{"product_id":"9780750956444","title":"Haunted Stirling","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stirling. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   A whole chapter is dedicated to the mysterious goings-on at Stirling Castle, where cleaners in the King's Old Building claimed to have heard footsteps coming from the third floor — which hasn't existed since a fire in the nineteenth-century; while a 1930s photograph purports to capture the shadow of a phantom guardsman — possibly the same 'Highland Soldier' often reportedly mistaken by tourists for a castle guide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   The town itself has no shortage of fascinating tales, including the story of the Old Town's most famous phantom, seventeenth-century merchant John 'Auld Staney Breeks' Cowane, whose spirit is said to inhabit his statue each Hogmanay. A playful ghost supposedly throws pots and pans around the kitchens of the Darnley Coffee House, while frequent power failures and mishaps in the Tolbooth Theatre — originally the eighteenth-century Burgh jail — are blamed upon the malicious spirit of the last man hanged, Alan Mair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, \u003cem\u003eHaunted Stirling\u003c\/em\u003e is guaranteed to intrigue and chill both believers and sceptics alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126652059888,"sku":"9780750956444","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780750956444_p0.jpg?v=1763636353","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780750956444","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}