Strange noises have been emitting from Scotland’s “most haunted house”, where, secluded among trees and by the banks of Loch Ness, the self-proclaimed wickedest man on Earth performed his dark arts. There’s the tap, tap, tap of chisel repeatedly hitting sandstone, the clash of metal against metal, and the occasional grunt as 350kg of hand-cut curved granite lintel is heaved onto a 12-feet-high wall. Piece by piece, with remarkable attention to historic detail, using traditional skills and with more than a little help from avid followers of the early-20th century occultist Aleister Crowley – including some prepared to pay £40 for a stone retrieved from its charred remains –Boleskine House on the south banks of Loch Ness is slowly emerging, phoenix-like, from the ashes.
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My most recent article on the Loch Ness Monster was just a day ago; the subject being the apparent shape-shifting angle of the controversy surrounding the matter of the monsters of the deep. Today, I’m going to share with you my observations on the supernatural aspects of the location itself. You may be surprised just how strange the place really is. And has been for a long, long time. Even the very first, reported encounter with one of the creatures of Loch Ness was steeped in occult mystery. It’s St. Adomnán who we have to thank for bringing this intriguing case to our attention. The story can be found in Book II, Chapter XXVII of St. Adomnán’s
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The Highland clearances of the 1760s to 1880s are some of the most controversial and emotion-fraught events in Scotland s long history. Poverty-stricken tenants and their families were evicted from long-held land by landlords keen to make money by farming sheep on the land. Some of the most horrific clearances took place at Strathnaver in Sutherland in 1814, but they had begun some time before this, principally at Glengarry, near Knoydart and Fort William. Evicted families were often forced onto the coastline to fish or gather kelp. Some landlords, or
lairds, tried to keep tenants on their lands to enable military drafts and naval press gangs. Others encouraged or enforced emigration to Canada or America. Famine and cholera further decimated highland populations, and crofting was encouraged as an alternative method of farming. Protests against the clearances and the conditions of the crofters broke out in Skye in the 1880s and led to greater awareness i
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