Podcast Episode 12: The White Lady of Blenkinsopp, the Grey Man of Bellister, ghostly goings-on at Melrose and the superstition known as the Sign of Life

Welcome to Episode 12!

In this episode, the Boggart tells the tale of the White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle in Northumberland, said to be the ghost of the wife of Sir Bryan de Blenkinsopp doomed to haunt the castle until her buried and hidden treasure is found… then we follow the Blenkinsopp line to Bellister Castle where an unfortunate minstrel met a grisly death and haunted the Baron til his dying day as the Grey Man of Bellister. This episode’s archive story comes from the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser, with a ghost story dated 6th June 1905 recanting the tale of the ghost of the Holy Pool at Melrose Abbey. The episode finishes with a look at the whimsical superstition of ‘The Sign of Life‘…