The ghost with a fixed term, who tells the living when it will go, is a gentler form of the murder haunting. Miller gives no name for the pedlar, the murderer or the loch.
Hauntings
The Pedlar in the Grey Plaid
A farmhouse beside a muddy loch, upper Tarbat
Traditional; told by Miller in 1835
This site is private property or has no public access. Coordinates shown are rounded and no directions are offered.
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- No public access
- Location
- 57.865, -3.777 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter XXV, The Churchyard Ghost [public-domain]
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