Campbell wrote that the rustling could be heard 'at least till very recently', which places the belief in the later nineteenth century. Chairs left neatly arranged at night were found turned round by morning. The explanation given locally was that she had been a former mistress of the house who proved unfaithful and was buried alive, which would make her one of the glaistigs said to be the ghost of a woman who died badly rather than a fairy by origin.
The account is a single published note with no names or dates, so it is best read as a piece of household tradition. Inverawe is better known for the separate Ticonderoga ghost story of the Campbells of Inverawe.
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