EVP - Gaelic-Speaking 'Ghost' Caught On Recording
By Claire Smith
The Scotsman.com
New evidence of ghosts in Edinburgh's underground city have
been recorded on tape by a radio producer.
Debbie McPhail claims to have made a recording of a ghoulish
voice hissing the words: "Get out" or "Go away"
in Gaelic.
Mrs McPhail described herself as "a cynical person by
nature" - but said she had no explanation for the ghostly
voice.
The otherworldly voice ruined a recording she was making
in Edinburgh underground vaults with the former rugby international
Norrie Rowan, who owns a section of the underground city.
Mrs McPhail said: "I found the place so creepy, I let
the presenter go down to do the interview himself.
"When I was listening back to it, I could hear Norrie
Rowan chatting and then I heard another voice.
"It was close by to the microphone because you can tell
if voices are far away or not. I knew it wasnât the
presenter or Norrie because the voice had a slightly Irish
accent.
"When the presenter came back up I asked him who they
had met in the vault and he said nobody. I asked a colleague
who spoke Gaelic and she said they could be saying 'get out'
or 'go away'."
Gordon Stewart, assistant director at Mercat Tours, which
conducts visits around the vaults said the recording could
be the first actual evidence of psychic phenomena in the vault.
"It is an unusual story and quite chilling. I think
it could be the first time anything like this has been recorded
in Edinburgh.
"People who come on our tours have been scratched, had
their hands jostled and come into contact with unknown things."
Psychologist Richard Wiseman, who has conducted research
into the paranormal goings on beneath Edinburghâs South
Bridge, said a third of the subjects in his study had some
sort of experience in the vaults, including having their clothes
pulled, hearing their names whispered or feeling tugs on their
clothing.
But he said the phenomena could have been psychological effects
suggested by the damp dripping walls and the dark dismal atmosphere
of the underground city.
Dr Paul Stevens, a research fellow at Edinburgh Universityâs
Koestler Parapsychology unit, said: "The vaults are not
mapped in places and you donât know what walls are backing
on to.
"At one time someone there thought they were hearing
strange sounds, but the wall actually backed on to a massage
parlour and that was where the funny noises were coming from.
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