Miller's chapter describes the castle as it stood in the seventeenth century, when it was the seat of the Urquharts, the family of Sir Thomas Urquhart. The haunting is second hand, given on the word of old servants. The rolling rabbit is the unusual detail, a small animal that behaves like a thing thrown, not a creature running.
Hauntings
Footsteps and the Rolling White Animal at Cromarty Castle
Site of Cromarty Castle
Traditional; castle demolished in the 18th century
The castle no longer stands.
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- No public access
- Location
- 57.681, -4.035 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter VI, The Old Castle of the Urquharts [public-domain]
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