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Lothian Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana

Edwardian Woman

Location: Rosewell - Rosewell and Hawthornden railway station (no longer operating)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This disused station was reported as being haunted by an Edwardian woman in a long black dress.


ID #16123, last updated 2025-10-18

White Lady

Location: Roslin - Area around Rosslyn (or Roslin) Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The white lady is one of three phantoms to haunt this area, the other two being a phantom horseman and a ghostly black dog.


ID #11562, last updated 2014-05-26

Pet Dog

Location: Roslin - Roslin Castle
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The pet dog of an English officer killed during a battle at the site can be heard crying out for its master.


ID #4299, last updated 2003-05-31


Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland.

Stone Worker

Location: Roslin - Rosslyn Chapel
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Stone worker unknown, fairy in 2006
Further Comments: This stone worker was so talented that his master killed him in a jealous rage. Now the spirit of the worker looks longingly at his own handiwork, the Apprentice Pillar. More recently actors rehearsing at the chapel reported seeing a fairy-like figure in the grounds. As a side note, at least one contemporary author believes that the Ark of the Covenant could rest here, while others believe the holy grounds are the hiding place of the Holy Grail. Sometimes the chapel is reported to glow, as if on fire, which was said to indicate the death of a descendant of William St Clair (although his last descendant died in 1778).


ID #1210, last updated 2002-06-13

Lost Child

Location: Stenton - Whittingehame Castle (ruins of)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The area surrounding the castle was once thought haunted by a young child. The ghost is said to have vanished when one of the locals gave it the name of 'Short-Hoggers'!


ID #4174, last updated 2003-04-20

Former Keeper

Location: The Bass Rock (island) - Lighthouse
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Unmanned since 1988, the lighthouse is said to be home to a phantom former lighthouse keeper who checks the light is burning.


ID #9847, last updated 2010-04-11

Grey Man

Location: West Saltoun - Woods south of village
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A wizard executed in Edinburgh confessed to talking to the ghost which haunted these woods, which manifested as a man dressed in a grey gown.


ID #5797, last updated 2005-01-08

Wolf

Location: Whitburn - Polkemmet Country Park
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: 25 August 2009
Further Comments: Keith McDowell reported seeing an Alsatian sized creature, silver in colour with a black streak running along its back, with a bushy tail. The animal was circling calves in a field, before running off into the nearby country park.


ID #9655, last updated 2009-09-03

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