Phil MacNeill was 18 and a member of Glasgow's Langside Climbing Club when he and his friend Jimmy Dunn set out from the city for the Lochaber hills.…..
Read this and be aghast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-59698147
How can these events be explained?
Someone scared the crap out of them for a laugh. We used to do it to our mates in the woods with friends in shallow graves who'd come up out of the ground wailing, and smoke bombs and stuff. It was terrifying* and hilarious**
* the first time
** when you were in on it
Someone scared the crap out of them for a laugh
There was nobody else there. It was miles from anywhere.
if no one else was there, no one would have made all the noise.
They were told there were squatters.
The men, whose story has been recounted by Phil for BBC Radio 4's Uncanny show, were told there were people living off-grid at Luibeilt, but it remained open and welcoming to visitors.
The usual residents hid in the wardrobes when visitors arrived, but then decided to scare the pair of students shitless.
Yup
Which is why everything seemed a bit Marie Celeste.
Subsequent info from Radio 4: The usual residents had already moved out as they had a newborn baby and the GP threatened to take it into care as the property was in the middle of nowhere.
when the inspectors came, the squqtters hid in those wardrobes.
This is a bit like the "Mysteries of the Unexplained" books that eldest (10) borrows from the library, scares himself, and then can't sleep and bothers us at 2am.
"Ghosts don't exist. They've made it up. Alright, if you need to you can sleep with us. We're not getting one of those books again," is my grouchy explanation.
Next people will be claiming that Garrick’s flat on Equity Road wasn’t really haunted.
Definitely ghosts! There can be no other possible explanation. Also, head torches in 1973?
Also, head torches in 1973?
Oh yeah, I wondered about that.
#10 - the squatters gave then the squitters!
The usual residents had already moved out as they had a newborn baby and the GP threatened to take it into care as the property was in the middle of nowhere.
Yes, because squatters have a fixed set of usual residents.
Ghosts? Dunno.
More between heaven and earth, etc. certainly.
Why would there not be?
Head torches were available in '73, the batteries were slung in a pouch over the shoulder/on the back probably.
it wasn't the Dark Ages!