Season 2 - Episode 6 - Skaill House and Skara Brae

This week Eilidh tells Kieran about Skaill House in Orkney, a 400-year-old mansion with a Neolithic village on its doorstep. It's little wonder that ghosts are rumoured to wander its halls... Join us for one of our most haunted episodes yet!

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Show Notes

Sources

• https://skaillhouse.co.uk/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaill_House

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart,_2nd_Earl_of_Orkney

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_1st_Earl_of_Orkney

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Balfour

• https://canmore.org.uk/site/1669/skaill-house

• https://www.culture24.org.uk/am13636

• https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/westmainland/skaillhouse/

• http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/ghosts/skaillhouse.htm

• https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2720294/orkney-ghost-photographer-skaill-house/

• https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/94808986?mode=transcription

• https://www.orcadian.co.uk/a-skara-brae-whodunnit/

• https://www.aboutorkney.com/2020/06/17/a-skara-brae-whodunnit/

• https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/skara-brae/history/

• http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/skarabrae/

• https://www.auroraexpeditions.co.uk/blog/the-story-of-skara-brae-who-used-to-live-there/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae

• http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/witchcraft/balfour.htm

• An Orkney Anthology: the Selected Works of Ernest Walker Marwick (1991)

• The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, Julian Goodare (2001)