Mysterious Britain & Ireland

Country and County: Invernesshire

Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds

Corrimony Chambered Cairn

The passage grave of Corrimory in Glen Urquart, consists of a circular mound of river pebbles enclosed by an outer kerb, and a ring of 11 standing stones. The construction of the cairn is of the Clava style, as the cairns at Bulnaraun of Clava are used as a standard for cairns of this period and region.

Aquatic Monsters / Cryptozoology

Loch Morar

It is surprising how many lochs in Inverneshire have monster traditions and sightings, Loch Ness, Loch Lhinne, Loch Lochy, and Loch Arkaig to name a few.

Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings / Irish Folktales

Loch Ashie

A spectral army is said to appear on the shores of the loch at dawn on May the first, which is Beltane in the Celtic calander. One sighting is alleged to have taken place during the First World War, when a walker was on the moors close to the loch. He witnessed a battling army of horsemen and foot soldiers savaging each other in silence.

Aquatic Monsters / Cryptozoology / Folklore

Loch Ness

Loch Ness is famed in modern times as the supposed abode of a strange long necked monster, but the area is also rich in folklore, which

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Boleskine House

The house – now a private residence – dates from the 19th century, and is famous for its association with Aleister Crowley, the most notorious magician of all time.

Aquatic Monsters / Articles / Cryptozoology

The Loch Ness Monster

The most publicised and well known of the lake monsters, Nessie has captured the popular imagination. There are hundreds of sightings on record, which describe a roughly similar creature in and out of the water over a period of 200 years.

Hauntings / Jacobite Ghosts

Culloden House

The house that exists stands on the foundations of a house where Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have stayed with the Forbes family before the disastrous battle of Culloden in 1746.

Anniversary Ghosts / Apparitions / Featured Sites / Haunted Battlefields / Hauntings / Jacobite Ghosts

Culloden Battlefield

The moor – site of the last battle on British soil -has its share of ghostly traditions, perhaps befitting for the scene of so much bloodshed and slaughter. The Battle of Culloden – April 16th 1746 – marked the fall of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart monarchy to the throne.

Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds / Featured Sites

Balnuaran of Clava

The Clava Cairns – or more correctly Balnuaran of Clava – is one of the best preserved Bronze Age burial sites in Scotland. There are three cairns here, two with passage ways aligned to the Midwinter sunset, and all with more subtle features, incorporated to reflect the importance of the South-west horizon.