Glamis Castle: Legend, Lore and Phenomena

What is mere legend and what can be documented as psychic phenomena, psi?

I believe it plausible that the first born son of the 11th earl was born deformed and lived longer than expected and it possible when the second born who illegally inherited the estate saw his brother, he underwent a personality change. I also find it credible that the child could have been kept a secret and he was hidden away. I find it a stretch of the imagination that the baby lived for about two hundred years.

It could be that depression runs in the Strathmores and each succeeding first born son was plagued by this. There is medical evidence to support the fact that there can be a genetic factor in depression. Family influence and that of others and events as well as environment can contribute to depression.

I do not doubt the existence of the secret room, possibly rooms, that allegedly housed the monster, vampires and Ogilvys.

I do not believe that the devil visited Beardie with or without company, but it makes for an interesting story.

As for the rest of the psi, I believe some are hauntings which can be seen, heard, felt by touch, smelled, tasted and sensed. They have no intelligence and are imprints of energy on time and space. This would explain the sightings and hearing the voices. Similar hauntings have been documented. The poltergeist activity is entity agent psychokinesis, the ability of the mind to affect matter. The activity does not center around a particular individual, so it is highly unlikely that there is a human agent.

There is a secret in Glamis Castle that would tie in with the hidden room. One theory is that there is hard evidence incriminating Mary, Queen of Scots, but what it is and where it is hidden is unknown.

The 15th Earl of Strathmore, allegedly, said, when talking about the secret of Glamis, that if people knew what it was they would get in their knees and thank the Lord it was not theirs.

Coxe, Antony D. Hippsley, Haunted Britain. ISBN: 0 07 013310 7.

Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. ISBN: 0-8160-2846-X

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