The reports are brief and undated, and the three suggested identities show that no one knows who the figure is meant to be. The tower stands near the citadel that Cromwell's forces built at Ayr, and William Robertson gave the tower a chapter of its own, 'The Story of the Tower of St. John's in Ayr', though its subject is history, not the ghost.
Hauntings
The Grey Man of St John's Tower
St John's Tower, Eglinton Terrace, Ayr
Undated reports
- Evidence
- Single witness account
- Access
- Open ground
- Location
- 55.464, -4.637 (Sited to the building or field)
Sources: "The seven most haunted locations in South Ayrshire", Kilmarnock Today [other]; Ayrshire Family History Society, "Ayrshire's Most Haunted: ten top Ayrshire ghost encounters" [other]; William Robertson, Historical Tales and Legends of Ayrshire (1889), chapter 'The Story of the Tower of St. John's in Ayr' [public-domain]
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