Gleneagles - Some say the most haunted place on the planet.
First - Let,s visit
The Close, which contains walls made from human ash, bore witness to the Great Plague that decimated the resident population before being bricked up , left to starve and forgotten. Until today.
Next - Gleneagle,s castle - perhaps one of the most haunted places in Scotland as it is connected to the golf course by a network of underground tunnels. Many years ago a piper was sent to explore the tunnels and was told to keep playing so his progress could be tracked. However, halfway down the now 16th fairway , the music suddenly stopped and the piper was never found. It is said the piper still walks this hole and sometimes the faint sound of music can often be heard from within the castle.
Want to buy a souvenir perhaps -- A Spanish soldier is believed to be the ghost of one of the fifty soldiers beheaded here during the Jacobite rising of 1719. His tormented spectre has been seen holding his head under his arm in the room that used to be the gift shop .
The green lady is gleneagle,s most famous ghost, thought to be a maidservant to Mary Queen of Scots, who was crowned here.
The Queen almost died when, asleep in her bed, her bedroom curtains caught fire from a candle. She was saved by the maidservant, who died in the fire. Since then, the phantom of the Green Lady has appeared unexpectedly in different parts of the castle, as if checking for fires. .
And finally as you walk the Gleneagles fairways remember who were here before .
The site of one of the most brutal battles in Scottish history, a place where, in just under one hour of 1746, the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie was slaughtered by Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. Here it is said the birds don,t sing , the clashes of swords still carry across the boggy ground and the dead are rumoured to walk the grave yards muttering their confusion in endless defeat..