Ballindalloch Castle
The lands originally belonged
to Ballindallochs of that ilk but
were in the hands of John and
Barbara Gordon by the time
the 16th century Z plan tower
house was built - a stone with
their names and date of 1546
were found behind panelling in
1818.
A pretty, young woman dressed in crinoline haunts the Pink Tower, one of the rooms
of the castle. She is a benign presence and never did any harm to the several
visitors who saw her. A green lady haunts the dinning room. Nobody knows exactly
who she is, but she has been seen many times.
A man haunts the castle too. He is supposed to be General James Grant, a member
of the family who died in 1806. He comes back every night, riding a magnificent white
horse, as if even in death he wishes to keep a proprietary eye on his home and
land. Sometimes, he wanders in the castle, and goes to the storeroom that used to
be the dungeon.
The fourth ghost is a sad figure of a young woman often seen crossing the Old Avon
Bridge, to the letterbox. Unable to accept rejection by the man she loved, she died of
sadness wasting away writing to him everyday. In death, she continued to post new
letters to her beloved. The workers employed in the construction of a new bridge,
just beside the old one, had seen her very often.
