I’ve always been drawn to the paranormal. I was always
the one freaking my friends out with whatever random ghost story I’d read or
heard. Ghosts have always fascinated me from a young age, and ghost stories
were something that I constantly digested. Here is one of my favorite tales…
The
Ballechin House in Scotland, as the story goes, was built in 1806 and inherited
by Robert Stuart in 1834. Robert at the time was enlisted in the military and living
in India and did not return to the house until 1850. While he was in India, the
story goes that he had come to believe in reincarnation and transmigration of
the soul, or the ability for the soul to live on after death and inhabit another
non-human body. Now, Robert had a love for dogs, especially his favorite black
spaniel and it is said that before he died he said that he would return as a
dog.
After
his death, the house was then inherited by Robert’s nephew, and his nephew immediately
shot all the dogs, fearing that his Uncle would return as one of them. After
the death of the dogs is when strange happenings begin to be reported, such as
hearing dogs throughout the house, gunshots, and angry voices.
Some
claim that since his nephew shot the dogs, Robert Stuart became an angry
disembodied spirit and haunted the house in protest of his nephew’s cruel act.
The house was demolished in the 1960’s.
There were also several paranormal research groups
that did studies at the Ballechin House, and a book was published in 1899 with
the alleged accounts.
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