Market Place - Royal Bank of Scotland

(Written by Wayne Anthony & Richard Felix)

Ghost hunters have often suggested that there may different types of ghosts. Some maybe mischievous poltergeists, others tormented souls unable to rest. Whatever the reason is for the haunting of the Royal Bank of Scotland, it remains unknown and only came to light in recent times.

Previously to the Royal Bank of Scotland standing on the corner of the Cornmarket and the Market Place there had been no reports or rumours of any ghostly activity in the area.

However when the corner buildings were demolished in the early 1970's the local media reported that a workman had encountered a boy dressed in ragged clothing sitting in what remained of one of the cellars.

When asked what he was doing there the boy replied, "I've come from the inn".

The workman ran to fetch his colleagues but when he returned the little boy had gone, although there had been no way he could have passed the workman without being noticed and no other exit route.

Soon after the boy began to reappear on a more regular basis both in the now-erected Royal Bank of Scotland and in the Acropolis Café on the other side of the building. This time unexplainable noises and objects moving by their own accord accompanied his return.

It is thought that the inn he had referred to was the Tiger Inn which remains today, but had once taken up a far larger area. Wherever the ghostly child comes from, and wherever he returns to remains a mystery. Maybe a mystery that will never be solved.

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"I've come from the inn"