{"product_id":"haunted-stirling-david-kinnaird-9780752458441","title":"Haunted Stirling","description":"From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. A whole chapter is dedicated to the mysterious goings-on at Stirling Castle, where cleaners in the King's Old Building claimed to have heard footsteps coming from the third floor--which hasn't existed since a fire in the nineteenth-century; while a 1930s photograph purports to capture the shadow of a phantom guardsman--possibly the same \"Highland Soldier\" often reportedly mistaken by tourists for a castle guide. The town itself has no shortage of fascinating tales, including the story of the Old Town's most famous phantom, seventeenth-century merchant John \"Auld Staney Breeks\" Cowane, whose spirit is said to inhabit his statue each Hogmanay. A playful ghost supposedly throws pots and pans around the kitchens of the Darnley Coffee House, while frequent power failures and mishaps in the Tolbooth Theatre--originally the eighteenth-century Burgh jail--are blamed upon the malicious spirit of the last man hanged, Alan Mair. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, \u003ci\u003eHaunted Stirling\u003c\/i\u003e is guaranteed to intrigue and chill both believers and skeptics alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kinnaird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0752458442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780752458441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.30d","brand":"David Kinnaird","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070810157311,"sku":"9780752458441","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b09bd58f-7ffe-4c9f-8825-27185fa479ac.jpg?v=1685432462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/haunted-stirling-david-kinnaird-9780752458441","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}