Examining folkloric, paranormal & cryptozoological locations in the UK and beyond
Location: Tongue (Highland) - Ben Loyal
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Working deep beneath the mountain, the dwarfs would create items for mortals only if the price were right.
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Published Media
First added: 2003-06-01
Last updated: 2003-06-01
ID: #4329
Location: Trottenish (Highland) - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This sinister, decapitated ghost roamed the area looking for the living - when it encountered a person, it would throw its head at them before trying to kill the unfortunate soul.
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Published Media
First added: 2004-09-22
Last updated: 2004-09-22
ID: #5490
Location: Trotternish (Highland) - Loch of Heads
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A skirmish between the MacLeods and the MacDonalds led to the MacLeods defeat - the victors decapitated all the bodies and rolled the heads down a hill to the loch below. As the heads rolled, they could be heard chanting 'We almost won today!', hence the name of the area.
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Published Media
First added: 2004-09-22
Last updated: 2004-09-22
ID: #5491
Location: Trotternish, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Old Man of Storr
Type: Legend
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Turned to stone by a couple of antisocial ogres, the old man of Storr has remained a monolith for hundreds of years, and no doubt will forevermore. A local legend says that fairies once stole horses from all nearby farms and rode them around the area at breakneck speed. All the horses were later returned unharmed.
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Published Media
First added: 2003-06-02
Last updated: 2022-05-02
ID: #4338
Location: Trotternish, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Shieling
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A young woman invited an Each-uisge in the guise of an old woman into her shieling overnight only to awake during the night to find it eating her companion. On discovering the Each-uisge, the young woman fled, only managing to escape the clutches of the beast by crossing a flowing stream that the Each-uisge was unable to cross.
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Published Media
First added: 2012-06-10
Last updated: 2012-06-10
ID: #10943
The fairy glen of Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Location: Uig, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Sithean Beinne Bho'idhich - Fairy Glen
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: Still present
Further Comments: Sounds of music and partying can be heard coming from this mound, the little folk still in full party mode. One legend says that a local fiddler was paid handsomely in gold to perform for the fairies at one of their parties. He fiddled for ten hours, after which he returned home, only to find a hundred years had elapsed.
Source:
Historical Record, Published Media
First added: 2003-01-10
Last updated: 2003-01-10
ID: #3545
Location: Uig, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Unnamed lake
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: To pass the time, a young herder rolled several boulders into a lake - the splashing caused an Each-uisge to appear out of the disturbed water in the guise of black horse.
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Published Media
First added: 2012-06-10
Last updated: 2012-06-10
ID: #10942
Location: Urray (Highland) - Brahan Castle, former site of
Type: Curse
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Before being boiled alive in a cauldron of tar, a local soothsayer predicted the downfall of the family that owned the castle. His every word came true...
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Published Media
First added: 2003-05-25
Last updated: 2003-05-25
ID: #4218
Location: Vaterstein, Isle of Skye (Highland) - Exact location not known
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A grieving widow was comforted by an Each-uisge which took the guise of a man who appeared at her cottage after the death of her daughter. He used magic to keep the fire alight before vanishing in the morning.
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Published Media
First added: 2012-06-10
Last updated: 2012-06-10
ID: #10941
Location: Wick (Highland) - Ackergill Tower
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Rather than end up in the arms of a man she did not love, this young lady leapt from the top of the tower and plunged to her death. Her ghost has been reported drifting around the site.
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Published Media
First added: 2003-05-22
Last updated: 2003-05-22
ID: #4214
Location: Wick (Highland) - Black Brig, somewhere between Noss Lighthouse and Inkerman Farm (may no longer exist)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The bridge had a 'sinister reputation', where people could visit at midnight and see 'things'.
Source:
Historical Record
First added: 2026-01-17
Last updated: 2026-01-17
ID: #16287
Location: Wick (Highland) - Off the coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 21 September 1938
Further Comments: The crew of a cargo ship reported having a strange fish follow their craft for half an hour. It was described as having a three metre long body, 1.2 metre long neck and an oval head.
Source:
Published Media
First added: 2004-09-15
Last updated: 2004-09-15
ID: #5433