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 |  | The Windhouse (Shetland's most haunted house)
< on 8/20/2012 10:23 PM >
|  | | | There are many documented ghost stories surrounding this house on the Isle of Yell, Shetland.
There is one about a "lady in silk" believed to be a housekeeper or mistress who fell down the stairs and broke her neck. There's an unsubstantiated rumor of a woman's skeleton found under floorboards at the foot of the stair.
There's another one about a tall man's ghost in a long black coat, possibly connected to the actual substantiated body on site. Information was found in a microfilm from 1887:
"Human Remains Found.-- While some workmen, who are engaged repairing the manor house of Windhouse, were removing some debris from the back of the house, they came upon the skeleton of a human being. It had apparently been that of a man of large stature, as the bones measured fully six feet long. It was lying in the position it had been put down, the arms folded over the breast. It was only a small distance under the ground and there was no evidence of their ever being a coffin, which gave rise to an opinion that it had been a murder; but if it has it is not in the memory of any of the inhabitants nor does any remember any person ever being missed."
One of the archive transcripts says it was thought to be someone who disappeared at a workmen's party. There's another report of a baby's skeleton found in a kitchen wall.
The house had a pretty strange history even without the bodies. There was an earlier house higher up on on the hill in the 1600s, owned by a series of pretty nasty men (lying, cheating, beatings, hangings). The current house ruin represents a reconstruction of the old one in 1700-something, done by moving the stones down the hillside. Supposedly the foundations of the original are still visible. The gatehouse by the road is now a camping lodge.
In the 1930s, the last owner sold it and it is now on land owned by the RSPB (the royal bird society). There are supposed to be otters living nearby. The house was put up for sale and according to the most recent newspaper blurb (July 02), "It is the reputed haunt of many ghosts and skeletons have been found in the walls and beneath the floors of the imposing old ruin." There were interested parties inquiring from all over the world, and the new buyer is from England.
One Shetlander says: "I remember some of the North Isles boys at the AHS back in the day telling some wild stories about that place, not so much about ghosts, but about the supposed happenings in the past. Everything from the old woman who was the last resident, who lived as a hermit in the upstairs rooms while the rest of the house was over-run by feral cats, until.... , to some tax collector who "disappeared" after going to the house. Something about someone being murdered in the house and buried outside one of the front windows as well, I don't remember now whether that was the tax collector or someone else. There was probably some small grain of truth in some of it somewhere, but as stories are wont to be, embellished with each retelling for the sake of a good yarn so as to be virtually unrecognisable as the original.
I think much of Windhouse's notoriety is down to it's appearance and positioning though, it has a commanding position, alone and higher up a slope than most else around it making it immediately feel imposing, add to that it's design gives it an a certain humanesque appearance, the two large blank front windows resemble the empty eye sockets of a skull, and the castilled top wings either side give the skull sticking out ears with raggety tops. Especially in certain lights and in certain positions it can feel very much like the house is "watching" you, like some giant "head" rising out of the hillside."
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PaleAle
 
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| | Re: The Windhouse (Shetland's most haunted house)
<Reply # 1 on 8/22/2012 1:27 PM >
| | | | WOW! I'm green with envy!
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Anaklusmos
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| | Re: The Windhouse (Shetland's most haunted house)
<Reply # 2 on 10/10/2012 6:17 PM >
| | | | Cool, it's the old ruins like that that i miss about europe. Great shots!
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