The Spirits of St Andrews
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- St Andrews is perhaps best known these days as being the home of golf, and for the University where the odd Prince and Princess have studied, but its history goes back far beyond these more modern claims to fame, it's also haunted, very haunted.
From ghostly monks, to phantom coaches, this collection of stories features some of my favourite tales from this beautiful and ancient Royal Burgh.
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My ancestors came to America from Scotland .I am a McElyea and love finding your videos to learn history and the ghostly tales. Since a child i am now 71 i have always loved walking graveyards,guess that is part of Scotland i got. I am so proud of my lineage. After coming to America the other part of me is cherokee,very common for where the scotts settled in the day. My dad was named William Bruce McElyea. How scottish is that. 😊
My mother was a Dalrymple. I dream of visiting Scotland and walking where my ancestors walked.
I friend of mine visited Scotland last month. She told me she loved it and hated to come back to the US.
Scotland will do that to you 😊
Stories of love and sorrow are mainly a part of ghostly history ,excellent narration,Thank you for sharing 😊
Thanks for the lovely feedback 😊
I do love St Andrews. Me, and my parents went on a ghost tour of St Andrews, when we had our last family trip to the town. It's a good thing that I studied at Glasgow Uni, rather than St Andrews Uni, because of the number of times I've walked over Patrick Harvey's initials. When I was really young, I used to go on donkey rides on the East Sands.
I feel that the young woman who quickly & unexpectedly 1st became a Bride of Christ, and then further went on to mutilate herself: was fleeing from living in the world, the only way she could think of. I'm wondering what drove her to that choice. Was she sexually assaulted by someone unknown? A terrible crime, that provoked a horrifying response & yet... considering the times, her social standing, expectations of her purity (now destroyed) it makes sense. Sad & unnecessary. A tragedy for her, her promised young man, their families.
I feel that she needs help and needs to tell her story. That may be what she is trying to do but people run in fear and dont understand. It's sad. Something did happen to her. It doesnt make sense for her to suddenly do all of that.
I can't imagine it would be physically possible for somebody to mutilate their own face to such an extreme. Surely it was the work of another person?
Great stories of st Andrew's
The Abbeys and Nunneries of Scotland must have been packed full! 😂 Superb video as always. Loved it!
Too kind, thank you 😊
Hello from Australia 😊 I've just found your channel and I'm impressed. Your narration is concise, clear and informative and I've been able to find my way around Edinburgh thanks to your follow on narrative, Thank you for not having the background music louder than your narrative.
Great such an knowledge and great explanations amazing
Yay!! New scary Edinburgh stories for my birthday, although I'm certain I do not want to meet up with a mutilated ghost. Thank you!
It’s my birthday, too! 🎉🎂💐🍦🧁Happy birthday, fellow July baby!
Happy Birthday 🎂
Happy birthday to you also! Hope you both have wonderful days.
@@eerieedinburgh Thank you! 😊
4:32 for a horrible second there I thought you were going to say the visitor fell out a window or something. Been binging your videos they’re blumin’ wonderful.
Glad you are enjoying them, my friend 😊 any recommendations, give me a shout 👍🏻
@@eerieedinburgh Uhhh I’m from Moray we don’t have many ghost stories up here that I’m aware of. I remember hearing there’s a ghost down by the river lossie of a woman who uhhh….chose to stop there. And one of Elgin cathedral having one of some guy who died in the fire that The wolf of badnock started but honestly we don’t have many. I wish I could recommend others. I’m racking my Brain. Oh! Burghead has a good one, it’s more of an unusual occurrence than a ghost but the old graveyard there has a weird grave with like a hole in the stone, apparently if you put your ear up to it and tap a stone 3 times inside the hole if you hear a baby crying….uhhh I think you either are going to have a baby or are about to die(one or the other). You know now that I think about it more I can think of one more moray one, again I’d take what I say with a handful of salt since it’s probably all bullock and I probably getting these tales wrong. This is one is from the Dufftown area but it’s one I heard when I volunteered on the railway there, though maybe Bob was just winding me up(wouldn’t put it past him, former teachers have a weird sense of humour) but if I remember right there’s suppose to the be the ghost of a man who jumped to his death from the bridge.
@@andrewobrien8325 So that's a fair few stories already 😆. Is Balvenie Castle up your way? I remember hearing a couple of stories from there. Everywhere in Scotland has stories associated with it, some are just harder to find than others. Like Wester Ross - i'm struggling to find stories from up there 🤦♂️
@@eerieedinburgh I do know one of my own but it’s not moray. It’s from Iona. I volunteered there a few years back and had two strange experiences. It was Christmas morning of 2016, I was at the abbey using the Internet(I just lost track of time it was maybe 4am), I came out the abbey from the front and thought “I’m in trouble if anyone sees me” and then I saw someone up the track towards the visitor centre, it was someone clad all in white, I couldn’t tell ya if they were male or female but I was like “oh dear” so I walked towards them but they headed for the road, they weren’t on the road. It just didn’t make sense. So I dismissed it. I told a friend later that morning but he put it down to me being overtired. However I was back on Iona for 2017 for a longer period but about 3 weeks in, I was coming out of the abbey at 10pm it was my day off so I wasn’t even slightly tired and turned my head towards the old graveyard there was a figure in white again this time going from grave to grave. I called out to them because at 10pm no one was allowed in that graveyard by order of historic Scotland but the figure just kept walking. And rather stupid on my part, I decided to confront them so I ran along the path and got into the graveyard but as soon as I was in I couldn’t see the figure, they had no where to go but they weren’t there when I reached the graves. I even checked the graves id seen them. However i was seen in the graveyard by a fellow volunteer and had to explain why I’d gone In at the time no one was suppose to. Honestly I very weird experience. Iona was lovely but that story always sticks out to me as weird that the two events were so similar and yet I have no explanation.
The Story about James I Assassination in the year 1437 and the punishment carried out on the killers would be a good video to cover 💯🏴
That's an idea...i'll have a wee read.
Great suggestion!
Gonna be checking a few of these out when I’m in St. Andrews later this month. Thanks 👻
My kids mum lived by the harbour for a good few years and swears by the nun and white lady stories 👍🏻
Just discovered your amazing channel and immediately subscribed! 😄 Being a big fan of folklore and ghost stories, and having been lucky enough to live in St Andrews for a wee while, I appreciated seeing some of the city's spookier tales. St Rule's Tower is surrounded by a more modern graveyard (including an intriguing golfer's gravestone) and pretty sure I saw something odd by the tower one winter's afternoon as I was out on a walk there 👻 Keep up the great work - Scotland has so much fascinating history and folklore!!
Thank you 😊 Merry Christmas!
@@eerieedinburgh And a Merry Christmas to you!! 🎄
Good morning from Northern Nevada USA have a great day God bless you❤
Thank you 😊 And to you!
@@eerieedinburgh ❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
Filming, editing, choice of music and story telling all superb. Keep up the good work.
Thank you my friend 😊
Your videos are wonderful; you do an excellent job blending pictures, footage and narrative. I live in the U.S., and while we certainly have our share of hauntings and spirits, it doesn't come close to the disturbances that exist in Europe, where so many centuries of history leave layer after layer of ripples in the spiritual fabric. Particularly, I think, in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England, where the Celts more than left their mark on their own time and the generations that follow to this day. Please keep up the great work!
Thank you, thats lovely of you to say. There are a few places in the U.S. i think could give us a run for our money. I'd *love* to visit Salem, particularly in Autumn.
@@eerieedinburgh Yes, Salem would be lively. We have a series of old prisons and old asylums before there were laws governing the treatment of patients and prisoners. I have been in a number of them, and the horror of what went on there comes from the very walls, along with the spirits who reside there. I spent an entire night in a place called the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. That was a night I will never forget. It is unbelievably haunted and has true darkness all through it.
@@pinkcarnation231 I've heard of there and i can imagine the atmosphere, you're a brave soul 👏🏻. I once had the chance to spend the night in the Niddry Street vaults, it feels very, very different when the tours have finished.
There are a few notable and well known haunted locations in the States, and many have been explored by big name paranormal investigators. If you come over, I think you should try for a grand tour of haunted places. Salem and New Orleans are our most haunted cities. If money is an object, you could possibly find fans who could host you for a night or two. Just putting it out there. I’ve been to Edinburgh many years ago, and I’d love to do a ghost tour! Thank you for the videos. I love a good ghost story, true or fictional. (But if someone tells me it’s true, it better be true!) 😁
@@joanhoffman3702 New Orleans is a little too dark for me. Amazing the level of hauntings there! You are right about that! Surprisingly, a West Virginia town called Harper's Ferry is quite dark. It was the scene of horrible activity during the Civil War. Likewise Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. You don't even have to be sensitive to feel it.
Love the ghost stories of Edinburgh love it thankyou
Thank you 😊
Wow!! I love this channel Eerie Edinburgh ,the cinamarography is oustanding n great editing and of course the ghost stories.But i love the history lesson as well.Went looking for an upload last week from u and to check if i had notifications on.Thanku ..was missing ya😁
Thank you my friend 😊 My aim is a new video every two weeks. Pesky job and kids get in the way of story telling 😄
@@eerieedinburgh well I think for dedicated fans we'd be happy for whenever u can make it happen.its been more than a few generations since my family were born in Scotland but whenever I see or hear anything about the country i get this weird melancholy and longing for a place ive never been..wonder if it's a genetic memory thing.Your calm voice lends well to a creepy story xx
@@raindog428 Aww, thank you 😊 i am so lucky to have been born and live here. I hope one day you can visit, there is so much to do and see. I cant ever see myself moving away 🏴
One of the things I find hard to believe is that no one has ever taken a picture of these apparitions. Everyone nowadays has a camera on their phone. There is no evidence just stories.
I have family that lived there, one of them reckons they saw the monk but yes, unfortunately a lack of pictures does mean most stories are just that - stories.
Thanks
Very interesting channel....thanks for your hard work and research. Love from Perth Western Australia!
Thank you so much. Your kindness is really appreciated 😊
Thank You for another excellent video . ❤ Really enjoyed the history of the area . The horrible mutation thing historically is an actual fact . Viking stuff 😢 Sometimes females who were captured during Viking raids were disfigured in this way before being returned . Particularly if they were christians . Horrible stuff .
Oh wow, i didnt know that! Thanks for sharing and the lovely feedback.
Love the stories but if a 12th century monk spoke to a modern tourist I doubt the tourist would understand the language of the time.
Listening to EVP work, the comments and replies captured are always modern and in whichever language they are asked. No one can say for certain why, but there are many theories.
@@thurayya8905 My point exactly
Lovely
That was well worth the wait, great video ❤
You're awfy kind, thank you 😊
Beautifully scary ❤
Thank you, as always you are too kind 😊
So glad I found your site. You Sir are a top notch story teller!👻🖤
That is too kind, thank you 😊
Lovely narrator...
Thank you for doing this, most interesting love Kim x
Thank you 😊
Thanks!
I used to live in Pittenweem. It was wonderful! Hope to return to stay one day. Most wonderful folks around...and they re long due their independence!
Thank you so much - again! 😊
Excellent. Never heard this one before 🙏🙏❤️❤️
Really interesting, thanks
Thank you 😊
On my second or third watch of some of your videos :). I am amazed how many hauntings all through Europe have monks. Most seem benevolent. It doesn't surprise me at all in the U.K., after the actions of Henry VIII destroyed the catholic institutions and infrastructure. I am not as well versed in the rest of Europe. The reformation seems to have had lasting effects not just on the living, but on the dead - for centuries. Do you have any thoughts on this? I would love to hear your - and anyone else's - thoughts on this?
Yeah, i think you have a point and its not something i'd thought much about until i'd started looking a bit more in depth at the stories. I've always thought that monks are spiritual people, so more in tune with things but they have also been subject to some horrific treatment as you mention. So the potential for hauntings are there 🤷🏻♂️ its a good question. There are some less friendly spirits of monks out there, the black monk of 30 East Drive and the Hunderprest of Melrose are two i can think of. I'll do an episode featuring the Hunderprest soon, i love that story. Thank you for watching also, i really appreciate the support.
With the willful barbaric behaviors of that time period, it's amazing that Civil Society actually survived. 🙄
I wish i lived in Edinburgh 😢
You're always welcome 😊🏴
@@eerieedinburgh Believe me! If I could, I would. Texas is no where near as interesting and it's hot as Hell here!! 🔥
@@KimberlySays... oh yeah! I'm far too Scottish for that. Anything over 20 degrees c and i combust 😄
@@eerieedinburgh It's almost 39c here today! ❤️🔥 I hate it! That's about 102f
@@KimberlySays... About 100f too much for me! Seriously though, i hope you guys are ok and staying cool.
By "Belgium" where Patrick Hamilton moved to, I presume you mean the Spanish Netherlands as Belgium didn't exist until the 19th century... ?
Yep, good point!
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I can only imagine how many takes had to happen for him to say "Firth of Fourth" that many times
😆 *many* takes!
@@eerieedinburgh just be happy the firth of forth isn't next to the forth of fifth! Also that there isn't a fifth firth of forth!
@@WPUpioneer 😆 my brain cant cope with that let alone my accent 🤣
@@eerieedinburgh 😂😂
When I get criminal compensation from my daughter stabbing me I will be heading to Scotland Ireland and Wales so much history love it❤
Sounds like to me somebody pissed off a witch. That's never a good idea .
Another corker! You're doing great old son. 😂
Thank you my friend 😊
So, the Firth of Forth of Fife?
I love your stories, but these AI images make me a bit queasy.
Bit like 'Uncanny valley' ? the models are getting a bit better so hopefully not so bad these days.