The Hazel Tree, a Scottish history and folklore site, records the apparitions in a short paragraph and offers no names, dates or specific incidents. Another roundup adds strange lights, faint chanting and a sense of being watched. The royal burials are documented history: bones thought to be those of James III and Margaret were found in the 19th century and reburied in a Victorian monument in 1865.
The ghost claims are the kind that attach to almost any ruined abbey, and the choice of James III and Margaret may owe more to the site's known burials than to anything a witness saw. They are recorded as reported, with the historical background kept separate.
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