Myths and tales of St. Andrews

[tordenskjold]

The ghost at Gillespie Wynd could just be a case of people being drunk. That's how things move around and appear out of the blue at my place, also an explanation for the random bruises I seem to gather, a particular favourite being the one on the chest in a sort of semi circle. Very odd one that.

[pea]

[s]legohead wrote on 10:34, 26th Jan 2005:
ok, this may be a bit flaky, and totally off topic, but i had the creepiest dream when i was in hall in my first year.

I dreampt that there was a terrible fire in that hall, and we all left our rooms and waited until the firemen had put it out. when i returned to my room, i found that there was a new doorway visible on the wall (something, thankfully that i hadnt had in reality)
well, anyway, I forced this door open and went through, finding to my surprise a whole other room, which was really dark, and the floor and carpet covered in soft, damp feeling material, including a double bed.

I left, and talked to my cleaner, who told me that there had been a similar fire a long time ago, when the building had been a hotel, and that two people had died in a room, which had then been sealed up. I went back through the doorway, this time with a torch. I could see then that the material the walls and carpet were covered in was blood. at that point I woke up in a sweat.

terribly melodramatic, but it really stayed with me. (apologies for length)


Were you in McIntosh?

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I'm a little pea... I love the sky and the trees.

[legohead]

Were you in McIntosh?

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I'm a little pea... I love the sky and the trees.
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yes actually I was...why?

[pea]

[s]legohead wrote on 13:33, 26th Jan 2005:

yes actually I was...why?


Because about 10 or 15 years ago, there was a fire on A floor, and a few people died because they were trapped...

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I'm a little pea... I love the sky and the trees.

[legohead]

[s][b]pea wrote on 14:16, 26th Jan 2005[/i]

Because about 10 or 15 years ago, there was a fire on A floor, and a few people died because they were trapped...

[/i]

ah, that's horrible. We had warnings that there had been a small fire, not sure if they told us people had died. my 1st year room was on D floor though.

[Tweedle-Dum]

[s]legohead wrote on 14:45, 26th Jan 2005:
ah, that's horrible. We had warnings that there had been a small fire, not sure if they told us people had died. my 1st year room was on D floor though.




that would be because nobody did. the death part was made up for the ghost tour.

[sweet]

[s]flarewearer wrote on 12:39, 26th Jan 2005:
laylines - please explain to the supernaturally uninitiated like myself



Well I just thought they were "energy" lines you could detect through dowsing, with associated mysical goings-on - druids and stuff...

I googled it and there are some histories of the term, also www.demonbuster.com has a funny take on it...

[Beckie]

a friend of mine is convinved she saw something in the toilets on D floor. i think i went about a week without a shower!I also feel a presence in my room on D floor every now and again. Does anybody know any more stories about McIntosh?

[richey]

Hamilton is supposed to be haunted by various ghosts and goulies. There was a fire on the 6th floor that left it as a hollow shell, but contrary to popular belief, none of the servants that lived there actually died in the fire. The floor is shut, as the floor itself is sructurally unsafe, but to my certain knowledge the door is sometimes open, meaning people can actually go in! I wouldn't, I made it as far as the top of the stairs once, but didn't venture in...it is really creepy, dark and black, with writing on the walls and a chair in the middle of one of the old rooms...aaaggh! You can see why people think it is haunted if you have seen the place.

Anyway, the 5th floors and 4th floors are supposed to be haunted. One of the windows at the end of the 4th floor is haunted...by Old Tom Norris. The residence manager has had lots of guests and students over the years saying they saw the ghost. She asked them to draw a picture, and every person drew the exact same figure, looking out of the window. Room 94 (v.near the window) Is freaky...my freind lives in there and I really don't like the feeling in the room sometimes. When it was announced that they were selling Hamilton over the summer, ghost activity rose significantly, things moving etc on the fourth floor. The ghosts obviously like us and don't want the palce being made into time-share flats! They will have to get the exorcists in...

At least I live on the unhaunted 2nd floor, it is all good, although I still don't like wondering around certain places in hall in t'dark!

Legohead- you have very scary dreams, stop eating so much cheese before you go to bed.

[Rob Milsom]

I'm surprised that the door on the 6th floor is ever open - in my day (cue Werthers Original Theme Tune) it was permanently shut, with a notice on the door to the effect of 'This area is out of bounds to those who do not wish to suffer a cruel and painful death (or worse, expulsion from the residence system)'. I always suspected that the deaths were apocryhpal - the fatal fire theme does seem to be recurrent in hall ghost stories. Never heard about the Tom Morris one though - I wish we'd thought of that when we got caught using the first floor corridor for putting practise 'Sorry, I was just appeasing the spirit of Tom Norris'...

[Bread Roll]

This mysterious ice-cream van. I heard it sold chips in the winter. A chip-van if you will but I've never seen it only heard it playing its silly little tinkly tune which then proceeds to get stuck in my head all day.

Also there is a ghost in the b-floor girls bathroom (the one next to B43)in McIntosh that taps on the doors according to some.

[Smith]

The ice cream van comes to fife park on a sunday night
[hr] I tried thinking of an innovative witty remark, but could only come up with this...

[flarewearer]

[s]Bread Roll wrote on 18:12, 26th Jan 2005:
This mysterious ice-cream van. I heard it sold chips in the winter. A chip-van if you will but I've never seen it only heard it playing its silly little tinkly tune which then proceeds to get stuck in my head all day.


There is a chip van that goes round some of the little villages around st andrews. You can see it parked up in pipeland road during the day.

[Lady_Xanax]

I poss shouldn't have read that all that. The hall is creepy enough being so quite and as everyone is gone home I'm the only one in my corridor.

I have heard the ice-cream van but I've never seen it. It's usually around the regs area.



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aka The Hamster of Fury

Out of my mind, ...be back in five minutes.

[oddly familiar]

If anybody else has seen assault on precinct 13 (the original, not the remake, I have no idea if the relevant scene is in the remake or not) then I think you'll understand why I find Ice cream vans freaky. I always expect to hear screams after the tune has finished playing, especially late at night. Its very Tim burton-esque with all that stuff about toys and death. Am I rambling?

[hr]And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything,
Or the elephants will get out and forget you.

[Rrrr]

[s]richey wrote on 17:34, 26th Jan 2005:
One of the windows at the end of the 4th floor is haunted...by Old Tom Norris.

Morris surely??
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Splat!

[richey]

[s]Rrrr wrote on 11:52, 28th Jan 2005:
[s]richey wrote on 17:34, 26th Jan 2005:[i]
One of the windows at the end of the 4th floor is haunted...by Old Tom Norris.

Morris surely??
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Splat!
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Yeah, Morris. I knew that, was just testing you!

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"I believe in a thing called love"

[KateBush]

McIntosh is the most haunted hall in St Andrews. About 5 students have died there in the last 20 years. One was a guy who feel from a window on B floor on the last day of term. His mum and dad had come to pick him and his stuff up and when they arrived, he had fallen and was already dead. Apparently, his ghost is still seen walking down the stairs and to the main door of the hall...as if he didn't know he'd died and wanted to go home with his mum and dad, like nothing'd happened.

I saw someone in the common room in Chattan once, through the doors and when I got in there there was no one there. Chattan has a very weird atmosphere a lot of the time.

The old lady who lived in one of the houses that made up the crescent refused to sell her house to the University. They bought it when she died--that's when McIntosh and Abbotsford House became McIntosh Hall that we know now...biut apparently the old lady was so angry that she haunts people in the bit of the hall that her house was in. People have reported seeing things in certain rooms, but I'd better not say which in case anyone reading is IN one of them!

But yeah, McIntosh...definitely some weird shit going on there.

No one died in a fire in Chattan. No one was even harmed. And the fire was a lot longre ago than ten years. Hamilton is supposed to be even creepier than Chattan--I'm not sure if people died in the fire in THAT hall, but it definitely wasn't Chattan.

[Guest]

[s]KateBush wrote on 18:32, 28th Jan 2005:
The old lady who lived in one of the houses that made up the crescent refused to sell her house to the University. They bought it when she died--that's when McIntosh and Abbotsford House became McIntosh Hall that we know now...biut apparently the old lady was so angry that she haunts people in the bit of the hall that her house was in.


I think you'll find that she actually left her house to the university (If my memory of R Cant's history of the university is correct...)

[warrengato]

I live in the Gatty and I have a really bad habit of getting pissed very late at night and walking along the East Sands to get home from town. I've seen some really odd things down on the sands between the pier and the Gatty. I've seen odd candle looking lights out in the waves and on the beach, and just a general feeling of being watched when there is no one around. Has anyone heard of any official ghost tales for this piece of the beach, or is it just my own intoxication? Or even worse, Neds?