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I have a Scottish Werewolf in Scotland story and a ghost story associated with a lighthouse... When I lived up in Caithness myself and couple of others would g
by smackay 5y ago
I have a Scottish Werewolf in Scotland story and a ghost story associated with a lighthouse...
When I lived up in Caithness myself and couple of others would go out ringing (banding) storm-petrels at night next to Noss Lighthouse, near Wick. We'd setup mist nets on the cliff-top and tapes played of birds calling at a colony. That would attract petrels passing at sea and they'd get caught in the nets. One night, in between checking the nets, we were sitting there when a loud and frightening snarl come out of the pitch black darkness, close-by. After nearly shitting our pants we grabbed torches and poles we used to erect the nets and searched the area. Nothing was found. It was a few months later we found out that one of the lighthouse keepers nearby kept a Great Dane, which he used to let out at night. We only found out this because the dog had attacked someone, in a pub of all places.
Another supernatural experience at the same place. I was walking down the road to the lighthouse alone, again out catching storm-petrels. It's was deathly quiet and suddenly I could hear footsteps behind me. I stopped, they stopped. I'd start walking again and the footsteps would follow. This raised the hairs on my neck but a search with a torch revealed nothing. It's the closest thing I've come to a ghostly experience and at the time a little unsettling. It was only later I realised I was probably hearing my own footsteps echoing off the dry-stone wall that ran along side the road.
- rwilson4 5y agoFor anyone else who had no idea what OP was doing with storm petrels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_ringing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_ringing