The Ghost of the Lammermuir Hills

Podcast: Eerie Edinburgh · Eerie_Edinburgh

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

In 1859, Scottish writer Catherine Crowe published a remarkable story said to have been told to her by a sheep farmer named Sandy Shiels. Decades earlier, on an isolated farm in the Lammermuir Hills, a young farm servant named Rob set out through the winter landscape for the village of Gifford. He never came home. But in the months that followed, Rob’s disappearance became connected to the strange behaviour of his sheepdog, Coullie. This episode explores Catherine Crowe’s The Sheep-Farmer’s Story - a haunting 19th-century account of disappearance, suspicion and a remar...