Scotland's 10 Most Haunted Places

5. Culloden Moor, Inverness

The last battle on British soil was fought on Culloden Moor on 16 April 1746, and was also the last hurrah for the Jacobites. It didn't go well for them, having around 2,000 of their men massacred or wounded, and Bonnie Prince Charlie making a hasty exit. The aftermath saw the repression of Highland culture. The bloody battle certainly left its mark on Culloden Moor, which remains a place with a heavy atmosphere, dotted with the graves of Jacobites who lost their lives in the battle. Ghostly armies have regularly been seen roaming in the gloaming, and one woman was awoken at night by the sound of armed men walking through her garden, later discovering she lived on the route taken by one of the armies. Even eerier is the experience of one woman looking round the graves of the slaughtered Highlanders, who found a piece of Stewart Tartan had blown from a gravestone, and looked over to find a Highlander lying fully stretched out on top of one of the grave mounds. His clothes were old fashioned and roughly made, and it was also quite clear that he was dead.