{"product_id":"haunted-stirling","title":"Haunted Stirling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eHaunted Stirling\u003c\/em\u003e is guaranteed to intrigue and chill both believers and sceptics alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481483747701,"sku":"9780752458441","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780752458441.jpg?v=1786089747","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/haunted-stirling","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}