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Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland. It was built in 1806, on the site of an old manor house which had been owned by the Stuart family since the 15th century. The Stuart family are an illegitimate branch of the royal house of Stewart, descending from a son of King James II.

Ballechin House was known as “The Most Haunted House in Scotland”, with several similarities to the Borley Rectory haunting, including the apparition of a ghostly nun. Ballechin House was rented for a period by investigators from the Society for Psychical Research. In 1899, The Alleged Haunting of B—- House was published, and serialised in the London Times, containing a journal kept of the phenomena. John marquess of Bute was one of the guest that stayed at Ballechin during these investigations, and is quoted as saying” he could not understand how such a handsome house could have so wicked of a reputation”.

Ballechin House was uninhabited by 1932, and most of the house was demolished in 1963, after a fire, leaving only the former servants quarters and outbuildings. The loss of Ballechin House was considered great, as many of its state rooms were considered some of the finest in Perthshire. Also lost was art work and furniture which had been collected by generations of the Stuart family, including many pieces from the far east, probably due to successive lairds’ involvement in the British East India Company.

Local rumours have persisted in the region of a lost son and heir of John Stuart, who according to local lore was born out of wedlock to a domestic on the estate. Different versions of this tale have this son sent to Canada or Australia, or not surviving into adult hood.

Working as a Manager for Uhaul, when I do get spare time I sit with my ouija board, do as many paranormal investigations as I can, and research everything and anything paranormal. I am also very interested in railroads and model trains in general.

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