. One Carruthers account gives a sequence of Privy Council involvement in the early 1560s, including Marion’s appearance before Queen Mary’s council and later attempts to transfer her lands to her Murray relatives at Comlongon.[CLAN CARRUTHERS]clancarruthers.comCLAN CARRUTHERSThe Tragedy of Marion CarruthersCLAN CARRUTHERSThe Tragedy of Marion Carruthers
The ghost story turns on Marion’s fall from Comlongon’s tower. Versions differ on the date, but the common tradition says she died in 1570, either by suicide after being broken by the dispute or by being pushed by enemies who benefited from her death. The Castles of Scotland summarises the tradition cautiously: Marion is said to have fled to Comlongon, died after falling from the lookout tower, and then became the castle’s Green Lady; the same account notes the alternative murder version and the belief that grass would not grow where she landed.[The Castles of Scotland]thecastlesofscotland.co.ukOpen source on thecastlesofscotland.co.uk.
What is said to haunt Comlongon is therefore highly specific: a sobbing female apparition in green, the sound of weeping, a presence felt in the castle and grounds, and sometimes a force said to brush or push past witnesses. The folkloric force of the story comes from the mixture of legal history and unresolved cause of death. The historical documents can support the existence of a bitter inheritance struggle; they cannot prove that Marion haunts the tower. But the tale has endured because it compresses a very real early modern fear — a woman’s body and land controlled by powerful men — into a single image: a figure still grieving inside the walls.[clancarruthers.com]clancarruthers.comCLAN CARRUTHERSThe Tragedy of Marion CarruthersCLAN CARRUTHERSThe Tragedy of Marion Carruthers
Comlongon has also become a modern ghost-tour site rather than only a printed legend. Local reporting in 2016 described a Comlongon Ghost Tour inspired by Marion Carruthers’ death, launched by Dumfries-based Mostly Ghostly Investigations, while ticket listings continue to frame the event around Lady Marion’s “tragic and mysterious” death in 1570. That tourism layer does not make the apparition more factual, but it shows how the story has moved from family and castle tradition into public haunted heritage.[dailyrecord.co.uk]dailyrecord.co.uknew ghost tour trail lady 8833053new ghost tour trail lady 8833053
The A75 and the haunted road between Dumfries and Annan
Dumfriesshire’s best-known roadside haunting is the A75, especially the Kinmount Straight near Annan. This is not a secluded ruin but a working trunk road, which gives the legend a different character: sudden apparitions, phantom vehicles and impossible animals are said to appear in front of moving traffic. Annan’s own local-history site calls the A75 “renowned for eerie activity”, with the Kinmount Straight at the top of Scotland’s haunted-road reputation.[annanthehistorytown.org]annanthehistorytown.orgOpen source on annanthehistorytown.org.
The most famous reported incident is usually dated to 1962 and attributed to Derek and Norman Ferguson. ITV Border’s 2013 Halloween report says the brothers claimed their vehicle was struck by a hen that vanished, followed by other animals and figures that also disappeared. The same report notes wider claims of hundreds of sightings on the old and new road between Gretna and Dumfries, ranging from vanishing figures to strange animals.[ITVX]itv.comXTaking a trip down 'most haunted' road | ITV News BorderXTaking a trip down 'most haunted' road | ITV News Border
A sceptical reading matters here. A road legend is especially vulnerable to retelling, exaggeration and the way night driving can distort perception: headlights, fatigue, weather, roadside trees and expectation can all create momentary shocks. Yet that is also why the A75 story is so powerful as folklore. Unlike a castle ghost glimpsed by a visitor, the A75 apparition intrudes into modern speed and routine. The witness is not seeking a séance; they are driving home, carrying freight, or crossing the border at night.
The road’s geography strengthens the atmosphere. The A75 links Gretna and the A74(M) with Dumfries and the ferry routes farther west; the Kinmount stories sit in Annandale, close to older routes, settlements and the borderland between Scotland and England. Popular motoring and travel coverage continues to repeat the “most haunted road” label, but the most useful way to treat it is as a modern legend with a few named accounts at its core, not as a verified catalogue of supernatural events.[autotrader.co.uk]autotrader.co.ukAutotrader The UK's Most Haunted RoadsAutotrader The UK's Most Haunted Roads
Drumlanrig Castle’s aristocratic spectres
Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill in Nithsdale, gives Dumfriesshire a more stately type of haunting. The estate’s official site presents Drumlanrig as a major heritage attraction, while Historic Houses describes it as the Dumfriesshire home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry and one of Scotland’s finest examples of 17th-century Renaissance architecture. Historic Environment Scotland’s designed-landscape record calls Drumlanrig one of Scotland’s finest grand designed landscapes, with terraces and banks dating back to the 17th century.[drumlanrigcastle.co.uk]drumlanrigcastle.co.ukOpen source on drumlanrigcastle.co.uk.
The castle’s ghost lore is unusually varied. The Castles of Scotland records three alleged hauntings: Lady Anne Douglas, reportedly seen carrying her head under her arm; a young woman in a flowing dress; and a monkey or similar creature. A 2024 Scottish Banner feature repeats much the same trio, including the head-carrying Lady Douglas and the monkey associated with the Yellow Monkey Room.[The Castles of Scotland]thecastlesofscotland.co.ukOpen source on thecastlesofscotland.co.uk.
These stories are less tightly documented than Marion Carruthers at Comlongon. They belong more to house tradition, guidebook lore and visitor storytelling than to a single recoverable incident. The headless or head-carrying lady is a familiar motif in British castle ghostlore, often attached to aristocratic women who become symbols of family violence, dynastic anxiety or old guilt. The monkey ghost is stranger and more memorable, perhaps because it resists the expected Gothic script; it sounds like the sort of story that survives precisely because it is odd.
Drumlanrig’s value for a haunted Dumfriesshire page is therefore not that it offers a clean case file. It shows how a great house accumulates tales around rooms, portraits, servants’ stairs, family memory and guided-tour whispers. The architecture is real and well documented; the spectres are reported traditions, best read as part of how visitors and staff have made sense of an imposing aristocratic building after dark.[Historic Houses]historichouses.orgOpen source on historichouses.org.
Caerlaverock Castle: siege memory and spectral atmosphere
Caerlaverock Castle is one of Dumfriesshire’s most atmospheric ruins, and even without a ghost story it would feel made for one. Historic Environment Scotland describes it as a medieval stronghold with a wide moat, twin-towered gatehouse and lofty battlements, caught up in border conflicts. HES’s history page highlights two major sieges: Edward I’s siege in July 1300 and the castle’s final siege in 1640, after which it was stripped and partly demolished so it could not again serve as a place of defence.[Historic Environment Scotland]historicenvironment.scotOpen source on historicenvironment.scot.
The castle’s haunted reputation is more diffuse than Comlongon’s. Tourist and paranormal sources speak of a Green Lady, whispers, footsteps and figures at windows, while local ghost-tour listings for “Chilling Tales of Caerlaverock Castle” advertise stories including a mysterious lady in grey, disembodied voices and a ghostly good Samaritan on Caerlaverock Merse. These are claims and tour traditions rather than firm historical records, but they draw power from a site whose violent history is independently strong.[Cottages]cottages.comThe Dark and Mysterious Legends of Dumfries and GallowayThe Dark and Mysterious Legends of Dumfries and Galloway
The key interpretive point is that Caerlaverock’s “haunting” is less about one famous apparition than about siege memory. The 1300 siege was important enough to be commemorated in a contemporary poem, and HES’s statement of significance calls the castle one of Scotland’s foremost examples of medieval secular architecture, with a triangular curtain wall unique in Britain and a major Maxwell family history. Such a place easily becomes a vessel for stories of voices, watchers and women in grey because its ruins already dramatise violence, abandonment and survival.[HES Publications]app-hes-pubs-prod-neu-01.azurewebsites.netHES Publications Caerlaverock Castle Statement of SignificanceHES Publications Caerlaverock Castle Statement of Significance
A careful page should not overstate the ghost evidence at Caerlaverock. The secure facts are the castle, the Maxwells, the sieges and the ruined fabric. The ghostly layer is later, folkloric and tour-mediated. That does not make it worthless; it makes it a good example of how haunted tourism often grows from genuine historical intensity rather than from a single verifiable witness report.
Dumfries town: theatres, crypts and ghost walks
Dumfries, the county town, has a different haunted texture from the castles. Here the stories cluster around streets, closes, performance spaces, churches and institutional buildings. The clearest public-facing example is the Theatre Royal Dumfries. The theatre’s own site says it is Scotland’s oldest working theatre, first opened in 1792, and notes its associations with Robert Burns.[theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk]theatreroyaldumfries.co.ukOpen source on theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk.
Its ghost stories are now part of staged and guided experiences. The Theatre Royal’s “Haunted Theatre” page refers to claims of three ghosts: a musician, a dancer and an old stagehand, all said by some historians or enthusiasts to have once worked there and died by suicide. Other Theatre Royal listings describe shadowy figures, poltergeist reports and a “bizarre double tragedy” woven into haunted tours by Mostly Ghostly.[theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk]theatreroyaldumfries.co.ukOpen source on theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk.
That mixture of theatre and haunting needs careful handling. A working theatre is already a place of voices, costumes, darkness, trapdoors, backstage rumours and repetition. Ghost stories in such buildings often become part of performance culture itself: actors tell them, audiences enjoy them, and tour guides turn them into a controlled encounter with fear. The Theatre Royal’s documented age and cultural importance are solid; the ghost identities are claims, best treated as living theatrical folklore rather than settled history.[theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk]theatreroyaldumfries.co.ukOpen source on theatreroyaldumfries.co.uk.
The Crichton adds another layer to Dumfries’s haunted geography. The Crichton Trust advertises Crypt Tours through the Crichton Memorial Church, Crypt and Undercroft, promising historical characters, artefacts and ghostly tales connected with the site. A 2025 Crichton article describes Mostly Ghostly’s Crichton Crypt Tour as a long-running and popular experience, with sell-out dates.[The Crichton Trust]crichton.co.ukOpen source on crichton.co.uk.
Dumfries ghost walks also use the town’s ordinary public spaces. DG Box Office describes the Dumfries Ghost Walk as a journey through “shadowy streets and dimly lit closes” of old Dumfries, combining dark events in the town’s history with ghostly tales. This is important because it shows that Dumfriesshire’s haunted culture is not limited to private castles; it is also civic, walkable and performative, turning townscape into a memory route.[dgboxoffice.co.uk]dgboxoffice.co.ukOpen source on dgboxoffice.co.uk.
Carnsalloch House and the fragile evidence of local hauntings
Some Dumfriesshire hauntings are intriguing but thinly sourced. Carnsalloch House near Kirkmahoe is a good example. Local coverage in 2015 reported that a Mostly Ghostly event on the “History and Hauntings of Carnsalloch House” would include family history, a famous actor and a headless horseman. The Paranormal Database lists Carnsalloch under Kirkmahoe with a Pink Lady, a headless horseman on the driveway and a note that fire heavily damaged the house in 2018. Dumfries & Galloway! What’s Going On?[dgwgo.com]dgwgo.comDumfries & Galloway! What's Going On?MOSTLY GHOSTLY SET TO CHILL WITH TALK ABOUTDumfries & Galloway! What's Going On?MOSTLY GHOSTLY SET TO CHILL WITH TALK ABOUT
The story is worth including because it has local currency and classic motifs: the Pink Lady, the spectral rider, the damaged country house. But the evidence is not as strong as Comlongon or even the A75. There is no single well-documented origin story in the accessible sources, and the ghost traditions appear mainly through tour promotion, local memory and paranormal gazetteers. That does not mean the stories are false; it means they should be presented as local folklore rather than as a developed historical case.
Carnsalloch also shows how vulnerable haunted heritage can be. When a building is damaged, inaccessible or lost, the folklore often becomes detached from direct experience. People may still repeat the Pink Lady or headless horseman, but fewer can test the geography of the tale: the driveway, the room, the window, the route across the grounds. In that sense, Carnsalloch is a reminder that haunted history depends on buildings surviving as much as stories surviving.
Fair Helen, churchyards and tragic memory
Not every Dumfriesshire haunting has to involve an apparition. Some of the county’s eerie heritage sits closer to ballad, graveyard and lament. Fair Helen of Kirkconnel is a good example: a tragic local tradition rather than a mainstream ghost case. The story, made famous through Scottish ballad tradition, tells of Helen Irving or Helen of Kirkconnel dying after placing herself between her lover and a rival’s shot. Wikisource preserves Felicia Hemans’s 1829 poetic treatment, which explicitly describes Fair Helen throwing herself between her betrothed and a rival, receiving the fatal wound.[Wikisource]en.wikisource.orgFair Helen of KirconnelFair Helen of Kirconnel
The tale is connected with Kirkconnell churchyard near Springkell in local tradition, and contemporary local coverage notes Fair Helen appearing in a Dumfriesshire exhibition on myths and magic. Folk-song sources also keep the story alive as “Helen of Kirkconnel Lea” or “I Wish I Were Where Helen Lies”, showing how the legend travelled through song as much as through place-based tourism.[Daily Record]dailyrecord.co.ukmyths magic dumfriesshire exhibition 33874807myths magic dumfriesshire exhibition 33874807
Fair Helen is useful because it widens the idea of haunted Dumfriesshire beyond “seen ghosts”. A churchyard ballad can haunt a landscape without producing a standard apparition report. The emotional structure is the same as many ghost stories: a sudden death, a named woman, a remembered grave, a landscape made sorrowful by repetition. For readers tracing Dumfriesshire’s haunted places, it belongs beside the castles as part of the county’s spectral imagination, even if it is more elegiac than paranormal.
Why Dumfriesshire’s hauntings feel different
Dumfriesshire’s ghost stories are shaped by borderland conditions. They often sit on routes: the A75, the Solway approaches, Annandale and Nithsdale corridors, estate roads and town closes. They also sit in buildings where power was concentrated: tower houses, aristocratic castles, theatres, churches and institutional complexes. That gives the county’s folklore a practical texture. These are not remote fairy hills alone; they are places where people inherited land, defended walls, performed, travelled, worshipped, worked and died.
The county’s best stories also attach the supernatural to social memory. Marion Carruthers is remembered through wardship, forced marriage and contested property. Caerlaverock’s ghostly atmosphere feeds on siege and destruction. Drumlanrig’s spectres gather around aristocratic household tradition. The Theatre Royal’s ghosts are bound to performance labour and backstage myth. The A75 turns the modern road into a place where the past seems to burst briefly through the windscreen.
The credibility varies sharply. Comlongon has a strong historical dispute behind the legend, though not proof of a ghost. The A75 has named modern witnesses but depends heavily on retelling and perception under difficult driving conditions. Drumlanrig and Caerlaverock have important documented architecture and history, but their apparitions are mainly guidebook and tour traditions. Carnsalloch is locally interesting but source-light. Fair Helen is strongest as ballad and tragic folklore, not as a conventional haunting.
How to read Dumfriesshire’s haunted places today
The most rewarding approach is neither flat belief nor easy dismissal. Dumfriesshire’s haunted places are best read in layers.
First, locate the story precisely. Is it Comlongon’s tower, Kinmount Straight, the Theatre Royal, Caerlaverock’s moat, Drumlanrig’s rooms, the Crichton crypt, or a churchyard linked to ballad tradition? Place is the anchor that stops ghostlore becoming generic.
Second, separate the historical core from the supernatural claim. At Comlongon, the inheritance struggle matters even if the Green Lady is unproven. At Caerlaverock, the sieges are historically secure even if the spectral lady is not. At the Theatre Royal, the building’s age and theatrical life are documented, while the named ghosts belong to performance folklore.[Historic Environment Scotland]historicenvironment.scothistory and storieshistory and stories
Third, notice who preserved the story. Some tales come through castle guidebooks and heritage pages; some through local ghost-tour companies; some through newspapers, ticket listings, song collections or family history sites. Each channel shapes the story differently. A tour wants atmosphere, a clan history wants genealogy and injustice, a heritage body usually records architecture and events, and a ballad preserves emotion over evidence.
Finally, keep the historic county in view. Dumfriesshire has enough haunted material of its own without borrowing every legend from wider Dumfries and Galloway. Its distinctive haunted identity lies in the Solway-border shire: Marion at Comlongon, the night road near Annan, the old theatre in Dumfries, the siege ruin at Caerlaverock, the grand rooms of Drumlanrig, and the sorrowful songs and churchyards of Nithsdale and Annandale.
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47.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/mostlyghostlytours/photos/brilliant-night-on-the-haunted-theatre-tour-at-theatre-royal-dumfries-with-these/1316840402778476/
48.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/RealCounties/photos/the-county-of-dumfries-is-a-shire-on-the-north-shore-of-the-solway-firthdumfries/932457742371127/
49.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/HistoricEnvScotland/?locale=en_GB
50.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/TheatreRoyalDfs/photos/-scotlands-oldest-working-theatre-the-theatre-royal-dumfries-opened-in-1792-it-h/1310829024251072/
51.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/mostlyghostlytours/photos/kirkconnel-churchyard-looking-all-moody-and-atmospheric-framed-with-spindly-fing/2826490954241454/
52.
Source: blog.historicenvironment.scot
Title: haunted homes history allegedly
Link:https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2017/10/haunted-homes-history-allegedly/
53.
Source: historicenvironment.scot
Link:https://www.historicenvironment.scot/
54.
Source: historicenvironment.scot
Link:https://www.historicenvironment.scot/protect-and-care/protected-historic-places/listed-buildings/
55.
Source: historicenvironment.scot
Link:https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit/
56.
Source: clancarrutherssociety.org
Link:https://clancarrutherssociety.org/2023/01/28/clan-carruthers-carruthers-of-mouswald-shield-bearer-to-the-red-douglas-and-more-on-marion-of-mouswald/
57.
Source: clancarrutherssociety.org
Title: the tearful mouswald tragedy
Link:https://clancarrutherssociety.org/2018/09/12/the-tearful-mouswald-tragedy/
58.
Source: clancarrutherssociety.org
Title: clan carruthers mary queen of scots
Link:https://clancarrutherssociety.org/2019/03/11/clan-carruthers-mary-queen-of-scots/
59.
Source: ghosts.fandom.com
Title: Comlongon Castle
Link:https://ghosts.fandom.com/wiki/Comlongon_Castle
60.
Source: borderreiverheritage.com
Link:https://borderreiverheritage.com/clan-carruthers/
61.
Source: douglashistory.co.uk
Title: mlongon castle
Link:https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Places/comlongon_castle.htm
62.
Source: carruthersclan.wordpress.com
Title: carnsalloch house
Link:https://carruthersclan.wordpress.com/tag/carnsalloch-house/
63.
Source: carrothersclan.wordpress.com
Link:https://carrothersclan.wordpress.com/tag/mouswald/
64.
Source: carruthersclan.wordpress.com
Title: clan carruthers int mouswald
Link:https://carruthersclan.wordpress.com/1700/04/14/clan-carruthers-int-mouswald/
65.
Source: carrothersclan.wordpress.com
Title: comlongon castle
Link:https://carrothersclan.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/comlongon-castle/
66.
Source: thehazeltree.co.uk
Title: Drumlanrig Castle
Link:https://thehazeltree.co.uk/2014/10/06/drumlanrig-castle/
67.
Source: wikishire.co.uk
Title: Great Britain and Ireland
Link:https://wikishire.co.uk/map/
68.
Source: wikishire.co.uk
Title: mlongon Castle
Link:https://wikishire.co.uk/wiki/Comlongon_Castle
69.
Source: scotlandstartshere.com
Link:https://scotlandstartshere.com/point-of-interest/mostly-ghostly/
70.
Source: scotlandstartshere.com
Link:https://scotlandstartshere.com/point-of-interest/theatre-royal-dumfries/
71.
Source: paranormaldatabase.com
Title: The Paranormal Database
Link:https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/lowlands/dumfdata.php
72.
Source: tripadvisor.co.uk
Title: DRUMLANRI G CASTLE
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1237035-d318380-Reviews-Drumlanrig_Castle-Thornhill_Dumfries_and_Galloway_Scotland.html
73.
Source: dgwgo.com
Title: scariest places in dumfries and galloway
Link:https://www.dgwgo.com/out-and-about-in-dg/scariest-places-in-dumfries-and-galloway/
74.
Source: dgwgo.com
Title: New National Ghost Trail
Link:https://www.dgwgo.com/entertainment/151811/
75.
Source: dgwgo.com
Title: mostly ghostly tour crichton
Link:https://www.dgwgo.com/entertainment/mostly-ghostly-tour-crichton/
76.
Source: events.dgwgo.com
Title: theatre royal dumfries
Link:https://events.dgwgo.com/venue/theatre-royal-dumfries/
77.
Source: dgwgo.com
Link:https://www.dgwgo.com/out-and-about-in-dg/the-galloway-sorceress-jean-maxwells-remarkable-story-revisited/
78.
Source: dailyrecord.co.uk
Title: dumfriesshires close encounters eerie kind 33851585
Link:https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/dumfriesshires-close-encounters-eerie-kind-33851585
79.
Source: scotclans.com
Link:https://www.scotclans.com/blogs/clans-c/clan-carruthers-history?srsltid=AfmBOopariSpTw6CyC_I0loMJPZMato3EXVge1EtQlpp9T9eFCgu_AIV
80.
Source: historyhit.com
Title: theatre royal dumfries
Link:https://www.historyhit.com/locations/theatre-royal-dumfries/
81.
Source: alva.org.uk
Link:https://www.alva.org.uk/details.cfm?codeid=1183&p=73
82.
Source: drumlanrigcastle.co.uk
Title: three must see attractions for history lovers
Link:https://www.drumlanrigcastle.co.uk/three-must-see-attractions-for-history-lovers/
83.
Source: traveltrade.visitscotland.org
Title: theatre royal dumfries
Link:https://traveltrade.visitscotland.org/blog/supplier/theatre-royal-dumfries/
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Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/mostlyghostlytours/posts/next-crichton-crypt-tour-sunday-12th-october-at-6pmjoin-us-for-an-evening-explor/1651644762631370/
85.
Source: solwaytours.co.uk
Link:https://www.solwaytours.co.uk/10-historic-hidden-gems-you-must-visit-in-dumfries-galloway/
86.
Source: visitscotland.com
Link:https://www.visitscotland.com/nl-nl/things-to-do/attractions/castles/haunted
87.
Source: wildaboutargyll.co.uk
Link:https://www.wildaboutargyll.co.uk/blogs/7-enchanted-locations-filled-with-stories-in-argyll-the-isles/
88.
Source: visitscotland.com
Link:https://www.visitscotland.com/things-to-do/attractions/haunted-sites
89.
Source: paranormaldatabase.com
Link:https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/highlands/aberdata.php?pageNum_paradata=2
90.
Source: whatdotheyknow.com
Link:https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/are_all_the_hisoric_buildings_in
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Source: hauntedrooms.co.uk
Link:https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/product/auchen-castle
92.
Source: afhs.co.uk
Link:https://afhs.co.uk/ayrshires-most-haunted-ten-top-ayrshire-ghost-encounters/
93.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/Welovedumfriesandgalloway/posts/24656625927319586/
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