SCOTTISH PSYCHIC SHOP ALLEGES POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY

Owner Sharon Short, claims that paranormal activity has been taking place and she’s now looking into having paranormal investigations carried out over the next few weeks.

Some might say they’re not surprised.

But the Psychic Shop in Kilmarnock’s Bellfield... is haunted.

Owner Sharon Short, claims that paranormal activity has been taking place and she’s now looking into having paranormal investigations carried out over the next few weeks.

She said when she came in on Monday morning stock was found lying on the floor.

As this had never happened before Sharon thought it was “weird” so she had her colleague check the CCTV footage.

“At one point I could connect with the spirit in the back of the shop, there are also cold spots at reception,” she told the Standard.

 CCTV footage has been posted to Facebook to allow  customers see for themselves and shows an ornament slide off the shelve and fall on to the floor.

Sharon, who only opened the shop earlier this year, said that this strange activity had only begin to take place after a woman came into her shop to enquire about paranormal investigations.

The woman also accused Sharon of carrying out the devils work by doing readings for people.

Since then, stock has apparently been flying off shelves and also there are also claims that there are cold spots in the reception area of the shop.

There has been no previous signs of paranormal activity taking place in the shop until Sunday night and things have only been moving off the shelves when the shop has been closed.



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WANT TO LIVE IN A HAUNTED SCOTTISH CASTLE?

A HISTORIC “haunted” Highland castle built in the 15th century has gone on the market for £2.25 million.

Dornoch Castle, which has had only three owners since being converted into a hotel in 1947, is said to be haunted by the ghost of Sutherland sheep rustler.

Built for the Bishop of Sutherland, it has served as a private residence, a school, a jail and courthouse, and now a 25-bedroom hotel.

Located opposite the 12th-century Dornoch Cathedral, where Madonna and Guy Ritchie had their son christened in 2000, the hotel owners also promote its close proximity to famous golf courses, particularly in the year the Ryder Cup comes to Scotland, and whisky distilleries.

But it is best known for being haunted by a thief called Andrew McCornish, imprisoned in its dungeons and then killed for stealing ewes and rams from nearby estates.

Marion Mackenzie, the daughter of his jailer, the Sheriff Substitute of Sutherland, was the first person to see Andrew’s ghost at the close of the 19th century.

She claimed to see the grey-haired man with a “weird face”, thick grey stockings and knee breeches sitting in her father’s study when she came in from the garden to get some honey comb for tea one day. After running for help from her family, they returned to an empty room.

But Andrew’s ghost reappeared later that night next to the bed of Marion’s uncle, the minister of Avoch, while he was sleeping.

Marion’s uncle woke up and told the ghost that if he did not go away he would call his brother, the sheriff. The ghost swiftly departed the room and never visited again.

After listening to his brother and daughter’s description of the ghost, Sheriff Mackenzie recognised it as Andrew. Despite Andrew’s disappearance, the castle’s new owner in 1922 took no chances and had the building exorcised before moving in.

The property was renamed Dornoch Castle Hotel in 1947 and, regardless of its lack of ghostly sightings over the last century, it was featured on a programme about haunted hotels on the American Travel Channel in 2003.

Since then, the building has led a quiet existence and is now on the market for just the fourth time in more than 60 years.

Euan MacCrimmond, of selling agents Strutt and Parker, said the current owners, Colin and Ros Thompson, were selling the property as they were preparing to retire from business.

He added: “Dornoch Castle Hotel is a quite stunning building, full of atmosphere and history, yet it also has all the luxuries one could expect from modern life.”