{"product_id":"haunted-stirling-9780752458441","title":"Haunted Stirling","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Kinnaird\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: History Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Supernatural (Incl. Ghosts)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole chapter is dedicated to the mysterious goings-on at Stirling Castle, where cleaners in the King's Old Building claimed to have heard footsteps coming from the third floor--which hasn't existed since a fire in the nineteenth-century; while a 1930s photograph purports to capture the shadow of a phantom guardsman--possibly the same \"Highland Soldier\" often reportedly mistaken by tourists for a castle guide. The town itself has no shortage of fascinating tales, including the story of the Old Town's most famous phantom, seventeenth-century merchant John \"Auld Staney Breeks\" Cowane, whose spirit is said to inhabit his statue each Hogmanay. A playful ghost supposedly throws pots and pans around the kitchens of the Darnley Coffee House, while frequent power failures and mishaps in the Tolbooth Theatre--originally the eighteenth-century Burgh jail--are blamed upon the malicious spirit of the last man hanged, Alan Mair. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, \u003ci\u003eHaunted Stirling\u003c\/i\u003e is guaranteed to intrigue and chill both believers and skeptics alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"History Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45298675417239,"sku":"9780752458441","price":1169.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780752458441.webp?v=1769284534","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/haunted-stirling-9780752458441","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}