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Autumn Drive In The Rain To Haunted Glamis Castle Angus Scotland

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Channel: tourscotland · 2012 · Travel & Events

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Tour Scotland Autumn video of a drive in the rain to visit haunted Glamis Castle in Angus region. Glamis Castle has been the home of the Lyon family since the 14th century, though the present building dates largely from the 17th century. Glamis was the childhood home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who married King George VI, and was later known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Her second daughter, Princess Margaret, was born there.  In 1540 King James V, born 1512, died 1542, cruelly confiscated Glamis Castle and had Lady Janet Douglas, Later Lady Campbell after her husbands death in 1528, widow of 6th Lord Glamis, imprisoned under suspicion of being a witch.  Lady Janet, her son and many of her servants were tortured into confessing her witchcraft and Lady Janet was brutally burned alive at the stake at Edinburgh Castle on the 17th July 1537.  Her ghost known as the 'White Lady' has haunted the castle ever since.  Janet's brother was the step-father of King James V, James hated him and this led to a hatred of all the Douglas family, and hence the death of Lady Janet Douglas.  There is also a mysterious 'Grey Lady' who roams the castle and the grounds, this may be the ghost of Lady Janet.  It is reported that more than one hundred people who were present in the castle on one occasion all saw her casually glide past them. Inside the castle there is said to be a secret room where two nobleman played cards with the devil himself.  It is said that the 2nd Lord of Glamis known as Earl Beardie and Alexander Lindsay  the 4th Earl of Crawford known as the Tiger Earl played cards late one Saturday night, and played past midnight into the Sabbath.  A servant is said to have reminded the Earl of the time five minutes before midnight, but Earl Beardie said he would play with the Devil himself if he had to and ordered the servant out of the room.  The was then a knock on the door at the stroke of midnight and a tall stranger dressed in black entered the room requesting to play.  The two earls agreed that the stranger could play and he sat down placing a handful of rubies on the table. A little while later the two earls argued and when the servant looked into the room he saw the two earls engulfed in flames.  It is said that the stranger was indeed the Devil himself and the Earl Beardie for playing cards with the Devil on the Sabbath he was condemned to play cards until Doomsday. Earl Beardie's ghost is said to haunt the halls and returns to the room to play cards with the Devil.  People have heard sounds of stamping, swearing and dice rattling from the tower where Earl Beardie is said to have cursed God and played with the Devil.  So great were these disturbances that the room was later permanently sealed-up, and it is said that the Earl and the Devil are still playing cards in there, and will do for eternity.

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