Folklore & legend

Wallace and Fawdoun's Ghost at Gask Hall

Gask Hall, Findo Gask

Set in the 1290s; poem composed in the 15th century

This comes from a long poem that mixes history and invention, so the ghost is a literary episode and not a recorded sighting. The book quotes the fugitive's ride across the Earn at Dalreoch and the Muir of Auchterarder, and a scene in which Wallace hamstrings his exhausted horse at the Blackford rather than let the English have it. No independent record of a haunting at Gask Hall is given.

Evidence
Dubious
Access
Access unrecorded
Location
56.370, -3.613 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)

Sources: Chronicles of Strathearn (1896), Project Gutenberg [public-domain]

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